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)
Programs
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