Brian HILL

Professeur Chercheur CNRS

Economie et Sciences de la Décision

hill@hec.fr http://www.hec.fr/hill
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Biographie

Brian Hill is Research Director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and CNRS Research Professor in the Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris. He is also Academic Director of the Inclusive Economy Centre in the Sustainability & Organizations Institute (S&O) at HEC Paris.

After completing studies in mathematics, logic and philosophy, his research career has largely been related to economics, notably concerning decision and uncertainty. He has published in top economics, philosophy and management journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior, Economics and Philosophy, Mind, Philosophy of Science, Synthese and Management Science. He has received the CNRS Bronze Medal for early-career researchers.

One of his recent research programs has focused on what counts as a rational reaction to severe uncertainty or “ambiguity”. It attempts to marry theoretical insights and tools from economics and philosophy, with an eye on practical consequences for the handling of uncertainty in concrete decisions, such as those involving environmental policy. (See here for a presentation.)

Another main current research program is centred on pro-social attitudes of consumers, such as their attitudes towards inequalities embedded in the goods they buy. The aim is to investigate their determinants, the format and character of socially relavant information that regulates their manifestations, and possibilities for harnessing them to mitigate social injustices. (See here for a presentation.)

 

 

Articles scientifiques

A Non-Bayesian Theory of State-Dependent Utility

Econometrica, juillet 2019, vol. 87, n° 4, pp 1341-1366,

Risk Versus Ambiguity and International Security Design

Journal of International Economics, juillet 2018, vol. 113, pp 74-105, (in coll. with T. K. MICHALSKI)

Combining probability with qualitative degree-of-certainty metrics in assessment

Climatic Change, août 2018, vol. 149, n° 3-4, pp 517-525, (in coll. with C. HELGESON, R. BRADLEY)

Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability, and Decision

Philosophy of Science, juillet 2017, vol. 84, n° 3, pp 500-522, (in coll. with R. BRADLEY, C. HELGESON)

Incomplete preferences and confidence

Journal of Mathematical Economics, août 2016, vol. 65, pp 83–103,

Robust Social Decisions

American Economic Review, septembre 2016, vol. 106, n° 9, pp 2407-2425, (in coll. with E. DANAN, T. GAJDOS, J.-M. TALLON)

Common knowledge: a finitary calculus with a syntactic cut-elimination procedure

Logique et Analyse, juin 2015, vol. 58, n° 230, pp 279-306, (in coll. with F. POGGIOLESI)

Representation theorems and the semantics of decision-theoretic concepts

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2015, vol. 22, n° 3, pp 292-311, (in coll. with M. COZIC)

Awareness and equilibrium

Synthese, juillet 2013, vol. 190, n° 5, pp 851-869,

Confidence and decision

Games and Economic Behavior, novembre 2013, vol. 82, pp 675-692,

Chapitres d'ouvrages

Cahiers de recherche

Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability and Decision

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Uncertainty Aversion, Multi Utility Representations and State Independence of Utility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

Aggregating Tastes, Beliefs, and Attitudes Under Uncertainty

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Confidence as a Source of Deferral

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Incomplete Preferences and Confidence

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Risk versus Ambiguity and International Security Design

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2014

Unanimity and the aggregation of multiple prior opinions

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2012

Deferral, incomplete preferences and confidence

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2011

Awareness and Equilibrium

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2010

Confidence and ambiguity

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2009

Articles scientifiques

Beyond uncertainty aversion

Games and Economic Behavior, septembre 2023, vol. 141, pp 196-222,

Introduction au numéro spécial en hommage à Philippe Mongin

Revue Economique, novembre 2022, vol. 73, n° 6, pp 881-885, (in coll. with J. Baccelli, A. Billot, M. Cozic, M. Pivato)

Updating confidence in beliefs

Journal of Economic Theory, janvier 2022, vol. 199, n° 105209,

Dynamic consistency and ambiguity: A reappraisal

Games and Economic Behavior, juillet 2020, vol. 120, pp 289-310,

Chapitres d'ouvrages

Cahiers de recherche

Being up Front about Income Inequality

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

Beyond Uncertainty Aversion

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

Updating Confidence in Beliefs

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2019

A Non-Bayesian Theory of State-Dependent Utility

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Formation

  • Habilitation à diriger des recherches en Sciences Economiques, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - France
  • Doctorat de Philosophie, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - France
  • Masters de Mathématiques et Informatique, « Logique Mathématique et Fondements de l'Informatique », Université Paris Diderot - France
  • DEA de Philosophie, « Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences », Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne - France
  • Cambridge Advanced Certificate in Mathematics (Maîtrise de Mathématiques), University of Cambridge - Royaume-Uni
  • B.A. in Mathematics (Licence de Mathématiques), University of Cambridge - Royaume-Uni

Nominations académiques

Responsabilités académiques à HEC

  • 2020- Professeur Chercheur CNRS, Economie et Sciences de la Décision HEC Paris
  • 2007- Membre du GREGHEC, le laboratoire de recherche CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

Activités scientifiques

Adhésion à l'organisation académique ou professionnelle

  • Econometric Society
  • Association Française de Sciences Economiques (A.F.S.E.)

Activités scientifiques

  • octobre 2011- Member of programme committee of LORI-III (Third International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction), Guangzhou

    • Conference organisation

  • 2013-2013 Workshop on decision making under uncertainty and beyond
  • 2010-2010 Membre du Comité Scientifique : ParisTech - Journal of Economic Theory Conference on Inequality and Risk
  • Member of scientific committee of RUD12 (Risk, Uncertainty and Decision), Evanston
  • Co-organisateur, D-TEA, HEC Paris, avril 2009, juin 2010, juin 2011, juillet 2012
  • Co-organiser of Paris Workshop in Incomplete Preferences, March 2011
  • Four-day internal seminar at Aussois (main organiser : Philippe MONGIN)
  • Workshop From Social Choice Theory to Logical Aggregation Theory (GREGHEC, LAMSADE, CERSES; main organizers from GREGHEC: Philippe Mongin and Brian Hill)
  • Co-organisateur du Prague International Colloquium « Logic of Change, Change of Logic », septembre 2008, Prague, République tchèque
  • Co-organisateur du séminaire « Décision et Rationalité », GREGHEC et IHPST, 2007

    • Prix ​​& honneurs

    • 2014 Médaille de bronze du CNRS