Renaud Foucart, Lancaster University
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Welcome to my website. I am a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics at Lancaster University Management School. Before that, I worked at Nottingham University Business School, Humboldt University in Berlin and as a research fellow at Nuffield College (University of Oxford). I hold a PhD from Université libre de Bruxelles(ECARES). I am mostly interested in industrial organization, public and environmental economics, using theory and (mostly experimental) evidence.
See here for some lighter reading
Contact address: Renaud Foucart, Department of Economics, Lancaster University Management School, r <dot> foucart <at> lancaster <dot> ac <dot> uk
My vitae: April 2023
Working papers:
Decreasing Differences in Expert Advice: Evidence from Chess Players (with Elias Bouacida and Maya Jalloul), February 2024
Rituals of Reason: Experimental Evidence on the Social Acceptability of Lotteries in Allocation Problems (with Elias Bouacida), January 2024, Online Appendix
Of Shrimp and Men : Innovation, Competition and Product Diversity (with Amanda de Pirro), December 2023
When can lotteries improve public procurement processes? (with Antonio Estache and Tomas Serebrisky), October 2022
Efficient Public Good Provision in a Multipolar World (with Sakib Anwar, Jorge Bruno and Sonali SenGupta), July 2023
Endogenous formation of optimal teams (with Jonathan Tan and Zichen Zhao), August 2023
Peer reviewed publications:
A test of loyalty (with Jonathan Tan), Theory and Decision, forthcoming 2024, the latest working paper version is here
On the political economy of industrial, labor and social reforms as complements (with Antonio Estache), European Economic Review, 2021, vol.137, the latest working paper version is here
All-pay competition with captive consumers (with Jana Friedrichsen), International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 2021, vol.75, the latest working paper version is here
The Role of Technology Standards in Product Innovation: Theory and Evidence from UK Manufacturing Firms (with Cher Li), Research Policy, 2021, vol. 50(2) the latest working paper version is here
Meta Search and Market Concentration, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020, vol. 70 the latest working paper version is here
(Almost) efficient information transmission in elections (with Robert C. Schmidt), European Economic Review, 2019, vol.119, pp.147-165, the latest working paper version is here - online appendix , coverage on Studyfinds
The scope and limits of accounting and judicial courts intervention in inefficient public procurement(with Antonio Estache) , Journal of Public Economics, 2018, vol. 157, pp.95-106, the last working paper version is here (earlier versions have circulated as "corruption and incompetence in public procurement" and "benchmarking politicians") - Online Appendix
Strategic decentralization and the provision of global public goods (with Cheng Wan), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, vol. 92, pp.537-558, the last working paper version is here
Climate change mitigation with technology spillovers (with Grégoire Garsous), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2018, vol. 71(2), pp.507-527, the last working paper version is here
Innovations and technological comebacks(with Cheng Wan and Shidong Wan), International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2018, vol. 35, Issue 1, Pages 1-14 the last working paper version is here
Group consumption and product diversity: the case of smoking bans, Journal of Industrial Economics, 2017, vol.65, 3, pp.559-584, the last working paper version is here
Modal Choice and Optimal Congestion(with Quentin David), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, vol.48, pp.12-20, the last working paper version is here.
Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics(withEddy S Fang), Journal of Business Ethics, 2014, vol.123, 3, pp.475-491
Job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa, (with Elena Ianchovichina, Antonio Estache, Grégoire Garsous and Tito Yepes), World Development, 2013, vol.45, pp.209-222 - the last working paper version is here
Other Publications:
Procurement during health crises when not just incompetence and corruption matter (with Antonio Estache) in Procurement in Focus: Rules, Discretion, and Emergencies, 2021, edited by Oriana Bandiera, Erica Bosio and Giancarlo Spagnolo (download the book)
Transport infrastructure failures in Spain: mismanagement and incompetence, or political capture? (with Germà Beland Antonio Estache) in Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges, 2014, edited by Tina Soreide and Aled Williams (link google book)
Autour du décret « Paysage », la politique de l'offre dans l'enseignement supérieur en Communauté française de Belgique, in "Le modèle social belge: quel avenir", proceedings of the 2014 french speaking belgian economists' conference (paper)
Des comportements volatils prévisibles ? Une typologie des résultats électoraux basée sur le comportement des électeurs volatiles en Belgique(with Marjorie Gassnerand Emilie Van Haute) (Cahier du Cevipol, 3/2012). The theory on which the paper is based, by the same authors, is part of the proceedings of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, under the title: A simple tool to understand patterns of electoral volatility, available here
Dispersion des prix et efficacité des marchés compétitif, Reflets et Perspectives de la Vie Economique, 2012, Volume LI, Issue 3
Older projects (no plan to publish):
A reverse holdup problem - when workers' lack of bargaining power slows economic adjustment (with Antonio Estache), November 2014, part of this is now used for Appendix C in "On the political economy of industrial, labor and social reforms as complements"
The Mainstream Niche, February 2013, part of this is a simpler version of the model solved in Group consumption and product diversity: the case of smoking bans,