Welcome !
Contact : oliubart (at) gmail.com
LinkedIn : @Miquel Oliu Barton
Publications: Full list here
CV : See Vita
I am currently an Associate Professor at University Paris Dauphine - PSL, working on
Economics & Health: vaccination, public health incentives, transmissible diseases;
Game Theory & Operations Research: Stochastic games, asymmetry of information;
Environment: Air Pollution, water, climate.
Other affiliations: France Stratégie (service du Premier Ministre) & Bruegel (think tank).
Professional Address: University Paris Dauphine. Pl. du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, Paris 16e.
New publications (2024)
France Stratégie (April 2024). Water demand and climate change: a French perspective. H. Arambourou, S. Ferrière, M. Oliu-Barton. Media coverage including: Le Monde, Les Echos, Libération, Le Parisien, RTL, France Inter, BFM TV, La Tribune, L'Opinion.
Le Monde (March 2024). EU air quality agreement sends a positive signal but leaves loopholes. Concurrently published in Bruegel, and several EU mainstream newspapers, i.e., in Italy, Germany, Denmark and Poland.
Economics and Statistics (2024, forthcoming). The impact of preference changes on consumers' demand. M. Oliu-Barton, A. Pommeret, M. Viennot, et al. This article follows from the chapter Sobriété on the Pisany-Mahfouz report on the Economic impact of climate action (France Stratégie 2023)
Mathematics of Operations Research (March 2024). Marginal values of a stochastic game, L. Attia, M. Oliu-Barton, R. Saona.
European Center of Disease Control (March 2024). Public health and social measures for health emergencies and pandemics in Europe: recommendations for strengthening preparedness planning. This report follows from an expert consultation in Stockholm, 2023..
Mathematics of Operations Research (2024, forthcoming). Value-positivity for Matrix Games, K. Chatterjee, M. Oliu-Barton, R. Saona.
Selected past contributions
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. This paper was previously published by the Conseil d'Analyse Economique (CAE). Media coverage : Financial Times, France TV, Le Monde.
Nature (2022). A multinational Delphi consensus to end the COVID-19 public health threat, J. Lazarus et al. Media coverage includes: CNN, Le Monde (view more on Altmetric).
Lancet Global Health (2022). Elimination versus mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, Y. Algan, M. Baker, A. Binagwaho, G. Dore, A. El-Mohandes, A. Fontanet, A. Peichl, V. Priesemann, G. Wolff, G. Yamey, J. Lazarus.
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: NY Times, Financial Times, Le Monde, etc (view more on Altmetric).
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.
Mathematics of Operations Research (2022). New algorithms for solving stochastic games, M. Oliu-Barton.
Annals of IHP Probability & Statistics (2021). Constant payoff in stochastic games, O. Catoni, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Ziliotto.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the USA (2019). A formula for the value of a stochastic game, L. Attia, M. Oliu-Barton. This article settles a 40-year old open problem in game theory..
France Stratégie (2023). Economic impact of climate action, J. Pisani-Ferry and S. Mahfouz report, chapter Sobriété.
Unpublished (2021). Pass sanitaire : quel rôle dans la sortie de crise ? P. Aghion, P. Martin, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski (May 2021). Note to the French Government.
Terra Nova & Esade EcPol (26 May 2021). Health pass and green zones: how to contain the virus while vaccination progresses, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, A. Bucher (DG Santé, EU Commission).
Esade EcPol (8 April 2020). Exit strategy: from self-confinement to green zones, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski.
Le Monde (Nov 2022). A l’instar du GIEC pour le climat, la construction d’un consensus mondial est nécessaire pour mettre fin au Covid-19, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, J. Lazarus.
Le Monde (Sept 2022). Augmentons les effectifs des filières sélectives de l’enseignement supérieur, E.M. Mouhoud, M. Oliu-Barton.
Le Monde (June 2021). Le recours temporaire à un passe sanitaire est nécessaire si nous voulons une sortie de crise durable, P. Aghion, P. Martin, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski.
Le Monde (March 2021). Nous avons besoin d’un passe sanitaire fiable, temporaire et accessible pour tout le monde, M. Oliu-Barton, B. Pradelski, A. Bucher.
Working papers
Countering vaccine hesitancy: the interaction between incentives and social learning. M. Oliu-Barton, Bary Pradelski.
Patterns and drivers of excess mortality during the COVID -19 pandemic in 13 Western European countries. S.Cauchemez, A. Fontanet, et al.
Air pollution: A European perspective. M. Oliu-Barton, J. Mejino Lopez.