You are cordially invited to attend the next CEGE4ALL: Markets & Policy Seminar by Raouf Boucekkine, on “Epidemics, mental health and public trust”.
Venue: Católica Porto Business School, Paradise Building, EP002
Date: 6 May
Time: 3:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Format: hybrid (online or in-person)
Registration is required. Please register via the link below by 6 May indicating if you will be attending in person or online.
"We develop a joint model of disease diffusion and mental health, with endogenous mobility decisions and where individuals update their trust in the efficiency of public containment policies. Mental health and trust determine preferences for mobility and hence how successful current and future policies are. We estimate the model using high-frequency and geolocalised data on mobility and psychotropic drugs, allowing for a large degree of heterogeneity at an individual level. We show that containment policies lead gradually to poorer mental health, driven by the accumulation of reduced mobility periods and a progressive distrust in the efficiency of the policy, undermining future ones."
Raouf Boucekkine is Professor of Economics at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (Aix-Marseille University). He was professor at UCLouvain, Belgium, 1998-2013, and at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 1993-1998, part-time research professor at Glasgow University, 2007-2010, and full professor and research Dean at Rennes School of Business, 2021-2024, among other appointments. He has been elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020, and he is Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, being nominated as a senior member in 2014. He has also served as president-elect then president of ASSET (Association of Southern-European Economic Theorists) from 2013 to 2017, and as the Europe-based coordinator of the world network of Institutes for Advanced Study, UBIAS, 2018-2020.
Professor Boucekkine has been director of several institutions throughout Europe. He has been, among others, director general of the Institute of Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, IMéRA (2015-2020), scientific director of Aix-Marseille School of Economics (2011-2015), co-director of the Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at UCLouvain (2008-2010) and deputy chairman of the department of economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (1997-1998).
Professor Boucekkine’s main research areas range from economic growth theory and development to sustainability science through economic and mathematical demography and epidemiology, game theory and mathematical methods in social sciences, where he has extensively published. He has extensively published in top economic theory journals (Journal of Economic Theory, Games and Economic Behavior or Economic Theory), in generalist economic journals (European Economic Review, American Economic Review or the Journal of the European Economic Association), and in operation research/applied mathematics journals (Journal of Optimization Theory & Applications, European Journal of Operational Research or Optimal Control Applications and Methods), among other fields. He has also published in several prestigious interdisciplinary journals for example Science Advances, Nonlinear Analysis and Population and Development Review.
