Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle (MINES ParisTech and IDEI) studies innovation, productivity and competition.  She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology.  Recent work examines the effect of trade and IP policies on the level, location and direction of R&D investment and competition. She also works on issues of innovation and access to therapies in developing countries. Her papers have been published in various journals of economics, strategy, and health policy, including the RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Health Services Research, and Health Affairs.

Margaret holds a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and London Business School.  She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and at the University of Hong Kong.  She is a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Education Ph.D., 2002, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S. , 1995, Economics, Cornell University, Cornell University, Honors

Academic Positions Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, 2014-present

Professor, MINES ParisTech, 2014-present

Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong, 2013-2013

Professeur, Institut d'Administration des Enterprises, Universite de Toulouse 1 and Toulouse School of Economics, 2010-2014

Professeur associe, Universit e de Toulouse 1 and Toulouse School of Economics, 2009-2010

Assistant Professor, London Business School, 2006-2010

Assistant Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, 2004-2006

Assistant Professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002-2004

Other Professional Experience Research Assistant, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1995-1997

Education Academic Positions Other Professional Experience