Graduate Student, Oxford Internet Institute
D.Phil candidate
St Antony's
Thesis Title: e-Trust Determinants and Mechanisms
About
Florian is currently reading for a DPhil (read PhD) in 'Information, Communication and the Social Sciences' at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, with the generous support of a Scatcherd European scholarship and an Economic and Social Research Council studentship.
Florian's research focuses on the determinants and mechanisms of electronic trust, e-Trust. During his doctoral studies at the OII, he wishes to examine when, how and why agents trust electronic entities (e.g. B2C, C2C sellers, Forum and P2P active users, e-reviewers, etc.), and this despite the strong information asymmetry prevailing in digital environments. To do so, Florian's works stress, among other things, the importance of:
* analyzing, understanding and defining what is trust in general and online trust in particular;
* taking a strong interest in the concept of online reputation;
* gathering and using experimental data to examine what determines e-Trust;
* developing abstract approaches to identify and analyse the mechanisms in play.
Prior to coming to Oxford, Florian was a student at the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. During his graduate studies at Polytechnique, Florian accomplished both a Masters in Quantitative Economics and Finance jointly organized by the Department of Applied Mathematics and the Department of Economics at the École Polytechnique, and the Department of Economics and Finance at HEC-Paris, and a research-oriented Masters in Economic Analysis and Policy housed by the Paris School of Economics and the École Normale Supérieure. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Lausanne, Faculty of HEC, Switzerland, a Diploma in Economics from the University of Kent, UK, and is a former Microtechnics Engineering student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
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