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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