IDEI Researcher
Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Research Affiliate at CEPR
Professor in Economics, University Toulouse 1 Capitole
Junior member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF)
Associate Editor of European Economic Review
Managing Editor of International Journal of Industrial Organization

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Research Interests

Development Economics
Public Economics, Health, Labour and Education
Program Evaluation
Agricultural Economics
Microeconometrics

Professional experiences

Current position

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?", IDEI Working Paper, n. 759, January 2013, revised May 2013.

  (with Rachel Griffith and Aviv Nevo)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 286 Kb) ]

• ""Impacts of Patent Expiry and Regulatory Policies on Daily Cost of Pharmaceutical Treatments: OECD Countries, 2004-2010"", IDEI Working Paper, n. 702, March 2012.

  (with Ernst R. Berndt)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 815 Kb) ]

• "Smoking within the Household: Spousal Peer Effects and Children's Health Implications", IDEI Working Paper, n. 690, October 2011.

  (with Chiara Canta)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 416 Kb) ]

• "Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation", IDEI Working Paper, n. 670, April 2011.

  (with Olivier de Mouzon, Fiona Scott Morton and Paul Seabright)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 251 Kb) ]

• "Productivity and Mobility in Academic Research: Evidence from Mathematicians", IDEI Working Paper, n. 606, October 2010, revised March 2013.

  (with Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean-Marc Schlenker)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 344 Kb) ]

• "Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Buyer Power between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Evidence on Food Retailing in France", IDEI Working Paper, n. 638, August 2010.

  (with Céline Bonnet)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 292 Kb) ]

• "Price and Brand Competition between Differentiated Retailers: A Structural Econometric Model", IDEI Working Paper, n. 604, April 2010.

  (with Sandra Jodar-Rosell)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 319 Kb) ]

• "Nutrition and Risk Sharing within the Household", IDEI Working Paper, n. 580, November 2009.

  (with Ethan Ligon)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 193 Kb) ]

• "Inference on Vertical Contracts between Manufacturers and Retailers Allowing for Nonlinear Pricing and Resale Price Maintenance", IDEI Working Paper, n. 583, May 2009.

  (with Céline Bonnet)

  [ Appendix (PDF file, 128 Kb) ]

• "Incentives to Invest in Short-term vs. Long-term Contracts: Evidence from a Natural Experiment", IDEI Working Paper, n. 590, January 2009, revised December 2009.

  (with Tomislav Vukina)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 278 Kb) ]

• "Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan", IDEI Working Paper, n. 391, August 2005.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 393 Kb) ]

• "Two-Part Tariffs versus Linear Pricing between Manufacturers and Retailers: Empirical Tests on Differentiated Products Markets", IDEI Working Paper, n. 370, June 2004, revised April 2006.

  (with Céline Bonnet and Michel Simioni)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 429 Kb) ]

• "Consumption Insurance with Heterogeneous Preferences. Can Sharecropping Help Complete Markets?", Document de Travail INRA-ESR Toulouse, n. 2001-13D, 2001.

• "Multitask Moral Hazard, Incentive Contracts and Land Value", Document de Travail INRA-ESR Toulouse, n. 2001-10D, April 1998.

Mimeos

• Non Linear Contracting and Endogenous Market Power in Manufacturers and Retailers Relationships: Structural Econometrics on Differentiated Products, 2006.

  (with Céline Bonnet)

• Heterogeneity of Preferences, Limited Commitment and Coalitions: Empirical Evidence on the Limits to Risk Sharing in Rural Pakistan, 2005.
• Product Design and Decision Rights in Vertical Structures, 2005.

  (with Bruno Jullien)
• Incentives and Discrimination in Agricultural Contracts: Identification and Structural Estimation on French Data, 2005.

  (with Pascal Lavergne)

• Efficiency Wages for Rotten Kids: Intrahousehold Consumption and Nutrition in the Philippines, 2000.

  (with Ethan Ligon)

• Why Risk Sharing Networks are Small: Coalition Proof Informal Insurance and Endogenous Association Cost, 1998.

Forthcoming

Articles in refereed journals

• "Household Food Consumption, Individual Caloric Intake and Obesity in France", Empirical Economics, Physica Verlag, 2013.

  (with Céline Bonnet and Valérie Orozco)

  [ Last working paper (PDF file) ]

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "Empirical Evidence on the Role of Non Linear Wholesale Pricing and Vertical Restraints on Cost Pass-Through", The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2013, p. 500-515. doi:10.1162/REST_a_00267.

  (with Céline Bonnet, Daniel Klapper and Sofia B. Villas Boas)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 232 Kb) ]

• "Effects on School Enrollment and Performance of a Conditional Transfers Program in Mexico", Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 30, n. 3, July 2012, p. 555-589.

  (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet)

  [ Full text ]

• "Child Care Provision: Semiparametric Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Mexico", Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, n. 105-106, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Paris, June 2012, p. 155-184.

  (with Marta Rubio-Codina)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 421 Kb) ]

• "Empirical Evidence on Satisfaction with Privatization in Latin America", The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 26, n. 1, 2012, p. 1-33. doi:10.1093/wber/lhr037.

  (with Céline Bonnet, David Martimort and Stéphane Straub)

  [ Access to final version ]

• "Identifying the Effect of Unobserved Quality and Experts' Reviews in the Pricing of Experience Goods: Empirical Application on Bordeaux Wine", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 28, n. 3, May 2010, p. 205-212. doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2009.08.003.

  (with Céline Nauges)

• "Inference on Vertical Contracts between Manufacturers and Retailers Allowing for Non Linear Pricing and Resale Price Maintenance", The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 41, n. 1, Spring 2010, p. 139-164.

  (with Céline Bonnet)

• "Régulation des prix et politiques de remboursement des médicaments", Revue Générale de Droit Médical, vol. 33, December 2009, p. 273-290.

  (with Claude Crampes, Bruno Jullien and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur)

• "Optimal Incentives under Moral Hazard and Heterogeneous Agents: Evidence from Production Contracts Data", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 27, n. 4, July 2009, p. 489-552. doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2009.01.001.

  (with Tomislav Vukina)

• "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Econometrics of Auctions", Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 23, n. 7, November 2008, p. 867-869. doi:10.1002/jae.1042.

  (with Marc Ivaldi and Thierry Magnac)

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 84 Kb) ]

• "Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence", Econometrica, vol. 76, n. 4, July 2008, p. 679-725.

  (with Bruno Jullien and Thierry Magnac)

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 431 Kb) ]

• "The Market of Academic Journals: Empirical Evidence from Data on French Libraries", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 5, n. 2, April-May 2007, p. 390-399.

  (with Adriana Hernandez-Perez and Marc Ivaldi)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "Introduction", Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol. 14, n. 4: "Special Issue on Industrial Organisation of the Food Industry", Winter 2005, p. 775-778.

  (with Farid Gasmi)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "Optimal Regulation of Private Production Contracts with Environmental Externalities", Journal of Regulatory Economics, vol. 26, n. 3, September 2004, p. 287-301.

  (with Philippe Bontems and Tomislav Vukina)

• "Grower Risk Aversion and the Cost of Moral Hazard in the Livestock Production Contracts", American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 86, n. 3, August 2004, p. 835-841.

  (with Tomislav Vukina)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "Rotten Parents and Child Labor", Journal of Political Economy, vol. 112, n. 1, February 2004, p. 240-248.

  (with Antoine Bommier)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "Moral Hazard, Land Fertility and Sharecropping in a Rural Area of the Philippines", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 68, n. 1, June 2002, p. 35-64. doi:10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00005-6.

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 1 Mb) ]

• "Consommation, partage de risque et assurance informelle: modèles théoriques et tests empiriques", L'Actualité Économique, vol. 78, n. 1, 2002, p. 115-149.

• "Contrats agricoles en économie du développement: une revue critique des théories et des tests empiriques", Revue d'Économie du Développement, vol. 3, 2001, p. 75-106.

• "Assurance complète, hétérogénéité des préférences et métayage au Pakistan", Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, n. 59, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Paris, June-September 2000, p. 1-37.

  [ Article ©Journal (PDF file) ]

• "Aléa moral, fertilité de la terre et choix de contrats aux Philippines", Revue Économique, vol. 50, n. 3, 1999, p. 621-632.

Articles in non-refereed journals

• "Les relations entre producteurs et distributeurs, une analyse économique et économétrique de mécanismes inflationnistes sur les prix de détail", INRA Sciences Sociales, n. 5, November 2006.

  (with Céline Bonnet, Stéphane Caprice and Claire Chambolle)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]
• "Présentation", INRA Sciences Sociales, n. 5, November 2006.

  (with Michel Simioni and Louis-Georges Soler)

  [ Full text ]

• "Efficacité des contrats agricoles: le cas de la production de blé en Midi-Pyrénées", INRA Sciences Sociales, n. 1, April 2006.

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

Contributions to books

• "Sharecropping", in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd edition), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. doi:10.1057/9780230226203.1519.

  [ Website ]

• "Environmental Regulation of Livestock Production Contracts", in Frontiers in the Economics of Environmental Regulation and Liability, series Ashgate Studies in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Ashgate Pub Co, 2006, p. 265-290.

  (with Philippe Bontems and Tomislav Vukina)

Articles in the Press

• "Des taxes contre l'obésité", L'Expansion, n. 736, December 2008.

  [ Full text ]

• "Obesity's on the Rise - Let's have the Courage to Tax Junk Food", voxeu.org, October 17, 2007.

  [ Website ]

• "Contre la progression de l'obésité ayons le courage de taxer la " junk food "", Le Monde, September 25, 2007.

• "Aide sociale sous conditions: lever le tabou", La Gazette du Midi, November 13-19, 2006.

• "Au Mexique, un programme a levé le tabou de l'aide sous condition", Le Monde, October 31, 2006.

Reports

• "Régulation des prix et politique de remboursement des médicaments", Rapport IDEI, n. 7, September 2008.

  (with Claude Crampes, Bruno Jullien and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 173 Kb) ]

• Study on the Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe, DG Research, European Commission, 2006.

  (with Jean-Pierre Devroey, Mathias Dewatripont, Marianne Dujardin, Jérôme Foncel, Victor Ginsburgh, Marie-Dominique Heusse, Marc Ivaldi, Patrick Legros, Françoise Vandooren and Alexis Walckiers)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 833 Kb) ]

Articles in Newsletters

• "Efficacité des contrats passés entre coopératives et agriculteurs", Lettre INRA aux entreprises, n. 2, September 2005.

Organization

Workshop

• Workshop on Health and Pharmaceutical Economics, Toulouse, France, December 15, 2011.

  Organized by Claude Crampes and Pierre Dubois.

  [ Programme and abstracts (PDF file) ]