I am currently a first year Ph.D. student at Aix-Marseille School of Economics supervised by Yann Bramoullé and Charles Figuières.
I'm interested in how industrial lobbies manipulate the scientific process to create doubt.
My CV can be found here.
Aix-Marseille School of Economics
5-9 boulevard Bourdet
13001 Marseille, France
WORK IN PROGRESS
Diversion Research
with Yann Bramoullé and Charles Figuières (AMSE)Industrial lobbies often fund scientific studies strategically aimed at diverting public attention from their culpability in health or environmental issues, perpetuating doubt, and delaying regulatory measures. We call this strategy “diversion research”. To understand what determines its use, we propose a new model to study firms’ special interests in funding academic research. The harmfulness of industrial activity is uncertain, but the government can regulate it to maximize the expected social welfare perceived by scientists. Firms, coordinating as a lobby, offer money to influence what scientists study. We find that this lobby is interested in funding diversion research when the current science does not indicate a need for regulation. Surprisingly, when the science indicates that regulation is required, firms might even fund research on their own harmfulness. This article highlights the importance of preserving academic freedom to prevent first-order welfare losses due to the use of diversion research. One possibility is to allow private funding, with allocation overseen by an independent committee.(Draft available upon request)
presented at: 4th International Conference on Environmental Economics (LEO), 6th QMUL Economics and Finance Workshop (Queen Mary University of London), Mediterranean Workshop in Economic Theory (ESC Rennes School of Business), 5th AMSE Summer School (AMSE), 23rd Louis-André Gérard-Varet (AMSE), 17th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (PSE), 75th European meeting of the Econometric Society (Erasmus School of Economics), 11th FAERE Annual Conference (BETA).
Seminars & conferences
2024
4th International Conference on Environmental Economics (LEO), 6th QMUL Economics and Finance Workshop (Queen Mary University of London), Mediterranean Workshop in Economic Theory (ESC Rennes School of Business), 5th AMSE Summer School (AMSE), 23rd Louis-André Gérard-Varet (AMSE), 17th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare (PSE), 75th European meeting of the Econometric Society (Erasmus School of Economics)