Alexis Direr

I am a professor of economics at the Université of Orléans, deputy director of the Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans.

Research topics:

Publications

Algorithmic vs. Human Portfolio Choice, Finance (forthcoming) with Béatrice Boulu-Reshef and Nicole von Wilczur ,
How do households invest on behalf of their children? Evidence from a robo-advisor, Annals of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming), with Indigo Jones,
Portfolio choice with time horizon risk (2023), International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 26 (06n07),
How Price Elastic is the Demand for Retirement Saving? (2019), with Rim Ennajar-Sayadi, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice 44 (1), 102-122, view online,
Optimal Lottery (2014), with Charles Dennery, Journal of Mathematical Economy, 55, 15-23,
Do Savers Respond to Tax Incentives? The Case of Retirement Savings (2014), with Clément Carbonnier and Ihssane Slimani-Houti, Annals of Economics and Statistics, 113/14 June, 225-56,
Portfolio Choice and Financial Advice (2013), with Michael Visser, Finance, 34 (2) 35-64,
Are Betting Markets Efficient? Evidence from European Football Championships (2013), Applied Economics, 45 (3), p. 343-356, , dataset
The Taxation of Life Annuities Under Adverse Selection (2010), Journal of Public Economics, 94 (1-2), p. 50-58,
Flexible Life Annuities (2010), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 21 (1), p. 43-55,
Multiple Equilibria in Markets with Screening (2008), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 40 (4), p. 791-98,
Interdependent Preferences and Aggregate Saving (2001), Annals of Economics and Statistics, 63-64, p. 297-308.

Notation Efficace des Questions à Choix Multiples (2025), Revue Économique (2025/6), vol. 76, p363-413 ,
La stratégie de désinvestissement graduel des marchés financiers sécurise-t-elle réellement l'épargne ? (2018), with Éric Yayi, Revue Économique 69, (3), 505-531 long version
Les choix de portefeuille des épargnants sur le cycle boursier et le cycle de vie (2014), Économie et Statistiques, 472-3, p. 125-52, with Eric Yayi, .
English version: Portfolio Choice over the Business Cycle and the Life Cycle,
Le Produit d'Épargne Retraite Populaire (PERP) : caractéristiques des détenteurs et projection des niveaux de rentes, Economie et Prévision, 194 (3), p79-92, 2011, with Muriel Roger,
Épargne Retraite et Redistribution, Économie et Statistiques, 417-418, p119-33, 2009,
Modéliser la Distribution des Richesses en France, Annales d'Économie et de Statistiques, 82, p.151-186, 2006, with Thomas Weitzenblum
Concurrence Interbancaire et Sélection des Investissements, Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 69, p. 101-118, 2003
Crédit interentreprises et risque de système, Recherches Économiques de Louvain 68 (3), p. 371-384, 2002. Preliminary version: Trade Credit without Systemic Risk

Algorithm Transparency and Portfolio Choice, with Béatrice Boulu-Reshef and Mehdi Louafi,
Intertemporal Preferences with Consumption Indivisibility,
Optimal Automated Market Maker,
Intermittent discounting,
Bringing present bias back to the present,

Économie de l'assurance, manuel de premier et second cycle universitaire, Éditions Economica, collection Corpus Économie, 2020 (Table des matières, fnac, amazon)