CV and Contact

I am currently Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille University and was Scientific Deputy Director at CNRS-SHS from 2017 to 2024.

Currently President of the Executive Committee of the interdisciplinary Institute of Advanced Study in Toulouse and honorary member at the Institut Universitaire de France (junior member 2009-14), I'm fortunate enough to be now part of an interdiscplinary research team. Our current research is at the crossroads of experimental economics and neurosciences (with friends at the Institute de Neurosciences de la Timone), focusing in particular on how animals, including humans, cope with - and react to - rare and extreme events, combining experiments, computational modelling and data analysis. More broadly,  we are interested in how perception and cognition shape Decision-Making.

I am among the many economists who have seen their research agenda significantly shaken to the core by the 2007-08 financial meltdown, in the right direction we hope. From relaxing the assumption of rational expectations in Macroeconomics to cognitive neurosciences, I have experienced that there is a natural bridge if one is ready to experiment a bit.

Most of my prior publication record relates to Macroeconomic Theory [Business-Cycle and Growth Theory, and in particular how capital and credit market imperfections, as well as uncertainty and learning, affect macroeconomic volatility and growth] , International Macroeconomics [the growth and welfare effects of international financial integration], and Empirical Microeconomics [how investment in public infrastructure affects inequality and development] . I also have add the chance to collaborate with mathematicians on Dynamical Systems [Bogdanov-Takens bifurcation and heteroclinic orbits, linear neutral differential equations, stochastic stability]

A recent CV with coordinates is available here.

Research papers are available here.

My Google Scholar, SSRN and RePEc/IDEAS pages are available here, here & here 

My career as a researcher in Economics started while I was a student in the PhD program at Delta-Cepremap (now Paris School of Economics).

 Since then, I have enjoyed (visiting research & teaching, policy) positions at the:

• Economics Department at UCLA

• Economics Department at Washington University in St. Louis

• Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

• Banque de France (Monetary Policy Division)