Mohammed Abdellaoui

Mohammed Abdellaoui studies individual decision-making with an eye to the perception of uncertainty and time from both behavioral and formal perspectives. Abdellaoui’s research has been published in a number of journals in economics, management sciences and psychology, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Operation Research, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Theory and Decision. Prof. Abdellaoui was also the president of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE) and the co-founder of Rislab (Risk, Insurance, and Savings Laboratory, Ghent University, Belgium), an international research network. Prof. Abdellaoui is also the Editor-in-Chief of Theory and Decision, an International Journal for Multidisciplinary Advances in Decision Science.

Prior to joining HEC Paris in 2007 as a Research Director at CNRS and a Professor of Decision Sciences, Abdellaoui was a CNRS Researcher and lecturer (Optimization, Behavioral Decision Theory, Decision Analysis) at ENS de Cachan (1993-2002) and at ENSAM & ESTP (2002-2007). Abdellaoui joined the CNRS as a researcher in 1993 after a PhD in “Mathematical Economics and Econometrics” from the University of Aix-Marseille III.

Teaching

• Bayesian Decision Analysis
• Deciion Theory
• Advanced Behavioral Economics

EDUCATION

• 2000
  Habilitation a diriger des recherches en economie (Qualified Research Supervisor), Université d'Aix-en-Provence - France
• 1988
  Ph.D. in Economics, Université d'Aix-Marseille - France

AWARDS & HONORS

• 2009 Decision Analysis Society Publication Award, for the article "Loss Aversion under Prospect Theory: A Parameter-Free Measurement", Management Science, October 2007