Cécile AUBERT

Research interests

  • Contracts Theory, Incentives
  • Regulation and Competition Policy
  • Feelings, Emotions, Uncertainty, Altruism
  • Microfinance, Non-Profits

2012 – 2013 : Coordination of an economics, neurobiology and psychology research project on “Dopamine, Parkinson’s Disease, and Risk Preferences”, CNRS   / IDEX Bordeaux (PEPS).

Ph.D. Toulouse (December 2002). Advisor : Pr. Jean-Jacques Laffont.

Publications in journals with refereeing process

  • Designing Credit Agent Incentives to Prevent Mission Drift in Pro-Poor Microfinance Institutions, (2009),

with Elisabeth SADOULET and Alain DE JANVRY, Journal of Development Economics, 90 : 153-162. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.11.002 Link

  • The Impact of Leniency and Whistleblowing Programs on Cartels, (2006),

with Patrick REY and William KOVACIC , International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24 : 1241-1266. Link

  • Incomplete Regulation, Market Competition and Collusion, (2006),

with Jérôme POUYET, Review of Economic Design, 10(2) : 113-142. Link

  • Le Renouvellement des Contrats de Concession : Le Cas des Services de l’Eau, (2006),

with Philippe BONTEMS and François SALANIE, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 77 : 495-520. Link

  • Work Incentives and Household Insurance : Sequential Contracting with Altruistic Individuals and Moral Hazard, (2006),

Economics Letters, 92 : 82-88. Link

  • The Impact of Regulation on Cost Efficiency : An Empirical Analysis of Wisconsin Water Utilies, (2005),

with Arnaud REYNAUD, Journal of Productivity Analysis, 23(3) : 383-409.

  • Competition Policy, Regulation, and the Institutional Design of Industry Supervision, (2004),with Jérôme POUYET, Louvain Economic Review - Recherches Économiques de Louvain, 70(2) : 153-168. Link

Monograph and chapters in books with refereeing process

  • Privatisation and Regulation of Utilities,

forthcoming in Cambridge Essays in Applied Economics, Vol. II, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

  • “Corporate Social Responsibility and Labor : Networks and Territories” (2012),

with Thérèse AUBERT-MONPEYSSEN, Editions de l’IRES, Paris. In French.

  • Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective, (2011),

with Oliver FALCK, and Stephan HEBLICH, in Do We Need National or European Champions ?, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

  • Instruments for Cartel Deterrence and Conflicts of Interests, (2007),

in The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek, eds., North Holland, pp. 123-148.

  • L’Individualisation des Rémunérations : Approches Économiques et Juridiques (2005),

with Thérèse AUBERT-MONPEYSSEN, Editions de l’IRES, Paris, 157 p. Link

  • Normes Sociales d’Entreprises et Régulation Sociale (2003),

with Isabelle DESBARATS, Jean-Pierre JACQUIER and Jean-Michel PLASSARD, in Mondialisation et Régulation Sociale, Vol. 1, pp. 77-91, L’Harmattan, Paris.

  • The Design of Industry Regulation (2002),

with Jean-Jacques LAFFONT, in Competition Policy in Regulated Industries, Paulina Beato and Jean-Jacques Laffont, eds., John Hooper University Press. Link

Reports

  • “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 (2005),

with Philippe BONTEMS and François SALANIE, Ministère de l’Ecologie et du Développement Durable, 115 p. Link

  • Multiregulation in Developing Countries (2001),with Jean-Jacques LAFFONT,World Development Report 2002, Background paper, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 90 p.

Working papers

  • Incentives to Lie with Anger and Pride, or Fairness Concerns.
  • Incentive Costs with respect to Parent-Workers and Other Altruistic Agents.
  • Anticipatory Feelings May Generate Ambiguity Averse Preferences
  • Managerial Effort Incentives and Market Collusion. TSE working paper.
  • Handicrafts, Art Films, and Other Cultural Goods : The Case for Subsidy,

with Pranab BARDHAN and Jeff DAYTON-JOHNSON, University of California, Berkeley, Working Paper E04-340, and BREAD Working Paper # 70. Paper.

  • Political Renegotiation of Regulatory Contracts, 2004,

with Jean-Jacques LAFFONT. Paper

Current and past positions

Since September 2006 :

  • Professeur Agrégé, Université Bordeaux IV (researcher at GRETHA).
  • Associate Researcher, Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA).

Sept. 2003 - Sept. 2006 :

  • Maître de Conférence, Université Paris Dauphine,

Sept. 2001- Sept. 2003 :

  • Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge,
  • Fellow, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK.

January - June 2001 :

  • Lecturer, Economics Dpt., University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Sept. 2000 - Sept. 2001 :

  • Associate Researcher, Agricultural and Resource Economics Dpt., University of California, Berkeley, USA.

August - Dec. 2000 :

  • Short-term Consultant, the World Bank (Washington, D.C.).

1998 - 2000 :

  • PhD student and Teaching Assistant, Université Toulouse I (GREMAQ).

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