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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
20478
World Ranking
638
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in France Leader Award
  • 2012 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Christian Gollier is affiliated with the Toulouse School of Economics in France. Their research focuses on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, contributing extensively across several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Modeling and Simulation, General Decision Sciences, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work covers multiple topics, with notable attention to Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Housing Market and Economics, Climate Change Policy and Economics, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Capital Investment and Risk Analysis.

Among recent papers, Christian Gollier has published:

  • Cost-benefit analysis of age-specific deconfinement strategies (2020) in the Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • Investment Strategies and Corporate Behaviour with Socially Responsible Investors: A Theory of Active Ownership (2022) in Economica
  • Pandemic economics: optimal dynamic confinement under uncertainty and learning (2020) in The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review

They have also contributed to multi-author works such as:

  • The Portfolio of Economic Policies Needed to Fight Climate Change (2023) published in Annual Review of Economics
  • Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems (2024) published in Science

Frequent co-authors of Christian Gollier include Jiakun Zheng, Olivier Blanchard, Jean Tirole, Moritz A. Drupp, and Mark Freeman. This reflects a collaborative research approach across different economic and environmental topics.

Christian Gollier's work appears regularly in several publication venues, including:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science
  • The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review
  • Environmental and Resource Economics

Beyond journal articles, Christian Gollier has contributed to academic literature with a book titled Peace not Pollution: How Going Green Can Tackle Climate Change and Toxic Politics, published by Université Toulouse-I-Capitole in 2023.

Christian Gollier's academic contributions have been recognized through election as a Member of Academia Europaea and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society, both in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The economics of risk and time

    Christian Gollier

  • The Economics of Risk and Time

    Christian Gollier

  • Trade Credit and Credit Rationing

    Bruno Biais;Christian Gollier

  • Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns

    Markus K. Brunnermeier;Christian Gollier;Jonathan A. Parker

  • Risk vulnerability and the tempering effect of background risk

    Christian Gollier;John W. Pratt

  • The Risk-Averse and Prudent Newsboy

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Economic and Financial Decisions under Risk

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • OPTIMAL BELIEFS, ASSET PRICES, AND THE PREFERENCE FOR SKEWED RETURNS

    Maiikus K. Brunnermeier;Christian Gollier;Jonathan A. Parker

  • Scientific progress and irreversibility: an economic interpretation of the ‘Precautionary Principle’

    Christian Gollier;Bruno Jullien;Nicolas Treich;Nicolas Treich

  • Changes in Background Risk, and Risk Taking Behaviour

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier;Harris Schlesinger

  • Discounting an uncertain future

    Christian Gollier

  • Determining Benefits and Costs for Future Generations

    Kenneth J. Arrow;M. Cropper;Christian Gollier;Ben Groom

  • Pricing the planet's future

    Christian Gollier

  • Pricing the Planet's Future: The Economics of Discounting in an Uncertain World

    Christian Gollier

  • Decision-Making Under Scientific Uncertainty: The Economics of the Precautionary Principle

    Christian Gollier;Nicolas Treich

  • PEER GROUP FORMATION IN AN ADVERSE SELECTION MODEL

    Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion;Christian Gollier

  • Intergenerational risk-sharing and risk-taking of a pension fund

    Christian Gollier

  • The impact of prudence on optimal prevention

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier

  • How should the distant future be discounted when discount rates are uncertain

    Christian Gollier;Martin L. Weitzman

  • The impact of prudence on optimal prevention

    Louis Eeckhoudt;Christian Gollier

  • Time Horizon and the Discount Rate

    Christian Gollier;Christian Gollier

  • Time Horizon and the Discount Rate

    Christian Gollier

  • Portfolio choices and asset prices: The comparative statics of ambiguity aversion

    Christian Gollier

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Eeckhoudt
Louis Eeckhoudt IESEG School of Management
Harris Schlesinger
Harris Schlesinger University of Alabama
Martin L. Weitzman
Martin L. Weitzman Harvard University
William D. Nordhaus
William D. Nordhaus Yale University
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
Thomas Sterner
Thomas Sterner University of Gothenburg
William A. Pizer
William A. Pizer Resources For The Future
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University

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