Training Department
Faculty
First and Second Trimesters 2006-2007
Guy Lacroix
PhD Economics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Full Professor, department of economics, Laval University. He specializes in labor economics, health economics and applied econometrics. His research focuses on (1) the interaction between safety nets income policies and individual behavior on job markets, and the (2) assessment of the effectiveness of reinsertion policies for unskilled workers. His work on developing countries (Benin) appeared in the Journal of Health Economics (1996). H also co-authored a paper that models decision making in polygamous households in Burkina Faso with A. Dauphine, B. Fortin. An extension will soon be submitted to the Journal of Political Economy.
Pierre Dubois
PhD in Economics, EHESS, Paris, France; former Assistant Professor, University of Montreal. Research Associate, INRA, University of Toulouse where he teaches microeconomics in the Masters program (2nd year). Areas of Specialization: Development economics; program evaluation in less developed countries.
Boubacar Barry
Doctorat d'etat in African History University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. Doctorate in History, Sorbonne, Paris. Areas of specialization: History of West Africa (15th –20th centuries), Pre-colonial states , Islam and Oral tradition, impact of Slavery, Regional integration, and democratic transitions in Africa. Boubacar Barry is the author of several books including Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade, Cambridge- University Press and Commerce et Commercants en Afrique de l'Ouest - Le Senegal avant la Conquete - L'Harmattan, Paris, France.
Franck Portier
Professeur of economics, University of Toulouse; Research director at the Institute of Industrial Economics, Toulouse, France. Holds a PhD in economics from the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne. Areas of Specialization: macroeconomics (Fiscal Policy ; monetary policy ; international macroeconomics ; applied time series etc.) environment economics (global warming, economic analysis of the kyoto protocol ; economic growth). His work in prestigious journals such as the European Economic Review, Journal of the Japanese and international Economies, Review of Economic Dynamics, Annales d'Economie et de Statistiques. He is also the author of several books including Les cycles economiques and, Fondements des rigidites nominales
Yves F. Atchade
PhD in statistics, University of Montreal, 2003. His research focuses on Monte Carlo methods. Currently teaches statistics at the University Of Ottawa, Canada after a post doctoral year at Harvard University. His work focuses on limit theorems for Markov chains, Monte Carlo methods, bioinformatics and causal inference. His work appeared in the Annals of statistics and Statistics.
Jean-Pierre Benoit
PhD in Economics, Stanford University. Full professor at New York University, Department of Economics. Areas of specialization: economic theory, Game theory, Law and economics; Industrial organization. He is one the most influential specialists in the areas of game theory and economic theory. He made remarkable contributions to the study of repeated games. His articles appeared in major journals including the Journal of Economic Theory, the Journal of Political Economy, International Economic Review, American Political science Review. Etc.
Joel Tossa
Doctorate in Physics, University of Benin. Senior Lecturer, IMSP, Benin, since 1995. He is the author of several publications that appeared in Physics Letters, International, Journal of Modern Physics, Journal of Geometry and physics. He is also an administrator at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics in Benin.
Emmanuelle AURIOL
PhD economics, University of Toulouse. Professor, University of Toulouse I since 1998. Former post doctoral fellow, University of California, Berkeley. Areas of specialization: regulations, Industrial organizations, development economics. Her work appeared in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Labor Economics, Annales d’Economie et de statistique, American Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economics, etc.
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