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Patrick Legros has a MA and “Doctorat de 3° cycle” in econometrics from Paris XII (1982) and a MSc and a PhD in Social Sciences from the California Institute of Technology (1986). He is a professor at ULB since 2000, was a visiting professor at different universities and Distinguished Professor of economics at Northeastern university (2016-20). His research focuses on the theory of incentives and organizations and on industrial organization.

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• 1999-2004, Co-director of graduate studies for the Doctoral Program in Economics and Statistics
• 2001-2004, Secretary, economics department,
• 2001-2008, Director of Economic Research at the Institut d’Etudes Européennes,
• 2009-2013, Co-Director of ECARES,
• 2010_2013, President ECORE,
• 2016-2020, Co-president, Econ P master.

• 1999-2005 : Member of the scientific committee “Gouvernement d’entreprise”, Commissariat Général du Plan, France.
• 2007-2020: Member, Oxera Economic Council.
• 2013-2020: Member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP) at the European Commission.
• Spring 2004, visiting professor of economics, Massachusetts Institute of Economics.
• 2016-2020: Distinguished professor of economics, Northeastern university (part time).
• 2020-present: senior academic affiliate, Positive Competition

• Econ O502, European Competition Policy: Theory and Cases
• Econ S431, Graduate microeconomics II
• Econ S519, Graduate microeconomics III
• Econ S451, Advanced industrial organization

• “Disadvantageous Syndicates and Stable Cartels: the Case of the Nucleolus.” Journal of Economic Theory, 1987, 42(1): 30-49.
• “Efficient and Nearly Efficient Partnerships,” with Steve Matthews, The Review of Economic Studies, 1993, 60(3): 599-611.
• “Moral Hazard and Capital Structure Dynamics,” with Mathias Dewatripont and Steven Matthews, Journal of the European Economic Association, June 2003, 1(4): 890-930
• “Beauty is a Beast, Frog is a Prince: Assortative Matching in a Nontransferable World,” with Andrew Newman, Econometrica, 2007, 75(4), 1073-1102.
• “A Price Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration,” with Andrew. Newman, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128(2), 725-770.

• 1989: Participant in the Review of Economic Studies European Meetings
• 2001-2007: Associate editor, Economics Bulletin.
• 2016-2020: Associate editor, Frontiers in medecine —- Regulatory Science
• 2006-2013: Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics.
• 2013-2022: Managing editor, Journal of Industrial Economics.
• 1999-present: research fellow CEPR
• 1996-present; research fellow ECARES
• 2017: Sun Yefang Award for best research on China
• 2015-2021: ERC Advanced Grant
• Google Scholar : 3120, H-index: 22