Prof. Dr. Antoine Bommier
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Prof. Dr. Antoine Bommier
Full Professor at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
Deputy head of Dep. of Management, Technology, and Ec.
- Work phone +41 44 632 38 10
- Tel: +41 44 633 80 49
- contactsV-Card (vcf, 1kb)
Education
- “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” in Economics, University of Toulouse (2005)
- Master in Economic Demography, Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1994)
- BA in Anthropology, University Paris X (1991)
- Ph. D. in Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique (1993)
- Ecole Normale Supérieure (Mathematics) (1986-1991)
Main Professional Experience
- Professor at ETH Zurich; Chair of Integrative Risk Management and Economics (since 2010)
- Directeur de Recherche (Senior Researcher) at CNRS; Toulouse School of Economics (since 2005 - on leave)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the ETH Risk Center (2020 on-going)
- Visiting Professor at University Paris-Nanterre (2020)
- Chairman of the Steering Committee of the ETH Risk Center (2018-2020)
- Visiting researcher Paris Scholl of Economics (in 2017 for 6 months)
- Visiting Researcher, CES, University Paris 1 (2005-2007)
- Chargé de Recherche at CNRS, University of Toulouse (2002 -2005)
- Associate Researcher at the Laboratoire d’Economie Appliquée (LEA-INRA) (1999-2003)
- Associate Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1997-2001)
- Chargé de Recherche at the Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (1995-2002)
- Post-Doc., University of California, Berkeley (Department of Demography) (1994-1995)
Award
2013 Robert C. Witt Award - American Risk and Insurance Association
Editorial Activities
Associate Editor of "Decisions in Economics and Finance"
Published Articles
- Arnaud Goussebaile, Antoine Bommier, Amélie Goerger, Jean-Philippe Nicolai, "Altruistic Foreign Aid & Climate Change Mitigation", external pageEnvironmental & Resource Economicscall_made, 84, 219-239 (2023)
- Eric André, Antoine Bommier and Francois Le Grand, "The Impact of Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion on Annuity and Saving Choices", external pageJournal of Risk and Uncertaintycall_made, 65, 33-56, (2022)
- Antoine Bommier and Hélène Schernberg, "Would you Prefer your Retirement Income to Depend on your Life Expectancy?" external pageJournal of Economic Theorycall_made (2021) 191: 105126
- Hansjörg Albrecher, Antoine Bommier, Damir Filipovic, Pablo Koch, Stéphane Loisel and Hato Schmeiser, “Insurance: Models, Digitalization, and Data Science”, external pageEuropean Actuarial Journalcall_made, (2019) 9: 349-360
- Antoine Bommier, Asen Kochov and Francois Le Grand, "Ambiguity and Endogenous Discounting”. external pageJournal of Mathematical Economicscall_made, Volume 83, pp. 48-62, 2019.
- Antoine Bommier and Francois Le Grand "Risk Aversion and Precautionary Savings in Dynamic Settings", external pageManagement Sciencecall_made 65(3): 1386-1397, 2019.
- Antoine Bommier, "A Dual Approach to Ambiguity Aversion", external pageJournal of Mathematical Economicscall_made, Vol. 71, pp. 104-118, 2017.
- Antoine Bommier, Asen Kochov and François Le Grand, "On Monotone Recursive Preferences", external pageEconometricacall_made, Vol. 85, Issue 5, pp. 1433-1466, 2017.
- Antoine Bommier, Lucas Bretschger and Francois Le Grand, "Existence of Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Economies of Scale and Inventories". external pageEconomic Theorycall_made, Vol. 63(3): 687-721, 2017.
- Antoine Bommier, Bruno Lanz and Stéphane Zuber, "Models-as-usual for unusual Risks? On the Value of Catastrophic Climate Change." external pageJournal of Environmental Economics and Managementcall_made, Vol. 74: 1-22, 2015.
- Antoine Bommier and Francois Le Grand, "Too Risk Averse to Purchase Insurance? A Theoretical Glance at the Annuity Puzzle". external pageJournal of Risk and Uncertaintycall_made, Vol. (48): 135-166, 2014.
- Antoine Bommier, "Life-Cycle Preferences Revisited", external pageJournal of the European Economic Associationcall_made, Vol. 11(6): 1290-1319, 2013.
- Antoine Bommier and Bertrand Villeneuve, "Risk Aversion and the Value of Risk to Life". external pageJournal of Risk and Insurancecall_made, Vol. 79(1): 77-104, 2012. - This paper was selected as the best article published in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, 2012, and was awarded the Robert C. Witt Award.
- Antoine Bommier and Stéphane Zuber, “The Pareto Principle of Optimal Inequality”. external pageInternational Economic Reviewcall_made, Vol. 53(2), pp. 593-608, 2012.
- Antoine Bommier, François Le Grand and Arnold Chassagnon, "Comparative Risk Aversion: A formal Approach with Applications to Saving Behaviors". external pageJournal of Economic Theorycall_made, Vol. 147(4), pp. 1614-1641, 2012.
- Antoine Bommier, Marie-Louise Leroux and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, "On the Public Economics of Annuities with Differential Mortality" external pageJournal of Public Economicscall_made, Vol. 95(7-8), pp. 612-623, 2011.
- Antoine Bommier, Marie-Louise Leroux and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, "Differential Mortality and Social Security’". external pageCanadian Journal of Economicscall_made, Vol. 44(1) 2011, pp. 273-289, 2011.
- Antoine Bommier, Tim Miller, Ronald Lee and Stéphane Zuber, “Who Wins and Who Loses? Public Transfer Accounts for US Generations Born 1850 to 2090”. external pagePopulation and Development Reviewcall_made, Vol. 36(1):1-26, 2010.
- David Bardey, Antoine Bommier and Bruno Jullien, "Retail Price Regulation and Innovation: Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry". external pageJournal of Health Economicscall_made, Vol. 29(2): 303-316, 2010.
- Antoine Bommier. "Portfolio choice under uncertain lifetime". external pageJournal of Public Economic Theorycall_made, Vol. 12(1): 57-73, 2010.
- Antoine Bommier and Stéphane Zuber, "Can Preferences for Catastrophe Avoidance Reconcile Time Discounting with Intergenerational Equity?". external pageSocial Choice and Welfarecall_made, Vol.(31): 415-434, 2008.
- Stéphane Zuber, Antoine Bommier, Jérôme Bourdieu et Akiko Suwa, "Transferts publics d'éducation et de retraite en France (1850-2000): au bénéfice de quelles générations ?". external pageÉconomie et Prévisioncall_made, Vol.(180): 1-17, 2007.
- Antoine Bommier, "Risk Aversion, Intertemporal Elasticity of Substitution and Correlation Aversion". Economics Bulletin, Vol.(29): 1-8, 2007.
- Antoine Bommier, "Uncertain Lifetime and Intertemporal Choice: Risk Aversion as a Rationale for Time Discounting". external pageInternational Economic Reviewcall_made, Vol. 47(4): 1223-1246, 2006.
- Antoine Bommier and Jean-Charles Rochet, "Risk Aversion and Planning Horizons". external pageJournal of the European Economic Association,call_made Vol. 4(4): 708-734, 2006.
- Antoine Bommier, Thierry Magnac, Muriel Roger and Benoît Rapoport "Droits à la retraite et mortalité différentielle". external pageEconomie et Prévisioncall_made, 168:1-16, 2006.
- Antoine Bommier and Pierre Dubois, "Rotten Parents and Child Labor". external pageJournal of Political Economycall_made, Vol. 112(1): 240-48, 2004.
- Antoine Bommier and Sylvie Lambert, "Human capital investments and family composition". external pageApplied Economics Letterscall_made, Vol. 11(3): 193 – 196, 2004.
- Antoine Bommier, Thierry Magnac and Muriel Roger, "Le marché du travail à l'approche de la retraite". external pageRevue Française d’Economiecall_made, Vol. 18(1): 23-82, 2003.
- Antoine Bommier and Ronald Lee, "Overlapping Generations Models with Realistic Demography". external pageJournal of Population Economicscall_made, Vol.16(1): 111-134, 2003.
- Antoine Bommier and Guy Stecklov, "Defining health inequality: why Rawls succeeds where social welfare theory fails". external pageJournal of Health Economicscall_made, Vol. 21(3): 497-513, 2002.
- Antoine Bommier, Thierry Magnac and Muriel Roger, "Quels sont les effets des modifications des systèmes de retraite sur les taux d’activité des travailleurs âgés ?". external pageRevue Française d’Economie,call_made Vol.16(1): 79-124, 2001.
- Florence Arestoff and Antoine Bommier, "Efficacité relative des écoles publiques et privées à Madagascar: étude en période de restriction budgétaire". external pageRevue d’Economie du Développementcall_made, 3:51-73, 2001.
- Antoine Bommier and Sylvie Lambert, "Education Demand and Age at School Enrollment in Tanzania". external pageThe Journal of Human Resources,call_made Vol. 35(1): 177-203, 2000.
- Antoine Bommier, "Peut-on compter sur ses parents pour assurer ses vieux jours : l'exemple de la Malaisie". external pageEconomie et Prévision,call_made n°122 1995-5: 75-86, 1995.
- Antoine Bommier, "Prolongement méromorphe de la matrice de diffusion pour les problèmes à N corps à longue portée". external pageMémoire de la Société Mathématique de Francecall_made n° 59 (64 pages), 1994.
- Antoine Bommier, "Propriétés de la matrice de diffusion 2 amas- 2 amas pour les problèmes à N corps à longue portée". external pageAnnales de l'Institut Henri Poincarécall_made, Vol. 59(3): 237-267, 1993.
- Dominique Delande, Antoine Bommier and Jean-Claude Gay, "Positive Energy Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom in Magnetic Field".
external pagePhysical Review Letters,call_made 66(2), 1991. - Dominique Delande, Jean-Claude Gay and Antoine Bommier, "Atomic quantum states with maximum localization on classical elliptical orbits". external pagePhysical Reviewcall_made A, 39(12), 1989.
Chapters in Books
- Antoine Bommier,"Transferts entre ménages et générations" in La Côte d’Ivoire à l’aube du XXIe siècle. Défis démographiques et développement durable,
Georges Tapinos, Philippe Hugon and Patrice Vimard, eds. Karthala, Paris, 2002. - Antoine Bommier and David Shapiro, "L'approche économique de la demande d'éducation",
in La demande d'éducation en Afrique : état des connaissances et perspectives de recherche,
Marc Pilon et Yacouba Yaro, eds, UEPA, Dakar, 2000. - Antoine Bommier and Sylvie Lambert, "Stratégies familiales et scolarisation en Tanzanie", in Développement et transition vers l’économie de marché,
D. Benali, A. Bsais, P. Guillaumont, A. Martens, L. Oyoubi et J-P. Platteau, éditeurs, Editions de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, 1998. - Antoine Bommier, Dominique Delande and Jean-Claude Gay, "Elliptic Atomic States" in Atoms in Strong Fields,
Plenum Press, New-York, 1990.
Working Papers
- Antoine Bommier: external pageMortality Decline, Impatience and Aggregate Wealth Accumulation with Risk-Sensitive Preferences.call_made
- Antoine Bommier and Francois Le Grand: external pageA Robust Approach to Risk Aversion.call_made
- Antoine Bommier, Daniel Harenberg and Francois Le Grand: external pageHousehold Finance and the Value of Lifecall_made
- Antoine Bommier, Daniel Harenberg and Francois Le Grand: external pageRecursive Preferences and the Value of Life: A Clarificationcall_made
Chapters in Books
- Antoine Bommier,"Transferts entre ménages et générations" in La Côte d’Ivoire à l’aube du XXIe siècle. Défis démographiques et développement durable, Georges Tapinos, Philippe Hugon and Patrice Vimard, eds. Karthala, Paris, 2002.
- Antoine Bommier and David Shapiro, "L'approche économique de la demande d'éducation", in La demande d'éducation en Afrique : état des connaissances et perspectives de recherche, Marc Pilon et Yacouba Yaro, eds, UEPA, Dakar, 2000.
- Antoine Bommier and Sylvie Lambert, "Stratégies familiales et scolarisation en Tanzanie", in Développement et transition vers l’économie de marché, D. Benali, A. Bsais, P. Guillaumont, A. Martens, L. Oyoubi et J-P. Platteau, éditeurs, Editions de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, 1998.
- Antoine Bommier, Dominique Delande and Jean-Claude Gay, "Elliptic Atomic States" in Atoms in Strong Fields,
Plenum Press, New-York, 1990.