Gaëtan Fournier

I am Maître de Conférences (Assistant Professor) in applied mathematics at Aix-Marseille School of Economics.

You can find my CV here. 

My research interests include location games, political economy and repeated games with incomplete information and their applications in theoretical finance.

• Hotelling Games on Networks : Efficiency of Equilibria with Marco Scarsini.  Mathematics of Operations Research, Volume 44, Issue 1, 2019.

• General distribution of consumers in pure Hotelling games. International Journal of Game Theory, 84-1, pages 33-59, 2019.

• Approachability with constraints with Eden Kuperwasser, Orin Munk, Eilon Solan and Avishay Weinbaum, European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 292, 2021.

• Location games with references with Amaury Francou. Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 142, 2023.

• Strategic flip-flopping in political competition with Alberto Grillo and Yevgeny Tsodikovitch. Accepted at International Economic Review, 2025.

• Price dynamics on a risk averse market with asymmetric information with Bernard De Meyer. R&R at Games and Economic Behavior.

• Spatial competition with unit-demand functions with Karine Van Der Straeten and Jörgen Weibull.

• A multi-asset market with asymmetric information and risk aversion with Bernard De Meyer.

• Popularity in location games with Marc Schröder

Work in progress:

• Location games as contests

• A multi-asset market with asymmetric information and risk aversion

• Communication and competences in electoral competition (with Alexandre Arnout)

Press coverage (french):

• Diablogues économiques (about Hotelling games on networks), and video (in french).

• Dialogues économiques (about Location games with references), and video (in french).

• Research highlights (about Location games with references)

• Les Echos (about Market games with asymetric information).

• 5&5 (Cours boursiers en dents de scie: chaos ou stratégie?).

I am co-supervising Alexandre Arnout’s PhD thesis with Antonin Macé.