Institut Polytechnique de Paris researcher has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

03 Dec. 2024

Yves Le Yaouanq is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*). He has just received a grant from the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator) to carry out the PROSPECT project. Drawing on the field of behavioral economics, Yves Le Yaouanq's work studies decision-making by individuals, using realistic models that take into account the cognitive biases that tend to affect individual choices. In particular, PROSPECT explores the way in which individuals project themselves into information they do not yet know, using experiments carried out with cohorts.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris researcher has been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

Discover the work of Yves Le Yaouanq, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the École Polytechnique and researcher at the Centre de recherche en économie et statistiques (CREST).

You can also read his interview on the CREST website.

About the ERC

The ERC, set up by the European Union in 2007, is the premier European funding organisation for excellent frontier research. It funds creative researchers of any nationality and age, to run projects based across Europe. The ERC offers four core grant schemes: Starting Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants. With its additional Proof of Concept Grant scheme, the ERC helps grantees to bridge the gap between their pioneering research and early phases of its commercialisation. The ERC is led by an independent governing body, the Scientific Council. Since November 2021, Maria Leptin is the President of the ERC. The overall ERC budget from 2021 to 2027 is more than €16 billion, as part of the Horizon Europe programme, under the responsibility of European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation, Ekaterina Zaharieva.

Yves Le Yaouanq is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at École Polytechnique. He is also a member of the Centre de Recherche en Economie et Statistique (CREST), and affiliated with the CESifo and CEPR networks. He holds a PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics (2016), and an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (2023). Yves Le Yaouanq's main areas of research are decision theory, behavioral economics and experimental economics. He works mainly on the modeling, detection and measurement of cognitive biases, with main applications in labor economics (beliefs about self, career choice) and political economy (beliefs about political issues, moral conflicts).

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*CREST : a joint research unit CNRS, École Polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France