IDEI Researcher
Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Assistant Professor, University Toulouse I

Contacts

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Research Interests

Econometrics
Applied Industrial Organization
Postal Economic

Professional experiences

Current position

Former positions

Education

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Modélisation économétrique de la distribution du courrier", Cahier du GREMAQ, n. 96.39.442, 1996.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Marc de Rycke)

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• "Étude de la mobilité des individus âgés sur le marché du travail aux Etats-Unis: un modèle en temps continu", Cahier du GREMAQ, n. 92.10.257, 1991.

Mimeos

• Structural Econometrics of Mail Demand, March 2003.

  (with Frédérique Fève, Patrick Fève and Jean-Pierre Florens)

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Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "The Effect of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Estimation: Comparison of Cross Section and Panel with Simulated Data for The Postal Sector", The Review of Network Economics, vol. 10, n. 3, 2011. doi:10.2202/1446-9022.1231.

  (with Paul Dudley, Jean-Pierre Florens and Michael Jones)

• "Delivery Offices Cost Frontier: a Robust Non Parametric Approach with Exogenous Variables", The Review of Network Economics, vol. 7, n. 2, June 2008, p. 294-308.

  (with Paul Dudley, Jean-Pierre Florens and Frank Rodriguez)

• "Simple Structural Econometrics of Price Elasticity", Economics Letters, vol. 86, n. 1, Elsevier, January 2005, p. 1-6.

  (with Frédérique Fève, Patrick Fève and Jean-Pierre Florens)

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• "Nonparametric Frontier Estimation: A Robust Approach", Journal of Econometrics, vol. 106, n. 1, January 2002, p. 1-25. doi:10.1016/S0304-4076(01)00080-X.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Léopold Simar)

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• "La retraite dans les modèles d'offre de travail : un survol de la littérature", Économie et Prévision, n. 115, 1994.

• "Evolution des individus âgés sur le marché du travail aux Etats-Unis: Un modèle à risques concurrents", Revue Économique, vol. 43, n. 3, May 1992, p. 487-508.

Contributions to books

• "UK Letter Mail Demand: A Content Based Time Series Analysis Using Overlapping Market Survey Statistical Techniques", in Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age, Edward Edgar Publishing, 2011, p. 91-108.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens, Frank Rodriguez, Soterios Soteri and Leticia Veruete-McKay)

• "Some Dynamic Models for Mail Demand: the French Case", in Heightening Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 7, Edward Edgar Publishing, 2010, p. 99-115.

  (with François Boldron, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sébastien Lecou)

• "Forecast Uncertainty in Dynamic Models - An Application to the Demand for Mail (part II)", in Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens, Frank Rodriguez and Soterios Soteri)

• "Delivery Costs II: Back to Parametric Models", in Regulatory and Economics Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, n. 48, Kluwer, Boston, 2005.

  (with Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Bernard Roy)

• "Une étude économétrique des élasticités du coût de production des guichets postaux", in Economie Postale: les Fondements, Economica, Paris, 2004, p. 201-210.

  (with Pascale Duchemin, Jean-Pierre Florens, Bernard Roy and Olivier Vialaneix)
• "Econométrie de la demande de courrier, Comparaison entre données en coupe instantanée et données dynamiques", in Economie Postale: les Fondements, Economica, Paris, 2004, p. 72-87.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens)
• "Monopole naturel et économies d'échelle dans la distribution postale, Une comparaison des approches paramétriques et non paramétriques", in Economie Postale: les Fondements, Economica, Paris, 2004, p. 116-132.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens, Séverine Rouzaud and Marc de Rycke)
• "Une analyse de certains inducteurs de coût spécifiques à l'activité de distribution de courrier", in Economie Postale: les Fondements, Economica, Paris, 2004, p. 133-149.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Bernard Roy)
• "Delivery Costs for Postal Services in the UK: Some Results on Scale Economies with Panel Data", in Regulatory and Economics Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, n. 48, Kluwer, Boston, 2004, revised 2005, p. 203-212.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Soterios Soteri)

• "Econometrics of Mail Demand: A Comparison between Cross-Section and Dynamic Data", in Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 44, Kluwer, 2003, p. 119-140.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens)

• "An Econometric Study of Cost Elasticity in the Activities of Post Office Counters", in Postal and Delivery Services: Pricing, Productivity, Regulation and Strategy, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 41, Kluwer, 2002, p. 161-170.

  (with Pascale Duchemin, Jean-Pierre Florens, Bernard Roy and Olivier Vialaneix)

• "An Analysis of Some Specific Cost Drivers in the Delivrey Activity", in Future Direction in Postal Reform, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Kluwer, 2001, p. 197-212.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Bernard Roy)

• "Mesures d'efficacité et évaluation de regroupement de bureaux distributeurs : une approche non paramétrique", in La Méthode DEA: Analyse des performances, Hermès, Paris, 1999.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens and Marc de Rycke)

• "Scale Economies and Natural Monopoly in the Postal Delivery: Comparison between Parametric and Non Parametric Specifications", in Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries, series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 25, chapter 4, Kluwer, 1997, p. 65-82.

  (with Jean-Pierre Florens, Séverine Rouzaud and Marc de Rycke)