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

Economic Growth
Income Distribution
Political Economy
Labor Markets
Unemployment
Fiscal policy

Professional experiences

Current position

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Liberté et société post-utilitariste", IDEI Working Paper, n. 745, September 2012.

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• "Liberty and the post-utilitarian society", IDEI Working Paper, n. 740, September 2012.

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• "Some properties of autocoherent models", IDEI Working Paper, n. 704, April 4, 2012.

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• "A Theory of Political Entrenchment", IDEI Working Paper, n. 703, March 30, 2012.

  (with Davide TICCHI (IMT Lucca) and Andrea VINDIGNI (IMT Lucca))

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• "The possibility of ideological bias in structural macroeconomic models", IDEI Working Paper, n. 679, June 8, 2011.

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• "Towards a Political Economy of Macroeconomic Thinking", IDEI Working Paper, n. 678, May 23, 2011.

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• "A "quantized" approach to rational inattention", IDEI Working Paper, n. 597, March 2, 2010, revised January 2011.

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• "Does the Welfare State Make Older Workers Unemployable?", IDEI Working Paper, n. 569, July 25, 2009.

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• "Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage", IDEI Working Paper, n. 509, May 2008.

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• "Alternative Strategies for Fighting Unemployment: Lessons from the European Experience", IDEI Working Paper, n. 446, 2007.

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• "Selection of Boundedly Rational Firms and the Allocation of Resources", IDEI Working Paper, n. 417, October 2006.

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• "Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations", IDEI Working Paper, n. 396, March 2006.

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• "Making Sense of Bolkenstein Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets", CEPR Discussion Paper, May 2005.

• "The Brain Drain: Some Evidence from European Expatriates in the United States", IDEI Working Paper, n. 307, September 2004.

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• "Liquidity and the Cost of Funds in the European Treasury Market", IDEI Working Paper, n. 285, June 2004.

  (with Bruno Biais and Antoine Renucci)

• "Did European Labor Makets Become more Competitive in the 1990's? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents", IDEI Working Paper, n. 266, February 2004.

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• "Cumulative Innovation and Information Sharing in Business Networks", IDEI Working Paper, n. 225, 2003.

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• "Quels instruments pour une politique environnementale?", IDEI Working Paper, n. 171, 2003.

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• "Cognitive Ability and Paternalism", IDEI Working Paper, n. 148, 2002.

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• "Environmental Policy and Directed Innovation in a Schumpeterian Growth Model", IDEI Working Paper, n. 153, 2002.

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• "Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform", IDEI Working Paper, n. 146, 2002.

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• "On Market Forces and Human Evolution", IDEI Working Paper, n. 149, 2002.

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• "Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites", IDEI Working Paper, n. 126, 2001.

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• "The Economics of Human Cloning", IDEI Working Paper, n. 117, 2000.

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Mimeos

• Economic Growth and the Design of Search Engines, January 2009.

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Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "Research Cycles", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 145, n. 5, September 2010, p. 1890-1920. doi:10.1016/j.jet.2010.02.004.

  (with Yann Bramoullé)

• "Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform", The Economic Journal, vol. 120, n. 544, May 2010, p. 325-353. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02358.x.

• "Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions", Labour Economics, vol. 17, n. 1, January 2010, p. 188-195. doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2009.09.011.

  (with Yann Bramoullé)

• "La gouvernance des fonds souverains et le nationalisme économique", Revue d'économie financière, Hors-série, 2009.

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• "Le dollar, l'Innovation et l'Emploi", Revue d'économie financière, n. 94, 2009.

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• "Remarques sur l'efficacité des politiques de demande", Travail et Emploi, vol. 118, 2009, p. 95-98.

• "Welfare Effects of Intellectual Property in a North-South Model of Endogenous Growth with Comparative Advantage", E-conomics, n. 5, February 2008.

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• "Knowledge Hierarchies in the Labor Market", Journal of Economic Theory, vol. 137, n. 1, November 2007, p. 104-126.

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• "Le rôle des croyances et des idéologies dans l'économie politique des réformes", Revue d'Économie Politique, n. 4, July 2007, p. 577-592.

• "Sur l'arbitrage entre heures travaillées et emploi", Revue Française d'Économie, vol. 4, April 21, 2007, p. 3-11.

• "How does the Allocation of Credit Select Between Boundedly Rational Firms?", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 5, n. 2, April-May 2007, p. 411-419.

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• "The Complexity of Economic Policy: Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design", E-conomics, n. 4, March 2007.

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• "Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets", Journal of International Economics, vol. 73, n. 1, 2007, p. 152-174.

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• "On Market Forces and Human Evolution", Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol. 247, 2007, p. 397-412.

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• "Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs", The Economic Journal, vol. 116, n. 511, April 2006, p. 382-407.

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• "Will Limited Needs Kill Capitalism?", Capitalism and Society, vol. 1, n. 1, 2006.

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• "Some Evolutionary Foundations for Price Level Rigidity", American Economic Review, vol. 95, n. 3, June 2005, p. 765-779.

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• "Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: the Role of Financial Intermediation", Review of International Economics, vol. 13, n. 3, 2005.
• "To What Extent Should Less Developed Countries Enforce Intellectual Property Rights?", World Economics, vol. 6, n. 3, 2005.

• "Eco-technologies et prix des ressources environnementales", Evaluation, Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Développement Durable, December 2004.
• "Le commerce international est-il nuisible à l'environnement?", Evaluation, Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Développement Durable, December 2004.
• "Mécanismes de marché et préservation de la biodiversité", Evaluation, Ministère de l'Ecologie et du Développement Durable, December 2004.

• "Why Are European Countries Diverged in their Unemployment Experience ?", Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 18, n. 4, August 2004, p. 49-68.

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• "How do Firing Costs Affect Worker Flows in a World with Adverse Selection?", Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 22, n. 3, July 2004, p. 553-584.

  (with Adriana Kugler)

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• "Policy Consequences of Limited Cognitive Ability", Spanish Economic Review, vol. 6, n. 2, July 2004, p. 97-105.

• "Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?", Labour Economics, vol. 11, n. 1, February 2004, p. 129-144.

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• "Sviluppo e occupazione nell'economia globale", Futuribili, vol. 3, February 2004, p. 213-230.

• "Anatomia de una crisis francesa", Economia Exterior, vol. 29, 2004, p. 43-60.

• "Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics", Economic Policy, April 2003, p. 73-122.

• "Explaining Movements in the Labor Share", Contributions to Macroeconomics, vol. 3, n. 1, 2003.

  (with Samuel Bentolila)
• "Growth Effects of Nonproprietary Innovation", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, n. 2-3, 2003, p. 429-439.

• "Employment Protection, Innovation, and International Specialization", European Economic Review, vol. 46, n. 2, Elsevier, 2002, p. 375-395.
• "Productivity, Social Interaction, and Communication", Louvain Economic Review - Recherches Economiques de Louvain, vol. 68, n. 1-2, 2002, p. 111-123.
• "The Political Economy of Employment Protection", Journal of Political Economy, vol. 110, n. 3, 2002, p. 672-704.

• "On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas and Networks", Journal of Political Economy, vol. 109, n. 1, 2001, p. 1-37.
• "The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism", Review of Economic Dynamics, vol. 4, 2001, p. 275-302.

• "Are the Unemployed Unemployable ?", European Economic Review, vol. 40, Elsevier, 1996, p. 1501-1519.
• "Exploring the Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions", Economic Policy, vol. 23, 1996, p. 265-300.

• "The High Unemployment Trap", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. CX, n. 2, May 1995, p. 527-550.

• "Productivity Growth and the Structure of the Business Cycle", European Economic Review, vol. 37, Elsevier, 1993, p. 861-890.
• "Education, Democracy, and Growth", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 42, 1993, p. 399-407.

  (with Thierry Verdier)

• "The Macroeconomic Impact of Flexible Labor Contracts", European Economic Review, Elsevier, June 1992, p. 1013-1053.

  (with Samuel Bentolila)

• "Technological Choice, Financial Markets, and Economic Development", European Economic Review, Elsevier, April 1992, p. 763-781.

• "Fiscal Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 107, n. 4, 1992, p. 1243-1260.

Articles in non-refereed journals

• "Interpréter correctement l'évolution de la part salariale", Commentaire, March 2004.

• "Le déclin économique de la France", Commentaire, December 2003.

Books

• The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism, Princeton University Press, 2011. ISBN:9780691128177.

• Innovation and Inequality: How does Technical Progress Affect Workers?, Princeton University Press, 2008.

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• The Political Economy of Labour Market Institutions, Oxford University Press, 2000.

• Dual Labor Markets. A Macroeconomic Perspective, MIT Press, 1996.

Contributions to books

• "Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform", in Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe, European Summer Institute and CEPR, September 2006.

• "Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990's? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents", in Labor Markets and Institutions, Central Bank of Chile, Santiago, 2005, p. 281-300.

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• "Flexibility vs Rigidity: Does Spain Have the Worst of Both Words?", in Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, chapter 3, MIT Press, November 2004, p. 101-122.

• "L'impact de la globalisation sur les pays pauvres", in Globalitzacions: Annals de l'Universitat d'Estiu d'Andorra, vol. XIX, 2003, p. 71-90.
• "Progrès technique et inégalité", in Egalité et Inégalités, Odile Jacob, 2003, p. 179-200.
• "Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform", in Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Policy, series International Economic Association, Palgrave MacMillan, 2003.

• "On the Political Economy of Labor Market Flexibility", in NBER Macroeconomics Annual, The MIT Press, 1993, p. 151-195.

Articles in the Press

• "Comment réduire les dépenses de l'Etat ?", Liaisons sociales, January 2013.

• "Débat : faut-il baisser les salaires des fonctionnaires en France", Liaisons sociales, December 2011.

• "La science économique : une discipline intellectuelle " modeste "", Problèmes économiques, La documentation française, November 9, 2011.

• "Difficile de dépasser les 2% de croissance", La Dépêche du Midi, February 16, 2011.

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• "Le Nobel d'économie 2010 aux pères de Pôle emploi", La Tribune, October 21, 2010.

• "Taxe carbone: l'Etat ne devrait-il pas subventionner la recherche verte?", La Tribune, March 10, 2010.

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• "Quels sacrifices pour sauver l'essentiel: réduire les dépenses publiques", Le Nouvel Economiste, February 4, 2010.

• "Justes choix à Francfort", L'Expansion, n. 734, October 2008.

• "Comment aller vers la flexicurité", Les Echos, June 2, 2008.

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• "Bien loin de Lisbonne", L'Expansion, n. 724, November 2007.

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• "Il faut maintenir les peu qualifiés dans l'assistanat", Liaisons sociales, November 2007.

• "Le RSA", L'Express, July 2005.

• "Tant pis pour les chômeurs", L'Expansion, n. 696, April 2005.

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• "OGM : Bon pour la croissance", L'Expansion, n. 669, November 2002.

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• "L'Etat pénitence", L'Expansion, n. 656, November 2001.

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Reports

• Immigration, qualifications et marché du travail, n. 34, La Documentation Française, Conseil d'Analyse Economique, Paris, June 30, 2009.

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• Third Annual Report of the CES-Ifo European Economic Advisory Group, February 2004.

  (with Lars Calmfors, Giancarlo Corsetti, John Flemming, Seppo Honkapohja, Willi Liebfritz, H. W. Sinn and Xavier Vives)

• Second Annual Report of the CES-Ifo European Economic Advisory Group, February 2003.

  (with Lars Calmfors, Giancarlo Corsetti, John Flemming, Seppo Honkapohja, Willi Liebfritz, H. W. Sinn and Xavier Vives)

Presentations

Interviews

• "Renflouer la Grèce nuira à la crédibilité de la zone euro", Débat&Co, March 24, 2010.

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Participations

Articles in the Press

• "Qui a profité des années Sarkozy : interview Gilles Saint-Paul", L'Expansion, April 2012.

  Participants: Gilles Saint-Paul.

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Interviews

• "La France menacée de récession : faut-il avoir peur ?", La Dépêche du Midi, August 9, 2012.

  Participants: Gilles Saint-Paul.

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• "Quel modèle économique pour la France? : interview Gilles Saint-Paul", debateco.fr, April 16, 2012.

  Participants: Gilles Saint-Paul.

• "Les heures sup retardent-elles la création d'emplois? Le point de vue de Gilles Saint-Paul", Liaisons sociales, April 2011.

  Participants: Gilles Saint-Paul.

• "Les marchés sont un facteur indispensable de discipline budgétaire; le point de vue de Gilles Saint-Paul", www.lexpansion.com, March 16, 2011.

  Participants: Gilles Saint-Paul.