Research areas

Applied Econometrics

Economic History

Financial Economics

Macroeconomics

Collaborations

Interuniversity

Financial Asset Management and Engineering (FAME)
Fellow (September 2004)
Switzerland

Swiss Finance Institute
Fellow (Fall 2006)
Switzerland

Events

Conferences

Aggregate Consumption and Portfolio Shares : Evidence and Theory
Conférence CIRANO Macro Finance, Montréal, June 2003
Canada

Asset Prices with Contingent Risk Preferences
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, Montréal, June 1998
(presented by Stephen Gordon)
U.S.A.

Benchmarks in Aggregate Household Portfolios
NYKREDIT Symposium on Housing, Mortgage and Portfolio Choice, Copenhagen Business School, September 2007
Danemark

Benchmarks in Aggregate Household Portfolios
Royal Economic Society, University of Warwick, April 2007
Grande-Bretagne

Direct Preferences for Wealth in Aggregate US Household Portfolios
Econometric Society European Meeting, Vienna, August 2006
Autriche

Direct Preferences for Wealth in Aggregate US Household Portfolios
Canadian Economic Association, Montreal Canada, May 2006
Canada

Direct Preferences for Wealth in Aggregate US Household Portfolios
9th Conference of the Swiss Society for Financial Market Research,
SWX Swiss Exchange, Zürich, April 2006
Suisse

Direct Preferences for Wealth in Aggregate US Household Portfolios
Finrisk Risk and Portfolio Management Seminar, SWX Swiss Exchange, Zürich, January 2006
Suisse

Families, Insurance and Employment in Developing Agricultural Economies
Meetings of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Oxford University, UK, June 1997
(presented by Désiré Vencatachellum)
Grande-Bretagne

Ratchet vs Blasé Investors and Asset Market
European Financial Asset Management Conference,
Basel Switzerland, July 2004
Suisse

Ratchet vs Blasé Investors and Asset Market
CEMAF/ISCTE Finance Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 16-17 March 2004
Portugal

Reputation in Elective Production Teams
Society for Computational Economics, Yale University, June 2001
(presented by D. Vencatachellum)
U.S.A.

Reputation in Elective Production Teams
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance Worshop on Economic Dynamics,
University Van Amsterdam, January 2001
(presented by D. Vencatachellum)
Pays-Bas

Slave Prices from Succession and Bankruptcy Sales in Mauritius, 1825-1827'
Allied Social Sciences, 2-5 January 2003, Washington DC
U.S.A.

State-Dependent Risk Aversion and Asset Prices
Meetings of the Northern Finance Association, Université Laval, September 1996
Canada

State-Dependent Risk Aversion and Asset Prices
Congress of the European Economics Association, Prague, September 1995
(presented by Stephen Gordon)
Tchécoslovaquie

Total Wealh, Consumption and Portfolio Shares : Evidence and Theory
North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, June 2001
U.S.A.

Congres

Asset Prices with Contingent Risk Preferences
12th Congress of the Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group, Montréal, November 1998
Canada

Birds of a Feather : Teams as a Screening Mechanism
Meetings of the Society for Economic Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, June 1998
U.S.A.

Total Wealh, Consumption and Portfolio Shares : Evidence and Theory
14th Congress of the Canadian Macroeconomic Study Group, Hamilton, November 2000
Canada

Seminaires

Benchmarks in Aggregate Household Portfolios
University of Birmingham, November 2007
Grande-Bretagne

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Education

PhD Economics
(June 1995)
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada

MA Economics
(June 1989)
McGill University
Montréal, Québec, Canada

BA Economics
(Nov. 1986)
McGill University
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Work experience

Assistant professor
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
1994-1999

Assistant professor
Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Montréal, Québec, Canada
1999-2000

Associate professor
Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Montréal, Québec, Canada
2000-2004