papers

Published papers

“Contributory Infringement Rule and Patents” (with Philippe Marcoul), accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. PDF file

“Incentives to Reduce Crop Trait Durability” (with Stefan Ambec and Stéphane Lemarié), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 90(2), pp 379-391, 2008. PDF file

“Technology Licensing to a Rival” (with Caroline Boivin), Economics Bulletin, vol. 12, 14, pp 1-8, 2005. PDF File

“Using patents to mislead rivals,” Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 38, 2, pp 520-545, 2005. PDF file

“Are Patents Strategic Barriers to Entry?,” Journal of Economics and Business, vol. 56, 5, pages 349-361, 2004. PDF file

“Litigation and Settlement in Patent Infringement Cases” (with Claude Crampes), RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 33, 4, 2002. PDF file

“Information Disclosure in the Renewal of Patents” (with Claude Crampes), Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 49/50, 1998. PDF file

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 file

“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 file

Papers under review (revise and resubmit) or submitted

“Patent Pool Formation and Scope of Patents,” Revised and Resubmitted at Economic Inquiry, 2007. PDF file. A previous version of the paper was untitled “Pool of Patents and Follow-up Innovations.”

“Agricultural Production Clubs: Welfare Implications,” Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2007.

“Are Intellectual Property Rights Detrimental to Innovation?” (with Claude Crampes), 2007. PDF file

“Patents, Search of Prior Art and Revelation of Information,” (with Philippe Marcoul), 2007. PDF file

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

Work in Progress

Career Concerns and Mobility of USPTO

“Incentives of the PTO Examiners” (with Philippe Marcoul), May 2007. PDF file.

“Mobility and Career Concerns of USPTO examiners” (with Stéphanie Lluis), May 2007.

How to reward patent examiners?

IPRs and Patents

“Competition in the process of granting patents in the European System” (with Philippe Marcoul)

“Liability, Risk and Patents” (with Philippe Marcoul)

“Contributory Infringement and Biotechnology” (with Philippe Marcoul)

“Patent strategies: Evergreening”

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

Agricultural Economics

“Sharing Crop Fields” (with Stefan Ambec and Philippe Marcoul)

“Biofuel versus Fossil Fuel”

“Choice between different certifications”