VISITING PROFESSORS

Alain Guay, Professor of Economics at the University of Québec in Montreal (UQàM), will be at EconomiX for a stay from October 9 to 22, 2023. His areas of research focus on economic cycles, econometrics and quantitative methods. His areas of specialization fall within the themes of the International Macroeconomics, Banking and Financial Econometrics research axis of the EconomiX laboratory and the teaching provided in the Mention Master's degree in Applied Economics from the Economics Department of the University of Paris Nanterre. Due to his strong integration into teaching and research teams, he invites regularly as a guest professor in the laboratory. The courses he teaches leave much room for sharing his experience as a researcher with Master's students. He also actively participates in the life of the laboratory by commenting on the research papers of a certain number of teacher-researchers and doctoral students. His arrival is, therefore, an opportunity to consolidate the links between the two universities to encourage student mobility and research collaborations. During his stay, he will meet doctoral students and teacher-researchers from Economics. He will also teach a course at the level of the Applied Economics Master's degree. This approach will focus on accurate cycle models with applications related to his research themes.

Fayçal Hamdi, professor of statistics at the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB, Algiers), will be at EconomiX from October 8 to 22. His areas of research related to the modelling of time series with applications to economic and, more particularly, financial data. He regularly collaborates with Saïd Souam on research on the modelling of periodic time series with applications to the exchange rates of the Algerian dinar. Their work initially focused on the univariate case. In a second step, this research was extended to multivariate analyses, which allow a better understanding of these relatively complex phenomena. This has made it possible to better understand, particularly for oil-producing countries, how the volatility of hydrocarbon prices affects exchange rates, alongside other financial and economic variables. In pursuit of this research, Messaoud Zouikri and Saïd Souam have started a research project with Fayçal Hamdi on the impact of the complexity of economies on their growth through the mobilization of the panel Buffer model developed in our previous work. This stay will ultimately be an opportunity to finalize this article and start others. He will provide a course for doctoral students and teacher-researchers on stochastic modelling applied to financial and economic data and lead a research seminar.

Tobias Kretschmmer, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, will stay at EconomiX from October 8 to October 13. His areas of research focus on the digital economy, which he uses with different approaches in economics (industrial economics, applied economics, microeconometrics), management ("strategic management", "organization science"), and information systems. Without this being exclusive, his areas of specialization fall within the themes of the DIRIS research axis of the laboratory, as well as in the courses offered within the master's degree in Economics of Law at UFR SEGMI. Therefore, his visit, after that of 2022, will be an opportunity to discuss with him both during research seminars and for students to benefit from courses related to his most recent research work. It would also be an opportunity to develop new links both from the point of view of research and teaching.

Ken Yahagi from Seikei University in Tokyo (Japan) will be at EconomiX from September 1 to October 1, 2023. His work has been published in the best international journals on issues of the economy of crime and law enforcement which interest several researchers of the DIRIS axis. In particular, several articles (criminal policy and political market/democracy) are directly based on recent work previously published by members of the DIRIS axis. This visit follows discussions that have remained informal until now on potential areas of research. It will make it possible to explore distinct possibilities and thus move forward on joint work. In addition, it is a question of reviving the relations initiated before the covid crisis with the most dynamic researchers of the L&E association in the Asian zone (discussions relating to international calls or educational projects). In parallel with the scientific project, he will provide a session of the LIEN seminar and readings in the Doctoral School and the Master's in Economics of Law in M1 and M2. Individual interviews will also be organized with Economix doctoral students and second-year students of the Law Economics master's degree.

Nejat Anbarci, Professor of Economics at the University of Durham (United Kingdom), will spend a month at EconomiX from April 28 to May 11, 2023. His fields of interest are behavioral economics, theory games, mechanism design and decision theory. His theoretical and empirical research areas are mainly in line with the theme "Behavioral economics and uncertainties" of the DDEE axis of the Economix laboratory. His contribution to the scientific life of the laboratory will be rich and varied since he will provide a session of the Lunch seminar and lead intervention in the Artificial Intelligence Working Group. His visit will allow him to set up a project developed by him and Remzi Uctum on the analysis of investment behavior in the financial markets in the light of prospect theory which, based on an experimental approach, describes the complex attitude of agents towards risk in a context of gain or loss. Alongside the exchanges he will carry out with doctoral students around their scientific projects, he will provide doctoral teaching on an intuitive approach to Nash's bargaining theory.

Axel Gautier, Professor at the University of Liège, is a researcher well known to members of the DIRIS-EconomiX axis since he has participated in workshops organized by the axis and came to present his research at the LIEN seminar.

He will be invited for a two-week stay from March 27 to April 8, 2023, at Economix. It will make it possible to extend recent discussions to collaborate between Economix and the HEC Management School of the University of Liège.

As part of the latter, several researchers from the DIRIS-EconomiX axis will travel to Liège next February for a working group whose purpose will be to discuss the various joint research projects that could be developed in the short and medium term. In the digital economy and artificial intelligence field, and to reflect on longer-term partnerships within the framework of national/European calls for projects.

Miracle Benhura, Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand will be visiting EconomiX from November 14 to 21, 2022. Her research interests are in labour, development and applied microeconomics. She is collaborating with Eliane El Badaoui on research focusing on gender-based violence in South Africa funded by NRF South Africa and PHC Protea. This visit will provide an opportunity of working extensively on the empirical analysis that explores intergenerational transmission of violent behaviours, the effect of female political representation and employment opportunities on domestic violence, and how domestic violence affects child outcomes.

Prudence Magejo, Associate Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand will be visiting EconomiX from November 14 to 21, 2022. Her research interests are in development, labour and family economics. She is collaborating with Eliane El Badaoui on research focusing on gender-based violence in South Africa funded by NRF South Africa and PHC Protea. This visit will provide an opportunity of working extensively on the empirical analysis that explores intergenerational transmission of violent behaviours, the effect of female political representation and employment opportunities on domestic violence, and how domestic violence affects child outcomes.

Alain Guay, professor of economics at the University of Quebec in Montreal, will spend two weeks at EconomiX starting October 17. His research areas focus on business cycles, econometrics and quantitative methods. His areas of specialization fall within the themes of the International Macroeconomics, Banking and Financial Econometrics research axis of the laboratory and the teaching provided in the Applied Economics Master's Degree of the Economics Department of the University of Paris Nanterre. Due to his strong integration within the teaching and research teams, he has been the subject of regular invitations. The courses he gives leave much room for sharing his experience as a researcher with Master's students. He also actively participates in the life of the laboratory by commenting on the research papers of a certain number of teacher-researchers and doctoral students. Therefore, his arrival is an opportunity to consolidate the links between the two universities and encourage student mobility and research collaborations. During his stay, he will meet the doctoral students and teacher-researchers of the laboratory. He will also teach a course at the Applied Economics Master's degree level, a practice focusing on accurate cycle models with applications related to his research themes.

Tobias Kretschmmer, professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, will stay at EconomiX from September 30 to October 13. His areas of research focus on the digital economy, which he uses with different approaches in economics (industrial economics, applied economics, microeconometrics), management ("strategic management", "organization science"), and information systems. Without this being exclusive, his areas of specialization fall within the themes of the DIRIS research axis of the laboratory, as well as in the courses offered within the master's degree in Economics of Law at UFR SEGMI. Therefore, his visit will be an opportunity to discuss with him both during research seminars and for students to benefit from courses related to his most recent research work. It would also be an opportunity to develop new links both from the point of view of research and teaching.

Stéphane Méchoulan, professor of economics at the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, will stay at EconomiX in September 2022. He conducts research in the field of Law & Economics (L&E) which are part of the themes of the "Law, Institutions, Regulations and Strategic Interactions" axis of the laboratory. He has already had the opportunity to participate in exchanges with members of EconomiX, particularly during a previous visit in 2020. He will continue his work undertaken with Benjamin Monnery evaluating the experiment in progress, Assize courts without a citizen juror in several courts in France. This system will be generalized to the whole of France at the start of 2023. According to the Ministry of Justice, this legal innovation should make it possible to accelerate the timeframes for judgments of the most severe offenses ( crimes of up to 20 years imprisonment) to avoid the conventionalization of certain cases while offering quality justice. In parallel with the official evaluation, which the Government must carry out, an independent scientific assessment by a team of specialized researchers seems necessary. This project has been under construction for several months. It is the subject of international funding requests to support the collection of qualitative data and the quantitative data already obtained from the ministerial statistical services (Justice, Interior). Alongside the scientific projects developed with DIRIS researchers, he will provide a session of the LIEN seminar and a guest lecture for students of the Master's in Economics of Law (EdD). It will also offer a doctoral seminar to doctoral students. Individual interviews will also organize with Master EdD students as well as EconomiX doctoral students who so wish, in particular, to advise them in their dissertation and thesis work.

Eleonora Matteazzi from the University of Verona will stay from May 2 to 8. She has been working for several years with Eliane El Badaoui, a member of the DIRIS axis of the laboratory. Their collaboration focuses mainly on gender inequalities and wage inequalities between mothers and non-mothers. Their presence at EconomiX will finalize a paper studying the wage penalty linked to maternity in European countries. Another contribution of this work will be the analysis of the role of the socio-economic context in explaining the heterogeneity between countries and overtime in the magnitude of the wage penalty income linked to maternity. In parallel with the scientific work carried out, she will lead a session of the Economix Lunch seminar. Finally, meetings will plan with other researchers in the laboratory to develop new research projects and other partnerships. Individual interviews will organize with Economix doctoral students.

Loukas Balafoutas is a Professor of Economics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and will be visiting from April 5, 2022. His research interests are in the area of experimental and behavioral economics. His work deals with various topics such as gender differences, social preferences or honesty, and corruption. He is an expert in laboratory and field experiments. His research themes fit perfectly with the different axes of EconomiX, and the teachings of the Master (M1 and M2) in Economic Policy Analysis - Applied Behavioral Economics. Given the excellence of his career, especially in his publications, his intervention with the students of M1 and M2 could be beneficial (especially for their careers). His visit would also allow us to hold a 2-hour course entitled: "Fairness, justice, and experimental economics." To contribute to the scientific life of EconomiX, he will invite to give a talk in the Behavioral Economics Working Group, where he will present his work "Virtue signaling in a market for credence goods." Moreover, he will meet with interested Ph.D. students, especially those working in experimental and behavioral economics, to give them feedback on their experimental projects.

Frank Walsh (University College Dublin) will be staying at Economix from April 4 to 23, 2022. He has been working with Eliane El Badaoui, a member of the laboratory's DIRIS axis. This stay will make it possible to finalize research work on the Kaitz index, which aims to assess across a series of European countries that they have similar values for the index have very different proportions of minimum wage workers. In parallel to this activity, to the scientific work, he will lead a session of the LIEN seminar which will open to students of the Master 2 Economics of Law " and a session of the Lunch seminar. Finally, meetings are planned with the other teacher-researchers and researchers of the laboratory. Individual interviews will organize with Economix doctoral students.

Bastien Chabé-Ferret, a lecturer with tenure at Middlesex University, London (UK), and currently Research Fellow at the Higher Education Academy (UK) and Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn (Germany), will be visiting EconomiX from March 30 to April 15, 2022. His work focuses on analyzing human decisions (fertility, education, migration) and economic development in a microeconomic and applied context. This research trip is part of the scientific project of the "Sustainable Development, Environment and Energy" Axis of the EconomiX-UMR 7235 laboratory of the CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre. Sustainable development, evaluation of public policies, and the role of economic agents' behaviors are at the heart of the research conducted within the DDEE axis. His research responds to these questions and focuses on the economic development human and social dimensions. More specifically, the results of his work have helped explain the interactions between population dynamics, migration, and sustainable development. In parallel to the scientific project developed, he will give a session at the DDEE seminar on April 5 and one at the EconomiX Lunch seminar on April 14. He will be able to provide a course in the framework of the training cycle of the Doctoral School "Economy, Organizations, Society." Finally, He will organize individual meetings with members and Ph.D. students of the laboratory.

Margarita Rubio is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham. His research themes fall within the specialty areas of the International Macroeconomics, Banking, and Financial Econometrics axis. Indeed, she specializes in macroeconomics and monetary economics, and financial stability issues. In particular, she has developed many DSGE models with financial frictions to analyze macroeconomic policy issues. Margarita has also made numerous research stays in various institutions and research centers abroad (Federal Reserve Board, IMF, etc.). Its networks abroad will therefore benefit all researchers in the MIBEF axis, including doctoral students. She plans to come to EconomiX for three weeks, from January 3 to January 21, 2022. On this occasion, she will give a course on DSGE models with financial friction with an introduction to Dynare software to M2 EIPMC students and for doctoral students of EconomiX. She will also meet researchers and doctoral students from the MIBEF axis.

Sarah Zaccagni, a researcher at the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) and the Center for Healthy Aging (CEHA) of the University of Copenhagen, will be visiting EconomiX from November 2nd. She specializes in Behavioral Economics, Health Economics, and Educational Economics, themes that fit perfectly in the different axes of EconomiX and the teachings of the Master (M1 and M2) in Economic Policy Analysis - Applied Behavioral Economics. Given the singularity of her background and her position within several institutions and research networks (TRIBE, NYS, etc...), she will give a course entitled: "Public Policy and impact evaluation: an experimental economics approach." Students will discover a new aspect of research and understand how experimental methods can be applied to institutions that evaluate public policies. In a second phase, interested students will be able to contact the research team, which could lead to internships at TRIBE or NYS, among others. To contribute to the scientific life of EconomiX, she will intervene in the Behavioral Economics Working Group, where she will present her work "Formation rule, gender mix and team performance: an experiment with high performing students". In addition, she will be able to meet with interested Ph.D. students, especially those working in experimental and behavioral economics.

Alain Guay, professeur d'économie à l'Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses domaines de recherche portent sur les cycles conjoncturels, l'économétrie et les méthodes quantitatives. Ses domaines de spécialisation s'inscrivent dans les thématiques de l'axe de recherche Macroéconomie Internationale, Banque et Économétrie Financière du laboratoire EconomiX, ainsi que dans les enseignements de Macroéconomie internationale avancée dispensés dans le Master 2 Économie Internationale, Politiques Macroéconomiques et Conjoncture du département d'économie de l'Université Paris Nanterre. Du fait de sa forte intégration au sein des équipes pédagogiques et de recherche, Il fait l'objet d’invitations régulières en tant que professeur invité au sein du laboratoire EconomiX. Les cours qu’il dispense laissent une grande place au partage de son expérience de chercheur avec les étudiants du Master. Il participe également activement à la vie du laboratoire en commentant les papiers de recherche d’un certain nombre d’enseignants-chercheurs et de doctorants. Sa venue est donc l’occasion de consolider les liens entre les deux universités, d’encourager la mobilité des étudiants et les collaborations en matière de recherche. Durant son séjour prévu à partir du 18 octobre 2021, il rencontrera les doctorants et les enseignants-chercheurs du laboratoire EconomiX. Il dispensera également un cours au niveau de la Mention de Master Économie Appliquée, cours qui portera sur les VAR structurels avec des applications liées à ses thématiques de recherche.

Tim Friehe, professeur à l’université de Marburg effectue un séjour à EconomiX depuis le 4 octobre. Il est bien connu des membres de l’axe « Droit, Institutions, Réglementation et Interactions Stratégiques » du laboratoire EconomiX-UMR 7235 du CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre, puisqu’il a déjà effectué plusieurs séjours de recherche courts à EconomiX (2010, 2015, 2018) ainsi que des visitings d’un mois en 2013, 2014 et 2016. En outre, il est invité régulièrement au séminaire LIEN-EconomiX, et participe régulièrement aux workshops organisés par l’axe DIRIS (IML&E, L&EPIW, Litigations). A l’occasion de ces séjours, Tim Friehe a entrepris des recherches originales en collaboration avec un membre de l’axe DIRIS (Eric Langlais) sur des questions variées (responsabilité civile, dissuasion et law enforcement etc). Parallèlement aux projets scientifiques qui seront développés avec les chercheurs de DIRIS-EconomiX, Il assurera une séance du séminaire LIEN et donnera une lecture (3 heures) pour les étudiants du M2 Economie du Droit et les doctorants d’EconomiX. Des entretiens individuels seront aussi organisés avec les étudiants du Master EdD, ainsi que les doctorants d’EconomiX.

Stéphane Méchoulan, professeur d’économie à la School of Public Administration de l’Université Dalhousie à Halifax au Canada, effectuera un séjour à EconomiX au cours du mois de novembre prochain. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur le champ de l’économie du droit (Law & Economics) qui s’inscrivent dans les thématiques de l’axe « Droit, Institutions, Réglementation et Interactions Stratégiques » du laboratoire EconomiX-UMR 7235 du CNRS & Université Paris Nanterre. En 2018, il a participé au workshop annuel IML&E (International Meeting in L&E). Son nouveau séjour doit permettre de débuter un projet de recherche en collaboration avec Benjamin Monnery. Cette recherche portera sur l’évaluation de l’expérimentation en cours de cours d’assises sans juré citoyen dans plusieurs tribunaux en France. Cette innovation juridique doit permettre, selon le Ministère de la Justice, d’accélérer les délais de jugements des infractions les plus graves (crimes allant jusqu’à 20 ans de réclusion), d’éviter la correctionnalisation de certaines affaires, tout en offrant une justice de qualité. En parallèle de l’évaluation officielle qui doit être conduite par le Gouvernement dans les trois prochaines années, une évaluation scientifique indépendante, menée par une équipe de chercheurs spécialisés, parait nécessaire. Ce projet est en construction depuis plusieurs mois et a fait l’objet de demandes de financements internationaux pour prendre en charge le recueil de données qualitatives, en plus des données quantitatives déjà obtenues auprès des services statistiques ministériels (Justice, Intérieur). Le séjour de Stéphane Méchoulan permettra également de formaliser un projet de thèse en cotutelle entre l’Université Paris Nanterre et Dalhousie University, qui prendrait la forme d’un contrat doctoral hébergé à Nanterre et financé par l’ambassade de France au Canada. Parallèlement aux projets scientifiques qui seront développés avec les chercheurs de DIRIS-EconomiX, il assurera une séance du séminaire LIEN et un cours invité pour les étudiants du Master 2 Economie du Droit (EdD). Il proposera également un séminaire aux doctorants d’EconomiX. Des entretiens individuels seront aussi organisés avec les étudiants du Master EdD ainsi que les doctorants du laboratoire, en particulier pour les conseiller dans leurs travaux de mémoire et de thèse.