IDEI Researcher
Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Research Fellow at CEPR

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Research Interests

Microeconomic theory
Theory of organisation
Industrial and competition policy
Development economics
Transition economics

Professional experiences

Current position

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Remuneration in Top Executive Jobs", IDEI Working Paper, n. 689, October 2011.

  (with Marie Lalanne)

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• "Smiling is a Costly Signal of Cooperation Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from a Trust Game", IDEI Working Paper, n. 669, April 2011.

  (with Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemaï, Astrid Hopfensitz and Manfred Milinski)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 261 Kb) ]
• "Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation", IDEI Working Paper, n. 670, April 2011.

  (with Pierre Dubois, Olivier de Mouzon and Fiona Scott Morton)

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• "Professional Network and Career Coevolution", IDEI Working Paper, n. 688, 2011.

  (with Nicoletta Berardi)

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• "Property Rights, Warfare and the Neolithic Transition", IDEI Working Paper, n. 654, November 2010.

  (with Robert Rowthorn)

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• "Warfare and the Multiple Adoption of Agriculture After the Last Ice Age", IDEI Working Paper, n. 522, April 2008.

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• "Infrastructure, Competition and Innovation : New Survey Evidence from Transition", IDEI Working Paper, n. 243, 2003.

  (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer)

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• "The Economics of Passenger Rail Transport: A Survey", IDEI Working Paper, n. 163, 2003.

  (with Marc Ivaldi)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 714 Kb) ]
• "The Economics of Tacit Collusion", IDEI Working Paper, n. 186, Final Report for DG Competition, European Commission, 2003.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey 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, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 537 Kb) ]

• "The Activities of a Monopoly Firm in Adjacent Competitive Markets: Economic Consequences and Implications for Competition Policy", IDEI Working Paper, n. 132, 2001, revised 2002.

  (with Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 141 Kb) | Abstract (PDF file, 8 Kb) ]

Mimeos

• Migration and the Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases, August 2005.

  (with Alice Mesnard)

• The Importance of Competition in Developing Countries for Productivity and Innovation.

  (with Wendy Carlin)

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• Competition and the Spread of Knowledge in Economic Growth.

  (with Jayasri Dutta)
• Theft and Taxes in a Perfect Social Contract.

  (with Jayasri Dutta)
• Street Credibility for Sale : a Theory of Branding.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 2 Mb) ]

Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "Soviet power plus electrification: What is the long-run legacy of communism?", Explorations in Economic History, vol. 50, n. 1, Elsevier, July 2012, p. 116-147. doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2012.07.003.

  (with Wendy Carlin (University College London) and Mark Schaffer (Heriot-Watt University))

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• "Do Women have longer Conversations? Telephone Evidence of Gendered Communication Strategies", Journal of Economic Psychology, vol. 32, n. 3, June 2011, p. 348-356. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2010.12.008.

  (with Guido Friebel)
• "The Three Musketeers: What Do We Still Need to Know About our Passage through Prehistory?", "Biological Theory", vol. 6, n. 2, June 2011, p. 127-131. doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0017-7.

• "Commentary "Honest Smiles as a Costly Signal in Social Exchange"", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33, December 2010, p. 417-433. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10001287.

  (with Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemaï, Astrid Hopfensitz and Manfred Milinski)

• "Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining", The Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 57, n. 3, September 2009, p. 372-409. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6451.2009.00383.x.

  (with Sylvain Bourjade and Patrick Rey)

• "Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures under Asymmetric Information about Infection Risk", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, n. 7-8, August 2009, p. 931-938. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.05.001.

  (with Alice Mesnard)

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• "Continuous Preferences and Discontinuous Choices : How Altruists Respond to Incentives", The B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions), vol. 9, n. 1, April 2009.

  [ Abstract ]

• "Market Entry, Privatisation and Bank Performance in Transition", The Economics of Transition, vol. 14, n. 4, October 2006, p. 579-610. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0351.2006.00271.x.

  (with Steven Fries, Damien Neven and Anita Taci)

  [ Abstract ]

• "Wasteful Public Spending and State Aid Control", Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 4, n. 2-3, May 2006, p. 513-522.

  (with Mathias Dewatripont)

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 130 Kb) ]

• "Intermediation by Aid Agencies", Journal of Development Economics, vol. 79, n. 2, April 2006, p. 469-491.

  (with Colin Rowat)

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• "The Evolution of Fairness Norms: An Essay on Ken Binmore's Natural Justice", Politics, Philosophy & Economics, vol. 5, n. 1, February 2006, p. 33-50.

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• "European and National Champions: Burden or Blessing?", CES-Ifo Bulletin, vol. 6, n. 2, Summer, p. 52-55.

• "A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Countries on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth", Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, vol. 3, n. 1, 2004, p. 1-42.

  (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer)

• "Competition, Privatisation and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Airline Industry", The Economic Journal, vol. 111, n. 473, July 2001.

  (with Charles Ng)

• "Understanding 'the essential fact about capitalism': markets, competition and creative destruction", National Institute Economic Review, January 2001.

  (with Wendy Carlin and Jonathan Haskel)

• "Skill versus Judgment and the Architecture of Organisations", European Economic Review, Elsevier, 2000.

• "The Effects and Policy Implications of State Aids to Industry: an Economic Analysis", Economic Policy, 1999.

  (with Timothy Besley)

• "Accountability and Decentralization in Government: an Incomplete Contracts Model", European Economic Review, Elsevier, 1996.

• "European Industrial Policy: the Airbus Case", Economic Policy, n. 21, 1995.

  (with Damien Neven)

• "Managing Local Commons: Theoretical Issues in Incentive Design", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993.

• "Quality of Livestock Assets Under Selective Credit Schemes: Evidence from South Indian Data", Journal of Development Economics, 1991.

• "Deregulating European Airlines", Economic Policy, 1989.

  (with Francis Mcgowan)
• "Social Choice and Social Theories", Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1989.

• "The Pursuit of Unhappiness", Ethics, 1988.

Books

• Sexonomics, Editions Alma, October 2012. ISBN:978-2-36279-042-3.

  [ Website | Web Page ]

• The War of the Sexes : How Conflict and Cooperation Have Shaped Men and Women from Prehistory to the Present, Princeton University Press, May 2012. ISBN:978-0691133010.

  [ Website | Web Page ]

• The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (2nd edition), Princeton University Press, May 2010. ISBN:978-1-4008-3478-5.

  [ Website | Video of the Conference ]

• In Compagnia Degli Estranei. Una Storia Naturale Della Vita Economica, Italian Edition, Codice Edizioni, Torino, 2005.

• The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, Princeton University Press, May 2004.

• Integration and the Regions of Europe: How the Right Policies can Prevent Polarisation, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, 2000.

  (with Pontus Brunerhjelm, Riccardo Faini, Victor Norman and Frances Ruane)
• The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN:978-0521795425.

  Edited by Paul Seabright.

• Trawling for Minnows: European Competition Policy and Agreements between Firms, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, 1998.

  (with Damien Neven and Pénélope Papandropoulos)

• Competition Policy and the Transformation of Central Europe, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, August 1996.

  (with John Fingleton, Eleanor Fox and Damien Neven)

• Merger in Daylight: the Economics and Politics of European Merger Control, Center for Economic Policy Research, London, 1993.

  (with Damien Neven and Robin Nuttall)

Contributions to books

• "Darwin and Human Society", in Darwin, series Darwin College Lectures, Cambridge University Press, 2010, p. 78-103.

• "The ups and downs of the doctrine of collective dominance: sing game theory for merger policy (part 3)", in Cases in European Competition Policy: The Economic Analysis, chapter 14, Cambridge University Press, August 2009.

  (with Eliana Garces-Tolon and Damien Neven)

• "Bring Me Sunshine: Which Parts of the Business Climate Should Public Policy Try to Fix?", in Proceedings of the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2008, Washington D.C.: World Bank, 2009.

  (with Wendy Carlin)

• "Competition and Market Power in Broadcasting: Where are the Rents?", in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets: Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy, Cambridge University Press, April 2007, p. 47-80.

  (with Helen Weeds)

• "The Economics of Tacit Collusion in Merger Analysis", in The Political Economy of Antitrust, vol. 282, chapter 8, Elsevier Science, March 2007.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

• "The Economics of Tacit Collusion: Implications for Merger Control", in The Political Economy of Antitrust, vol. 282, Elsevier Science, 2007, p. 217-240.

  (with Marc Ivaldi, Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

• "Efficiency in Merger Control", in European Merger Control: Do we need an Efficiency Defence?, Edward Elgar Publishing, March 2006.

  (with Jrissy Motis and Damien Neven)

• "Blood and Bribes: Ethical Restraints to Trade", in Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• "Comments on Sugden and Gambetta", in Perspectives on Imitation, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004.

• "Conflicts of Objectives and Task Allocation in Aid Agencies: general issues and applications to the European Union", in The Institutional Economics of Foreign Aid, Cambridge University Press, April 2002.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 132 Kb) ]

• "Barter and Non-Monetary Transactions in Transition Economies: Evidence from a Cross-Country Survey", in The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies, chapter 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, p. 93-113.

  (with Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries and Mark Schaffer)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 141 Kb) ]

• "Transferability of Collective Property Rights: does trade destroy trust?", in Property Relations, Incentives and Welfare, Palgrave Macmillan, London, March 1997.

• "Is Cooperation Habit-Forming?", in The Environment and Emerging Development Issues, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997.

• "Pluralism and the Standard of Living", in The Quality of Life, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993, p. 393-409.

Articles in the Press

• "Sommes-nous arrivés au bout de l'innovation technologique ?", Le Monde, January 28, 2013.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "Peut-on penser à la fois réduction des coûts et lien social ?", Le Monde, November 13, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "Révolution technologique à l'université", Le Monde, September 18, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "Le juge Posner contre le brevet "imbécile"", Le Monde, June 20, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "The euro marriage can be saved", The Guardian, May 20, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Web Page ]

• "Why Gender DOES Matter", Huffington Post, May 7, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Web Page ]

• "Il n'y a pas d'âge pour le partage", Le Monde, April 25, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "How to defend universities?", The Times, March 7, 2012.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "Facebook sera-t-il le Cupidon de la Bourse ?", Le Monde, February 21, 2012.

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• "La rigueur, potion amère et inefficace", Le Monde, December 12, 2011.

  [ Full text (PDF file) | Website ]

• "Elections: quand les minorités l'emportent", L'Expansion, n. 769, December 2011.

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• "Chers créanciers, veuillez attacher vos ceintures !", Le Monde, October 10, 2011.

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• "Faut-il légaliser la corruption?", Le Monde, May 24, 2011.

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• "C'est la faute des agences de notation", Le Monde, March 22, 2011.

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• "Un code d'éthique à l'intention des économistes", Le Monde, January 24, 2011.

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• "The Imaginot Line", Foreign Policy, January 2011.

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• "Etats-Unis - Chine: l'intoxiqué et le dealer", Le Monde, November 16, 2010.

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• "Rentrée littéraire: comment choisir le bon roman?", Le Monde, September 14, 2010.

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• "Financial History's False Lessons", Project Syndicate: a world of ideas, August 2010.

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• "Ce sont les banques que l'on a sauvées, pas la Grèce", Le Monde, May 18, 2010.

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• "La démocratie de l'ascenseur", www.lemonde.fr, March 23, 2010.

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• "Faut-il une taxe carbone?", La Tribune, March 1, 2010.

• "La "carte musique" contre l'innovation", Le Monde, January 26, 2010.

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• "Eco-hypocrisie: démonstration par Hollywood", Le Monde, Dossiers & Documents, January 2010.

• "Petits gestes écologiques entre amis", Le Monde, December 15, 2009.

• "Why we walk the dog: Review in Times Literary Supplement of books by Geoffrey Miller, Tyler Cowen and Daniel Goleman", The Times, November 13, 2009.

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• "Bonus: il faut taxer l'impatience", Le Monde, September 15, 2009.

• "Le plan santé d'Obama, un cas d'école", Le Monde, September 8, 2009.

• "Affreuse nationalisation", Le Monde, April 28, 2009.

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• "Darwin contre le darwinisme", Le Monde, February 17, 2009.

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• "Après les banques, les Etats bientôt à la peine", Le Monde, January 20, 2009.

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• "Darwin and the terrible games of Homo Sapiens", Financial Times, January 2, 2009.

• "Relance: les lobbies à la manoeuvre", Le Monde, December 16, 2008.

• "Règlements de comptes?", Le Monde, November 4, 2008.

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• "Nationalisations à durée déterminée", Le Monde, October 14, 2008.

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• "Le marché immobilier a besoin d'un plafond", Le Monde, September 16, 2008.

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• "Tout marche à la confiance", L'Expansion, n. 690, October 2004.

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• "Au bal des mondialistes hypocrites", L'Expansion, n. 665, July 2002.

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Reports

• Bailing out the Banks: Reconciling Stability and Competition, CEPR, 2010. ISBN:978-1-907142-03-1.

  (with Diane Coyle, Mathias Dewatripont, Xavier Freixas and Beck Thorsten)

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• "The Allocation of Contracts for Infrastructure Operation under Uncertainty", Rapport IDEI, n. 11, September 2005.

  (with Jean-Charles Rochet)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 372 Kb) ]

• "The Economics of Passenger Rail Transport: A Survey", Rapport IDEI, n. 1, January 2003.

  (with Marc Ivaldi)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 714 Kb) ]

Editions

Books

• The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets: Evolving Technology and Challenges for Policy, Cambridge University Press, April 2007. ISBN:9780521696340. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511611124.

  Edited by Paul Seabright and Jurgen Von Hagen.

• The Vanishing Rouble: Barter Networks and Non-Monetary Transactions in Post-Soviet Societies, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN:978-0521795425.

  Edited by Paul Seabright.

Participations

Articles in the Press

• "Special Report - Crisis forces "dismal science" to get real", Reuters, July 3, 2012.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

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Radio programmes

• "Sexe et économie : étranges échanges : entretien avec Paul SEABRIGHT", Radio RTBR.be: Parlez-moi d'amour, January 12, 2013.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Podcast ]

• "Et si la crise européenne était d’abord et avant tout une crise de couple ?", France Culture: Les carnets de l'économie, December 20, 2012.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Website ]

• "Les inégalités économiques entre les sexes sont-elles une fatalité ?", France Culture: Les carnets de l'économie, December 19, 2012.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Website ]

• "Comment les hommes et les femmes cultivent leurs réseaux dans les entreprises", France Culture: Les carnets de l'économie, December 18, 2012.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Website ]

• "Inégalités économiques entre les hommes et les femmes, sommes-nous restés des primates ?", France Culture: Les carnets de l'économie, December 17, 2012.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Website ]

Interviews

• "Gambling for resurection : interview Emmanuelle Auriol and Paul Seabright", Le Nouvel Economiste, September 13, 2012.

  Participants: Emmanuelle Auriol and Paul Seabright.

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• "Le Club Éco spécial Sommet du Grand Sud : video interview with Paul Seabright", Objectif News, November 15, 2011.

  Participants: Paul Seabright.

  [ Video ]