Publications

• Intangible assets and imperfections in product and labor markets, European Economic Review 186: 105309, June 2026 (with Eric Bartelsman and Alessandro Zona Mattioli).

• Offshoring and labor market power: Comparing Belgian and Dutch firms, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society 65(1): 80-99, January 2026 (with Catherine Fuss and Mark Vancauteren). 

• Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 235: 107036, July 2025 (with Grace McCormack, Daniel Prinz and Sándor Sóvágó). Media: VoxEU Column, IZA World of Labor Commentary, World Bank Blog.

• The impact of trade liberalization on firms’ product and labor market power. Industrial and Corporate Change 34(1): 210-233, January 2025 (with Quint Wiersma). 

• Organized labor, labor market imperfections, and employer wage premia. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 77(3): 396-427,  May 2024 (with Boris Hirsch, Steffen Mueller and Georg Neuschaeffer). 

• Bekijk macht op de arbeids- en productmarkt in samenhang. Economisch Statistische Berichten (ESB) 106(4795S): 71-73, March 2021. 

• Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters. Labour Economics 53: 198-212, August 2018 (with Kozo Kiyota).

• Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from two different econometric models. Labour Economics 52: 18-26, June 2018 (with Jacques Mairesse).

•  Gradual collective wage bargaining. Labour Economics 40: 37-42, June 2016 (with Roland Iwan Luttens).

• Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France. International Journal of Manpower 37(2): 229-252, 2016 (with Rodolfo Lauterbach and Jacques Mairesse).

• Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands. Industrial and Corporate Change  24(5): 875-949, October 2015 (with Eric Bartelsman and Bettina Peters).

• Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands. Journal of Comparative Economics 43(2): 290-322, May 2015 (with Kozo Kiyota and Jacques Mairesse).

• Demand lotteries, abandonment options and the decision to start R&D and process innovation. Management Revue 26(1): 25-51, January 2015 (with Roland Iwan Luttens and Bettina Peters).

• Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections. Journal of Applied Econometrics 28(1): 1-46, January/February 2013 (with Jacques Mairesse).

• Imports as product and labour market discipline. British Journal of Industrial Relations 49(2): 331-361, June 2011 (with Hervé Boulhol and Sara Maioli).

• Interaction between product market and labour market power: Evidence from France, Belgium and Chile. Applied Economics Letters 16(6): 573-577, April 2009 (with José Miguel Benavente and Jacques Mairesse).

• Has international trade affected workers’ bargaining power? Review of World Economics 142(2): 233-266, July 2006 (with Ellen Brock).

• Estimation of price-cost margins and union bargaining power for Belgian manufacturing. International Journal of Industrial Organization 22(10): 1381-1398, December 2004.

• Ownership, firm size and rent sharing in Bulgaria. Labour Economics 11(2): 165-189, April 2004.

• Insider power and wage determination in Bulgaria: An econometric investigation. International Journal of Manpower 24(4): 399-425, 2003.

Working Papers

• Rent sharing under innovation tax breaks, TI Discussion Paper 26-087/III, October 2026 (with Ana Popovici). 

• R&D decisions and productivity growth: Evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands (most recent version; CEPR Discussion Paper 18697), February 2026 (with Michael König, Martin Wörter and Andrin Spescha). 

• Non-compete agreements, tacit knowledge and market imperfections, IZA Discussion Paper 17260, Institute of Labor Economics), September 2025 (with Eric Bartelsman and Alessandro Zona Mattioli). Media: VoxEU Column.

Work in Progress

• Market power and technology in US manufacturing (with Jordi Jaumandreu and Jacques Mairesse), March 2026. 

• The anatomy of profitability (with Daniele Aglio and Eric Bartelsman).

• Mergers and innovation: An exploration of firms’ scope and direction of innovation (with Regi Kusumaatmadja and José Luis Moraga).