Summary
    On this page, you will find all the job opportunities offered within the projects of the program.
    Suivi de la Dune du Pilat par l'Observatoire de la Côte Aquitaine (2019).
    Toward a better understanding of coastal risks to prepare society for global systemic change.

    postdoctoral fellowship

    Location: University of Bordeaux, Pessac.

    Contract duration: 15 months.

    Preferred start date: 01/03/2026.

    Mission overview :

    The recruited person will focus on insurance and land arrangements in residential areas at risk.
    The evolution of the climate is accompanied by an increase in claims and questions the evolution of our insurance system in these territories. If the increase in the natural disaster surcharge on January 1, 2025 (from 12% to 20%) allows for correcting the imbalance of the natural disaster compensation scheme in the short term, its resistance to climate change in the medium term requires working on other levers.
    In a preventive logic, it would thus be advisable to encourage the adoption of individual protective behaviours, which the CatNat mechanism is struggling to induce (in the case of risks covered by CatNat).
    This study is part of this perspective, and more particularly targets what concerns incentives to change individual behaviors.

    The postdoctoral research will be able to address the following tasks and target those that will be addressed as a priority:

    • Modeling of individual housing decisions.
    • Design of a hybrid incentive between public solidarity and private financial insurance.

    The specific study topics may evolve according to the skills of the post-doctoral student. e selected. and developments of research already underway. They a priori include the following elements:

    • Risk preferences [Economics of Risk and Uncertainty, Experimental Economics].
    • Moral hazard (the risk associated with the implementation of a public collective insurance (CatNat) does not encourage avoiding risky localization) [Theory of Incentives].
    • Residential location choices and real estate/land market [Urban economy].

    Profile sought :

    Holder of a PhD in in Economics, you have proven knowledge of theoretical modelling, incentive theory and decision theory under uncertainty, moral hazard and anti-selection as well as empirical studies, preference evaluation, choice experiments, discrete choice simulations.

    Supervision :

    You will work under the supervision of Mrs. Cécile AUBERT, Professor in economics Univ. Bordeaux – BxSE and Mrs. Jeanne DACHARY BERNARD Researcher in environmental economics, microeconomics and land economics INRAe – UR ETTIS.

    Detailed job offer in english here and application before January 4 here.
    IRICOT project