Welcome !
Contact : oliubart (at) gmail.com
Current position
Full Professor of Economics, Paris Nanterre University
Scientific advisor, France Stratégie - services du Premier Ministre
Senior Fellow, Bruegel - economic policy think tank
Interests
Economic theory: Game Theory, Operations Research
Environmental economics: Climate, Ressources
Health economics: Vaccination, Public Health
Highlighted publications
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).
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. This article was cited by the French ministers of health and economics.
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 a top 100 scientific 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. This article reviews the spread of the "green zoning" strategy initially proposed to France and Spain in April 2020.
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, and has led to several publications in Mathematics of Operations Research (e.g., two articles in 2021, and two more in 2024, see list of publications).