Elias Bouacida

Elias Bouacida

Maître de conférence (Assistant Professor)

Université Paris 8 Vincenne Saint-Denis

Biography

I am a Ph.D. in economics. I am a decision theorist and experimental economist working on the modeling and the understanding of human behavior. I design experiments and use revealed preference techniques to study various assumptions on individual preferences and utility.

I am currently working as maître de conférence (assistant professor) at the University Paris 8.

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Interests
  • Decision Theory
  • Experimental Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
Education

  • PhD in Economics, 2019

    Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

  • M.Eng. in Economics, 2014

    Ecole nationale des ponts et chaussées

  • M.Sc. in Economics, 2014

    Paris School of Economics, école nationale des ponts et chaussées

Projects

Acceptability of Allocation Mechanisms
With Renaud Foucart, we investigate the social acceptability of various allocation mechanisms. We have started with the use of lotteries as tie-breakers. We are now investigating the preferences between different mechanisms to set-up a LULU (locally undesirable land use).

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Rituals of Reason: A Choice-Based Approach to the Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems
We study revealed preferences towards the use of random procedures in allocation mechanisms. We report the results of an experiment in …
Jun 6, 2022 — Jun 8, 2022 Palais du Pharo
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Identifying Choice Correspondences
We introduce a general method for identifying the sets of best alternatives of decision makers in each choice sets, i.e., their choice …
Jun 17, 2021 12:30 PM — 1:30 PM
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The Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems: a Choice-Based Approach
We report the results of two experiments on the social acceptability of random devices in allocation mechanisms. A majority of subjects …
Jun 3, 2021 2:15 PM — Jun 3, 2020 4:15 PM online
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Publications

Elias Bouacida, Daniel Martin
August, 2020 Journal of the European Economic Association
Predictive Power in Behavioral Welfare Economics

Predictive Power in Behavioral Welfare Economics
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Working papers

Elias Bouacida, Renaud Foucart (2022). Rituals of Reason: A Choice-Based Approach to the Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems.

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Elias Bouacida (2021). Identifying Choice Correspondences.

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