Christoph Heinzel

Phone: +33 (0)2 23 48 70 63
christoph.heinzel@inrae.fr

Research topics

• Structural elicitation of preferences underpinning precautionary behavior
• Public policies under uncertainty and retarded resolution of uncertainty
• Socially efficient valuation of very long-term investments and of multivariate contexts

Selected recent publications

• Bostian, A.A. and Heinzel, C. (2024)
  "Precautionary saving under recursive preferences"
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 228, 106770

•  Heinzel, C. (2023)
  "Comparing utility derivative premia under additive and multiplicative risks"
  Insurance: Mathematics and Economics 111: 23-40

• Heinzel, C., and R. Peter (2023)
  "Precaution with multiple instruments: The importance of substitution effects"
  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 207: 392-412

• Bostian, A.A. and Heinzel, C. (2018)
  "Comparative Precautionary Saving under Higher-Order Risk and Recursive Utility"
  Geneva Risk and Insurance Review 43(1): 95-114

• Bougherara, D., Brunette, M., Heinzel, C., Ibanez, L., Muller, L., and Teyssier, S. (2017)
  "Expériences économiques en économie agricole : État des lieux et dynamiques de recherche" (Experimental Economics Applied to Agricultural Issues: Taking Stock and Research Perspectives)
  Économie rurale 362: 29-48

• Heinzel, C. and Winkler, R. (2011)
  "Distorted Time Preferences and Time-to-Build in the Transition to a Low-Carbon Energy Industry"
  Environmental and Resource Economics 49(2): 217-241

 Work in progress

• "Robustness of Inferences in Risk and Time Experiments to Lifecycle Asset Integration" (with AJ Bostian)
• "Self-Protection with Multiplicative Foreground and Background Risks"
• "Measuring Risk Substitution Rates for Additive and Multiplicative Risk Increases"
• "Identifying Consumption Smoothing and Precautionary Saving from Experimental Variation" (with AJ Bostian)
• "Prudential Saving: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment" (with AJ Bostian)
• "Regulating Spatial Environmental Externalities under Uncertainty" (with Arnaud Reynaud)