Professor in Economics / Professeure en sciences économiques
- Contracts Theory, Incentives
- Risk preferences, Uncertainty, Emotions
- Regulation and Competition Policy, Antitrust, Cartels
- Agricultural Insurance, Crop Diversification, Natural Disasters
- Microfinance, Non-Profits
Principales Responsabilités scientifiques
Expertise for National Research Councils:
- A.N.R. (France), H.C.E.R.E.S. (France), EcoPhyto;
- NWO Maatschappij- en Gedragswetenschappen (The Netherlands);
- Belspo (Belgium).
Participant to the Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention group, the N.S.F. (USA)
Member of the Faculty council for economics, business and administrative sciences (Conseil de Faculté d’Economie, Gestion et AES), University of Bordeaux.
Vice-President, Université Bordeaux IV, 2014.
Current and Past Positions
Since Sept. 2006 : | Professor, Université de Bordeaux, France, |
Associate Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics. | |
Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2013: | Visiting Professor Economics Dpt, U.C. San Diego, USA |
Sept. 2003 – Sept. 2006: | Maître de Conférence, Université Paris Dauphine, France. |
Sept. 2001– Sept. 2003: | Lecturer, Economics Faculty, U. of Cambridge, Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK. |
Janvier – Juin 2001: | Lecturer, Economics Dpt. U.C. Berkeley, USA. |
Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2001: | Associate Researcher, Agricultural and Resource Economics Dpt., U.C. Berkeley, USA. |
Consultante pour | The World Bank (USA., 2000) ; Microeconomix (Paris, 2007–). |
Publications with refereeing process
Lefebvre, Marianne, Yann Raineau, Cécile Aubert, Pauline Pedehour, Niklas Mörhing and Marc Raynal (2024) – “Green Insurance for Pesticide Reduction: Acceptability and Impact for French Viticulture“, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 51(5): 1201–1272, https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbaf002 (open access) Editor’s Choice, Best Article of 2024 Award.
Raynal, Marc, Christian Debord , Loïc Davadan, Cécile Aubert and Yann Raineau (2024) – “Recommend and guarantee: Testing an insurable treatment protocol for reducing pesticide use in vineyards“, Innovations Agronomiques, 96: 74-87
Aubert, Cécile, Yann Raineau, Marc Raynal and Nicolas Pasquier (2024) – “Multiple agricultural risks and insurance – Issues, perspectives, and illustration for wine-growing”, the Review of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies, 105:371–391 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-024-00217-w (open access).
Aubert, Cécile, Hai-Anh Dang and Manh-Hung Nguyen (2022) – “The Unequal Impact of Covid-19: Health, Wealth and Behaviors by Income Groups”, Revue Française d’Economie, 2022/2 (vol. XXXVII): 43-77.
Aubert, Cécile, and Huihui Ding (2022) – “Voter conformism and inefficient policies”, Social Choice and Welfare, 59: 207–249, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-022-01391-w
Aubert, Cécile, et Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron (2021) – “The relative power of individual distancing efforts and public policies to curb the COVID-19 epidemics, PLOS One. May 7, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250764 (open access)
Aubert, Cécile, Yann Raineau, Marc Raynal (2020) – “Le soutien à la prise de risque comme levier pour une transition environnementale : Expérimentation d’un contrat d’assurance pour sécuriser les risques de pertes de récolte dues aux maladies dans le cadre d’une transition agroécologique”, Revue des oenologues et des techniques vitivinicoles et œnologiques, 47, Nº. Extra 177: 56-58.
Reynaud, Arnaud, and Cécile Aubert (2020) “Does Flood Experience Modify Risk Preferences? Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment in Vietnam“, Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 45: 36–74.
Reynaud, Arnaud, Manh-Hung Nguyen and Cécile Aubert (2018). “Is there a Demand for Flood Insurance in Vietnam? Evidence from a Choice Experiment“, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 20(3): 593–617.
Aubert, Cécile, and Antoine Dubernat (2014), “Physiologically Constrained Matching between Brain and Stimuli. Implications for Economic Decision-Making and Marketing”, Neuro-Psycho-Economics Conference Proceedings.
Aubert, Cécile, and Antoine Dubernat (2014), “Preferences with respect to Risk and Uncertainty for Parkinson’s Disease Patients”, Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson’s Disease (NMDPD) Proceedings,
Reynaud, Arnaud, Cécile Aubert, and Manh-Hung Nguyen (2013), “Living with Floods: Protective Behaviours and Risk Perception of Vietnamese Households“, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 38(3): 547-579.
Aubert, Cécile, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich (2011) – “Subsidizing National Champions: An Evolutionary Perspective”, in Do We Need National or European Champions?, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
Aubert, Cécile, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry (2009) – “Designing Credit Agent Incentives to Prevent Mission Drift in Pro-Poor Microfinance Institutions”, Journal of Development Economics, 90: 153–162.
Aubert, Cécile (2007) – “Instruments for Cartel Deterrence and Conflicts of Interests”, in The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek, eds., North Holland, pp. 123-148.
Aubert, Cécile, Patrick Rey and William Kovacic (2006) – “The Impact of Leniency and Whistleblowing Programs on Cartels”, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24: 1241–1266. [Older version]
Aubert, Cécile, Philippe Bontems and François Salanié (2006) – “Le Renouvellement Périodique des Contrats de Concession: Le Cas des Services de l’Eau”, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics. 77: 495-520.
Aubert, Cécile, and Jérôme Pouyet (2006)– “Incomplete Regulation, Market Competition and Collusion”, Review of Economic Design, 10(2): 113-142.
Aubert, Cécile (2006) – “Work Incentives and Household Insurance: Sequential Contracting with Altruistic Individuals and Moral Hazard”, Economics Letters, 92: 82-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2006.01.028
Aubert, Cécile, and Arnaud Reynaud (2005) – “The Impact of Regulation on Cost Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Wisconsin Water Utilities”, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 23(3): 383-409.
Aubert, Cécile, and Jérôme Pouyet (2004) – “Competition Policy, Regulation, and the Institutional Design of Industry Supervision”, Louvain Economic Review, 70 (2): 153-168. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40724406.
Other works
- Aubert, Cécile, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Pablo Serra, Diego Bondorevsky, Diego Petrecolla, Alfredo García, Paulina Beato, David Wood, Richard Tomiak, Jaime Millán, Carmen Fuente (2011) – Competition Policy in Regulated Industries: Approaches for Emerging Economies, Inter-American Development Bank.
- Aubert, Cécile, and Thérèse Aubert-Monpeyssen (2005) – L’Individualisation des Rémunérations : Approches Economiques et Juridiques, IRES editions, Paris, 157 p.
- Aubert, Cécile, Pranab Bardhan and Jeff Dayton-Johnson, “Handicrafts, Art Films, and Other Cultural Goods: The Case for Subsidy”, University of California, Berkeley, Working Paper E04-340, and BREAD Working Paper # 70.
- Aubert, Cécile, and Jean-Jacques Laffont (2005), “Political Renegotiation of Regulatory Contracts“, EconWPA – Game Theory and Information 0506002, 2005.
Reports (selected)
- Economic Challenges in the Monitoring of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
with Hippolyte D’ALBIS, Stefan AMBEC, Gilles LAFFORGUE, François SALANIE and Nicolas TREICH, report for Thalès Alenia Space.
- Analyse Économique des Contrats de Concession des Services de l’Eau,
with Philippe BONTEMS and François SALANIE, Ministère de l’Ecologie et du Développement Durable, 2005, 115 p. [Link]
- Multiregulation in Developing Countries, with Jean-Jacques LAFFONT, World Development Report (WDR) 2002, Background paper, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 90 p.
Media (selection)
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- Le Monde, May 16, 2019, “Sur l’impact des pesticides, la recherche scientifique doit éclairer l’action publique”, tribune signed by 257 scientists.
- Le Monde, February 22, 2019, “Agriculture : Comprendre pourquoi l’usage de produits chimiques ne baisse pas”, with Eric Giraud-Héraud.
- Le Monde, March 31, 2018, “Faire face à la crise écologique appelle une réflexion combinant les hommes et la nature”, with Laurianne Mouysset.
- – L’Express, October 10, 2017, “Indépendante, la Catalogne pourrait-elle éviter l’apocalypse économique ? ”
- L’Optimum, January 2017, “Le prix Nobel d’économie – Vu par Cécile Aubert”.
- L’Express, December 10, 2016, “La théorie du contrat expliquée en un simple exemple”.
L’Opinion, April 1, 2020, “La gestion des risques, des incertitudes, des vulnérabilités est absente de la politique”, interview.
- Vidéo / Conférence : Futurapolis 2020 Climate, événément organisé par Le Point, conférence “Pourquoi notre cerveau n’est pas écolo” avec Sébastien Boehler (74 000 vues en fin de journée), Nov. 2020.
- “The current epidemic highlights a ‘black hole’ in public decision making”, TSE Mag, Spring 2020.
Member of Expertes.eu [https://expertes.fr/le-projet/ Only 19% of experts in the media are women]