Mathematics of decision making and statistics

Game theory, optimization, stochastic models, equilibrium, spatial scales...

The MADS (Mathématiques de la Décision et Statistique) group is one of the 9 groups of the research laboratory TSE-R (UMR 5314).

Its goal is to promote and develop research activities in mathematics applied to economics.

Topics covered include operations research, financial mathematics, statistics, econometrics, game theory, optimization, probability, calculus of variations, partial differential equations (PDEs), and mathematical models in economics, finance, and social sciences.

      Activities of the group

  seminars
lectures
workshops with PhD students
advanced courses

Have a look at an example of a research project (in french)

List of WP, articles of the group

Abdelaati Daouia and Gilles Stupfler’s contribution to the Discussion of the ‘Discussion Meeting on the Analysis of citizen science data’

Abdelaati Daouia, and Gilles Stupfler

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, vol. 188, n° 3, July 2025, pp. 712-713

Coinvestment games under uncertainty

Benoît Chevalier-Roignant, Stéphane Villeneuve, Fabien Delpech, and May-Line Grapotte

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 175, n° 105098, June 2025

When majority rules, minority loses: bias amplification of gradient descent

François Bachoc, Jérôme Bolte, Ryan Boustany, and Jean-Michel Loubes

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1641, May 2025

Données de composition

Frédéric Bertrand, Anne Gégout-Petit, and Christine Thomas-Agnan

May 2025

The role of endogeneity in the relationship between board gender diversity and corporate social performance: evidence from a control function method

Rey Dang, L'hocine Houanti, Michel Simioni, and Jean-Michel Sahut

Annals of Operations Research, vol. 347, April 2025, pp. 333–365

Coinvestment games under uncertainty

Benoît Chevalier-Roignant, Stéphane Villeneuve, Fabien Delpech, and May-Line Grapotte

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1635, April 2025

A Hotelling spatial scan statistic for functional data: Application to economic and climate data

Zaineb Smida, Thibault Laurent, and Lionel Cucala

Spatial Statistics, vol. 66, n° 100888, April 2025

Risk measures beyond quantiles

Abdelaati Daouia, and Gilles Stupfler

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1632, April 2025

Mapping global value chains at the product level

Lea Karbevska, and César Hidalgo

EPJ Data Science, vol. 14, n° 21, March 2025

Gaussian Agency problems with memory and Linear Contracts

Eduardo Abi Jaber, and Stéphane Villeneuve

Finance and Stochastics, vol. 29, January 2025, pp. 143–176

The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals

Fengmei Ma, Heming Wang, Asaf Tzachor, César Hidalgo, Heinz Schandl, Yue Zhang, Jingling Zhang, Wei-Qiang Chen, Yanzhi Zhao, Yong-Guan Zhu, and Bojie Fu

Nature Communications, vol. 16, n° 1107, January 2025