Social Sciences and Humanities
Massimiliano Amarante
- Professeur agrégé
-
Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de sciences économiques
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, room C-6039
Profile
Research expertise
Professor Massimiliano Amarante holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His main fields of research are decision theory under uncertainty, and game theory (co-operative and non-co-operative). He is particularly interested in the rational-choice foundations of non-additive theories and in neo-Bayesian statistics.
Affiliations and responsabilities
Research affiliations
Teaching and supervision
Teaching
Courses taught (current session only)
- ECN-1075 – Techniques d'analyse économique 2
- ECN-6623 – Organisation industrielle A
- ECN-7045 – Microéconomie B
- ECN-7075 – Méthodes quantitatives B
Programs
- 124010 – Baccalauréat en sciences économiques
- 124020 – Majeure en sciences économiques
- 124040 – Mineure en sciences économiques - Campus Montréal
- 124046 – Mineure en sciences économiques - Campus Brossard
- 124410 – Baccalauréat en économie et politique
- 124410 – Baccalauréat en économie et politique
- 196013 – Baccalauréat en études internationales
- 196710 – Programme d'accueil en sciences
- 324010 – Doctorat en sciences économiques
Student supervision
Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)
2019
Disintegration methods in the optimal transport problem
Graduate : Bélair, Justin
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
2016
The management of innovation under ambiguity
Graduate : Lauzier, Jean-Gabriel
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
2013
Agreements with overlapping coalitions
Graduate : Agbaglah, Messan H.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Projects
Research projects
2024
- 2028
Aggregators for rich datasets: from foundations to applications
Funding sources:
CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs:
PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir
2020
- 2023
Subvention de déphasage_Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ)
Co-researchers :
Laurent J. Lewis
,
Walter Bossert
,
Lars Ehlers
,
Michael Huberman
,
William J. McCausland
,
Marine Carrasco
,
Bariş Kaymak
,
Massimiliano Amarante
,
Andriana Bellou
,
Immo Schott
,
Sean Horan
,
Deniz Dizdar
,
Yves Sprumont
,
Nicolas Klein
,
Raphaël Godefroy
,
Julien Bengui
,
René Garcia
,
Vasia Panousi
,
Guillaume Sublet
,
Dovonon Prosper
,
Arijit Kumar Nandi
,
Erin Strumpf
,
Sophie Bernard
,
Robert D Cairns
,
Victoria Zinde-Walsh
,
John W Galbraith
,
Ngo Van Long
,
Russell Davidson
,
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
,
Markus Poschke
,
Daniel Barczyk
,
Simon Van Norden
,
Hassan Benchekroun
,
Jorgen Hansen
,
Eferosyni Diamantoudi
,
Ming Li
,
Paul Gomme
,
Tatyana Koreshkova
,
Damba Lkhagvasuren
,
Xie Huan
,
Matthieu Chemin
,
Rohan Dutta
,
Fabian Lange
,
Jean-Marie Dufour
,
Samuel Harper
,
Adrian Vetta
,
Guy Lacroix
,
Silvia Goncalves
,
Patrick Richard
,
Taoufik Bouezmani
,
Martino Pelli
,
Markus Herrmann
,
Hafedh Bouakez
,
Wen Fang Xie
,
Pierre-Carl Michaud
,
Francesco Amodio
,
Leonardo Baccini
,
Rui Castro
,
Saraswata Chaudhuri
,
Laura Lasio
,
Francisco Ruge
,
Nathan Yang
,
Hiroki Watanabe
Funding sources:
FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs:
PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques - Subvention de déphasage
2014
- 2021
CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE QUANTITATIVE (CIREQ)
Co-researchers :
Gérard Gaudet
,
Walter Bossert
,
Rui Castro
,
Lars Ehlers
,
Sílvia Gonçalves
,
Michael Huberman
,
William J. McCausland
,
Michel Poitevin
,
Francisco Ruge-Murcia
,
Marine Carrasco
,
Marc Henry
,
Bariş Kaymak
,
Massimiliano Amarante
,
Andriana Bellou
,
Ilze Kalnina
,
Joshua Lewis
,
Immo Schott
,
Sean Horan
,
Deniz Dizdar
,
Yves Sprumont
,
Vikram Manjunath
,
Nicolas Klein
,
Raphaël Godefroy
,
Julien Bengui
,
Sebastian Stumpner
,
Vasia Panousi
,
Mathieu Marcoux
,
Christopher Raphael Rauh
,
Dovonon Prosper
,
Erin Strumpf
,
Robert D Cairns
,
Victoria Zinde-Walsh
,
John W Galbraith
,
Ngo Van Long
,
Russell Davidson
,
Licun Xue
,
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
,
Markus Poschke
,
Daniel Barczyk
,
Simon Van Norden
,
Hassan Benchekroun
,
Nikolay Gospodinov
,
Jorgen Hansen
,
Eferosyni Diamantoudi
,
Ming Li
,
Dipjyoti Majumdar
,
Szilvia Papai
,
Paul Gomme
,
Tatyana Koreshkova
,
Damba Lkhagvasuren
,
Artem Chneerov
,
Xie Huan
,
David Fuller
,
Matthieu Chemin
,
Rohan Dutta
,
Fabian Lange
,
Jian Li
,
Jean-Marie Dufour
,
Pierre Lasserre
,
Charles Séguin
,
Theodore Papageorgiou
,
Patrick Richard
,
Taoufik Bouezmani
,
Martino Pelli
Funding sources:
FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs:
PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques
2011
- 2015
RATIONAL-CHOICE FOUNDATION OF NON-EXPECTED UTILITY
Lead researcher :
Massimiliano Amarante
Funding sources:
CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs:
PVXXXXXX-Subvention ordinaire de recherche
2008
- 2015
CENTRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DE RECHERCHE EN ECONOMIE QUANTITATIVE (CIREQ)
Lead researcher :
Emanuela Cardia
Co-researchers :
Marcel Boyer
,
Gérard Gaudet
,
Jean Marie Dufour
,
Walter Bossert
,
Rui Castro
,
Lars Ehlers
,
Sílvia Gonçalves
,
Michael Huberman
,
William J. McCausland
,
Benoit Perron
,
Michel Poitevin
,
Francisco Ruge-Murcia
,
Marine Carrasco
,
Marc Henry
,
Bariş Kaymak
,
Alessandro Riboni
,
Massimiliano Amarante
,
Andriana Bellou
,
Ilze Kalnina
,
Onur Ozgur
,
Sidartha Gordon
,
Yves Sprumont
,
Vikram Manjunath
,
Nicolas Klein
,
Raphaël Godefroy
,
Julien Bengui
,
René Garcia
,
Lyndon Moore
,
Dovonon Prosper
,
Erin Strumpf
,
James Engel-Warnick
,
Robert D Cairns
,
Victoria Zinde-Walsh
,
John W Galbraith
,
Ngo Van Long
,
Russell Davidson
,
Licun Xue
,
Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado
,
Markus Poschke
,
Daniel Barczyk
,
Simon Van Norden
,
Éric Jacquier
,
Hassan Benchekroun
,
Nikolay Gospodinov
,
Jorgen Hansen
,
Eferosyni Diamantoudi
,
Ming Li
,
Dipjyoti Majumdar
,
Szilvia Papai
,
Paul Gomme
,
Tatyana Koreshkova
,
Artem Prokhorov
,
Damba Lkhagvasuren
,
Artem Chneerov
,
Xie Huan
,
David Fuller
,
Matthieu Chemin
,
Maxim Sinitsyn
,
Dhanoos Sutthiphisal
,
Takashi Kunimoto
,
Jennifer Hunt
,
Rohan Dutta
,
Fabian Lange
,
Jian Li
,
Pierre Lasserre
Funding sources:
FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs:
PV129894-(RG) Programme Regroupements stratégiques
2011
- 2013
RATIONAL-CHOICE FOUNDATION OF NON-EXPECTED UTILITY
Lead researcher :
Massimiliano Amarante
Outreach
Publications and presentations
Publications
- “Information and Ambiguity: toward a foundation of non-Expected Utility”, conditionally accepted Mathematics of Operations Research
- “Contracting on ambiguous prospects” (with M. Ghossoub and E. Phelps), forthcoming Economic Journal.
- “Analogy in Decision Making”, , Mathematics of Operations Research 40, 2015.
- “The Bargaining set of a large game” (with L. Montrucchio), Economic Theory 43, 2010.
- “Foundations of Neo-Bayesian Statistics”, Journal of Economic Theory 144, 2009.
- “Ambiguous Events and Maxmin Expected Utility” (with E. Filiz), Journal of Economic Theory 134, 2007.
- “Recursive Structure and Equilibria for Games with Private Monitoring”, Economic Theory 22, 2003.
Disciplines
- Economy
Areas of expertise
- Game theory
- Decision theory