Raouf Boucekkine

Raouf Boucekkine
Known forMathematical economics, growth theory, interdisciplinary research
Academic background
Alma materParis 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Academic work
DisciplineMathematical economics
Sub-discipline
Economic growth
Environmental economics
Economic epidemiology
InstitutionsAix-Marseille University
ESC Rennes School of Business
Université catholique de Louvain
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
AwardsSenior Fellow, Institut Universitaire de France (2014–2019)
Fellow of the Econometric Society (2020)
Economic Theory Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (2025)
Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University (2025)
Senior Chair, Institut Universitaire de France (2026–2031)
Website

Raouf Boucekkine is a Belgian–Algerian mathematical economist and professor at the Aix-Marseille School of Economics, Aix-Marseille University. His research focuses on economic growth, environmental economics, economic epidemiology, and mathematical methods, with notable contributions to vintage capital and spatial growth theories.

Education

After completing undergraduate studies in mathematics, Boucekkine pursued studies in statistics and economics at the École nationale de la statistique et de l'administration économique (ENSAE), Paris, graduating in 1990. In the same year, he earned a Master of Arts in Economics from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. He received his PhD in Economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in 1993.[1]

Academic career

Boucekkine began his academic career at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he was appointed assistant professor in 1993 and promoted to associate professor in 1997. In 1998, he joined the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), first as Associate Professor and later as Professor (Professeur ordinaire). During his tenure at UCLouvain, he was affiliated with the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).[2] He also served as Director of the doctoral program in economics from 2000 to 2005.

He subsequently joined the Aix-Marseille School of Economics at Aix-Marseille University, where he holds a professorship.[1] He acted as the first scientific director of Aix-Marseille School of Economics between 2011-2015.[3] From 2015, he was director of IMERA, the Institute for Advanced Study at Aix-Marseille University, he resigned in 2020.[4] Between 2021 and 2024, he was Full Professor at ESC Rennes School of Business,[5][6] serving as Associate Dean for Research and founding director of the Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT).[7]

Boucekkine has served as Associate Editor of several academic journals, including Economic Theory,[8] Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,[9] Macroeconomic Dynamics,[10] Annals of Economics and Statistics,[11] and Journal of Demographic Economics.[12]

Research work

Boucekkine's research focuses on economic growth, environmental economics, and economic epidemiology using optimal control theory,[13] and dynamical systems theory.[14] He has extensively contributed to research in vintage capital models,[15] embodied technological change,[16] and spatial growth theory.[17]

In environmental economics, he has studied pollution,[18] renewable energy,[19] biodiversity,[20] and transboundary externalities, often applying game theory[21] and distributed control theory.[22] In economic epidemiology, he integrates epidemic processes into macroeconomic models to examine interactions between disease, economic activity, and public policy.[23] His work also addresses political economy and institutional change in resource-dependent economies.[24]

Boucekkine has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited volumes on resource-rich economies and age-structured optimal control problems.[25] Since 2015, he has been active in interdisciplinary research, coordinating the international research network E3E under the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).[26] He also contributed to the LBJ (Laffargue–Boucekkine–Juillard) algorithm, which underpins the Dynare software for solving dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models.[27]

Honors and awards

Boucekkine was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020[28] and an Economic Theory Fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory in 2025.[29] He served as a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France from 2014 to 2019.[30] In 2025, he was a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.[31] Boucekkine has been appointed as Senior Chair in Fundamental Research by the Institut Universitaire de France for the period 2026-2031.[32]

References

  1. 1 2 "Raouf Boucekkine". Aix-Marseille School of Economics.
  2. ↑ "Raouf Boucekkine". UCLouvain. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  3. ↑ "Professor Raouf Boucekkine – Keynote speaker for VEAM 2024 – VEAM". Retrieved 2026-06-28.
  4. ↑ "Raouf Boucekkine | RFIEA | Réseau français des instituts d'études avancées". rfiea.fr. Retrieved 2026-06-28.
  5. ↑ "Raouf Boucekkine, new Professor in Accounting & Finance - Rennes School of Business". Rennes School of Business. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  6. ↑ "Rennes School of Business recrute 40 nouveaux professeurs et transforme sa politique facultaire". Studyrama Grandes Ecoles (in French). 13 October 2021.
  7. ↑ "The Centre for Unframed Thinking (CUT): Crossing disciplinary views on new research developments on autonomous vehicles". Rennes School of Business.
  8. ↑ "Economic Theory - Editorial board". SpringerLink. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  9. ↑ "Editorial board - Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control". Sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  10. ↑ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core.
  11. ↑ "Editorial Board – Annals of Economics and Statistics". Annals of Economics and Statistics.
  12. ↑ "Journal of Demographic Economics - Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  13. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; Hritonenko, Natali; Yatsenko, Yuri (2014). "Optimal Investment in Heterogeneous Capital and Technology Under Restricted Natural Resource". Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 163: 310–331. doi:10.1007/s10957-013-0453-y.
  14. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; Fabbri, Giorgio; Pintus, Patrick (2012). "On the optimal control of a linear neutral differential equation arising in economics". Optimal Control Applications and Methods. 33 (5): 511–530. doi:10.1002/oca.1011. ISSN 1099-1514.
  15. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; De La Croix, David; Licandro, Omar (2008). "Vintage Capital". The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London: 6984–6987. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-58802-2_1795.
  16. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; del Río, Fernando; Licandro, Omar (June 2005). "Obsolescence and modernization in the growth process". Journal of Development Economics. 77 (1): 153–171. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2004.03.004. ISSN 0304-3878. Archived from the original on 2020-06-13.
  17. ↑ Boucekkine, R.; Camacho, C.; Fabbri, G. (2013). "Spatial dynamics and convergence: The spatial AK model". Journal of Economic Theory. 148 (6): 2719–2736. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2013.09.013. ISSN 0022-0531. Archived from the original on 2024-04-18.
  18. ↑ Boucekkine, R.; Martinez, B.; Ruiz-Tamarit, J. R. (2014). "Optimal Sustainable Policies Under Pollution Ceiling: the Demographic Side". Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 9 (4): 38–64. doi:10.1051/mmnp/20149404. ISSN 0973-5348.
  19. ↑ Bonneuil, Noël; Boucekkine, Raouf (2016). "Optimal transition to renewable energy with threshold of irreversible pollution". European Journal of Operational Research. 248 (1): 257. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2015.05.060.
  20. ↑ Bonneuil, Noël; Boucekkine, Raouf (2020). "Genetic diversity and its value: conservation genetics meets economics". Conservation Genetics Resources. 12: 141–151. doi:10.1007/s12686-019-01113-y.
  21. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; Fabbri, Giorgio; Federico, Salvatore; Gozzi, Fausto (2022). "A dynamic theory of spatial externalities". Games and Economic Behavior. 132: 133–165. arXiv:2112.10584. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2021.12.002. ISSN 0899-8256. Archived from the original on 2022-01-14.
  22. ↑ Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Boucekkine, Raouf; Veliov, Vladimir M. (2019). "Distributed optimal control models in environmental economics: a review". Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena. 14 (1): 106. doi:10.1051/mmnp/2019016. ISSN 0973-5348.
  23. ↑ Dobson, Andy; Ricci, Cristiano; Boucekkine, Raouf; Gozzi, Fausto; Fabbri, Giorgio; Loch-Temzelides, Ted; Pascual, Mercedes (2023). "Balancing economic and epidemiological interventions in the early stages of pathogen emergence". Science Advances. 9 (21). doi:10.1126/sciadv.ade6169.
  24. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; Prieur, Fabien; Puzon, Klarizze (2016). "On the timing of political regime changes in resource-dependent economies". European Economic Review. 85: 188–207. doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.02.016. ISSN 0014-2921. Archived from the original on 2022-03-22.
  25. ↑ Bonneuil, NoëL (24 January 2011). "A Review of: "Optimal Control of Age-Structured Populations in Economy, Demography, and the Environment edited by R. Boucekkine, N. Hritonenko, and Y. Yatsenko.": (2010). Oxon, UK, and New York, NY: Routledge, 295 pp., $150". Mathematical Population Studies. 18 (1): 38–42. doi:10.1080/08898480.2011.540176.
  26. ↑ "E3E International Research Network". CNRS Washington.
  27. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf (1 May 1995). "An alternative methodology for solving nonlinear forward-looking models". Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 19 (4): 711–734. doi:10.1016/0165-1889(94)00800-W. ISSN 0165-1889.
  28. ↑ "The Econometric Society Announces its 2020 Fellows - The Econometric Society". Econometric Society.
  29. ↑ "Economic Theory Fellows". SAET. Retrieved 13 February 2026.
  30. ↑ "Les arrêtés de nomination des lauréats - Institut Universitaire de France". www.iufrance.fr. Retrieved 2026-06-28.
  31. ↑ "Welcome to IAS Epiphany term Fellows". IAS Durham.
  32. ↑ "RÉSULTATS DE LA CAMPAGNE IUF 2026 - Institut Universitaire de France". www.iufrance.fr. Retrieved 2026-06-28.
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