Department of Economics and Business Economics

Professor
BA in Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1996
MA in Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, September 1997
PhD in Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, January 2003

Member of the Economics Section
Research Secretary: Malene Vindfeldt Skals

Research Interests

• Industrial Economics
• International economics
• Organizational Economics
• Personnel Economics

Selected Publications

• Import competition, productivity and multi-product firms (with Emmanuel Dhyne, Amil Petrin and Valérie Smeets), National Bank of Belgium Working Paper Nr 268.
• Vertical Integration, Exclusivity and Game Sales Performance in the U.S. Video Game Industry” (with Ricard Gil), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Vol. 31 (sup. 1), August 2015, pp. i143-i168.
• Endogenous Markups, Firm Productivity and International Trade: A Test of the Melitz-Ottaviano Model” (with Flora Bellone, Patrick Musso and Lionel Nesta), Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 16 (1), January 2016, pp. 67-91
• Rethinking De-Industrialization” (with Andrew Bernard and Valerie Smeets), Economic Policy, Vol 32 (89), January 2017, pp. 5-38.
• Evaluating the net benefits of collective reputation: The case of Bordeaux wine” (with Olivier Gergaud, Florine Livat and Bradley Rickard). Food Policy, 71, August 2017, pp. 8-16.
• Performance, Career Dynamics, and Span of Control” (with Valérie Smeets and Michael Waldman), forthcoming in Journal of Labor Economics.
• Multi-Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies” (with Emmanuel Dhyne, Amil Petrin and Valérie Smeets), NBER Working Paper No. 23637.

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