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This is a list of research articles.

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New Research

Find below a list of the research I am currently completing or that has been recently published.

“Migration and the Equilibrium Prevalence of Infectious Diseases”, working paper with Alice Mesnard, available here.

“How Does Ranking Affect User Choice in Online Search?”, working paper with Mark Glick, Greg Richards and Margarita Sapozhnikov, available here.

“Cooperation Against Theft: A Test of Incentives for Water Management in Tunisia” (with Wided Mattoussi), forthcoming in American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2013. Available here.

Scott Morton, Fiona and Seabright, Paul, 2013 “Research into biomarkers: how does drug procurement affect the design of clinical trials?” Health Management, Policy and Innovation 1(3): 1-15. Available here.

Professional Networks and their Coevolution with Executives’ Careers: Evidence from Europe and the US (with Nicoletta Berardi). Working paper, available here. Figure 1 above, drawn from that paper, shows how executives with larger networks are more likely to move between firms.

“Soviet Power Plus Electrification: what is the long-run legacy of communism?” (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer). Available here, published in Explorations in Economic History 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2012.07.003

“The Three Musketeers: What Do We Still Need to Know About our Passage through Prehistory?”, Biological Theory, 2012, doi: 10.1007/s13752-012-0017-7 Available at SpringerLink OR [Download PDF of proof copy] [ Download PDF of related article by Sterelny ]

“The Birth of Hierarchy”, in Calcott et al (2013 forthcoming): Cooperation and its Evolution, MIT Press. PDF available here.

 

“The Old Boy Network: Gender Differences in the Impact of Social Networks on Remuneration in Top Executive Jobs”, IDEI Working Paper, no. 689, octobre 2011 (with Marie Lalanne), revised September 2012.

 

 

 

 

 

Published Journal Articles – full list

  • “Migration and the equilibrium prevalence of infectious diseases” (with Alice Mesnard), Journal of Demographic Economics XX (2016): 1-26, doi: 10.1017/dem.2016.03
  • “Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation” (with Pierre Dubois, Olivier de Mouzon and Fiona Scott Morton), The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 46, n. 4, Winter 2015, pp. 844–871.
  • “The Schubert Effect: When Flourishing Businesses Crowd Out Human Capital” (with Guido Friebel and Jibirila Leinyuy), World Development, vol. 68, April 2015, pp. 124–135.
  • “A Model of Smiling as a Costly Signal of Cooperation Opportunities” (with Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemai, Astrid Hopfensitz and Manfred Milinski), Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology (2015), doi:10.1007/s40750-015-0026-4
  • “Honest signalling in trust interactions: smiles rated as genuine induce trust and signal higher earnings opportunities” (with Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemai, Astrid Hopfensitz and Manfred Milinski), Evolution and Human Behavior (2014), doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.08.001 Available here.
  • “How Does Ranking Affect User Choice in Online Search?” (with Mark Glick, Greg Richards and Margarita Sapozhnikov), Review of Industrial Organization (2014) doi: 10.1007/s11151-014-9435-y Available here.
  • “Cooperation Against Theft: A Test of Incentives for Water Management in Tunisia” (with Wided Mattoussi), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 2014 96: 124-153 Available here.
  • “Research into biomarkers: how does drug procurement affect the design of clinical trials?” (with Fiona Scott Morton) Health Management, Policy and Innovation 1(3): 1-15. Available here.
  • “Soviet Power Plus Electrification: what is the long-run legacy of communism?” (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer). Available here, published in Explorations in Economic History 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2012.07.003
  • “The Three Musketeers: What Do We Still Need to Know About our Passage through Prehistory?”, Biological Theory, 2012, doi: 10.1007/s13752-012-0017-7 Available at SpringerLink OR [Download PDF of proof copy] [Download PDF of related article by Sterelny]
  • “Do Women have longer Conversations? Telephone Evidence of Gendered Communication Strategies”, Journal of Economic Psychology, December 2010. doi:10.1016/j.joep.2010.12.008. (with Guido Friebel)  [ Download PDF ]
  • “Commentary “Honest Smiles as a Costly Signal in Social Exchange”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33, December 2010, pp. 439. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10001287. (with Samuele Centorrino, Elodie Djemai, Astrid Hopfensitz and Manfred Milinski) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Private Antitrust Enforcement in the Presence of Pre-Trial Bargaining”, Journal of Industrial Economics, vol. 57, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 372-409. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6451.2009.00383.x. (with Sylvain Bourjade and Patrick Rey) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Escaping Epidemics Through Migration? Quarantine Measures under Asymmetric Information about Infection Risk”, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 93, nos. 7-8, August 2009, pp. 931-938. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.05.001. (with Alice Mesnard) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Continuous Preferences and Discontinuous Choices : How Altruists Respond to Incentives”, The B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (Contributions), vol. 9, no. 1, April 2009. [ Download PDF ]
  • “Market Entry, Privatisation and Bank Performance in Transition”, Economics of Transition, vol. 14, no. 4, October 2006, pp. 579-610. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0351.2006.00271.x. (with Steven Fries, Damien Neven and Anita Taci) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Wasteful Public Spending and State Aid Control”, Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 4, nos. 2-3, May 2006, pp. 513-522. (with Mathias Dewatripont) [ Download PDF, 130 Ko) ]
  • “Intermediation by Aid Agencies”, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 79, no. 2, April 2006, pp. 469-491. (with Colin Rowat) [ Download PDF ]
  • “The Evolution of Fairness Norms: An Essay on Ken Binmore’s Natural Justice”, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, vol. 5, no. 1, February 2006, pp. 33-50. [ View abstract ] [ Download PDF ]
  • “European and National Champions: Burden or Blessing?”, CES-Ifo Bulletin, vol. 6, no. 2, Summer, pp. 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, no. 1, 2004, pp. 1-42. (with Wendy Carlin and Mark Schaffer) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Competition, Privatisation and Productive Efficiency: Evidence from the Airline Industry”, The Economic Journal, vol. 111, no. 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) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Accountability and Decentralization in Government: an Incomplete Contracts Model”, European Economic Review, Elsevier, 1996. [ Download PDF ]
  • “European Industrial Policy: the Airbus Case”, Economic Policy, no. 21, 1995. (with Damien Neven) [ Download PDF ]
  • “Managing Local Commons: Theoretical Issues in Incentive Design”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993. [ Download PDF 6.4MB]
  • “Quality of Livestock Assets Under Selective Credit Schemes: Evidence from South Indian Data”, Journal of Development Economics, 1991. [ Download PDF ]
  • “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.
  • “Explaining Cultural Divergence: a Wittgensteinian Paradox”, Journal of Philosophy, 1987, no. 1.
  • “The Effects of Conflict on the Economy of Northern Sri Lanka”, Economic and Political Weekly, 1986, no.2.

Published Book Chapters

 

 

  • “The Birth of Hierarchy”, in Calcott et al. (edited) Cooperation and its Evolution, MIT Press, forthcoming 2013. [ Download pdf ]
  • “The Economics of Trade in Football Broadcasting Rights” (with Josepa Miquel-Florensa), in Gali­, J. & X. Vives (eds): Football Economics: Proceedings of the Armand Caraben Workshop on Sports Economics, Reports of the Public-Private Research Center 4, IESE, University of Navarra, 2011. [ Download PDF 1.1MB ]
  • The Hidden Costs of Political Sponsorship of Industrial Firms”, in Falck, O., C. Gollier & L. Woessman (eds): Industrial Policy for National Champions, CESIfo Seminar Series, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011. [ See the book’s homepage ]
  • Bailing out the banks: Reconciling stability and competition, report to DG-Competition of the European Commission, May 2009 (with Thorsten Beck, Diane Coyle, Xavier Freixas and Mathias Dewatripont), revised and updated version published in February 2010 by Centre for Economic Policy Research. [ Access the report ]

Current Research

To be completed…..

Networks and their influence on the careers of careers of senior executives (with Nicoletta Berardi, Marie Lalanne).

Research initiative on The Digital Society (with Jacques Crémer), details available shortly.

Gender differences in the formation of social networks (several different projects underway, with Anna Dreber-Almenberg, Guido Friebel, Astrid Hopfensitz, Marie Lalanne, Peter Schwardmann, Marie-Clarie Villeval).

A signaling approach to understanding the origins of the statues on Easter Island (with Ricardo Guzman, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert).

 

Ideas for Future Research

Coming soon…..

Collaborators and Co-authors

 

 

The team on our Haiti project (with me in the photo above):

Emmanuelle Auriol

Diego Delissaint

Maleke Fourati

We are very happy that Pepita Miquel-Florensa has now joined the project and look forward to a new group photo with her too.

 

Other co-authors:

Nicoletta Berardi

Tim Besley

Sylvain Bourjade

Samuele Centorrino

Wendy Carlin

Mathias Dewatripont

Elodie Djemai

Pierre Dubois

John Fingleton

Eleanor Fox

Guido Friebel

Ricardo Guzman

Jonathan Haskel

Astrid Hopfensitz

Marie Lalanne

Wided Mattoussi

Alice Mesnard

Pepita Miquel-Florensa

Manfred Milinski

Olivier de Mouzon

Damien Neven

Patrick Rey

Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert

Colin Rowat

Bob Rowthorn

David Salant

Mark Schaffer

Fiona Scott Morton

 

Other research collaborators:

Sam Bowles

Anna Dreber-Almenberg

Hillard Kaplan

Marie-Claire Villeval

 

Conferences

I have organized:

  • The Psychology and Economics of Scarce Attention, Toulouse September 2011

See the conference Website.

Read the conference summary by Diane Coyle: The Invisible Hand meets the Invisible Gorilla.

  • Workshop on the Use of Expert Economic Evidence in Antitrust Cases, Toulouse March 2011

See the conference website.

 

I will attend or have attended:

  • European Economic Association Annual Congress 2012
  • Human Behavior and Evolution Society 2011
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