About Me

I teach Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics and have lived in the centre of the city of Toulouse in France since 2000. I am Director (since September 2012) of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and a member of the Institut d’Economie Industrielle.

I did undergraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Oxford, where I was a Fellow of All Souls College, then taught at the University of Cambridge where I was a Fellow of Churchill College. I have also held part-time teaching positions at the College of Europe in Bruges and at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

My current research lies in three areas of microeconomics: industrial organization and competition policy; the economics of networks and the digital society; and behavioral economics (especially the integration of evolutionary biology and anthropology with an understanding of the development of economic institutions in the very long run).

I am a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, a Council Member of the European Economic Association, and a member of the Scientific Council of the think-tank BRUEGEL. I am a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at DG-Competition of the European Commission. Since 2005 I have been an almost annual visitor at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

My literary agent is Catherine Clarke at Felicity Bryan in Oxford.

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