IDEI Researcher
Member of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
Director of Research, CNRS (GREMAQ)

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Research Interests

Political Economy
Public Economics
Industrial Organisation

Professional experiences

Current positions

Former positions

Education

Grants and awards

Work in progress

Articles in working paper series

• "Welfare and Pricing of Mail in a Communications Market", IDEI Working Paper, n. 601, April 2, 2010.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

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• "Providing Sustainable Long Term Care: A Looming Challenge", TSE Notes/Notes TSE, n. 3, December 2009.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Education and Social Mobility", CORE DP, n. 23, April 2009.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "A Theory of Political Support for Low Sales Tax Enforcement", CEPR Discussion Paper, n. 7108, January 2009.

  (with Martin Besfamille and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur)

  [ Abstract ]

• "Repeated Electoral Competition over Non-Linear Income Tax Schedules", CEPR Discussion Paper, n. 7054, November 2008.

  (with Georges Casamatta and Helmuth Cremer)

  [ Abstract ]

• "A Welfare and Pricing Analysis of Value Added Taxation in Postal Services", IDEI Working Paper, n. 508, March 2008.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

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• "Habit Formation and Labor Supply", CORE DP, n. 38, 2008.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Taxing Sin Goods and Subsidizing Health Care", CORE DP, n. 31, 2008.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Legal vs Ownership Unbundling in Network Industries", IDEI Working Paper, n. 405, July 2006.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Jacques Crémer)

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• "Does Propitious Selection Explain why Riskier People buy less Insurance?", IDEI Working Paper, n. 399, March 2006.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

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• "Policy-Oriented Parties and the Choice between Social and Private Insurance", IDEI Working Paper, n. 226, 2003.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 223 Kb) ]

Mimeos

• Majority Voting in Multidimensional Policy Spaces: Kramer-Shepsle Versus Stackelberg, January 2010.

  (with Michel Le Breton and Eugenio Peluso)

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• On the (Sequential) Majority Choice of Public Good Size and Location, September 2009.

  (with Michel Le Breton and Eugenio Peluso)

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• The Political Economy of Annuities, 2007.

  (with Helmuth Cremer)
• Organizational Structures for Postal Operators - Some Results on Pricing and Welfare Economic Issues, 2007.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)
• Long Work Hours, Early Retirement and Myopia, 2007.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)
• Travailler moins pour travailler plus longtemps, 2007.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

• An Extended Model of Access Pricing in the Postal Sector: Calibration and Results, June 2004.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez)

Forthcoming

Articles in refereed journals

• "Secondary Issues and Party Politics. An Application to Environmental Policy", Social Choice and Welfare, 2009.

  (with Vincent Anesi)

  [Forthcoming]

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Publications

Articles in refereed journals

• "Party Formation and Minority Ideological Positions", The Economic Journal, vol. 119, n. 540, October 2009, p. 1303-1323. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02285.x.

  (with Vincent Anesi)

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• "On the Value Added Taxation Status of National Postal Operators", The Review of Network Economics, vol. 8, n. 3, September 2009, p. 233-254.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

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• "Forced Saving, Redistribution and Non Linear Social Security Scheme", Southern Economic Journal, vol. 76, n. 1, July 2009, p. 86-98.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Mixed Oligopoly Equilibria when Firm's Objectives are Endogenous", International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 27, n. 3, May 2009, p. 414-423. doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2008.11.003.

  (with John E. Roemer)

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• "Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard, and Propitious Selection", Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 38, n. 1, February 2009.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

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• "Designing a Linear Pension Scheme with Forced Savings and Wage Heterogeneity", International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 15, n. 5, December 2008, p. 547-562.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Price Controls in the Postal Sector: A Welfare Analysis of Alternative Control Structures", The Review of Network Economics, vol. 7, n. 2, June 2008, p. 247-271.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

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• "Political Competition within and between Parties: An Application to Environmental Policy", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92, n. 3, April 2008, p. 532-547.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari)

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• "Costs and Benefits of Vertical Divestiture", Communications & Strategies, n. 68, IDATE, Montpellier, 2007, p. 41-56.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Jacques Crémer)

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• "Energy Taxes in Three Political Economy Models", The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 7, Iss. 1 (Advances), Article 32, 2007, p. 1-27. doi:10.2202/1935-1682.1707.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari)

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• "Voting over the Size and Type of Social Security when some Individuals are Myopic", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 91, n. 10, 2007, p. 2041-2061.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Dario Maldonado and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Equilibrium Social Insurance with Policy-Motivated Parties", European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, 2007.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

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• "Access Pricing in the Postal Sector: Theory and Simulations", Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 28, n. 3, May 2006, p. 307-326.

  [ Full text (PDF file, 216 Kb) ]

• "On the Influence of Extreme Parties in Electoral Competition with Policy-Motivated Candidates", Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 25, n. 1, October 2005, p. 1-29.

  (with Georges Casamatta)

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• "L'entreprise publique en concurrence: les oligopoles mixtes", Revue Française d'Économie, vol. XX, September 2005, p. 11-50.

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• "An Incomplete Contract Perspective on Public Good Provision", Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 19, n. 2, April 2005, p. 149-180.

  (with David Martimort and Étienne de Villemeur)

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• "Political Sustainability and the Design of Environmental Taxes", International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 11, n. 6, November 2004, p. 703-719. doi:10.1023/B:ITAX.0000045327.33446.3c.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari)

  [ Final Version_Working Paper (PDF file, 164 Kb) ]

• "Taxes, Budgetary Rule and Majority Voting", Public Choice, vol. 119, n. 3-4, June 2004, p. 335-358.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari)

  [ Full text (PDF file, 357 Kb) ]

• "Majority Support for Progressive Income Taxation with Corner Preferences", Public Choice, vol. 118, n. 3/4, March 2004, p. 437-449.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

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• "The Politics of Redistributive Social Insurance", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87, n. 12, 2003, p. 2639-2660. doi:10.1016/S0047-2727(02)00078-6.

  (with Jean Hindriks)
• "The Politics of Progressive Income Taxation with Incentive Effects", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 87, n. 11, 2003, p. 2491-2505.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

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• "Choosing from a Weighted Tournament", Mathematical Social Sciences, vol. 40, 2000, p. 85-109.

  (with Michel Le Breton and Michel Truchon)

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• "Majority Voting Solution Concepts and Redistributive Taxation", Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 17, n. 1, 2000, p. 601-627. doi:10.1007/s003550000044.

• "Un modèle simple de concurrence fiscale où la mobilité des pauvres favorise la redistribution", L'Actualité Économique, vol. 75, n. 1-2-3, 1999.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

• "The Political Economy of Targeting", Public Choice, vol. 95, n. 1-2, April 1998, p. 177-200. doi:10.1023/A:1005023531490.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

Contributions to books

• "Social Costs and Benefits of the Universal Service Obligation in the Postal Market", in Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer (eds.), Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2008, p. 23-35.

  (with François Boldron, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram and Bernard Roy)
• "Pricing, Welfare and Organisational Constraints for Postal Operators", in Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, M.A. Crew and P.R. Kleindorfer (eds.), Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2008, p. 150-166.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

• "Retraite et myopie", in Les Retraites: Libres opinions d'experts européens, Florence Legros (eds.), Economica, Paris, 2007, p. 247-254.

• "Pricing and Welfare Implications of Alternative Approaches to Setting Price Controls in the Postal Sector", in Progress Toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, n. 49, Springer, 2006, p. 227-248.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez)

• "Access Pricing in the Postal Sector. Results from a Model with Bypass and Customer Direct Access", in Regulatory and Economics Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector, M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, n. 48, Kluwer, Boston, 2005.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez)

• "Access Pricing and the Uniform Tariff in the Postal Sector", in Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector, M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 46, Kluwer, 2003.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez)
• "Access Pricing and Parcels Delivery", in Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition, M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 44, Kluwer, 2003, p. 49-69.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez)

• "Funding the Universal Service Obligation Under Liberalisation", in Postal and Delivery Services: Pricing, Productivity, Regulation and Strategy, M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer (eds.), series Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, vol. 41, Kluwer, 2002, p. 31-53.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Frank Rodriguez)
• "Voting over Social Security with Uncertain Lifetimes", in Institutional and Financial Incentives for Social Insurance,, C. d'Aspremont, V. Ginsburgh, H. Sneessens and F. Spinnewyn (eds.), Kluwer, Boston, 2002, p. 201-220.

  (with Jean Hindriks)

• "Uniform Pricing and Postal Market Liberalization", in Future Direction in Postal Reform, Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer (eds.), Kluwer, 2001, p. 141-163.

  (with Helmuth Cremer, Jean-Pierre Florens, André Grimaud and Frank Rodriguez)

Articles in the Press

• "Assurance dépendance: il est urgent d'agir", La Gazette du Midi, September 14, 2009.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau)

• "Grande dépendance: il n'y a plus de temps à perdre", La Tribune, July 30, 2009.

  (with Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau)

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• "Une autre retraite est possible: le succès de la réforme menée en Suède devrait inspirer le législateur français", L' Expansion, n. 738, February 2009.

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• "Les vertus du textile chinois", L' Expansion, n. 700, September 2005.

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• "Du choix au rayon écoles!", L' Expansion, n. 668, October 2002.

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