Curriculum vitae. Stefan Ambec

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1 Curriculum vitae Stefan Ambec Toulouse School of Economics (INRA-LERNA) 107 Avenue du Pic du Ger Université des Sciences Sociales de Toulouse Muret 21 Allée de Brienne France Toulouse Tel: 33 (0) France Tel: 33 (0) Fax: 33 (0) Courriel: Web page: //www2.toulouse.inra.fr/lerna/ambec FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Microeconomics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Industrial Organization, Contract Theory, Development Economics. CURRENT POSITION Research fellow, Toulouse School of Economics (LERNA-LERNA) since 2007 (supervisor: Christian Gollier) EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Montreal, Canada (1999) Supervisors: Michel Poitevin and Yves Sprumont M. Sc in Econometrics, University of Toulouse, France (1992) B.Sc. in Economics, University of Toulouse, France (1991) PREVIOUS POSITIONS Research fellow INRA at the University of Grenoble, France ( , supervisor: Bernard Ruffieux) TMR Fellow, CSEF (Centre for the Studies of Economics and Finance), University of Salerno, Italy, Network TNR "Understanding Financial Architecture" ( , supervisor: Marco Pagano) Postdoctoral fellow, GREEN (Research Group in the Economics of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources), Laval University Québec, Canada, ( , supervisor: Joseph A. Doucet) Economist, (CSN, French National Service), IRD (French Scientific Research Institute for Development) in Dakar, Senegal (1996/ /06). VISITING PROFESSOR POSITIONS University of Lausanne (Fall 2008, Fall 2007), University of Montreal (Winter 2005). 1

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Financial Contracting, graduate, University of Lausanne (HEC), Game Theory, advanced undergraduate, University of Lausanne (HEC), Economics of Organizational Design, graduate, EM Lyon (Lyon Business School), 2006, Applied Microeconomics, undergraduate, EM Lyon (Lyon Business School), Economics for the Supply Chain, graduate in engineering, Grenoble 2005, 2006, Advanced industrial Organisation, advanced undergraduate, University of Montreal, Microeconomics, undergraduate in engineering, Grenoble, 2003, 2004 Economics of Innovation, graduate, University of Grenoble, 2001, 2002, Applied Game Theory, graduate, Université de Grenoble, 2002, 2003, International Economics, undergraduate, business school, Laval University, Quebec, Environnemental Economics,,undergraduate, University of Montreal, PUBLICATIONS When and why does it pay to be green? (with P. Lanoie) forthcoming in Academy of Management Perspectives Sharing a river among satiable countries (with L. Ehlers), Games and Economic Behavior 2008, 64: Voting over informal risk-sharing rules, forthcoming in Journal of African Economies : Sharing a common resource with concave benefits, Social Choice and Welfare 2008, 31: Incentive to reduce crop trait durability (with S. Lemarié and C. Langinier), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2008, 90 : Equity and efficiency in the river sharing problem, (with L. Ehlers) Chapter 6 in Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment Edited by A. Dinar, J. Albiac and J. Sanchez-Soriano, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics Sequential communication with ex post participation constraints, Journal of Economic Theory 2007, 137: Survol des fondements théoriques de l'hypothèse de Porter, (with P. Barla), L Actualité Economique, 2007, 83: Roscas as financial agreements to cope with social pressure (with N. Treich), Journal of Development Economics 2007, 82: Can environmental regulations be good for business? An assessment of the Porter Hypothesis (with P. Barla), Energy Studies Review 2006, 14: On the redistributive impact of privatizing a resource under imperfect enforcement (with L. Hotte), Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11: Fees or refuges: which is better for the sustainable management of insects resistance to transgenic Bt corn? (with C. Vacher, D. Bourguet, M. Desquilbet, S. Lemarié and M.H. Hochberg) Biology Letters, 2006, 2:

3 Decentralizing hydropower production (with J. Doucet) Canadian Journal of Economics, 2003, 36: A theoretical foundation to the Porter hypothesis (with P. Barla), Economic Letters, 2002, 75: Sharing a river (with Y. Sprumont), Journal of Economic Theory, 2002, 107: WORKING PAPERS Environment policy, innovation and performance: New insights on the Porter hypothesis (with P. Lanoie, J. Laurent-Lucchetti and N. Johnstone) 2008, 35 pages (submitted). Acceptable regulations to reduce common resource extraction (with C. Sebi) 2007, 24 pages (submitted) Pest resistance regulation and pest mobility (with M. Desquilbet), 2008, 20 pages (submitted). Marketing versus engineering: Who should control? (with M. Poitevin), 2007, 31 pages. Organizational design of R&D activities (with M. Poitevin), 2001, 33 pages. WORK IN PROGRESS Hot stuff: Would climate change alter transboundary water sharing treaties? (with A. Dinar) Welfare distributions with unilateral externalities Regulatory instruments to protect the commons: An experimental investigation (with A. Garapin, L. Muller and C. Sebi) Efficient drug pricing Optimal refuge strategies to fight pest resistance to GM crops (with M. Desquilbet and M. Herrmann) RESEARCH GRANTS French Research Agency, Young researchers program 2008 Fair environmental policies (leader, euros). French Research Agency, GMO program Contribution of modelling in a multi-disciplinary approach to manage coexistence between GM and non-gm maize, multidisciplinary project with biologists, agronomists, physicist and statisticians, , euros out of euros (leader of the economics workpackage). French Research Agency, Agriculture and sustainable development program Sustainable exploitation of pest resistance, multidisciplinary project with biologists and agronomists, physicist and statisticians, , euros out of euros. French Ministry of Science, The collective choice of a natural resource exploitation regimes, ( ), euros (leader). Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA, France) Intellectual property with enforcement costs, ( ) 5000 euros (leader). 3

4 Consiglio National della Ricerca (CNR, Italy) Progetto Giovani Organizational design of R&D activities under bilateral asymmetric information, ( ) euros (leader). ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES Organization of a conference on Environment, Innovation and Performance in Grenoble, June 2007 In charge of the seminars in Grenoble ( ) Supervision of a Ph.D. student and several master theses Referee for American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Inquiry, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Environment and Development Economics, Environment and Resource Economics, Games and Economic Behaviour, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Industrial Economics, L'Actualité Economique, Mathematical Social Science, Oxford Economic Papers, Recherches Economiques de Louvain, Review of Economic Studies, Revue d Economie Politique, The Manchester School. PERSONAL INFORMATIONS Citizenship: French. Status: Married, three children. Date of birth: August 23th, Languages: Fluent in English and French, elementary Italian, notions of Swedish. PARTICIPATION TO CONFERENCES (s=as speaker, d=as discussant) Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy, Toulouse, July 2008 (s) Conference of the European Association of Environmental Economics, Gothenburg, June 2008 (s,d) Thematic Conference of the French Economic Association, Toulouse, June 2008 (s,d) The Economics of the Health Care and the Pharmaceutical Industry, Toulouse, January 2008 (s) Risk and cost benefit analysis of traceability in the agri-food chain, Ispra (Italy) December 2007 (invited expert) Econometric Society European Summer Meeting, Budapest, August 2007 (s) Journées d économie publique, GREQAM, Marseille, June 2007 (s,d) Corporate social responsibility and the environment, Toulouse June 2007 (d) Environment, innovation and performance, Grenoble, June 2007 (organizer) Growth and Development Conference, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, December 2006 (s) Econometric Society European Summer Meeting, Vienna, August 2006 (s) World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Kyoto, July 2006 (s) Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry, Toulouse, June 2006 (s) Journées d économie publique, GREQAM, Marseille, June 2006 (s,d) Conference of the Center for Study of African Economies (CSAE), University of Oxford, Mars 2006 (s,d) Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Boston, January 2006 (s) Conference in honor of J.J. Laffont, Toulouse, June 2005 (s) Industrial Organization and Innovation, Grenoble, June 2005 (d, member of the scientific committee) Public Economic Theory (PET), Marseille, June 2005 (s) AFSE Conference in development economics, Clermont-Ferrand, may 2005 (s) Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Philadelphia, january 2005 (s,d) Risk Capital and the Financing of European Innovative Firms, Frankfurt, October 2004 (d) Game Theory World Congress, Marseille, July 2004 (s) 4

5 Conference on Growth, Poverty and Human Development in Africa, Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, U.K., March 2004 (s,d) Organization Design, Corporate Governance, and Regulation, Milan, November 2003 (s) North East University Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference, Montreal, October 2004 (s,d) CEPR-WZB Conference in Economics and Psychology, Berlin, October 2003 (s) European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE), Helsinki, August 2003 (s) Journées d économie publique, GREQAM, Marseille, France, May 2003 (s) Canadian Economic Theory Conference, U.B.C, Vancouver, Canada, May 2003 (s) NEUDC 2002, Williams College, U.S.A, October 2002 (s,d,d) Canadian Study Group in Environmental Economics Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2002 (s) Understanding Financial Architecture workshop, Said Business School, Oxford University, September 2002 (d) Journées de Micro-économie Appliquées, Rennes, France, June 2002 (s,d,d) Understanding Financial Architecture workshop, CEPR/CEMFI, Madrid, October 2001 (s) Toulouse Conference on Environment and Resource Economics, Toulouse, France, June 2001 (s) The firm and Its Stakeholders: The Evolving Role of Corporate Finance, Courmayeur, March 2001 (s) Coalition Formation Network Workshop, CORE, Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, January 2001 (s) Journées de Micro-économie Appliquées, Québec, Canada, May 2000 (s,d) Société Canadienne de Science Economique (SCSE), Montréal, Canada, May 2000 (s,d) Conference of the Center for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, April 2000 (s) NEUDC Conference, Harvard University, U.S.A., October 1999 (s,d), CSE, Hull, Canada, May 1999 (s,d) Financing Innovation in Science-Based Industries Workshop, Mannheim, Germany, January 1999 (s) NEUDC Conference, Yale University, U.S.A., October 1998 (s) CEA, Ottawa, Canada, May 1999 (s,d,d), SCSE, Québec, Canada, May 1998 (s,d) SEMINARS AT UNIVERSITIES GREQAM Marseille, University of Maastricht, University of Namur (2008), HEC Montreal, University of Montpellier (2007), University of Toulouse, McGill University (2006), Iowa State University, University of Québec at Montréal, Laval University, University of Montréal (2005), INRA Toulouse, University of Toulouse, GATE Lyon (2004), DELTA-LEA Paris, University of Oxford, Laval University (2003), University of Toulouse, University of Montpellier, University of Geneva, University of Salerno, Laval University (2002) HEC Montreal, Bank of Canada, University of Ottawa, Simon Fraser University, University of Salerno, University of Montreal, Laval University (2001), University of Namur (2000) 5