Contact information
Departments of Economics and Finance
Baruch college, Zicklin School of Business
One Bernard Baruch Way, VC 10-266
New York
laetitia.placido@baruch.cuny.edu
I am assistant Professor of Economics at Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business.
Research topics
Decision making under uncertainty
Behavioral economics
Cultural economic
School choice
Working papers
"Information and Self-selection in School Choice: an Experiment", with Haeringer, Nguyen and Ravaioli. Last Draft: April 2026.
"Time as Insurance under Ambiguity: Experimental Evidence on Time Separability", with L. Bastianello. Last Draft: April 2026.
Refereed Publications in Economics Journals
“Learning by consuming in the Lab ,” with Levy Garboua, Owen and Rapoport. Forthcoming in Experimental Economics (2026).
“Testing constant absolute and relative ambiguity aversion,” Journal of Economic Theory. With A. Baillon. Forthcoming (2019).
“Experiments on compound risk in relation to simple risk and to ambiguity,” Management Science, 61(6) : 1306-1322. Online material. With M. Abdellaoui and P. Klibanoff (2015).
“Ambiguity models and the Machina paradoxes,” American Economic Review, 101(4) : 1546-60. With Baillon and L'Haridon (2011).
“The Rich Domain of Uncertainty : Source functions and their experimental implementation,” American Economic Review, 101(2) : 695-723. Online material. With Abdellaoui, Baillon, and Wakker (2011).
“Betting on Machina’s reflection example : An experiment on Ambiguity,” Theory and Decision, 69(3) : 375-393. With L'Haridon (2009).
“An Allais paradox for generalized Expected Utility Theories ?,” Economics Bulletin, 4(19) : 1-6. With L'Haridon (2008).
Refereed Publications in other fields
Laetitia Placido, Adrien Mamou-Mani and David Sharp (2011), “Investigating perceptual differences between two trumpets of the same model type,” Applied Acoustics, 72(12) : 907-914.
In progress...
"Attitudes toward compound risk in the loss domain", with Abdellaoui, El Guide and Zouiten
"Information, choice diversity and welfare", with Bernard, Levy-Garboua and Owen.
Teaching:
Baruch college:
Introduction to Microeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Behavioral economics
Online MBA
NYU Stern School of Business:
Quantitative economics/Industrial Organization (Fall 2018, 2019, 2020)
Microeconomics with Calculus, Microeconomics with Algebra (since Fall 2022)
MBA "Firms and Market" (Summer 2022)
Columbia University (Spring 2021): Microeconomics seminar (Decision making under risk, time and uncertainty)
NYU College of Arts and Science: AP Microeconomics (Summer)
Some old music productions
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/laetitia-placido/1228781637
Synced on CNN, FOX news, TF1, France 2 & 3, Arte, M6, Travel channel, MLB, RTL, NRJ12, SRF...
Some custom music:
Last update: April 2026