Emmanuel KEMEL

CNRS Research Associate Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

kemel@hec.fr
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Biography

After graduating in engineering, Emmanuel Kemel specialized in economics and in cognitive sciences. He worked as an expert for the French Ministry of Sustainable Development and defended his PhD in Economics (University Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). Since 2015, he is a CNRS researcher at GREGHEC and an affiliate professor at HEC.

His research focuses on the attitudes towards time and uncertainty, and on decisions assited by algorithms. He is specialized in the design and econometric analysis of behavioral experiments. The methodological and empirical results of his work apply to management and micro-economics, but also to the evaluation of public policies.

He has published papers in leading journals in behavioral decision making and transport economics. He teaches courses on behavioral economics, econometrics and decision theory.

Scientific articles

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

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, August 2018, vol. 57, n° 1, pp 1-28, (in coll. with M. ABDELLAOUI, C. GUTIERREZ)

Deciding about human lives: an experimental measure of risk attitudes under prospect theory

Social Choice and Welfare, June 2018, vol. 51, n° 1, pp 163-192, (in coll. with C. PARASCHIV)

Comparing attitudes toward time and toward money in experience-based decisions

Theory and Decision, January 2016, vol. 80, n° 1, pp 71-100, (in coll. with M. TRAVERS)

Wrong-way driving crashes on French divided roads

Accident Analysis and Prevention, February 2015, vol. 75, pp 69-76,

Eliciting Prospect Theory When Consequences Are Measured in Time Units: "Time Is Not Money"

Management Science, July 2014, vol. 60, n° 7, pp 1844-1859, (in coll. with Mohammed ABDELLAOUI)

Prospect Theory for joint time and money consequences in risk and ambiguity

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2013, n° 56, pp 81-95, (in coll. with C. PARASCHIV)

Dissuasion de la conduite sous l’emprise de l’alcool : de la théorie aux comportements

Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport, 2013, vol. 63, pp 93-117,

Assessing the role of context in traffic light violations

Economics Bulletin, 3 February 2012, vol. 32, n° 4, pp 3386-3396, (in coll. with L. CARNIS)

Evidence for an endogenous rebound effect impacting long-run car use elasticity to fuel price

Economics Bulletin, October 2011, vol. 31, n° 4, pp 2777-2786, (in coll. with R. COLLET, L. HIVERT)

Chapters in edited books

Working papers

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 M. ABDELLAOUI, A. PANIN, F. M. VIEIDER)

Risking the Future? Measuring Risk Attitudes towards Delayed Consequences

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, April 2023, vol. 208, pp 325-344, (in coll. with C. PARASCHIV)

Temporal Risk Resolution: Utility versus Probability Weighting Approaches

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

The globalizability of temporal discounting

Nature Human Behaviour, October 2022, vol. 6, pp 1386-1397, (in coll. with K. RUGGERI, A. PANIN, M. VDOVIC, ET AL.)

Chapters in edited books

Working papers

Education

  • Habilitation to conduct research in economic sciences, Université de Rennes 1 - France
  • Doctorate in Economy,, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - France
  • Master research in sciences cognitives, ENS-EHESS - France
  • Master research in Economics, Université Lyon 2 - France
  • Diplome, Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat - France
  • French Bachelor, Science, Other, Université Lyon 1 - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2020- CNRS Research Associate Professor, Economics and Decision Science HEC Paris
  • 2015- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris