CURRICULUMVITAE NAME: Justin Johnson Kakeu Kengne ...

CURRICULUM VITAE
( March 31, 2012 )
NAME:
WEBPAGE :
Justin Johnson Kakeu Kengne
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~jkakeu6/
ADDRESS:
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Economics
221 Bobby Dodd Way
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
Telephone : 404-894-0491
Fax : 404-894-1890
E-mail : johnson.kakeu@econ.gatech.edu
2010 Ph.D. in Economics, Université de Montréal, Canada
Dissertation: Essays on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics under Uncertainty
2002 Master’s in Statistics and Economics, ENSEA, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
1999 Master’s in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Dschang, Cameroon
1997 Bachelor’s in Mathematics, University of Dschang, Cameroon
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, 2010- present
Lecturer, Université de Montréal, Canada, 2008- 2009
Lecturer, HEC Montréal, Canada, Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant, HEC Montréal, Canada, 2008-2009
Teaching Assistant, ÉTS Montréal, Canada, 2008
Lecturer, University of Douala, Cameroon, 2002-2005
Teaching Assistant, School of Administration and Magistracy, Cameroon, 2002
Teaching Assistant, University of Dschang, Cameroon, 1998
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Environment and Natural Resources, Sustainability and Conservation, Natural Capital Valuation, Economic
Growth, Applied Econometrics, Applied Game theory.
PAPERS PUBLISHED / IN REVISION
Ø The Quest for Hegemony Among Countries and Global Pollution (with Gérard Gaudet),
Dynamic Games and Applications, 2011, Vol. 1, Pages 498-513.
Ø The Pricing of Nonrenewable Resource Stocks with a Generalized Habit Formation Utility: A
Martingale Approach, 2011, revision requested by Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management.
Ø Estimation of the Hotelling Rule for Oil and Coal under Stochastic Investments Opportunities,
2011, revision requested by Energy Economics.
PAPERS SUBMITTED
Ø Exhaustible Resource Pricing versus Standard Asset Pricing, 2011. Under review at the American
Economic Review
Ø Strategic Information Sharing in the Problem of the Commons, 2011
Ø Empirical Evidence of News about Future Prospects in the Pricing of Oil Assets» (with Mohammed
Bouaddi), 2010.

Ø Capital Accumulation with Stochastic Habit Formation: A Martingale Approach, 2011
Ø Optimal Depletion of Fossil Fuels under Stochastic Pollution, 2011
WORKING PAPERS
ü Pace of Natural Capital Loss: Does Size Externality Matter?
ü Conservation and Intergenerational Risk-Sharing
ü Optimal Growth and Sentiment About the Future, (with Jeff R. Vincent), 2012
WORK IN PROGRESS
• Exhaustible Resource Market Structure and Backstop Technology
• Sustainability and Intertemporal Separability of Preferences
• Market Structure and Transportation Risk (with Patrick S. McCarthy)
• Parable of the Hidden Treasure: Insights from an Economic Model
OTHER WORKS
Ø Spectral analysis of a family of second-order elliptic operators, Master’s dissertation in Applied
Mathematics and Mechanics, 1999, University of Dschang, Cameroon.
Ø Estimating the equilibrium exchange rate of Ivoiry Coast, Master dissertation in Statistics and
Economics, 2002, ENSEA Abidjan, Ivoiry Coast.
INVITED SEMINAR PRESENTATION
• Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series, Duke University, CEnREP and
RTI International, November 4 th , 2010
• Georgia State University, Department of Economics, Environmental-Urban seminar series,
September 13, 2011
CONFERENCES
“Strategic Information Sharing in the Problem of the Commons”
• Voluntary Pollution Control Workshop to be held in Ohio, Columbus, on May 20-21, 2012.
• Southern Economic Association Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, on November
16-18, 2012.
• The 4th Internatonal EcoSummit to be held in Ohio, Columbus, on September 30- October 5,
2012 .
The AERE Summer Conference, Seattle, June 2010 (attendance)
“Exhaustible Resource Pricing versus Standard Asset Pricing”:
• Georgia State University, Department of Economics, September 2011
“Quest for Hegemony Among countries and Global Pollution”:
• Montreal Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Workshop, February 2009.
• Conference of the Canadian Economic Association, Toronto, May 2009.
• Congrès de la Société canadienne de science économique, Sainte-Adèle, May 2009.
• Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam,
June 2009.
• Workshop on Game Theory in Energy, Resources and Environment, GERAD - HEC Montréal,
November 2009.
“Estimation of the Hotelling Rule for Oil and Coal under Stochastic Investments Opportunities”:
• 4th CSDA International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE'10),
London, December 2010.

• Montreal Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Workshop, January 2009
• CIREQ Ph.D. Student Conference’s, McGill University, Montreal, May 2009
• Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group, Edmonton, October 2009
• World Conference of the Environmental and Resource Economists, Montreal, July 2010
“Future Prospects and the Management of Natural Resource Assets”:
• Third Annual Student's Conference on Business Research, HEC Montréal, April 2009.
• Conference of the Canadian Economic Association, Québec, May 2010
• Congrès de la Société canadienne de science économique, Manoir St-Castin, May 2010
“Empirical Evidence of News about Future Prospects in the Pricing of Oil Assets”:
• Mathematical Finance Days, Montreal, may 2010
• Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, October 15, 2010.
“The Pricing of Nonrenewable Resource Stocks with a Generalized Habit Formation Utility: A
Martingale Approach”:
• Third Annual Student's Conference on Business Research, HEC Montréal, April 2010.
• CIREQ Ph.D. Student Conference’s, McGill University, Montreal, May 2010
REFEREE POSITION: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Energy and Resource
Economics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Graduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Industrial organization (Graduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Research Methods (Graduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Probability and Statistics (Graduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Advanced Microeconomics Analysis (Undergraduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Economics and Policy (Undergraduate Level), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
Principles of Economics (Undergraduate Level), Université de Montréal, Canada
Differential and Integral Calculus (Undergraduate Level), ÉTS Montréal, Canada.
Quantitative Methods for Business Management, (Undergraduate Level), HEC Montréal, Canada.
Applied Economics (Graduate Level), School of Administration and Magistracy, Cameroon.
Inferential Statistics (Graduate Level), University of Douala, Cameroon.
Mathematical Analysis (Undergraduate Level), University of Dschang, Cameroon.
NON ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Economist, Department of Economic Forecasts, Cameroon, 2002-2005
Statistician, Department of Higher Education, Cameroon, 2002-2003
Internship, Central Bank of West African States, Fall 2001
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING
Member, Local Organizing Committee, World Conference of the Environmental and Resource Economists,
Montreal, July 2010.
FELLOWSHIPS
Ph.D. Fellowship, Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société la culture (FQRSC), 2009-2010
Ph.D. Fellowship, Faculté des études supérieures, Université de Montréal (desisted)
Ph.D. Fellowship, Banque Laurentienne, 2007-2009
Ph.D. Fellowship, Department of Economics, Université de Montréal, 2005-2007
Master’s Fellowship, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France, 2001
Master’s Fellowship, Ministry of Higher Education, Cameroon, 1998

TEACHING AWARD, 2011, GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
American Economic Association
Canadian Economic Association