Patrick Legros

The research interests of Patrick Legros are in theory of contracts, microeconomics, industrial organization, competition policy and regulation. His current research on “Organizational Industrial Organization” theory is funded by an advanced grant from the European Research Council. He also has interests in the theory of matching and education policy; his recent research has focused on the effects that diversity policies play for human capital accumulation, or on how the price of education affects the misallocation of agents to tasks. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of different scientific councils. He has taught courses in intermediate and graduate microeconomics, intermediate and graduate industrial organization and antitrust, and graduate courses in contract theory.