Maxence Gérard is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM) at the University of Rennes. Within the ANR project Greenvote led by Émeline Bezin, he is developing political economy models with endogeneous preferences to study the role of socialization in the diffusion of environmental values and on how social identity shapes voting behavior.
In September 2025, he was awarded a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Paris-Saclay, completed under the supervision of Guy Meunier and Stéphane De Cara. His PhD aimed at better understanding what are the optimal instruments for regulating negative externalities from the livestock sector, focusing particularly on the role of land use, on the producer side, and new dietary habits on the demand side.
He also holds a master’s degree in agricultural science, major in agricultural and environmental economics, from L’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers.
More broadly, his research interests are at the intersection of environmental economics, behavioral economics, and public economics.
