About me
I am a PhD candidate at the Toulouse School of Economics and visiting the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.
Welcome to my webpage!
You can find my CV here.
Please consult my research page for short abstracts and links to my papers.
I study decision-making under uncertainty with a special emphasis on intergenerational equity and finance. Typical questions are:
How can we deal with risks on financial markets which are difficult to quantify? Investors seem to dislike imprecise information on the risks underlying an asset. This concern is conceptually different from risk aversion. Is there a way to address this concern with financial instruments?
What is an acceptable cost to avoid damages which occur in, say, two hundred years? On the one hand, if we extrapolate global growth rates, future generations are likely to be richer than us. On the other hand, we cannot be certain about forecasts over decades – let alone centuries.
If you are a recruiter and you would like to arrange for a meeting, I would be thrilled to talk to you at the AEA/ASSA meeting in Atlanta, the RES meeting in London, or the SAEe summit in Valencia. Just send me an email: johannes.gierlinger@economics.ox.ac.uk .
I am affiliated with the Natural Resource Economics lab LERNA at the
Toulouse School of Economics
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Aile J.-J. Laffont, MF007
21 allée de Brienne,
31000 Toulouse
France
