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 positions

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining", IDEI Working Paper, n. 499, May 2009.

  (with Sylvain Bourjade and Patrick Rey)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 296 Kb) ]

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 392 Kb) ]

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

  (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 166 Kb) ]
• "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)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 147 Kb) ]
• 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

• "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)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 188 Kb) ]

• "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)

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

  (with Colin Rowat)

  [ Full text (PDF file) ]

• "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.

  [ Abstract ]

• "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, 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, 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

• The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Paul Seabright and Juergen von Hagen (eds.), Cambridge University Press, April 2007.

  Edited by Paul Seabright and Jurgen Von Hagen.

• 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.

  [ Website ]

• 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.

• 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

• "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)

• "Market Power in Broadcasting: Where are the Rents?", in The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Paul Seabright and Jurgen von Hagen (eds.), Cambridge University Press, May 2007.

  (with Helen Weeds)

• 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, Bruno Jullien, Patrick Rey and Jean Tirole)

• "The Economics of Tacit Collusion: Implications for Merger Control", in The Political Economy of Antitrust, Vivek Ghosal and Johan Stennek (eds.), 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?, Fabienne Ilzkovitz and Roderick Meiklejohn (eds.), Edward Elgar Pub, March 2006.

  (with Jrissy Motis and Damien Neven)

• "Blood and Bribes: Ethical Restraints to Trade", in Globalization, Culture and the Limits of the Market, S. Cullenberg and P. Pattanaik (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2004.
• "Comments on Sugden and Gambetta", in Perspectives on Imitation, Chater and Hurley (eds.), 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, Martens (eds.), 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, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000.

  (with Wendy Carlin, Steven Fries and Mark Schaffer)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 141 Kb) ]

• "Is Cooperation Habit-Forming?", in The Environment and Emerging, P. Dasgupta and K-G Mäler (eds.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997.
• "Transferability of Collective Property Rights: does trade destroy trust?", in Property Rights, Incentives and Welfare, Roemer (eds.), Macmillan, London, 1997.

• "Pluralism and the Standard of Living", in The Quality of Life, M. Nussbaum and A. Sen (eds.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.

IDEI Reports

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

  (with Jean-Charles Rochet)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 372 Kb) ]

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

  (with Marc Ivaldi)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 714 Kb) ]

Articles in the Press

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 21 Kb) ]

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

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

• "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.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 17 Kb) ]

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 127 Kb) ]

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 165 Kb) ]

• "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.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 277 Kb) ]

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 30 Kb) ]

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

  [ Full text (PDF file, 34 Kb) ]

Editions

Books

• The Economic Regulation of Broadcasting Markets, Paul Seabright and Juergen von Hagen (eds.), Cambridge University Press, April 2007.

  Edited by Paul Seabright and Jurgen Von Hagen.

Recent Presentations

Presentations in refereed conferences

• "Do Women Prefer Longer Conversations? Evidence of Communication Preferences from Commercial and Private Telephone Use", Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Etats Unis, July 30, 2009.

• "Keynote Address", 9th Annual Conference on International Society for Lysosomal Storage Diseases, April 29, 2009.