Speaker

Pierre-Yves GEOFFARD

Member - Cercle des économistes

Present positions

• Director of the Paris School of Economics
• CNRS Senior Research Fellow
• Professor, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
• Research Fellow (CEPR)
• Libération, «Economiques », Editorial member
• CNIS (National Committee for Statistical Information), President, “Public Service and Service to the Public”
• Scientific council of IRDES, member.
• French National AIDS Council, member.

Past Positions

• (PSE) Paris School of Economics, Deputy Director, Deputy Director of PJSE, UMR CNRS-ENS-EHESS-ENPC, Deputy Director of DELTA
• Associate editor, Health Economics
• Group of experts, Institut des Données de Santé: member (2008-2010).
• CEPREMAP: co-director of the programme «Public Economics and redistribution» (2005-08).
• University of Lausanne, Institut d’économie et de management de la santé. Invited professor (1998–2008), graduate courses in microeconomics, public economics, health economics.
• Ecole Polytechnique, Associate Professor (2000–2006): undergraduate classes in macro and microeconomics.
• National Council for Evaluation – Conseil National de l’Evaluation, Member, 2001-2003.
• Caisse des dépôts & consignations, Paris (Equity Derivation Division), Research director, Mathematical modeling on equity derivatives, technical support to sales, (1993-94).
• University of Chicago (Départment of Economics), Visiting Scholar, “Research on the economic aspects of the control of epidemics”, (1992-93).
• University of Stanford (Graduate School of Business), Visiting Scholar, “Research on dynamic general equilibrium theory”, (1991-92).

Education

• PHD in applied mathematics, 1991.”Recursive utility, sunspot equilibria: two intertemporal economic models”.
• DEA (Master’s Degree) in Economics, 1988, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
• DEA (Master’s Degree) in Applied Mathematics, 1987, University Paris-IX-Dauphine.
• Ecole normale supérieure, 1985-89.

Publications in peer-reviewed academic journals

• “Parent’s education and child body weight in France: The trajectory of the gradient in the early years”, avec B. Apouey, Economics and Human Biology, 2016 (20), pp 70-89.
• “The subjective value of a life with Down syndrome: Evidence from amniocentesis decision”, avec T. Gadjos & C. Garrouste, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, (127), pp 59-69.
• “Le gradient et la transmission intergénérationnelle de la santé pendant l’enfance ”, with B. Apouey, Economie et Statistique, 2015, n°475-476, pp 113-133.
• “Child health and use of health care services in France: Evidence on the role of family income”, with B. Apouey, Epidemiology and Public Health/Revue d’Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique, 2014, n°62 (3), pp179-190.
• “Family income and child health in the UK,” with Bénédicte Apouey, Journal of Health Economics, 2013, vol. 32(4), pages 715-727
• “Réformer le système de remboursement des soins de ville : une analyse par microsimulation” with G. de Lagasnerie, Economie et Statistique,2012, n°455-456, pp 89-112
• “Assurance maladie en Suisse : l’assurance supplémentaire nuit-elle à la concurrence de l’assurance de base ?” with B. Dormont and K. Lamiraud, Economie et Statistique,2012, n°455-456, pp 71-88
• “La santé par quels moyens et à quel prix?”, Pierre-Yves Geoffard, Roger Guesnerie, and Julian Le Grand, Presses Universitaires de France, 2010
• “Workplace smoking ban effects on unhappy smokers,” Clément de Chaisemartin, Pierre‐Yves Geoffard, and Anne‐Laurence le Faou, Health Economics, vol. 20(9), pages 1043-1055, 2011.
• « Santé : A chacun selon ses besoins, de chacun selon ses capacités ?, » chapter 7 in Réformer par temps de crise, Institut Montaigne, Manitoba-Belles Lettres, 2012

Research interests

• Public economics, economics of information and uncertainty, microeconomic foundations of public health policies.