Frederic KOESSLER
CNRS Research Professor
Economics and Decision Sciences

Biography
Frederic Koessler is research director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is CNRS researcher at GREGHEC and professor at the department of Economics and Decision Sciences at HEC Paris since 2022. He obtained his PhD in economics at the university of Strasbourg in 2001. Before joining HEC, he was researcher at the university of Cergy-Pontoise, research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and professor at Paris School of Economics.
He is working on game theory and economics of information, especially on strategic information disclosure, persuasion, information and mechanism design, and behavioral game theory. He has published his research in top journals in economics such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Rand Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Mathematics of Operation Research, Games and Economic Behavior. His research in economic theory has been rewarded by a CNRS bronze medal in 2010.
Frederic Koessler is actually associate editor at Games and Economic Behavior and Annals of Economics and Statistics. He is coordinator of the ANR grant StratCom (2019-2024) and of the CNRS research network on game theory (2015–2025).
Scientific articles
Social Choice and Welfare, April 2019, vol. 53, n° 3, pp 375-397, (in coll. with E. PEREZ-RICHET)
Theoretical Economics, May 2019, vol. 14, n° 2, pp 345-371, (in coll. with V. SKRETA)
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, October 2017, vol. 119, n° 4, pp 882-909, (in coll. with J. HAGENBACH, T. TRÉGOUËT)
Review of Economic Design, September 2017, vol. 21, n° 3, pp 163-175, (in coll. with J. HAGENBACH)
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, November 2017, vol. 143, pp 1-8, (in coll. with J. Hagenbach)
Theory and Decision, Mars 2017, vol. 82, n° 3, pp 327-339, (in coll. with M. AYOUNI)
Journal of Economic Theory, September 2016, vol. 165, pp 456-471, (in coll. with V. SKRETA)
Economics Letters, february 2016, vol. 139, pp 5-7, (in coll. with J. HAGENBACH)
Working papers
Scientific articles
Journal of Political Economy, November 2023, vol. 131, n° 11, pp 3186-3232, (in coll. with V. SKRETA)
Mathematics of Operations Research, February 2022, vol. 47, n° 1, pp 153-175, (in coll. with M. LACLAU VIGERAL, T. TOMALA)
Theoretical Economics, May 2022, vol. 17, n° 2, pp 883-927, (in coll. with M. LACLAU VIGERAL, J. RENAULT, T. TOMALA)
European Economic Review, february 2022, vol. 142, n° 104012, (in coll. with J. Hagenbach)
Working papers
Education
Academic appointments
Academic Responsibilities at HEC
- 2022- CNRS Research Professor, Economics and Decision Science HEC Paris
- 2022- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris, GREGHEC HEC Paris