Patrick Rey

Research interests

Industrial Organization
Competition Policy
Economics of Information

Biography

Patrick Rey is a Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics; he has headed the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) and, before joining Toulouse, the Laboratoire d’Economie Industrielle (LEI) at CREST (INSEE, Paris), which he founded, and (what is now) the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique (ENSAE, Paris). He holds a PhD and an HDR in Economics from the University of Toulouse, an engineer degree from Ecole Polytechnique, where he has also been a professor, and a statistician-economist degree from ENSAE. His current themes of research include Industrial Organization, Regulation and Competition Policy, Innovation and Intellectual Property, and the Digital Economy. He has published numerous papers and book contributions, including more than 50 articles in international top-tier economic journals such as Econometrica, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy or the RAND Journal of Economics. He has also developed innovative pedagogical tools based on market games. Patrick Rey is a fellow of the Econometric Society as well as of the European Economic Association (EEA), was a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and received two senior grants from the European Research Council (ERC); he holds a Honoris Causa doctorate degree from the Norwegian School of Economics (Bergen) and is a former President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). He is widely recognized as a leading expert in competition economics. He has testified in many antitrust cases in Europe and elsewhere, conducted numerous competition workshops and seminars, and served as expert for OECD, the World Bank, the US department of Justice and the European Commission; he is also a member of the EAGCP, a group of experts for DG Comp (European Commission), where he coordinated for example the report on Article 82, and of other advisory bodies attached to regulatory and competition agencies; he was also a co-founder of the Association for Competition Economics (ACE).