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My fields of specialization are applied microeconometrics and applied microeconomics. Two central themes are firm production and pricing, and labor-management relations. The observed gap between an input’s marginal product and its measured payment combined with the ubiquity of firm-level productivity variation and persistence are empirical regularities that have shaped my research agenda. Being driven by a curiosity in real world phenomena and highly valuing the empirical validation of economic models, I employ various quantitative methods and a wide variety of micro-level datasets in European, Latin American and Asian countries in my empirical investigations.

REFEREED ARTICLES

Gradual collective wage bargaining. Labour Economics 40: 37-42, June 2016 (with Roland Iwan Luttens).

Micro-evidence on product and labor market regime differences between Chile and France. International Journal of Manpower 37(2): 229-252, 2016 (with Rodolfo Lauterbach and Jacques Mairesse).

Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands. Industrial and Corporate Change 24(5): 875-949, October 2015 (with Eric J. Bartelsman and Bettina Peters).

Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands. Journal of Comparative Economics 43(2): 290-322, May 2015 (with Kozo Kiyota and Jacques Mairesse).

Demand lotteries, abandonment options and the decision to start R&D and process innovation. Management Revue 26(1): 25-51, January 2015 (with Roland Iwan Luttens and Bettina Peters).

Panel data estimates of the production function and product and labor market imperfections. Journal of Applied Econometrics 28(1): 1-46, January/February 2013 (with Jacques Mairesse).

Imports as product and labour market discipline. British Journal of Industrial Relations 49(2): 331-361, June 2011 (with with Hervé Boulhol and Sara Maioli).

Interaction between product market and labour market power: Evidence from France, Belgium and Chile. Applied Economics Letters 16(6): 573-577, April 2009 (with José Miguel Benavente and Jacques Mairesse).

Has international trade affected workers' bargaining power? Review of World Economics 142(2): 233-266, July 2006 (with Ellen Brock).

Estimation of price-cost margins and union bargaining power for Belgian manufacturing. International Journal of Industrial Organization 22(10): 1381-1398, December 2004.

Ownership, firm size and rent sharing in Bulgaria. Labour Economics 11(2): 165-189, April 2004.

Insider power and wage determination in Bulgaria - An Econometric investigation. International Journal of Manpower 24(4): 399-425, 2003.

WORKING PAPERS

Market imperfections and total factor productivity. NBB DP 267 (with Mark Vancauteren). Under submission. Please click on the title to find the most recent version.

Comparing micro-evidence on rent sharing from three different approaches. NBER WP 16220, TI DP 15-068/VII, IZA DP 9124 (with Jacques Mairesse). Under revision. Please click on the title to find the most recent version.


WORK IN PROGRESS

Interrelations between empirical production functions, input demand functions and capacity utilization considerations (with Edouard Jousselin, Rémy Lecat and Jacques Mairesse).

Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters (with Kozo Kiyota).

Last update: February 1, 2017.