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

I am an urban and real estate economist with interests in microeconomic theory, applied microeconomics, and mortgage finance. Email me.

📍 I served on the scientific and awards committees of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, and the scientific committee of the Urban Economics Association. My research was cited in Congressional hearings, in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CBS, Bloomberg, Politico, etc. 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. I have taught over 5,000 students in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, in the EMBA, MBA, LLM, PhD, MSc, BComm, and BSc undergraduate programs.

📍 Securitization and Climate Risk: Replicable repository with public data, GitHub Repo. Read the substack for context: Climate Change is the New Tobacco.

📍 Equilibrium Multiplicity: A Systematic Approach using Homotopies, with an Application to Chicago is Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.

📍 Adaptation Using Financial Markets: Climate Risk Diversification Through Securitization is Revise and Resubmit at Management Science Link Paper.

📍 “The Eye of the Beholder: Neighborhood Embeddings and House Prices,” link to HEC Paris slides, with coauthors Laurent Gobillon (Paris), Clément Gorin (Paris), Stephan Heblich (Toronto).

📍 Presented “The Workings of a City: The Response to Flood in a Coastal Megacity”, joint with Tom Bearpark (Exeter), Ashwin Rode (Chicago), Vaidehi Tandel (Manchester) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bengalore link.

📍 Presented the new version of “Time Consistent Infrastructure Investments: Optimal Flood Protection Policies in Spatial Equilibrium”, discussed by Meredith Fowlie and discussed her paper at the Toronto Climate Economics Meeting, organized by Stephan Heiblich. Paper Slides.