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Olivier Bos

Research Faculty

Professor

ENS Paris-Saclay

Contact

Office: 2A17a

Email: olivier.bos@ens-paris-saclay.fr

 

Research Interests:

Mechanism Design, Auction Theory, Voting, Microeconomics.

Short bio

Olivier Bos completed his PhD in 2009 at Paris School of Economics. Before joining ENS Paris-Saclay (September 2021), he was assistant professor and then associate professor at University Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. He is a research fellow of the ZEW- Mannheim since 2017, and a CESifo fellow since 2018. He was awarded Junior Member at Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) for the period 2016-2021. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at University of Cologne in 2009-2010.

Olivier Bos is CEPS Director (with Stefano Bosi) and Deputy Head of Social Sciences Department of ENS Paris-Saclay since 2022. He was the director of the Master degree program in economics in 2021-2022.

His main research interests focus on microeconomics, and cover mechanism design, auction theory, game theory. His work broadly consists in the study of price formation and its role played in the structure of markets. He intends to determine how to allocate scarce resources via price mechanisms, and aims to design successful markets with desirable goals such as revenue maximization, allocative efficiency and stability. Some of his current research agenda analyses how public reputational concerns affect agents’ behaviour and the outcome in mechanisms. It aims to advance and deepen our understanding of mechanisms, such as auctions and voting procedures, with signalling concerns; and therefore, to use this knowledge to provide new perspectives on classical topics on mechanism and organisation design (e.g., public procurement, reduce harmful emissions to their efficient level without infracting upon productive efficiency, charitable organisations).

 

Publications

Working Papers

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How Lotteries Outperform Auctions

Economics Letters, vol. 110(3), pp. 262-264, 2011

Olivier Bos

Wars of Attrition and All-Pay Auctions with Stochastic Competition,

Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 48(2), pp. 83-91, 2012

Olivier Bos

All-Pay Auction with Polynomial Rewards

Annals of Economics and Statistics, vol. 115-116, pp. 361-377, 2014

Olivier Bos & Martin Ranger

Agreeing on Efficient Emissions Reduction

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 118(4), pp. 785-815, 2016

Olivier Bos & Béatrice Roussillon & Paul Schweinzer

Charity Auctions for the Happy Few

Mathematical Social Sciences, vol 79(C), pp. 83-92, 2016

Olivier Bos

Risk and Unraveling in Labor Markets

Annals of Economics and Statistics, vol. 129, pp. 127-144, 2018

Olivier Bos & Martin Ranger

Charitable Asymmetric Bidders

Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 22(2), pp. 320-337, 2020

Olivier Bos

Signalling in Auctions: Experimental Evidence

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 187, pp. 448-469, 2021

Olivier Bos & Francisco Gómez Martínez & Sander Onderstal & Tom Truyts

Auctions with Signaling Concerns

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, vol. 30(2), pp. 420-448, 2021

Olivier Bos & Tom Truyts

Signalling in Auctions for Risk-Averse Bidders

PLOS One, 2022

Olivier Bos & Sander Onderstal & Francisco Gómez Martínez

Entry in First-price Auctions with Signaling

International Journal of Game Theory, vol. 52, pp. 423-450, 2023

Olivier Bos & Tom Truyts

Auctions with signaling bidders: Optimal design and information disclosure

Games and Economic Behavior, 2025

Olivier Bos & Martin Pollrich

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La hausse des droits d'inscription à l'université : un choix de société

La Tribune, 2012
Olivier Bos

La double Licence : l'autre aventure universitaire

The Conversation, 2016
Olivier Bos

Méthode d'attribution des fréquences 5G : des choix discutables

Les Échos, 2019
Olivier Bos & Vitali Gretcshko

Enchères 5G : une déception sans surprise

Les Échos, 2020
Olivier Bos & Vitali Gretcshko

Dans une société qui utilise les enchères au quotidien, l'originalité des travaux de Paul Milgrom et Robert Wilson nous est précieuse

Le Monde, 2020
Olivier Bos & Vitali Gretcshko

Droits TV du football français : un coûteux hors-jeu

Les Échos, 2021
Olivier Bos & Vitali Gretcshko

De nouveaux jours heureux ?

Esprit, 2021
Olivier Bos

L'opportunité climatique d'une croissance retrouvée

L'Obs, 2021
Olivier Bos

Loi pour la Recherche : la pratique malheureuse du en même temps

Les Échos, 2023
Olivier Bos

« Pertes et préjudices » : perspectives et opportunités d’une transition énergétique

Revue AOC, 2023
Olivier Bos

Précarité étudiante : pourquoi ne pas aller vers une allocation d’autonomie ?

Le Nouvel Obs, 2024
Olivier Bos

Le refus de penser la dette devrait susciter la plus grande inquiétude

Le Nouvel Obs, 2024
Olivier Bos & Natacha Raffin