La soutenance se déroulera le mercredi 12 février 2025 à partir de 14h à l’université Paris Nanterre, bâtiment Maurice Allais, salle 614B
Référent : Eric Langlais (Professeur des Universités, Université Paris Nanterre)
Membres du Jury
M. Giuseppe Di Vita, Professeur, Université de Catane, Italie (rapporteur)
M. Nuno Garoupa, Professeur, George Mason University, USA (rapporteur)
M. Jean-Charles Bricongne, Banque de France (examinateur)
M. Gabriel Pascual Domenech, Professeur, Université de Valence, Espagne (président),
M. Eric Langlais, Professeur, Université Paris Nanterre (référent)
Summary
The aim of this thesis of “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches” (HDR) is to analyze and present in an orderly structure the results of my research over the last 15 years (i.e. after the defense of my doctoral thesis). This research has focused on the analysis of the economic effects of institutions and, within them, the functioning of justice and the design of the regulatory framework. This thesis also provides a summary of my other academic and professional activities, including my experience in the Research Departments of the Banque de France - Eurosystème, the Banco de España- Eurosistema and the OECD (Paris). It also summarizes my experience in juries and evaluation of research projects, my responsibilities in the management of academic associations and my teaching activity in different universities
More specifically, this thesis is divided into two main sections. Section I provides a synthesis of my research in these years, highlighting the findings in the different publications. This section includes a first subsection providing a general context to the literature on institutions and structural policies that gives way to my results. The second subsection summarizes some results regarding the economic impacts of the functioning of the judiciary and my methodological contributions to the subject. Judicial inefficacy has a negative effect, distinguishable in key markets such as housing (reducing the proportion of rented housing) and appears to reduce firm-level investment. Subsection three presents the results of my research on the phenomenon of increasing regulatory “complexity” and its economic implications. On the one hand, some methodological and measurement contributions are summarized. Then, some concrete results published using econometric modeling are reviewed. Regulatory complexity has negative implications for the volume (number) of firms at the local level or for productivity. This analysis is useful for the design of “Better regulation” policies. Subsection four presents brief general conclusions and an outline of future research to be carried out. Subsection 5 provides details of the professional context in which these research activities were developed, including information about my evaluation work, juries or management and representation tasks. From the studies included in this HDR, it could be concluded that institutions, and more specifically, the design of regulation and justice, measured with precise indicators, matter for economic efficiency.
As a second part, section II presents a complete list of my publications and presentations, the coverage that my research has had in the media and my activity as an invited professor and thesis supervisor or evaluator. Finally, this HDR thesis provides a brief CV.
Keywords: institutions, structural policies, judicial efficacy, litigation rates, regulation, regulatory complexity, growth, productivity