About

I study how heterogeneous firms make decisions and how these decisions add up to aggregate outcomes. Using confidential firm-level data, notably through the CASD (Centre d’Accès Sécurisé aux Données), I work on productivity and market selection, product and factor market power, knowledge and innovation, digitization and the adoption of AI, and the green transition. A special focus is on documenting European strengths and weaknesses with respect to other regions of the world.

2016-present

Full Professor at Université Côte d’Azur, France.

2015-present

Director of the Department for Research on Innovation and Competition (DRIC), Institut Français d’Économie (IFE), formerly Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Économiques (OFCE), Research Centre in Economics at SciencesPo Paris, France.

2010-2014

Deputy Director of the Research Department on Innovation and Competition, Department for Research on Innovation and Competition, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, Research Centre in Economics at SciencesPo Paris, located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

2005-2015

Senior Economist at the Research Department on Innovation and Competition, Department for Research on Innovation and Competition, Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques, Research Centre in Economics at SciencesPo Paris, located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

2002-2005

Research Fellow at SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

2001-2002

Research Engineer at INRA-GAEL, Grenoble, France.

1996-2001

PhD candidate at INRA-GAEL (formerly INRA-SERD), Grenoble, France.

2001

Ph.D in Applied Economics (highest honors), University of Grenoble, France. « Cohérence des bases de connaissances et changement technique : une analyse des firmes de biotechnologies de 1981 à 1997 ». Supervisor: P.P. Saviotti, INRA-SERD.