IP & Innovation

Here is my work dealing with the economics of Intellectual Property (IP) and innovation.

In refereed journals

• Strategic Promotion and Release Decisions for Cultural Goods (with Dimitri Paolini). Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 28 (2019), 198-224.
• The Economics of Digital Goods: A Progress Report. Review of the Economic Research on Copyright Issues 13, no. 2 (2016), 1-24.
• Incentives to Innovate in Oligopolies (with C. Vergari). The Manchester School 79 (2011), 6-28.
• Piracy and Competition (with P. Picard). Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 16/2 (2007), 351-383.
• Patents and Incentives to Innovate: Some Theoretical and Empirical Economic Evidence. Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network 13, n◦2 (2006), 267-288.
• Oligopolistic Competition, IT Use for Product Differentiation, and the Productivity Paradox. International Journal of Industrial Organization 19 (2001), 227-248.
• Assessing the Diffusion of EDI Standards across Business Communities. EURAS Yearbook of Standardization Vol. 2 (1999), ed. by Manfred J. Holler and Esko Niskanen (Homo oeconomicus XV(3)), Munich: Accedo, 301-324.

Book chapters

• Digital Piracy (with M. Peitz). In Backhaus, J. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, New York: Springer Science+Business Media (2014).
• Innovation under Threat? Some Economic and Legal Considerations on the Patent Wars and Trolls (with A. Strowel). In Autenne, A., Cassiers, V. and Strowel, A. (eds) Droit, Economie et Valeurs. Hommage à Bernard Remiche. Brussels: Larcier (2014), 351-366.
• Digital Piracy: Theory (with M. Peitz). In Peitz, M. and Waldfogel, J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012).
• How Efficient is the Patent System? A General Appraisal and an Application to the Pharmaceutical Sector. In A. Gosseries, A. Marciano and A. Strowel (eds.) Intellectual Property and Theories of Justice (2008). Palgrave Macmillan.
• La politique d’innovation dans une économie globalisée: quelques questions économiques ouvertes. In Remiche, B. et Kors, J (ed.), L’accord ADPIC: dix ans après. Regards croisés Europe-Amérique latine, (2007) Larcier: Bruxelles.
• Patents and Incentives to Innovate: Some Theoretical and Empirical Economic Evidence. In C Sri Krishna (ed.) Ideas, Innovations and Patents (2007). The Icfai University Press: Hyderabad, India. (Reprint of the article in Ethical Perspectives).
• Logiciels, créations commerciales et brevet. Quelques réflexions d’un économiste. In Remiche, B. (ed.), Le Brevet : pourquoi et pour faire quoi, (2006) Larcier: Bruxelles.
• Pricing Information Goods in the Presence of Copying. In Gordon, W.J. and Watt, R. (eds). The Economics of Copyright. Developments in Research and Analysis, (2003). Edward Elgar, UK.

Large audience

• Un trésor chez les pirates? Revue du Belgium-Luxembourg Business Club in Switzerland 2013/2014: 82-85.
• L’or caché des pirates. Regards Economiques-Focus, 07/05/2013.
• Le développement du marché des brevets et la problématique des patent trolls (avec L. Slits). 
Regards Economiques 83 (2010).
• Comment favoriser l’innovation dans le secteur pharmaceutique : brevets et/ou récompenses ? (with 
Tanguy van Ypersele). Reflets et Perspectives de la vie économique, XLV, n◦4 (2006): 23-35.
• L’économie de la propriété intellectuelle. Introduction et description du contenu. Reflets et Perspectives de la vie économique, XLV, n◦4 (2006): 5-9.
• Le piratage des biens d’information. Regards Economiques 17 (2003).