Academic functions and contact
Professor, Université
catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et
Sociales (IRES) and
Center of Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
Professor and research director, Aix-Marseille School of
Economics, Aix-Marseille Université.
Associate editor
Macroeconomic
Dynamics
Mathematical
Social Sciences
Journal of Public Economic Theory
Mathematical
Economics Letters
Journal of Calculus of
Variations
Annals
of Economics and Statistics-Annales d'Economie et Statistique
Theoretical Economics
Letters
Member of the advisory board
Statistics,
Optimization and Information Computing
Contact
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2, rue de la Charité
13002 Marseille (France)
Tel: (33) 491 14 07 52
E-mail:
raouf.boucekkine@uclouvain.be or raouf.boucekkine@univ-amu.fr
Research Profile and selected publications per area
1. Mathematical and computational methods
``Optimal investment in
heterogenous capital and technology under restricted resosurces', (with N. Hritonenko and Y.
Yatsenko), Journal
of Optimization Theory and Applications, forthcoming.
``On
the optimal control of a linear neutral differential equation arising
in economics", (with G. Fabbri and P. Pintus), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods 33, 511-530, 2012.
``Environmental quality versus economic
performance:
a dynamic game approach", (with J. Krawczyk and T.
Vallée), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods 32, 29-46, 2011.
``On explosive dynamics in R&D-based models of
endogenous growth", (with N. Hritonenko and Y.
Yatsenko), Nonlinear
Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 71, e693-e700, 2009.
``Special functions for the
study of economic dynamics: The case of the Lucas-Uzawa model", (with
R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 44, 33-54, 2008.
``Modelling vintage
structures with DDEs: Principles and applications", (with D. de la
Croix and O. Licandro), Mathematical Population Studies 11,
151-179, 2004.
``An alternative methodology
for solving nonlinear forward-looking models", Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 19, 711-734, 1995.
2. Vintage capital
theory
''Vintage
capital and the diffusion of clean technologies", (with T. Azomahou
and P. Nguyen Van), International
Journal of Economic Theory 8, 277-300, 2012.
``Vintage capital and the
dynamics of the AK model", (with O. Licandro, L. Puch and F. del
Rio), Journal of Economic Theory 120, 39-72, 2005.
``Endogenous vs exogenously
driven fluctuations in vintage capital models", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 88,
161-187, 1999.
``Creative destruction,
investment volatility and the average age of capital", (with M.
Germain, O. Licandro and A. Magnus), Journal of Economic
Growth 3, 361-384, 1998.
``Replacement echoes in the
vintage capital growth model", (with M. Germain and O. Licandro),
Journal of Economic Theory 74, 333-348, 1997.
3. Demography,
development and population economics
''Assessing
Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion
within a canonical endogenous growth
set-up", (with G. Fabbri), Journal
of Population Economics 26,
751-767, 2013.
``How do epidemics induce
behavioral changes?", (with R. Desbordes and H. Latzer), Journal of Economic Growth 14,
233-264, 2009.
``Demographic, economic and institutional factors in the
transition to modern growth in England: 1530-1860", (with D. de la Croix and D. Peeters), Population and Development Review, Supplement to Volume 34, 126-148,
2008.
``Early litteracy achievements, population density, and
the transition to modern growth", (with D. de la Croix and D. Peeters),
The Journal of the European
Economic Association 5,
183-226, 2007.
``Vintage human Capital,
demographic trends and endogenous growth", (with D. de la Croix and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 104, 340-375,
2002.
4. Growth theory:
miscellaneous
''Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK
model", (with C. Camacho and G. Fabbri), Journal of Economic Theory 148,
2719-2736, 2013.
''History's curse: leapfrogging, growth breaks
and
growth reversals under international
borrowing without commitment", (with P. Pintus), Journal of Economic Growth
17,
27-47, 2012.
''Technological vs ecological
switch and the
environmental Kuznets curve", (with A. Pommeret and F.
Prieur), American
Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, 252-260, 2013.
``On the
distributional
consequences of epidemics", (with JP.
Laffargue), Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control 34,
231-245, 2010.
''Scarcity,
regulation and endogenous technical progress", (with N. Hritonenko
and Y. Yatsenko), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 47, 186-199, 2011.
``Bridging the gap between growth
theory and economic geography: The spatial Ramsey model", (with C.
Camacho and B. Zou), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 13, 20-45, 2009.
``Obsolescence and
modernization in the growth process", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Development Economics 77,
153-171, 2005.
New
stuff
Books and
editorials
"Epidemics
from the economic theory view point", Mathematical Population Studies 19,
1-3, 2012.
Vintage
capital growth theory: Three breakthroughs, (with D. de la Croix and
O. Licandro), in Frontiers
of Economic Growth and
Development, Olivier de la Grandville (editor), Emerald,
December 2011.
See also:
``Vintage capital", (with
D.
de la Croix and O. Licandro),
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, S. Durlauf
and L. Blume (Eds.), 628-631, Palgrave-McMillan, 2008.
Optimal
Control of Age-structured Populations in Economy,
Demography, and the Environment, co-edited by Natalia
Hritonenko, Yuri Yatsenko and myself, 2010, Taylor & Francis. This collection of
contributed articles covers a wide range of topics in mathematical
modelling of interlinked economic, technological and environmental
processes. The unifying theme of the book is the integration of applied
mathematical models that describe and optimize the mutual impact of
economy, demography, technological change, and the environment on
global, regional and local levels.
See review
of the book by Noël Bonneuil in Mathematical Population Studies 18, 38-42, 2011.
``Introduction
to the special issue on sustainability´´, Mathematical Social Sciences 59,
145-147, 2010. This editorial provides a bird's eye view of the
papers included in the special issue, which represent the different
strands that are emerging in the literature on sustainability
(inter-generational justice, environment and natural resources,
demography and policies).
Some of my recent articles still under review
"The
dynamics of lobbying under uncertainty: On political liberalization in
Arab countries", (with F. Prieur and K. Puzon), April 2013. A
revised version is to be published in Dynamic
Games in Economics, Haunschmied, Veliov and Wrzaczek (Eds.),
Springer-Verlag.
''Short-run
pain, long-run gain: the conditional welfare gains from international
financial integration", (with G. Fabbri and P. Pintus), revised
November 2012. Previous version entitled ''Short-run pain, long-run
gain: the welfare gains from international financial integration
revisited".
"Optimal
regime switching and threshold effects: Theory and an application to a
resource extraction problem under irreversibility", (with A.
Pommeret and F. Prieur), May 2012. A revised version entitled ''Optimal regime switching
and threshold effects" is forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control.
"Sustainable
growth under physical constraints: optimal R&D, investment and
replacement policies", (with N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko),
revised May 2012. Previous version
entitled ''Sustainable growth under pollution quotas: optimal R&D,
investment and replacement policies".
Refereed publications
62. ``Optimal investment in heterogenous capital and technology
under restricted resources', (with N.
Hritonenko and Y.
Yatsenko), Journal
of Optimization Theory and Applications, forthcoming.
61. ``Growth
and financial liberalization
under capital collateral constraints: The striking case of the
stochastic AK
model with CARA preferences”, (with G. Fabbri and P. Pintus), Economics Letters, forthcoming in 2014.
60. ''Optimal
regime switching and threshold effects", (with A. Pommeret and F.
Prieur), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 37, 2979–2997, 2013.
59. ''The dynamics of lobbying under uncertainty: on political
liberalization in Arab countries", (with F. Prieur and K. Puzzon),
forthcoming in: Dynamic Games in Economics,
Haunschmied, Veliov and Wrzaczek (Eds.), Springer-Verlag.
58. ''Health, work intensity and technological innovations",
(with N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko), Journal
of Biological Systems, forthcoming special issue.
57. ''Spatial
dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model", (with C. Camacho and
G. Fabbri), Journal of Economic
Theory 148, 2719-2736, 2013.
56. ``On the optimal control of some parabolic differential
equations arising
in economics”, (with C. Camacho and G. Fabbri), Serdica
Mathematical Journal, special issue in honor of Vladimir Veliov, forthcoming in 2013.
55. "Growth
vs level effect of population change on economic development: An
inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms", (with B.
Martinez and R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal
of Mathematical Economics, Volume 49, 312-334, 2013.
54.“On the optimal control of
the vintage capital growth model with endogenous labor supply", (with.
N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko), Mathematical Economics Letters 1, 3-7,
2013.
53. “Viable
Ramsey economies”, (with N. Bonneuil), Canadian Journal of Economics,
forthcoming.
52. “On the timing and optimality of capital controls: Public
expenditures, debt dynamics and welfare”, (with A. Pommeret and F.
Prieur), International Journal of
Economic Theory, special issue in honor of Cuong Le Van (K.
Nishimura, M. Yano and M. Wooders, Eds.), Volume 9, 101-112, 2013.
51.
''Technological vs ecological switch and the
environmental Kuznets curve", (with A. Pommeret and F.
Prieur), American
Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, 252-260, 2013.
50.
''History's curse: leapfrogging, growth breaks
and growth reversals under international
borrowing without commitment", (with P. Pintus), Journal of Economic Growth 17,
27-47, 2012.
49.
''Assessing
Parfit's Repugnant Conclusion
within a canonical endogenous growth
set-up", (with G. Fabbri), Journal
of Population Economics 26,
751-767, 2013.
48.
''Vintage
capital and the diffusion of clean technologies", (with T. Azomahou
and P. Nguyen Van), International
Journal of Economic Theory 8,
277-300, 2012.
47.
''On
the optimal control of a linear neutral differential equation arising
in economics", (with G. Fabbri and P. Pintus), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods 33, 511-530, 2012.
46. ''Revisiting
the optimal population size problem under endogenous growth: minimal
utility level and finite lives", (with G. Fabbri and G.
Gozzi), Asia-Pacific Journal
in Accounting and Economics 18, special issue edited by K.
Nishimura on Trade and Dynamic Systems,
287-306, 2011.
45. ''Scarcity,
regulation and endogenous technical progress", (with N. Hritonenko
and Y. Yatsenko), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 47,
186-199, 2011.
44.
``Environmental quality versus economic
performance:
a dynamic game approach", (with J. Krawczyk and T.
Vallée), Optimal
Control, Applications and Methods 32,
29-46, 2011.
43. ``Maintenance and
investment: complements or substitutes? A
reappraisal´´, (with G. Fabbri and F. Gozzi), Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 2420-2439, 2010.
42. ``Towards an
understanding of trade-offs between regional wealth,
tightness of a common environmental constraint, and the sharing
rules", (with J. Krawczyk and T. Vallée), Journal
of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 1813-1835, 2010.
41. ``On the distributional
consequences of epidemics", (with JP.
Laffargue), Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 231-245, 2010.
40. ``Capital
maintenance as a key development tool", (with B. Martinez and C.
Saglam), Scottish Journal of
Political Economy 57, 547-567, 2010.
39.
``On explosive dynamics in
R&D-based models of endogenous growth", (with
N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko), Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods &
Applications 71,
e693-e700, 2009.
38.
``How do
epidemics induce behavioral changes?", (with R. Desbordes and H.
Latzer), Journal of Economic Growth
14, 233-264, 2009.
37. ``Technological
progress, obsolescence and depreciation", (with F. del Rio and B.
Martinez), Oxford Economic
Papers 61,
440-466, 2009.
36. ``The burden
sharing of pollution abatement costs in a multiregional small open
economy´´, (with M. Germain), The Berkeley Electronic Journals in
Macroeconomics 9,
Article 21 (Topics), 2009.
35. ``A closer look at the
relationship between life expectancy and economic growth´´,
(with B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), International
Journal of Economic Theory 5,
201-244, 2009.
34. ``Bridging the gap between
growth theory and economic geography: The spatial Ramsey model", (with
C. Camacho and B. Zou), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 13,
20-45, 2009.
33. ``A Note
on Global Dynamics and Imbalance Effects in
the Lucas-Uzawa Model´´, (with B. Martinez and R.
Ruiz-Tamarit), International Journal
of Economic Theory 4, 503-518, 2008.
32.
``Human capital
accumulation and the transition from specialization to multi-tasking",
(with P. Crifo), Macroeconomic
Dynamics 12,
320-344, 2008.
31. ``Special functions for the
study of economic dynamics: the case of the Lucas-Uzawa model", (with
R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal of
Mathematical Economics 44, 33-54, 2008.
30.
``Demographic,
economic and institutional factors in the transition to modern growth
in England: 1530-1860", (with D. de la Croix and D.
Peeters), Population and Development
Review, Supplement to Volume 34,
on Population Aging, Human Capital Accumulation, and Productivity
Growth, A. Prskawetz, D. Bloom and W. Lutz (Eds.), 126-148, 2008.
29. ``Growth economics of
epidemics: A review of the theory", (joint with
B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), Mathematical
Population Studies 15,
1-26, 2008.
28. ``Early
litteracy achievements, population
density, and the transition to modern growth", (with D. de la Croix and
D. Peeters), The Journal of the
European Economic Association 5, 183-226, 2007.
27. ``Optimal control in
infinite horizons: a Sobolev space approach", (with C. Le Van and C.
Saglam), Economic Theory 32, 497-509,
2007.
26. ``Capital
maintenance Vs technology adoption under embodied technical progress",
(with B. Martinez and C. Saglam), The
Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics
6, Article 7 (Contributions),
2006.
25. "On
the relationship between longevity and
development", (with B. Diene and Th. Azomahou), The International Journal of Ecology and
Development 6, 31-50,
2007.
24. ``Obsolescence and
modernization in the growth process", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Development Economics 77,
153-171, 2005.
23. ``Vintage capital and the
dynamics of the AK model", (with O. Licandro, L. Puch and F. del
Rio), Journal of Economic Theory 120, 39-72, 2005.
22. ``The development problem
under embodiment", (with B. Martinez and C. Saglam), Review
of Development Economics 10, 42-58, 2006.
21. ` `Imbalance effects in the
Lucas model: An analytical exploration", (with R. Ruiz-Tamarit), The
Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics 4, Article 15 (Topics), 2004.
20. "Modelling vintage
structures with DDEs: Principles and applications", (with D. de la
Croix and O. Licandro), Mathematical Population Studies 11,
151-179, 2004.
19. ''Technology adoption
under embodiment: A two-stage optimal control approach'', (with C.
Saglam and T. Vallée), Macroeconomic Dynamics 8,
250-271, 2004.
18. ''Energy saving technical
progress and optimal capital stock: The role of embodiment", (with. A.
Pommeret), Economic Modelling 21, 429-444, 2004
.
17. ''Early mortality declines
at the dawn of modern growth'', (with D. de la Croix and O. Licandro), Scandinavian
Journal of Economics 105, 401-418, 2003.
16. ''Replacement, adoption and
economic dynamics: Lessons from a canonical creative destruction
model", (with B. Martinez), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 14, 339-359, 2003.
15. ``Information technologies,
embodiment and growth", (with D. de la Croix), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 27, 2007-2034, 2003 .
14. ''Embodied technological
progress, learning and the productivity slowdown", (with O. Licandro
and F. del Rio), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 105, 87-98, 2003.
13. ''Investment and capital
maintenance: Complements or Substitutes'', (with R. Ruiz-Tamarit), Journal
of Economics 78, 1-28, 2003.
12. ``Vintage human Capital,
demographic trends and endogenous growth", (with D. de la Croix and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 104, 340-375,
2002.
11. ``Technological shocks and
IT revolutions", (with D. de la Croix and Y. Vailakis), Recherches
Economiques de Louvain 68, Special issue on The New
Economy: Implications and Viability (Boucekkine and Wasmer, Eds.),
75-89, 2002.
10. ``Numerical solution by
iterative methods of a class of vintage capital growth models",
(with O. Licandro and A. Magnus), Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 25, 255-269, 2001.
9. ``Endogenous vs exogenously
driven fluctuations in vintage capital models", (with F. del Rio and O.
Licandro), Journal of Economic Theory 88,
161-187, 1999.
8. ``Creative destruction,
investment volatility and the average age of capital", (with M.
Germain, O. Licandro and A. Magnus), Journal of Economic
Growth 3, 361-384, 1998.
7. ``Replacement echoes in the
vintage capital growth model", (with M. Germain and O. Licandro),
Journal of Economic Theory 74, 333-348, 1997.
6. ``Differential-difference
equations in economics: On the numerical solution of vintage capital
growth models", (with O. Licandro and C. Paul), Journal of
Economic Dynamics and Control 21, 347-362, 1997.
5. ``Precision
performances of terminal conditions for short time horizon
forward-looking systems" (with M. Juillard and P. Malgrange), Computational
Economics 10, 169-186, 1997.
4. ``Liquidity
constraints and time non separable preferences", (with J.
Adda), Recherches Economiques de Louvain 62,
377-402, 1996.
3. ``Checking for
saddlepoint stability: An easy test" (with C. Le Van), Computational
Economics 9, 317-330, 1996.
2. ``An alternative methodology
for solving nonlinear forward-looking models", Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control 19, 711-734, 1995.
1. ``Monte
Carlo experiments for large scale
forward-looking economic models", in : Predictability and Nonlinear Modelling in
Natural Sciences and Economics, J. Grasman and G. Van Straten
(editors), 599-609, Kluwer Academic Publishers (Dordrecht), 1994.
