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Mohammed ABDELLAOUI

Professor (Education Track)

Economics and Decision Sciences

Research Director at CNRS
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Biography

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.

Scientific articles

Unpacking Overconfident Behavior When Betting on Oneself

Management Science, Forthcoming, (in coll. with H. Bleichrodt, C. Gutierrez)

Time for tea: Measuring discounting for money and consumption without the utility confound

Journal of Development Economics, May 2024, vol. 168, n° 103261, (in coll. with E. KEMEL, A. PANIN, F. M. VIEIDER)

Source and rank-dependent utility

Economic Theory, May 2023, vol. 75, pp 949-981, (in coll. with H. Zank)

Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Peter Wakker

Theory and Decision, April 2022, vol. 92, pp 433-444, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, E. DIECIDUE, H. ZANK)

Temporal Risk Resolution: Utility versus Probability Weighting Approaches

Management Science, July 2022, vol. 68, n° 7, pp 5162–5186, (in coll. with E. DIECIDUE, E. KEMEL, A. ONCULER)

Measuring Beliefs under Ambiguity

Operations Research, March - April 2021, vol. 69, n° 2, pp 599-612, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, E. KEMEL, O. L'HARIDON)

Savage for dummies and experts

Journal of Economic Theory, March 2020, vol. 186, n° 104991, (in coll. with P. P. WAKKER)

Measuring Time and Risk Preferences in an Integrated Framework

Games and Economic Behavior, May 2019, vol. 115, pp 459-469, (in coll. with E. KEMEL, A. PANIN, F. M. VIEIDER)

Temporal Discounting of Gains and Losses of Time: An Experimental Investigation

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, aout 2018, vol. 57, n° 1, pp 1-28, (in coll. with C. GUTIERREZ, E. KEMEL)

Measuring Loss Aversion under Ambiguity: A Method to Make Prospect Theory Completely Observable

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, February 2016, vol. 52, n° 1, pp 1-20, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, O. L'HARIDON, D. VAN DOLDER)

Books

Advances in Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty

Springer, Berlin (in coll. with J. D. HEY)

Uncertainty and Risk - Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations

Springer, Berlin (in coll. with R. D. LUCE, M. J. MACHINA, B. MUNIER)

Chapters in edited books

Rank-dependent Utility

Handbook Of Rational And Social Choice, P. Anand, P. Pattanaik, C. Puppe (Eds), Oxford University Press

Décision dans l'incertain avec objectifs multiples

Concepts Et Méthodes Pour L'Aide À La Décision, P. Perny, D. Bouyssou, D. Dubois (Eds), Hermès, 25-62

Rational Choice under Uncertainty

Cognitive Economics, P. Bourgine, J. P. Nadal (Eds), Springer, Berlin

How consistent are probability tradeoffs in individual preferences under risk?

Beliefs, Interactions And Preferences In Decision Making, M. Machina, B. Munier (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers

The Closing-in Method : An Individual Tool to Investigate Individual Choice Patterns Under Risk

Models And Experiments In Risk And Rationality, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Expected Utility Violation : An Appropriate and Intercultural Experiment

Progress In Decision, Utility And Risk Theory, A. Chikan (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers

Proceedings

Unpacking Overconfident Behavior: Revisiting the Hard-Easy Effect

2022 AOM conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (H. Bleichrodt, C. Gutierrez)

Working papers

Time for Tea: Measuring Discounting for Money and Consumption without the Utility Confound

Discussion paper - CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain , 2023

Unpacking Overconfident Behavior When Betting on Oneself

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023

Eliciting Multiple Prior Beliefs

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Individual vs. Collective Behavior: An Experimental Investigation of Risk and Time Preferences in Couples

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2011

Scientific articles

Time for tea: Measuring discounting for money and consumption without the utility confound

Journal of Development Economics, May 2024, vol. 168, n° 103261, (in coll. with E. KEMEL, A. PANIN, F. M. VIEIDER)

Source and rank-dependent utility

Economic Theory, May 2023, vol. 75, pp 949-981, (in coll. with H. Zank)

Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Peter Wakker

Theory and Decision, April 2022, vol. 92, pp 433-444, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, E. DIECIDUE, H. ZANK)

Temporal Risk Resolution: Utility versus Probability Weighting Approaches

Management Science, July 2022, vol. 68, n° 7, pp 5162–5186, (in coll. with E. DIECIDUE, E. KEMEL, A. ONCULER)

Books

Advances in Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty

Springer, Berlin (in coll. with J. D. HEY)

Uncertainty and Risk - Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations

Springer, Berlin (in coll. with R. D. LUCE, M. J. MACHINA, B. MUNIER)

Chapters in edited books

Rank-dependent Utility

Handbook Of Rational And Social Choice, P. Anand, P. Pattanaik, C. Puppe (Eds), Oxford University Press

Décision dans l'incertain avec objectifs multiples

Concepts Et Méthodes Pour L'Aide À La Décision, P. Perny, D. Bouyssou, D. Dubois (Eds), Hermès, 25-62

Rational Choice under Uncertainty

Cognitive Economics, P. Bourgine, J. P. Nadal (Eds), Springer, Berlin

How consistent are probability tradeoffs in individual preferences under risk?

Beliefs, Interactions And Preferences In Decision Making, M. Machina, B. Munier (Eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers

Proceedings

Unpacking Overconfident Behavior: Revisiting the Hard-Easy Effect

2022 AOM conference , 2022 , 2022 , 1 (H. Bleichrodt, C. Gutierrez)

Working papers

Time for Tea: Measuring Discounting for Money and Consumption without the Utility Confound

Discussion paper - CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain , 2023

Unpacking Overconfident Behavior When Betting on Oneself

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2023

Eliciting Multiple Prior Beliefs

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2021

Individual vs. Collective Behavior: An Experimental Investigation of Risk and Time Preferences in Couples

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2011

Education

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

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2021- Professor (Education Track), Economics and Decision Science HEC Paris
  • 2007- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris
  • 2007- CNRS Research Professor, Economics - Decision Science HEC Paris
  • Research Director at CNRS HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2004-2007 Lecturer in Decision Theory, Doctoral program (Finance) Université de Paris I
  • 2003-2007 Lecturer in Decision Analysis, Doctoral program Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM)
  • 1992-2003 Lecturer in Decision Theory and Optimization Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan
  • 1994-1999 Lecturer in Decision Analysis ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Elu president de l'Association Francaise d'Economie Experimentale
  • AEA
  • INFORMS
  • Econometric Society
  • ASFEE (Association Francaise dEconomie Experimentale)

Awards & honors

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