Patrick Legros

Patrick Legros studied in France and in the US and started his career at Cornell University. He is full professor of economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and was between 2016 and 2019 Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Northeastern . He is a fellow of the research centre ECARES at SBSEM, and a fellow of CEPR. His research interests are in industrial organization, the theory of organizations, the theory of assortative matching in markets, information economics, and the design of education policies. He has been granted an ERC Advanced grant for developing an “Organizational Industrial Organization”. He is currently the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and was a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission between 2013 and 2020.

Education

• B.A. in Economics, Paris XII University, France, 1978.
• M.A. in Economics, option econometrics, Paris XII University, France, June 1979.
• M.A. in Public Economics, Paris XII University, France, February 1981.
• Doctorat de Troisième Cycle en Analyse et Politique Economiques, Paris XII University, September 1984.
• M.S. in Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A., June 1988.
• Ph.D. in Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, U.S.A., June 1989.

Fields of Specialization

• Industrial Organization
• Theory of Contracts and Organizations
• Microeconomic Theory
• Competition Policy

Employment

• 1983-1985: Instructor, Tunis University, Tunisia (“coopérant,” in lieu of my French military service).
• 1989-1996: Assistant Professor of Economics, Cornell University,.
• 1996-31/1/1999: Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Liège, Belgium.
• 1999-9/15/2001: Université de Liège, part-time (25%) associate professor.
• 1999-30/9/2002: Université libre de Bruxelles, Associate professor.
• 2000-present Université libre de Bruxelles, Full Professor of Economics (full-time).
• 2016-2020: Northeastern University, Distinguished Professor of Economics (part-time, a semester a year)