Thierry Kalisa
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69130, ECULLY, FRANCE H+33 (0)4 72 86 61 04 Bkalisa@gate.cnrs.fr
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Current Position
PhD StudentUniversity of Lyon 2, GATE-LSE UMR CNRS 5824, supervised by Philippe Polomé, Professor, University Lumière Lyon 2.
Funding: 2013 - 2014 ATER (Teaching and research one-year contract).
Dissertation: Economic Valuation of Ecosystems And Natural Resources.
Research Fields: Environmental Economics, Microeconometrics.
Education
January to June 2012
PhD level course,Frontiers in Markets and Information Economics (Bayesian Econometrics).
Frontiers in Resource and Environmental Economics, Texas A and M University, Texas, USA.
Sept. 2010 to September 2011
PhD level course,Microeconomics: games and contract. Macroeconomic dynamics. Mesure, contrôle des risques et solvabilité, Ecole Doctorale 486 SEG, Lyon, France.
Sept. 2009 to July 2010
Master’s Degree in Quantitative Economics of Behaviours and Markets (5th year), Graduated with honors, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Lyon, France.
Sept. 2008 to July 2009
Master’s Degree in Quantitative Economics (4th year), « Master Droit, Economie, Gestion, mention Economie Quantitative et Décisions Stratégiques », Graduated with honors, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Lyon, France.
Sept. 2007 to July 2008
Bachelor’s degree in Econometrics (3rd year “Licence Droit, Economie et Gestion, mention Econométrie”), Graduated with honors, Université Lumière Lyon 2.
Lyon, France.
Sept. 2005 to July 2007
1st and 2nd years in Economics and Management (Licence Droit, Economie et Gestion), Université Pierre- Mendès France.
Valence, France.
July 2005 High school diploma in Sciences, Graduated with honors, Lycée Kodonso.
Bamako, Mali.
Research Activities
Thesis chapters (work in progress)
• "Revealed and Stated preferences: Joint estimations using simulated maximum likelihood", avec Philippe Polomé (Thesis Chapter 1)
• "Willingness To Pay to Avoid Arsenic-Related Risks: A Special Regressor Approach", with W. Douglass Shaw et Mary Riddel (Thesis Chapter 2)
• "Time is Money: A Contingent Valuation Survey applied to Rural Electrification in Rwanda" (Thesis Chapter 3)
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Other Works
• June-September 2013: Contingent valuation survey made in Rwanda on rural households electrification.
Environmental and Energy economics.
• 2009-2010: : Master’s Degree Research paper: « Joint Estimation of Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation and Count Data Travel Cost Models». Environmental Econometrics.
• 2008-2009 :
- Dissertation and literature review: « Revealed and Stated Preferences : A Willingness to Pay Comparison».
Environmental Econometrics.
- Survey and market study: report, questionnaires, data collection. Topic : « Fairtrade Coffee».
Communications
• "Willingness To Pay to Avoid Arsenic-Related Risks: A Special Regressor Approach"
- European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) annual conference, Toulouse, 26-29 juin 2013
- Internal seminar of GATE laboratory, February 12, 2013
• "Revealed and Stated preferences: Joint estimations using simulated maximum likelihood"
- Workshop Ecole Doctorale SEG, June 25, 2012
- Internal seminar of GATE laboratory, December 12, 2011
Visits
January 2012 to May 2012
Doctoral stay,under the supervision of Pr. W. Douglass Shaw, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A and M University.
College Station, Texas, USA.
May 2011 Summer school,"Stated Preference Methods : State-of-the-art Modelling", Presented by Pr.
Bengt Kriström, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics.
Université SLU, Umea, Suède.
Teaching and Professional Experience
• Tutorial Class (TC) Microeconomics: Teaching 1st year level Licence MASS. September - December 2013. 42h. Université Lyon 1.
• TC Microeconomics: Teaching 2nd year level Licence MASS. September 2012 - May 2013. 60h. Université Lyon 1.
• TC Macroeconomics Dynamics: Teaching 3rd year level Licence Economie et Gestion. September- December 2012. 21h. Université Lyon 2.
• TC Monetary and Financial Economics: Teaching 2nd year level Licence MASS. September - December 2013. 12h. Université Lyon 1.
• TC General Economics: Teaching 1st year level of Engineering school. September-December 2011. 20h.
Ecole Centrale Lyon.
• Internship Orange Mali S.A. Department of Finance and Administration. Accounting and Finance Sales Division. July 2008.
Skills
Computer
Office Latex, Open Office, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Power Point)
Statistics and Econométrics
STATA, R, Sphinx
Divers LimeSurvey (Survey Design), SPIP (web), Ztree (Experiment Design)
OS Linux, Windows
Basic knowledge
SAS and Eviews
Languages
French Fluent English Fluent
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Bambara (malian)
Good
Spanish Basic
Hobbies
Basket-ball, Football, Reading, Chess game, Cinema.
Other
• Selected member from Mali to the Pan African Mathematics Olympiad (Algiers, July 2005) - Bronze medalist.
• Winner of "300 Young Professionals program for Mali" attracting students who received their high school diploma with honors. Award: Scholarship of the Government to study in France. August 2005.
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