I am an engineer and a game theorist by training, and a social scientist by taste. I guess that's what made me an economist by profession. Over the recent years, I've cultivated a research agenda integrating theory, data and fieldwork, with a specific focus on medium-sized companies. This complements my longstanding research interests in game theory and information economics, industrial organization, regulation, and environmental economics.

Long CV

Publications

Journal articles

• Should They Compete or Should They Cooperate? A Perspective From Agency Theory, with David Martimort and Nicolas Roux, Journal of Economic Literature, 62(4): 1589–1646, 2024. 

• Information, Competition and Regulation, Regards croisés sur l'économie, 25(2): 220-230, 2019. [article]

• Energy Performance Certificates and Investments in Building Energy Efficiency: a Theoretical Analysis, with Matthieu Glachant and Paul-Hervé Tamokoue Kamga, Energy Economics, 84(S1): art. 104604, 2019. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.104604]

• Contract Theory in the Spotlights: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, 2016 Nobel Prize Winners, with David Martimort. Revue d'Economie Politique , 2018. [article][pdf]

• Incentives for Quality in Friendly and Hostile Informational Environments, with Matthieu Glachant and Gabrielle Moineville.   American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 9(1): 242-274, 2017. [penultimate WP][doi:10.1257/mic.20150119]

• Rémunération des dirigeants et risque de fraude d'entreprise, with Thierry Lafay and Constance Monnier. Revue Economique 64(3), 457-467, 2013. [article]

• Correlation and Relative Performance Evaluation. Journal of Economic Theory, 147 (1), 93-117, 2012. [penultimate WP][doi:10.1016/j.jet.2011.11.016]

• Negotiating a Voluntary Agreement when Firms Self-regulate, with Matthieu Glachant. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 62 (1), 41-52, 2011. [penultimate WP][doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2011.03.002]

• Product Flexibility and Price Competition in Hotelling’s duopoly, with Thierry Lafay. Mathematical Social Sciences, 60 (1), 61-68, 2010. [doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2010.03.006]

• The Organization of Extended Producer Responsibility in Waste Policy with Product Differentiation, with Matthieu Glachant. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 59 (1), 57-66, 2010. [doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2009.06.002]

• La responsabilité sociale de l'entreprise et les accords volontaires sont-ils complémentaires? with Matthieu Glachant. Economie et Prévision, n°190-191, 95-105, 2009.  [article]

• Bayesian Improvement of the Phantom Voters Rule: An example of Dichotomic Communication. Mathematical Social Sciences, 55 (1), 1-13, 2008.  [doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2007.05.006]

• Informed Principal and Countervailing Incentives. Economics Letters, 94 (2), 240-244, 2007.  [doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.039]

• Concurrence en catalogue dans le duopole d'Hotelling, with Thierry Lafay. Revue Economique, 57 (3), 573-581, 2006.  [article]

Book chapters

• Voluntary Approaches in the Policy Cycle, with Matthieu Glachant and Gabrielle Moineville.  in Corporate Social Responsibility: from Compliance to Opportunity?, ed. J-P Ponssard & P. Crifo, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris 2010.

Working papers and mimeos (drafts available upon request)

• Collective Quality, with Wanda Mimra and Angelo Zago. [pdf] [pres]

• Game of Frauds, with Thierry Lafay.

• Endogenous Correlation and Moral Hazard, with René Kirkegaard.

• Name, Blame and Fame : On the Communication Strategies of Non-Governmental Organizations, with Mathieu Couttenier, Matthieu Glachant and Sophie Hatte [pdf]

• Keep calm and carry on: A theory of governmental crisis communication, with Romain Bizet.

• Regulating Collective Reputation Markets [pdf] [pres] (replaces "Collective Reputation and Market Structure: Regulating the Quality vs Quantity Trade-Off"). Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Industrial Economics.

• The Incentive Value of Deadlines.

• Labelling Contests with Endogenous Precision, with Béatrice Roussillon and Paul Schweinzer.

• Pesticide Regulation: The Case of French Wine, with Joël Aka and Christophe Deola.

• Controling externalities with asymmetric information: Ferrous Scrap Recycling and the Gold Rush Problem, with Ignace Adant. [pdf]

Media and wide audience (in French)

• Réindustrialisation, Décarbonation, il ne faudrait pas oublier les ETI, with Antoine Prévet, The Conversation, 13/04/2024.

• Les dilemmes de la transparence, with Romain Bizet, Les Echos, 24/04/2020.

• Quel profit derrière le gratuit? Sorbonne Econ Blog, 15/10/2013.

• Les liaisons dangereuses: fraude d'entreprise et rémunération des dirigeants, with Thierry Lafay and Constance Monnier, Les Echos, 09/07/2013.

• La théorie des incitations: perspectives et défis. PSE, Entretien croisé avec David Martimort, 19/04/2013.

• Comment le Prix Nobel d'économie peut vous aider à trouver la femme idéale... with Eduardo Perez-Richet, Latribune.fr, 17/12/2012.