PHILIPPE FEVRIER
Director of LEI
28 rue des Saints-Pères
75007 Paris
France
fevrier(at)ensae.fr
Citizenship
French.
date of birth
February 1, 1973, Juvisy sur Orge, France.
Marital situation
Married, Three Children.
Current position
Director of LEI-CREST (Industrial Organization Department), 2006-.
Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique, 2006-
Past positions
Director of Graduate Studies at ENSAE (National School of Economics and Statistics), 2004-2006.
Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, 2003-2004.
Methodologist in charge of the renovation of the Labor Force Survey, insee (French National Institute of Economics and Statistics), 2000-2003.
Research Fellow at LEI-CREST, 1998-2003.
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California, July-August 2000.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, EHESS, directed by Bernard Salanié, with Highest Honors, 2000-2003
Dissertation Title : A Theoretical, Empirical and Experimental Study of Multi-
Unit Auctions
ENSAE (National School of Statistics and Economics) as an administrator of the INSEE, 1996-1998.
DEA in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne), with Highest Honors, 1996-1997.
Ecole Polytechnique, 1993-1996.
Research Interests
Industrial Organization, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics.
Research grants and Awards
Fulbright Grant, 2003.
French Association of Economics Prize for the best French thesis in 2003.
Papers
«He Who Must Not Be Named», Review of Economic Design (2003), 8, 99-119.
«A Study of Consumer Behavior Using Laboratory Data», with Michael Visser, Experimental Economics, 2004, 7, 93-114.
«Idiosyncratic Shocks in a Asymmetric Cournot Oligopoly», with Laurent Linnemer, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22-66, 835-848.
«La grenouille qui se peut faire plus grosse que le boeuf», with Laurent Linnemer, Annales d’Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 73, 199-225.
«The Revenue Effect of the Buyer’s Option in Multi-Unit Ascending Auctions», with William Roos and Michael Visser, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy , 2005, 14-4, 813-847.
« Equilibrium selection: Payoff or risk dominance?», with Laurent Linnemer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 60-2, 164-181.
«Buy or Wait, That is the Option», avec Laurent Linnemer et Michael Visser, CREST Working Paper n° 2001-30, forthcoming the Rand Journal of Economics.
WorKing Papers
«Econometrics of Share Auctions», with Raphaelle Préget and Michael Visser, CREST Working Paper n° 2002-09, in second revision for Econometrica.
«Semiparametric Identification and Estimation of Common Value Auctions», en revision pour Journal of Applied Econometrics.
«Coordination in Sender-Receiver Games with no Common Language», with Francis Kramarz, CREST Working Paper n° 2000-06.
«Measuring consumer behavior using experimental data», with Michael Visser.
«Informed Consent versus Presumed Consent: the Role of the Family in Organ Donation», with Sebastien Gay.
Papers in Progress
«Life and Death and Real Estate in France: Testing for Asymmetric Information
in the Viager Market», with Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser.
«The Mineral Rights Model is nonparametrically identified».
«Identification and Estimation of incentives problems : the case of adverse selection », with Xavier D’Haultfoeuille.
Book
«Exercises of Game Theory and Industrial Organization» (in French), with Laurent Linnemer, in revision for Economica.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
Auction Theory, ENSAE.
Contract Theory, ENSAE.
Structural Econometrics, DEA, University of Paris I (Sorbonne).
Applied Econometrics, Ecole Polytechnique
Undergraduate Courses
Econometrics, Ecole Polytechnique
Consumer Theory, University of Chicago.
Production Theory, University of Chicago.
Industrial Organization, University of Paris V.
Econometrics, Teaching Assistant, ENSAE.
Microeconomics, Teaching Assistant, ENSAE.
Game Theory, Teaching Assistant, ENSAE.
Survey Theory, Teaching Assistant, ENSAE.
Professional activities
Seminar / Conference Organizations
(2002) 6th Meeting of Experimental Economics (Paris), with Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser.
(2000) Research Seminar of the INSEE (Paris).
Research Contracts
(2006) Estimation of the impact of internet on CD prices, with Bruno Crépon, Xavier D’Haultfoeuille and Francis Kramarz.
(2000) Study of Advertisement Time in Television, Ministry of Culture, with Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser.
Seminar / Conference Presentations
(2006) Econometric seminar (Montreal), Idei conference on auctions (Toulouse), Theoretical economics seminar (Toulouse).
(2005) Cireq conference on auctions (Montreal), STICERD Economics of Industry Seminar (London School of Economics), Laser seminar (University of Montpellier), Research seminar of EPEE (University of Evry).
(2004) Workshop in Empirical Economics (University of Chicago), Applied Microeconomics Workshop (Yale), Applied Microeconomics Workshop (Penn State).
(2003) Finance’s Seminar of Crest (Paris), Research Seminar of the INSEE (Paris), Lunch Seminar (University of Chicago).
(2002) European Meeting of the Econometric Society (Venice), European Economic Association (Venice), Research Seminar of the INSEE (Paris).
(2001) Congress of the International Statistical Institute (Seoul), Econometrics Seminar of Toulouse (Toulouse), PhD Seminar of the ADRES (Paris).
(2000) European Economic Association (Bozen-Bolzano), Meeting of Applied Microeconomics (Quebec).