An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Aurélien Baillon
Aurélien Baillon
Aurélien Baillon, Professor of economics of uncertainty at the Erasmus School of Economics, received a Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC). Aurélien Baillon received the grant for the project “Bayesian markets for unverifiable truths”. In this project he will develop a new approach to get correct answers to questions that are otherwise unverifiable, e.g. concerning one’s happiness or the estimated likelihood of dramatic fatal events. As such the results of the project have a potential beyond economics, in a broad range of social sciences.