C.V. - Vincent Boucher

V INCENT B OUCHER
[email protected]
General Information
• Current Position: Professeur Adjoint (Assistant Professor), Université Laval, Quebec City,
Canada
• Citizenship: Canadian
• Known Languages: French (native), English, Spanish (fair)
Fields of Specialization
• Social Interactions and Social Networks
• Microeconomic theory, Public Economics, Microeconometrics
Education
• Phd in Economics, Université de Montréal (2008-2013)
• Master of Arts in Economics, Université Laval (2006-2008)
• Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy, Université Laval (2003-2006)
Publications
• “L’impact des dépenses publiques en sport sur les médailles olympiques: une analyse
économétrique”, with Paul Blais-Morisset and Bernard Fortin
- Revue Économique, Forthcoming
• “Conformism and Self-Selection in Social Networks”
- Journal of Public Economics, 136, 2016, 30-44
• “Polluting Politics”, with Louis-Philippe Beland
- Economics Letters, 137, 2015, 176-181
• “Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks”, with Bernard Fortin
- The Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, Chapter 12, Edited by Yann BramoullÃl’,
Andrea Galeotti and Brian W. Rogers, 2016, Oxford University Press
• “Structural Homophily”,
- The International Economic Review, 56(1), 2015, 235-264
• “Do Peers Affect Student Achievement ? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size
Variation.”, with Yann Bramoullé, Habiba Djebbari and Bernard Fortin
- Journal of Applied Econometrics, 29(1), 2014, 91-109
• “Providing Global Public Goods under Uncertainty”, with Yann Bramoullé
- Journal of Public Economics, 94, 2010, 591-603
Working Papers
• “My Friend Far Far Away: A Random Field Approach to Exponential Random Graph
Models”, with Ismael Mourifie
- Revision requested by The Econometrics Journal
• “The Estimation of Network Formation Games with Positive Spillovers”
- Submitted to The Journal of Econometrics
• Matte S., Boucher M.-A., Boucher V. and Fortier-Fillion T.-C “How risk-averse is the
decision-maker? Toward a more complete evaluation of the value of probabilistic flood
forecasts”
- Submitted to Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
• “Wage Dynamics and Peer Referrals”, with Marion Goussé
- Submitted to The Journal of Applied Econometrics
Congresses and Workshops
2016: GAMES 2016, Maastricht (Netherlands) / Econometric Society, 2016 North-American Winter Meetings, San-Francisco (USA) / SOFI, Stockholm (Sweden) / CTN 2016, Moscow (Russia)
2015: IAAE 2015 Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece) CEA 2015 Conference, Toronto (On) / SCSE
2015 Conference, Montreal (Qc)
2014: Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Brussels (Belgium) / Coalitions and Networks Concordia University, Montreal (Qc) / CEA 2014 Conference, Vancouver (Bc) / Department of
Economics, Dalhousie University, Halifax (NS)
2013: Cambridge-INET Workshop on Networks / Journées du CIRPÉE, Lac Beauport (Qc)
2012: SCSE, Mont-Tremblant (Qc) / CEA 2012 Conference, Calgary (Ab) / CeMMAP-CIREQSciencesPo-X Workshop on the Estimation of Complementarities in Matching and Social Networks, Paris (France)
2011: GDRI 2011, Marseille (France) / Econcon 2011, New York (NY) / CEA 2011 Conference,
Ottawa (On) / Society of Economics Design 2011 Conference, Montreal (Qc)
2010: Coalition Theory Network Workshop, Marseille (France) / CEA 2010 Conference, Quebec
City (Qc) / SCSE, Lac-Beauport (Qc)
2009: International Energy Workshop, Venise (Italy)
2008: World Congress of The Game Theory Society, Evanston (Il), July 2008 / Annual Conference
of the EAERE, Gothenburg (Sweden) / CEA 2008 Conference, Vancouver (BC) / Montréal Natural
Resources and Environmental Economics Workshop, Montréal (Qc)
2007: Journées du CIRPÉE, Bécancour (Qc) / SCSE, Québec (Qc)
Refereeing
• Actualité Économique, China Economic Review, Computational Economics, Economic
Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Economic Review, Games and
Economic Behavior International Economic Review, International Theory, Journal of
Applied Econometrics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Theory,
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Public Economics,
Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of Socio-Economics, Mathematical Social
Sciences, National Science Foundation
Grants
• SSHRC: Insight Development Grant - Simulated methods for the estimation of network formation
games - 34 974$ for 2016-2018
• FRQ-SC: Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs - Mesurer les interactions
sociales et leurs impacts : une approche microéconomique - 39 600$ for 2014-2017
• FRQ-SC: Soutien aux équipes de recherche - Effets de la fiscalité et des programmes sociaux sur
l’efficacité économique et la justice distributive - 313 280$ for 2013-2017, team of 8 researchers
coordinated by Bruce Shearer.
• FSS, Programme de démarrage en recherche - 10 000$ for 2013-2014
Scholarships
• “Bourse de fin d’études” (Early Graduation Scholarship Grant) (2012-2013): 12 000$
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2010-2012) : 40 000$
• Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Sociéte et la Culture (2008-2010) : 60 000$
Teaching
• Principles of microeconomics (Undergraduate)
• Public Finance (Undergraduate)
• Microeconomic Theory (Graduate)
Graduate Students
• PhD (current): Koffi Akakpo (co-adviser), Finagnon Antoine Dedewanou (main adviser),
Steeve Marchant (co-adviser), Elfried Faton (co-adviser)
• Master (current): Hugo Leblond (main adviser)
• Master (past): Ariel Jean Philippe Agbantey (co-adviser), Evans Beaulieu (co-adviser), Paul
Blais-Morisset (co-adviser), Nikolas Girard (main adviser), Stephanie-Isabelle Brunet
(co-adviser)