Published papers

  • “Patent Pool Formation and Scope of Patents,” Economic Inquiry (published online). PDF. A previous version of the paper was untitled “Pool of Patents and Follow-up Innovations.”
  • “Are Intellectual Property Rights Detrimental to Innovation?” with Claude Crampes, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp 249-268, 2009. PDF
  • “Contributory Infringement Rule and Patents” (with Philippe Marcoul), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70, pp 296–310, 2009. PDF
  • “Agricultural Production Clubs: Viability and Welfare Implications” (with B. Babcock) Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization: Vol. 6 : Iss. 1, Article 10, 2008. Available at: http://www.bepress.com/jafio/vol6/iss1/art10. PDF
  • “Incentives to Reduce Crop Trait Durability” (with Stefan Ambec and Stéphane Lemarié), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(2), pp 379-391, 2008. PDF
  • “Technology Licensing to a Rival” (with Caroline Boivin), Economics Bulletin, vol. 12, 14, pp 1-8, 2005. PDF
  • “Using patents to mislead rivals,” Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 38, 2, pp 520-545, 2005. PDF
  • “Are Patents Strategic Barriers to Entry?,” Journal of Economics and Business, vol. 56, 5, pages 349-361, 2004. PDF
  • “Litigation and Settlement in Patent Infringement Cases” (with Claude Crampes), RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 33, 4, 2002. PDF
  • “Information Disclosure in the Renewal of Patents” (with Claude Crampes), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 49/50, 1998. PDF
                                Book Chapters
  • “The Economics of Patents: An Overview” (with GianCarlo Moschini) in “Intellectual Property Rights and Patenting in Animal Breeding and Genetics,” edited by Scott Newman and Max Rothschild, 2002. PDF
  • “Information Disclosure in the Renewal of Patents” (with Claude Crampes). Reprinted in The Economics and Econometrics of Innovation, ed. Encaoua, Hall, Laisney, Mairesse, Kluwer academic publishers, 2000. PDF


    Papers under review, submitted or working papers

  • “Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information by Patent Applicants,” (with Philippe Marcoul), ( Revise and Resubmit at International Journal of Industrial Organization) . PDF
  • “Monetary and Implicit Incentives of Patent Examiners” (with Philippe Marcoul), May 2009. PDF.
  • “Determinants of U.S. Patent Examiners Mobility” (with Stéphanie Lluis), 2010.
  • “Spatial Efficiency of Genetically Modified and Organic Crops” (with Stefan Ambec and Philippe Marcoul), 2011. PDF
  • “Subjective Performance of Patent Examiners and Implicit Contracts” (with Philippe Marcoul), 2010

  • “The Economics of Geographical Indications : Welfare Implications” (with Sven Anders and Ramona Teuber), 2011 PDF

  • “A Survey of the Economics of Patent Systems and Procedures,” (with Andrew Eckert), 2011, PDF

  • “The Patent Protection,” (in French) a survey of the literature on patents, 2002. PDF
 
   Work in Progress


Career Concerns and Mobility of Patent Examiners

  • “Mobility and Career Concerns of patent examiners: an analysis of U.S. data” (with Stéphanie Lluis)
  • “Analysis of European Patent Examiners' Behavior” (with Katrin Cremers)

IPRs and Patents

  • “Protection of Innovation and Promoting Imitation” (with Claude Crampes)


Agricultural Economics

  • “Optimal Firm Choice and Welfare Effects of Geographical Indications and Trademark Systems,” (with Sven Anders and Ramona Teuber)