Mohammed ABDELLAOUI

CNRS Research Professor

Economics and Decision Sciences

Research Director at CNRS
abdellaoui@hec.fr https://sites.google.com/a/greg-hec.com/mohammed-abdellaoui/
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Biography

Mohammed Abdellaoui studies individual decision-making with an eye to the perception of uncertainty and time from both behavioral and formal perspectives. Abdellaoui’s research has been published in a number of journals in economics, management sciences and psychology, including the American Economic Review,  Econometrica, Management Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Econometrics, Games and Economic Behavior, Economic Theory, Operation Research, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, and Theory and Decision. Prof. Abdellaoui was also the president of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE) and the co-founder of Rislab (Risk, Insurance, and Savings Laboratory, Ghent University, Belgium), an international research network. Prof. Abdellaoui is also the Editor-in-Chief of Theory and Decision, an International Journal for Multidisciplinary Advances in Decision Science. 

Prior to joining HEC Paris in 2007 as a Research Director at CNRS and a Professor of Decision Sciences, Abdellaoui was a CNRS Researcher and lecturer (Optimization, Behavioral Decision Theory, Decision Analysis) at ENS de Cachan (1993-2002) and at ENSAM & ESTP (2002-2007). Abdellaoui joined the CNRS as a researcher in 1993 after a PhD in “Mathematical Economics and Econometrics” from the University of Aix-Marseille III.

Scientific articles

Experiments on compound risk in relation to simple risk and to ambiguity

Management Science, June 2015, vol. 61, n° 6, pp 1306-1322, (in coll. with P. KLIBANOFF, L. PLACIDO)

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 E. KEMEL)

Beware of black swans: Taking stock of the description-experience gap in decision under uncertainty

Marketing Letters, September 2014, vol. 25, n° 3, pp 269-280, (in coll. with A. DE PALMA, G. ATTANASI, M. BEN-AKIVA, I. EREV, H. FEHR-DUDA, D. FOK, C. FOX, R. HERTWIG, N. PICARD, P. P. WAKKER, J. WALKER, M. WEBER)

Sign-Dependence in Intertemporal Choice

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, february, 3 2013, vol. 47, n° 3, pp 225-253, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, O. L'HARIDON)

Individual vs. couple behavior: an experimental investigation of risk preferences

Theory and Decision, August 2013, vol. 75, n° 2, pp 175-191, (in coll. with O. L'HARIDON, C. PARASCHIV)

Is There One Unifying Concept of Utility? An Experimental Comparison of Utility Under Risk and Utility Over Time

Management Science, September 2013, vol. 59, n° 9, pp 2153-2169, (in coll. with H. Bleichrodt, O. L'HARIDON, C. PARASCHIV)

Do financial professionals behave according to prospect theory? An experimental study

Theory and Decision, March 2013, vol. 74, n° 3, pp 411-429, (in coll. with H. Bleichrodt, H. Kammoun)

Risk Aversion Elicitation: Reconciling Tractability and Bias Minimization

Theory and Decision, July 2011, vol. 71, n° 1, pp 63-80, (in coll. with O. L'HARIDON, A. Driouchi)

Risk Preferences at Different Time Periods: An Experimental Investigation

Management Science, december, 2 2011, vol. 57, n° 5, pp 975-987, (in coll. with E. Diecidue, A. Onçuler)

Experienced vs. Described Uncertainty: Do We Need Two Prospect Theory Specifications?

Management Science, October 2011, vol. 57, n° 10, pp 1879-1895, (in coll. with O. L'HARIDON, C. PARASCHIV)

Books

Chapters in edited books

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

Temporal Risk Resolution: Utility versus Probability Weighting Approaches

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

Measuring Beliefs under Ambiguity

Operations Research, March - April 2021, vol. 69, n° 2, pp 599-612, (in coll. with H. BLEICHRODT, E. KEMEL, O. L'HARIDON)

Savage for dummies and experts

Journal of Economic Theory, March 2020, vol. 186, n° 104991, (in coll. with P. P. WAKKER)

Measuring Time and Risk Preferences in an Integrated Framework

Games and Economic Behavior, May 2019, vol. 115, pp 459-469, (in coll. with E. KEMEL, A. PANIN, F. M. VIEIDER)

Books

Chapters in edited books

The Closing-in Method : An Individual Tool to Investigate Individual Choice Patterns Under Risk

Models And Experiments In Risk And Rationality, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Expected Utility Violation : An Appropriate and Intercultural Experiment

Progress In Decision, Utility And Risk Theory, A. Chikan (ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers

Proceedings

Working papers

Education

  • Habilitation a diriger des recherches en economie (Qualified Research Supervisor), Université d'Aix-en-Provence - France
  • Ph.D. in Economics, Université d'Aix-Marseille - France

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2020- CNRS Research Professor , Economics and Decision Science HEC Paris
  • 2007- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

Scientific Activities

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

  • Elu president de l'Association Francaise d'Economie Experimentale
  • AEA
  • INFORMS
  • Econometric Society
  • ASFEE (Association Francaise dEconomie Experimentale)

Awards & honors

  • 2009 Decision Analysis Society Publication Award, for the article "Loss Aversion under Prospect Theory: A Parameter-Free Measurement", Management Science, October 2007