IDEI Researcher
Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Research Director, CNRS

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Research Interests

Contract and organization theory
Economics of uncertainty
Economics of insurance
Industrial organization
Regulation
Network Economics
Competition Policy

Professional experiences

Current positions

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Retail Price Regulation and Innovation: Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry", IDEI Working Paper, n. 432, July 2009.

  (with David Bardey and Antoine Bommier)

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• "Seller Reputation and Trust in Pre-Trade Communication", IDEI Working Paper, n. 564, July 2009, revised September 2009.

  (with In-Uck Park)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 358 Kb) ]
• "Public and Private Investments in Regulated Network Industries: Coordination and Competition Issues", IDEI Working Paper, n. 562, July 2009.

  (with Jérôme Pouyet and Wilfried Sand-Zantman)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 186 Kb) ]
• "Contracting and Regulation under the Threat of Duplication", IDEI Working Paper, n. 563, July 2009.

  (with Jérôme Pouyet and Wilfried Sand-Zantman)

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• "Mobile Call Termination Revisited", IDEI Working Paper, n. 551, April 2009.

  (with Patrick Rey and Wilfried Sand-Zantman)

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• "Price Skewness and Competition in Multi-Sided Markets", IDEI Working Paper, n. 504, March 2008.

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• "The Market for Lawyers: The Value of Information on the Quality of Legal Services.", IDEI Working Paper, n. 485, November 2007.

  (with Elisabetta Iossa)

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• "Designing a Two-Sided Platform: When To Increase Search Costs?", IDEI Working Paper, n. 473, August 23, 2007.

  (with Andrei Hagiu)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 330 Kb) ]

• "Tying and Freebies in Two-Sided Markets", IDEI Working Paper, n. 445, March 2007.

  (with Andrea Amelio)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 295 Kb) ]

• "Pricing and Other Business Strategies for e-Procurements Platforms", IDEI Working Paper, n. 290, December 2005.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 78 Kb) ]

• "Empirical Evidence on the Preferences of Racetrack Bettors", IDEI Working Paper, n. 178, May 2005.

  (with Bernard Salanié)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 334 Kb) ]

• "E-Commerce, Two-Sided Markets and Info-Mediation", IDEI Working Paper, n. 380, January 2005.

  (with Alexandre Gaudeul)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 130 Kb) ]

• "The Economics of Tacit Collusion", IDEI Working Paper, n. 186, Final Report for DG Competition, European Commission, 2003.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Patrick Rey, Paul Seabright and Jean Tirole)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 453 Kb) ]
• "The Economics of Unilateral Effects", IDEI Working Paper, n. 222, Report for DG Competition, European Commission, 2003.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Patrick Rey, Paul Seabright and Jean Tirole)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 537 Kb) ]

• "Screening Risk-Averse Agents Under Moral Hazard", IDEI Working Paper, n. 131, 2001.

  (with Bernard Salanié and François Salanié)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 341 Kb) ]

• "Competing in Network Industries: Divide and Conquer", IDEI Working Paper, n. 112, 2000, revised July 2001.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 423 Kb) ]

• "Participation Constraints in Adverse Selection Models", IDEI Working Paper, n. 67, 1997.

Mimeos

• Expertise and Bias in Decision Making, 2005.

  (with Sylvain Bourjade)
• Product Design and Decision Rights in Vertical Structures, 2005.

  (with Pierre Dubois)

Forthcoming

Contributions to books

• "E-Commerce, Two-Sided Markets and Info-Mediation", in Economics of Internet, E. Brousseau and N. Curien (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2005.

  (with Alexandre Gaudeul)

  [Forthcoming]

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

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

  (with Claude Crampes, Pierre Dubois and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur)

• "Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries", The Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 57, n. 1, March 2009, p. 7-31.

  (with Claude Crampes and Carole Haritchabalet)

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

  (with Pierre Dubois and Thierry Magnac)

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

• "Resale Price Maintenance and Collusion", The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 38, n. 4, Winter 2007, p. 983-1001.

  (with Patrick Rey)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]
• "Screening Risk-Averse Agents Under Moral Hazard: single-crossing and the CARA case", Economic Theory, vol. 30, n. 1, 2007, p. 151-169.

  (with Bernard Salanié and François Salanié)

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• "Auction and the Informed Seller Problem", Games and Economic Behavior, vol. 56, n. 2, August 2006, p. 225-258. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2005.08.008.

  (with Thomas Mariotti)

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 310 Kb) ]

• "Asymmetric Information in Insurance: General Testable Implications", The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 37, n. 4, Winter 2006, p. 783-798.

  (with Pierre-André Chiappori, Bernard Salanié and François Salanié)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "La régulation en pratique", Revue d'Économie Politique, vol. 115, n. 3, Hommage à  Jean-Jacques Laffont, May 2005, p. 273-284.

  (with Jean-Charles Rochet)

• "Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediation", CESifo Economic Studies, vol. 51, Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, 2005, p. 235-262.

• "Chicken and Egg: Competition among Intermediation Service Providers", The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 34, n. 2, Summer 2003, p. 521-552.

  (with Bernard Caillaud)

  [ Jstor© ]

• "Competing Cybermediaries", European Economic Review, vol. 45, n. 4-6, May 2001, p. 797-808.

  (with Bernard Caillaud)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 118 Kb) ]
• "Economie de l'information et Internet", Revue Économique, vol. 52, n. 3, May 2001, p. 633-642.

  (with Alexandre Gaudeul)

• "Modelling Time Inconsistent Preferences", European Economic Review, vol. 44, n. 4-6, May 2000, p. 1116-1124.

  (with Bernard Caillaud)

• "Corporate Demand for Insurance with Optimal Financial Contracting", Economic Theory, vol. 16, n. 1, 2000, p. 77-105.

  (with Bernard Caillaud and G. Dionne)
• "Scientific Progress and Irreversibility: an Economic Interpretation of the Precautionary Principle", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 75, 2000, p. 229-253.

  (with Christian Gollier and Nicolas Treich)
• "Participation Constraints in Adverse Selection Models", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 93, n. 1, 2000, p. 1-47.
• "Estimating Preferences under Risk: The Case of Racetrack Bettors", Journal of Political Economy, vol. 108, 2000, p. 503-530.

  (with Bernard Salanié)

  [ Jstor© ]

• "Should More Risk-Averse Agents Exert More Effort ?", Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, vol. 24, n. 1, June 1999, p. 19-28.

  (with Bernard Salanié and François Salanié)

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• "Pricing Regulation under Bypass Competition", The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 29, n. 2, 1998, p. 259-279.

  (with Nicolas Curien and Patrick Rey)

  [ Jstor© ]
• "A Classical Model of Involuntary Unemployment: Efficiency Wages and Macroeconomic Policy", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 78, n. 2, 1998, p. 263-285.

  (with Pierre M. Picard)

• "Managerial Incentives Based on Acquisition of Information", Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, vol. 4, n. 3, 1995, p. 427-444.

  (with Bernard Caillaud)
• "Competing Vertical Structures: Precommitment and Renegotiation", Econometrica, vol. 63, n. 3, 1995, p. 621-646.

  (with Bernard Caillaud and Pierre M. Picard)

  [ Jstor© ]

• "Dynamic Duopoly with Learning Through Market Experimentation", Economic Theory, 1993, p. 517-539.

  (with Philippe Aghion and M. P. Espinoza)

• "Optimal Learning by Experimentation", Review of Economic Studies, vol. 58, 1991, p. 621-654.

  (with Philippe Aghion, Patrick Bolton and Christopher Harris)

  [ Jstor© ]

• "Competitive Business Cycles in an Overlapping Generation Economy with Productive Investment", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 46, n. 1, 1988, p. 45-65.
• "Ordinal Independence in Nonlinear Utility Theory", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 1, 1988, p. 355-387.

  (with Jerry Green)

Contributions to books

• Chapter 8, "The Economics of Tacit Collusion in Merger Analysis", in The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek (eds.), March 2007.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Patrick Rey, Paul Seabright and Jean Tirole)

• "Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediation", in Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy, G. Illing and M. Peitz (eds.), MIT Press, 2005.

• "Empirical Evidence on the Preferences of Racetrack Bettors", in Handbook of Sport and Lottery Markets, 2003.

  (with Bernard Caillaud)

• "Competitive Business Cycles in an Overlapping Generation Economy with Productive Investment", in Cycles and Chaos in Economic Equilibrium, Princeton University Press, 1992.

IDEI Reports

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

  (with Claude Crampes, Pierre Dubois and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 173 Kb) ]

• Notes on the Economics of Termination Charges, n. 6, IDEI, Toulouse, July 2008.

  (with Patrick Rey)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 227 Kb) ]

• Charges de terminaison et concurrence: Quelques leçons de la littérature économique, n. 4, IDEI, Toulouse, June 2006.

  (with Patrick Rey)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 138 Kb) ]

Articles in the Press

• "Médicaments: à quel prix?", L' Expansion, n. 713, November 2006.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 2 Mb) ]