Research by theme
Disinformation
NEW "Curtailing False News, Amplifying truth" (with S. Guriev, T. Marquis and K. Zhuravskaya) [link] Revise & Resubmit Econometrica
"Checking and sharing Alt-facts on social networks" (with K. Zhuravskaya and S. Guriev) [link] American Economic Journal: Policy (2021)
"Fake news, fact-checking and information in times of post-truth politics" (with O. Barrera, S. Guriev and E. Zhuravskaya) Journal of Public Economics (2020) [pdf]
Economics of innovation and science
"From public labs to private firms: magnitude and channels of R&D spillovers" (with A. Bergeaud, A. Guillouzouic Le Corff and C. Malgouyres) [pdf] Revise & Resubmit Quarterly Journal of Economics
“Peer effects in academic research: Senders and receivers” (with C. Bosquet, PP. Combes and T. Mayer) [pdf] Economic Journal (2022)
"Stimulating peer effects: evidence from a cluster policy" (with N. Carayol and M. Lanoe) [link] accepted Review of Economics and Statistics
"Regulation with experimentation: ex ante approval, ex post experimentation and withdrawal" (with M. Losetto and M. Ottaviani) [link] Management Science (2021)
"Waiting for my neighbors" (with S. Gordon and P. Murto) Rand Journal of Economics [pdf] (2021)
"Research and the approval process: the organization of persuasion" (with M. Ottaviani) American Economic Review (2019)
"Investing to cooperate: theory and evidence", (with J.P Benoit and R. Galbiati) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations (2017)
“Keeping secrets: the economics of access deterrence” (with F. Ruiz-Alisdea), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, (2016)
“Inefficiencies in technology transfer: theory and empirics” (with M.L. Allain and M. Kyle), Management Science, (2015)
“Waiting to imitate: on the dynamic pricing of knowledge” with C. Ponce, Journal of Political Economy, (2011)
“Disclosure of research results: the cost of proving your honesty”, Economic Journal, (2009)
“Runner-up patents: is monopoly inevitable?”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, (2010)
Laws and Norms
“When in Rome...on local norms and sentencing decisions” (with D. Abrams, R. Galbiati and A. Philippe) [pdf] Journal of European Economic Association (2021)
"How laws affect the perception of norms: empirical evidence from the lockdown (with R. Galbiati, N. Jacquemet and M. Lobeck) [link] Plos One (2021)
"Learning, spillovers and persistence: institutions and the dyamics of cooperation" (with R. Galbiati and N. Jacquemet) [pdf]
"Voting and contributing when the group is watching" (with C. Louis-Sidois) American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. (2020) [pdf]
"Dynamic effects of enforcement on cooperation" (with R. Galbiati and N. Jacquemet) Proceedings of National Academy of Science (2018)
Public sector
"The dynamic consequences of state building: evidence from the French revolution" (with C. Chambru and B. Marx) [pdf] [appendix] Conditionally accepted American Economic Review
"Local public goods and the distribution of economic activity" (with A. Guillouzouic and J. Monras) [link]
Other
"Gender promotion gaps: career aspirations and workplace discrimination" (with V. Cunat and G. Azmat) [pdf] accepted Management Science
"Electoral sentencing cycles" (with D. Abrams, R. Galbiati and A. Philippe) [pdf] Journal of Law, Economics and Organizations (2022)
"Measuring image concerns" (with J. Sonntag) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizations (2019)
“Voter turnout and fiscal policy” (with R. Godefroy), European Economic Review (2016)
“The informational role of supermajorities”, Journal of Public Economics, (2008)
“Distributional and efficiency impacts of gasoline taxes: an econometrically based multi-market study”, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, (2005)