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Olivier Compte

Olivier Compte

PSE Chaired Professor

Ecole des Ponts - ParisTech

Campus Jourdan – 48 Boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

6th floor, office 54

Phone +33(0)1 80 52 16 45

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Research groups: Economic Theory
  • Bounded rationality
  • Game Theory
  • Mechanism Design and Economics of Contract
  • Education : Ecole Polytechnique, 1984-87 ; Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1987-89 ;  Ph. D Stanford, 1994: "Private Observations, Communications and Coordination in Repeated Games"
  • Employer : Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées (since 1994), Economic Theory Chair at Paris School of Economics (PSE)
  • Research : auctions, bargaining, repeated games, economics and psychology, bounded rationality, decision theory
  • Teaching (currently) Game theory (M1, APE), Bounded rationality and behavioral economics (M2, APE)
  • Editorial work: Journal of Economic Theory (associate editor), Theoretical Economics (associate editor)