Contact : oliubart (at) gmail.com
Full Professor of Economics at Paris-Nanterre University
Senior Fellow at Bruegel - economic think tank
Previously :
5 years as Scientific advisor for the French government (e.g., France Stratégie)
10 years as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Paris-Dauphine University, PSL
1 year as Visiting Professor at Yale University
My areas of interest are Game Theory, Environment, Health, and Technology
Publication highlights
PNAS (2019). A formula for the value of a stochastic game, L. Attia, M. Oliu-Barton. This article settles a 40-year old problem in game theory.
Nature Communications (2022). The effect of COVID-19 certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes, and the economy, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, N. Woloszko, L. Guetta, P. Aghion, P. Artus, A. Fontanet, P. Martin, G. Wolff. Media coverage : Financial Times, France TV, Le Monde, and cited by French ministers.
Lancet (2021). SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, P. Aghion, P. Artus, I. Kickbusch, J. Lazarus, D. Sridhar, S. Vanderslott. Media coverage : 100+ news outlets including NY Times, Financial Times, Le Monde. This article is a top 20 Lancet publication (cf. Altmetric online attention).
Nature (2022). A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat, J. Lazarus et al. Media coverage : 100+ news outlets including CNN, Le Monde. This article is a top 50 Nature publication (cf. Altmetric online attention).
Health policy (2021). Green zoning: an effective policy tool to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski. Media coverage : CNN, Financial Times, Le Monde, etc. This article reviews the "green zoning strategy" we initially proposed to France and Spain in April 2020.
Mathematics of Operations Research (2025). Value-positivity for Matrix Games, K. Chatterjee, M. Oliu-Barton, R. Saona. This article introduces and characterizes a robustness property for zero-sum games.