Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at HEC Montreal, Canada.


I am Associate professor at HEC Montréal‘s Department of Economics. My research was cited in Congressional hearings, in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CBS, Bloomberg, Politico, etc. I serve on the scientific and awards committees of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and the scientific committee of the Urban Economics Association. Previously I was an associate professor at Ecole polytechnique, France, an associate professor at Rutgers Business School, New Jersey, and an assistant professor at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. In April 2020, I was appointed DLA Piper Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. I was a Senior Fellow of Johns Hopkins’ 21st Century Cities Initiative. I taught over 5,000 students, across Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates, in the EMBA, MBA, PhD, MSc, BComm and BSc undergraduate programs. Email me

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Panelist at the Federal Reserve of Chicago on The Availability and Impact of Public and Private Funding Following a Natural Disaster. Register here

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Presenting Time Consistent Infrastructure Investments: Optimal Flood Protection Policies in Spatial Equilibrium at Humboldt University, Berlin in March at the annual meeting of the Urban Economics Assocation.

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Coauthor Prof. Tandel presenting ``Flooding the Market: Weather Events and Property Values’’ with Tom Bearpark (Princeton) and Ashwin Rode (Chicago) Link

Speaking at the MIT Center for Real Estate with Bill Wheaton and Jacques Gordon
Speaking at the MIT Center for Real Estate with Bill Wheaton and Jacques Gordon


Celebrating the end of the MBA core course
Celebrating the end of the MBA core course