{{Short description|French economist and mathematician (born 1977)}} {{use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Alfred Galichon | image = Alfred Galichon.jpg | caption = Alfred Galichon | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|05|04|mf=y}} | birth_place = Paris, France | fields = {{hlist|Quantitative economics|econometrics|applied mathematics|optimal transport|data science}} | workplaces = {{ubl|(current) New York University|(formerly) École Polytechnique|(formerly) Sciences Po<ref name="IZA">{{cite web |last1=IZA Institute of Labor Economics |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://www.iza.org/people/fellows/8439/alfred-galichon |website=Fellows |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>}} | alma_mater = {{ubl|École Polytechnique|École des Mines|Harvard University<ref name="NYU_Courant" />}} | doctoral_advisor = Guido Imbens<ref name="MathGenealogy">{{cite web |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=199976&fChrono=1 |website=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> | awards = Edmond Malinvaud Prize of the French Association of Economic Sciences (2015)<ref name="Malinvaud" /> | website = {{URL|https://alfredgalichon.com/}} }}
'''Alfred Galichon''' ({{IPA|fr|alfʁɛd ɡaliʃɔ̃}}; born May 4, 1977) is a French economist and mathematician.<ref name="NYU_Courant">{{cite web |last1=New York University |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://cims.nyu.edu/people/profiles/GALICHON_Alfred.html |website=Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> His work focuses on quantitative economics and econometrics.<ref name="NYU_AS" /> He is a professor of economics and of mathematics at New York University.<ref name="NYU_Courant" /><ref name="NYU_AS" />
==Life and work== Galichon was born in Paris. He is a professor at New York University in the Courant Institute, and the director of NYU Paris.<ref name="NYU_Courant" /><ref name="NYU_AS" /><ref name="NYU_Paris">{{cite web |last1=New York University |title=Staff |url=http://www.nyu.edu/paris/about-us/staff.html |website=NYU Paris |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> Previously, he had been a full professor at Ecole Polytechnique, and then at Sciences Po, Paris. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Corps des Mines, and holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.<ref name="whoswho_fr">{{cite web |last1=Who's Who in France |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://www.whoswho.fr/bio/alfred-galichon_73349 |website=Who's Who in France |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
His work lies within quantitative economics, in particular on the economic applications of optimal transport. He has contributed to the econometrics of matching markets, discrete choice models, martingale optimal transport, and quantile regression.<ref name="NYU_AS">{{cite web |last1=New York University |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/alfred-galichon.html |website=College of Arts and Sciences |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="FrenchAmericanFoundation" />
He is a fellow of the Econometric Society<ref name="EconometricSociety" /> and the author of ''Optimal Transport Methods in Economics''.<ref name="OTAM">{{cite book |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |title=Optimal Transport Methods in Economics |date=Sep 6, 2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ, USA |isbn=9780691172767 |pages=184 |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172767/optimal-transport-methods-in-economics |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
==Research== Galichon is the author of more than forty peer-reviewed articles.<ref name="Google Scholar">{{cite web |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wO-YMEEAAAAJ&hl=en |website=Google Scholar |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (2017-2020) and twice by the European Research Council, for a total amount of approximately 3 million Euros.<ref name="NSF">{{cite web |title=Optimal and Equilibrium Transport: Theory and Applications to Economics and Data Science |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1716489 |website=National Science Foundation |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref><ref name="ERCCont" /><ref name="ERCStart" />
==Awards and distinctions== *Edmond Malinvaud Prize from the French Association of Economic Sciences, 2015.<ref name="Malinvaud">{{cite web |title=Le prix Edmond Malinvaud |url=https://www.afse.fr/fr/prix/le-prix-edmond-malinvaud-500012 |website=Association Française de Science Economique |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> *Starting grant, European Research Council, 2013-2016.<ref name="ERCStart">{{cite web |last1=European Commission |title=Economics of Matching Markets: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/313699 |website=CORDIS - EU Research Results |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> *'Young Leader' of the French-American Foundation, 2018.<ref name="FrenchAmericanFoundation">{{cite web |title=Alfred Galichon |url=https://frenchamerican.org/young-leader/alfred-galichon/ |website=French American Foundation |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> *Economic Theory Fellow, 2019.<ref name="SAET">{{cite web |title=Economic Theory Fellows |url=https://saet.uiowa.edu/economic-theory-fellows/ |website=Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> *Fellow of the Econometric Society, 2020.<ref name="EconometricSociety">{{cite web |title=Fellows of the Econometric Society |url=https://www.econometricsociety.org/society/organization-and-governance/fellows |website=Econometric Society |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref> *Consolidator grant, European Research Council, 2020-2025.<ref name="ERCCont">{{cite web |last1=European Commission |title=Equilibrium methods for Resource Allocations and Dynamic Pricing |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/866274 |website=CORDIS - EU Research Results |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
==Selected publications== ===Books=== *{{cite book |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |title=Discrete Choice Models: Mathematical Methods, Econometrics, and Data Science |date=Apr 21, 2026 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ, USA |isbn=9780691221809 |pages=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kEF-EQAAQBAJ}} *{{cite book |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |title=Optimal Transport Methods in Economics |date=Sep 6, 2016 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ, USA |isbn=9780691172767 |pages=184 |url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172767/optimal-transport-methods-in-economics}} *{{cite book |last1=Véron |first1=Nicolas |last2=Autret |first2=Matthieu |last3=Galichon |first3=Alfred |title=Smoke & Mirrors, Inc: Accounting for Capitalism |date=2006 |publisher=Cornell University Press |location=Ithaca, NY, USA |isbn=0801444160 |pages=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-NEquF3eYMIC}}
===Articles=== *{{cite journal |last1=Chernozhukov |first1=Victor |last2=Fernández-Val |first2=Iván |last3=Galichon |first3=Alfred |title=Improving point and interval estimators of monotone functions by rearrangement |journal=Biometrika |date=2009 |volume=96 |issue=3 |pages=559–575 |jstor=27798848|publisher=Oxford University Press|doi=10.1093/biomet/asp030 |arxiv=0806.4730 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Chernozhukov |first1=Victor |last2=Fernández-Val |first2=Iván |last3=Galichon |first3=Alfred |title=Quantile and Probability Curves Without Crossing |journal=Econometrica |date=21 May 2010 |volume=78 |issue=3 |pages=1093–1125 |doi=10.3982/ECTA7880 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3982/ECTA7880|arxiv=0704.3649 |s2cid=10238289 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Dupuy |first1=Arnaud |last2=Galichon |first2=Alfred |title=Personality Traits and the Marriage Market |journal=Journal of Political Economy |date=2014 |volume=122 |issue=6 |pages=1271–1319 |doi=10.1086/677191 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/677191?journalCode=jpe |arxiv=2102.07476|s2cid=53660184 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |last2=Henry-Labordère |first2=Pierre |last3=Touzi |first3=Nizar |title=A stochastic control approach to no-arbitrage bounds given marginals, with an application to lookback options |journal=The Annals of Applied Probability |date=2014 |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=312–336 |doi=10.1214/13-AAP925 |arxiv=1401.3921 |doi-access=free}} *{{cite journal |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |last2=Henry |first2=Marc |title=Set identification in models with multiple equilibria |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=2011 |volume=78 |issue=4 |pages=1264–1298 |doi=10.1093/restud/rdr008 |jstor=41407061|arxiv=2102.12249 }} *{{cite journal |last1=Galichon |first1=Alfred |last2=Salanie |first2=Bernard |title=Cupid's invisible hand: Social surplus and identification in matching models |journal=SSRN Scholarly Paper |date=2020 |volume=ID: 1804623 |ssrn=1804623 |publisher=Social Science Research Network |location=Rochester, NY, USA|arxiv=2106.02371 }}
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==External links== *[https://alfredgalichon.com/ Personal website] *[https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/alfred-galichon.html NYU Department of Economics profile] *[https://cims.nyu.edu/people/profiles/GALICHON_Alfred.html NYU Department of Mathematics profile]
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