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07.11.2024
Complex decision-making, frictions, and deforestation in Africa
The Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) announced the list of selected projects following their 2024 Generic Call for Proposals (AAPG 2024).
Three very different projects at the Department have been awarded these much sought after ANR grants, attesting both to the excellence and the growing diversity of research strands of the Department's faculty.
Congratulations to Junnan He, Kerstin Holzheu, and Clément Imbert !
Complex Decision-Making (CDM)
Junnan He is interested in industrial organisation, econometrics, and decision theory.
Decision-making is influenced by preference and complexity which are both rooted in the differentiation the individual or organisation perceives among choice alternatives. Understanding the role of this differentiation in shaping decisions is crucial for both personal and organizational decision-making processes.
With this ANR Young Researcher (JCJC) project, Junnan would like to develop a decision theory model for measuring preference and decision complexity among differentiated alternatives.
What Makes Firm Grow Big? Firm Size and Labor Market Frictions (FIRMSIZE)
Kerstin Holzheu is interested in applied macroeconomics, labour economics, and firm dynamics.
With this ANR Young Researcher (JCJC) project she would like to explore the role of frictions such as labour market frictions (ability or willingness to change jobs, sectors) or financial frictions (ability to execute a transaction) that hold back firms and workers in different economic settings.
Preserving Africa's Forests Alongside Economic Development (AfrForDev)
Clément Imbert's research research interests span development, environment, labour, public economics, and political economy. His current research is on labour market programmess, internal migration, and environmental issues in developing countries.
For this ANR Collaborative Research project (PRC), Clément is partner with Liam Wren-Lewis from the Paris School of Economics. This ambitious project tackles the thorny question of whether growth in Africa (population, structural change) must necessarily come at the cost of devastating deforestation.
Clément will be specifically working on the question of the the impact of rural-to-urban migration on deforestation in Africa over the last two decades. This will help us to understand when structural change will likely worsen deforestation, and when it may reduce it, providing a framing structure for the overall project.
