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1 Biographical notes About the Co-Editors Mathias Dewatripont holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, He is a part-time Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Full Professor at ULB, where he was Co-Director of ECARES from its creation in 1991 until His general research area is the theory of incentives and contracts, with applications to the internal organization of firms, industrial organization and corporate finance, and the economics of higher education. He was Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies ( ), and Council Member ( ) and President (2005) of the European Economic Association. He is a Fellow and Council Member of the Econometric Society, and was one of the three Programme co-chairs of its 2000 World Congress in Seattle. He is the laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize and of the 2003 Jahnsson Medal. He has been Research Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research since He is a member of DG Competition s EAGCP (Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso s Economic Policy Analysis Group. In 2005, he became a Founding Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council. Francoise Thys-Clément holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, She is Full Professor of Economics and President of the Centre for Knowledge Economics of ULB. She was the Rector of ULB from 1990 to 1994 and holds the title of Former Rector since She was the Chairperson of the Erasme Hospital Council from 1994 to She has held numerous scientific and policy responsibilities, both at the national and international levels. She is a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique Classe des Lettres. She was a member of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation and of the Council of the United Nations University ( ). She has been involved with the European University Association (EUA), the European Commission and the OECD. She has published extensively in the areas of econometrics and regional economics, public economics and federalism, and the economics of education. She participates as an invited speaker in various national and international conferences around the world. Luc Wilkin holds a Ph.D. in applied Economics from ULB, 1984, where he teaches as Full Professor. He has been Visiting Professor in various foreign universities and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Social, Political and Economics Science of ULB. He heads the Research Group in Informatics and Human Sciences, he is Chairman of the Research and Study Centre on Public Administration, and is also a member of the Centre for Knowledge Economics at

2 296 biographical notes ULB. He currently works on the processes of adoption of information technologies by university students. His research on the management of universities concerns the emergence of university strategies and the individual behaviour within this type of organizations. In this respect, he has been expert with a number of international institutions (OECD, EUA, ESF,...). About the Authors Philippe Aghion holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, He is Robert Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University, after holding academic positions at MIT, CNRS-DELTA, Nuffield College, and University College London. He was also Deputy Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was a Programme Director for Industrial Organization at the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a Member of the Council of the European Economic Association. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the 2001 Laureate of the Jahnsson Medal and the recipient in 2006 of the Médaille d Argent du CNRS. In 2005, he received a Honorary Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics. He has been invited to deliver the Clarendon Lectures (Oxford), the Zeuthen Lectures (Copenhagen), the Kuznets Lectures (Yale), the Gorman Lectures (University College London) and the Munich Lectures. He has written extensively on a range of topics in economics, in particular the theory of contracts and organizations and the theory of endogenous growth. Périne Brotcorne holds a university degree in History and two post-graduate degrees (in Human Resources and Sociology) from ULB. She has held a doctoral fellowship of the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Program (IAP), carrying out research on uses of ICTs in higher education. She currently works as researcher at the Work & Technology Research Centre of the Foundation Work and University (FUT). She collaborates to FTU research projects on the digital divide and ICT training. Tom Coupé holds an economics undergraduate degree from Universiteit Gent and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is currently assistant professor and director of the Kyiv School of Economics and academic director of the Kyiv Economics Institute. His recent research focuses on the evaluation of the performance of universities and scientists, gender segregation in organizations and the effect of policies on Foreign Direct Investment flows. Ilaria Faccin holds a degree in Humanities from the university of Rome La Sapienza, and a degree in Sociology (human resources specialisation) as well as a post-graduate degree in Sociology, both from ULB. She had been working as human resources consultant for about 6 years and is now researcher in the Research Group in Informatics and Human Sciences at ULB. She is currently working on a Ph.D. project on the organisational and managerial change of the Italian Universities. Thomas Gall holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Mannheim. He now is a post-doctoral researcher at Universität Bonn. His doctoral research focused on aggregate consequences of market imperfections, like the effects of moral hazard in the labour market on incentives to acquire education. He continues to be interested in economic allocations, in particular assignment problems, in the presence of market frictions, examples of which include market interactions that take place only within contact networks, or the lack of contracting institutions. Axel Gautier holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain. He is Professor of industrial economics at HEC-ULg and a member of CORE. Part of his research concentrates on regulation and competition in network-based industries. Another part focuses

3 biographical notes 297 on the governance of multi-unit organizations with specific applications to incentives within universities. Marcel Gérard holds a Ph.D. from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de Namur, He is Professor of Public Economics and Taxation at the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons, the Louvain School of Management, Université Catholique de Louvain and the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis. He also teaches at the College of Europe in Bruges and is a CESifo fellow and a permanent member of IDEP. His research activity covers various aspects of Public Economics and Public Finance including international taxation, investment incentives, tax reforms, interjurisdictional competition, fiscal federalism and the economics of research and higher education. In that latter respect he is especially concerned with the financing of internationally mobile students, in particular the financing of those who will study, or already study, in the various countries of the Bologna area. Caroline Hoxby holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994, after a Master s Degree from Oxford University which she attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. She is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Director of the Economics of Education Programme for the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences. She has received a National Tax Association Award and is the recipient of the 2006 Thomas J. Fordham Prize for Distinguished Scholarship. She has written extensively on issues of educational choice, competition between schools, school finance, or the effect of unionization and of class size on educational outcomes. Doh-Shin Jeon holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université de Toulouse, a degree from ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l Administration Economique) as well as a Master and a B.Sc. in Economics from Seoul National University. He is Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also an associated professor at Toulouse School of Economics and a research fellow of the SP-SP center of the IESE Business School. His fields of specialization and research include theoretical industrial organization on the one hand especially telecommunications, the market for academic journals, and electronic commerce and contract theory and its applications on the other hand for instance, collusion or downsizing. Stijn Kelchtermans holds a Ph.D. from KU Leuven, He is Assistant Professor at Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB) and affiliated researcher at the Faculty of Business & Economics at the KU Leuven. His Ph.D. research focused on the higher education and research sector, considering issues like productivity of scientists, student choice behavior and the structure of public higher education systems. His current research agenda further pursues topics within the fields of Economics of Science and Economics of Education, as well as R&D and innovation. Patrick Legros holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology He is Professor of Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has taught at Cornell University and the Université de Liège and was visting professor at the Tinbergen Institute, Université de Strasbourg and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is co-editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and was associate editor of Economics Bulletin. Most of his current research focuses on the general equilibrium aspects of organizations, in particular on how selection of agents in firms affects the overall performance of an economy when markets and contracts are imperfect. He has applied this research agenda to the self-selection of students and professors in universities, investment in education and the vertical integration of firms.

4 298 biographical notes Andreu Mas-Colell is a Professor of Economics (Catedrático) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. Formerly he was Professor of Economics at Harvard University ( ) and Professor of Economics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley ( ). His research contributions go from abstract general equilibrium theory and the structure of financial markets to pricing policy for public firms or the economics of higher education. He has been a Sloan Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the universities of Alacant, Toulouse and HEC (Paris). He has received the Rey Juan Carlos I Prize in Economics and the Pascual Madoz (National Research Prize). He has served as main Editor of the Journal of Mathematical Economics ( ), and of Econometrica ( ). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and was its President in In 1997 he was elected Foreign Associate to the US National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association. In the year 2006 he served as President of the European Economic Association. From 2000 to 2003 he was Minister for Universities and Research of the Government of Catalonia. He has been designated General Secretary of the European Research Council from 2009 to Domenico Menicucci is an Associate Professor at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the same university, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research focuses on mechanism design, auction theory, contract theory, and industrial organization. Nadine Meskens holds a Ph.D. from Université de Valenciennes, 1991, and an H.d.R. from Université Paris VI, She is Professor of Operations Research at the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons and the Louvain School of Management. Her current research focuses on (i) identifying factors linked to the academic performance of first-year university students; and (ii) the optimisation of the operating theatre in health care management. She is the president of an FNRS group entitled Multidisciplinary Research Network in Health Care Management, which shares knowledge and experiences, develops synergies and fosters contacts between hospital practitioners and researchers. Andrew Newman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He is Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the CEPR (London) and has taught at University College London, Columbia University and Northwestern University. His research in microeconomic theory concerns organizational economics, economic development and income inequality. Wilfried Pauwels holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, New York, 1972, and is Professor of Economics at the University of Antwerp. He has been visiting professor at various universities, including Columbia University, KU Leuven and Ghent University. He has been chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Antwerp. His recent research focuses on economic applications of game theory. These applications include competition between universities, settlements in government procurement contracts, corporatist economic policies, and the workings of semi-collusive markets. André Sapir holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Johns Hopkins University, He is professor at ULB, where he holds a chair in international economics and European integration. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory (BRUEGEL) and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition, he is a member of European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso s Economic Policy Analysis Group. He was an Economic Adviser to European Commission President Romano Prodi ( ) and the Chairman of the High-Level Study Group appointed by him that produced the 2003 report An Agenda for a Growing Europe, widely known as the Sapir Report, published by Oxford University Press in March He is a found-

5 biographical notes 299 ing Editorial Board Member of the World Trade Review, published by Cambridge University Press and the World Trade Organisation. Valerie Smeets is Associate professor at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus. She has a BA, an MA and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She received a post-doctoral position at the Aarhus School of Business and was Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. She is specialized in personnel economics and its interaction with industrial organization. Her latest research focuses on post-merger workforce integration and the estimation of production functions. Juan Fransisco Superby holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from the University of Jesuita Alberto Hurtado (Santiago, Chili, 2005). He worked as researcher in the Production and Operations Management at the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons during one year. Jean-Philippe Vandamme holds a degree in Civil Engineering, with special emphasis on informatics and management from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, 2002, and a Master in Applied Statistics and Informatics from Facultés Agronomiques de Gembloux, He is a teaching and research assistant at the Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons and his main interests concerns data mining. His doctoral research applies this technique in two areas : academic performance and health care management. Frederick van der Ploeg received his Ph.D. in Economics at King s College and the University of Cambridge in He is currently Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, where is he is also Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies and Fellow of New College and Affiliate of Nuffield College. He is also Professor of Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam, Scientific Coordinator of the Public Sector Economics Programme of the CESifo Network, and Research Fellow of CEPR. Previously he has worked on the staff of the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Tilburg University and the European University Institute in Florence. He was also a Member of Parliament and State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science for the Netherlands during the period His research interests are in macroeconomics, development economics, resource and environmental economics and public finance, but also the development of the welfare state, higher education reform and the economics of art and culture. Eve Vanhaecht holds a university degree in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp. She held a doctoral fellowship position in the Interuniversity Attraction Poles Program. Her research focused on competition in the higher education sector. She currently works at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as a staff member within the fields of strategic decisionmaking and quality control in higher education. Frank Verboven holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, He is Professor of Economics at the KU Leuven. He has taught at various foreign universities, including Amsterdam, Pompeu Fabra, Tilburg and Vienna. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics, Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, and a Fellow of the CEPR (London). Part of his research focuses on Industrial Organization and the empirical analysis of market power, with applications to competition policy. Another part of his research is on the Economics of higher education. This research has considered the determinants of student participation and study choices, with implications for reforming funding systems. Recent research considers personnel policies and career dynamics in higher education institutions.

6 300 biographical notes Reinhilde Veugelers received her Ph.D. in Economics at KU Leuven, She is currently economic advisor at BEPA (Bureau of European Policy Analysis), European Commission, on leave as a full professor at the Department of Applied Economics at KU Leuven and a fellow at CEPR, London. She was a visiting scholar/professor at Northwestern University s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Sloan School of Management, MIT, and New York University, as well as UCL, ECARES-ULB, Paris I, UPF & UAB (Barcelona), Universiteit Maastricht and BETA (Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg). Her research centers on industrial organization, international economics and strategy. Specific topics include incentives for innovation activities, international technology transfers through MNEs, impact on local R&D of multinational competition, internal and external technology sourcing, industry science links and their impact on innovative productivity and scientific productivity. Alexis Walckiers holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. His doctoral research at ECARES focused on the economics of science and higher education. He is one of the authors of the study entitled The Economic and Technical Evolution of the Scientific Publication Markets in Europe, published by DG Research of the European Commission. He now works for Oxera, an economics consultancy, on issues of financial regulation and competition projects. Frédéric Warzynski is Associate professor at the Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus. He has a BA and an MA in Economics from Université Libre de Bruxelles, and a Ph.D. from KU Leuven. He held post-doctoral positions at IDEI, Toulouse and the Aarhus School of Business, and Assistant Professor at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His fields of interest are industrial organization, labor economics and international trade. He is currently working on the effect of vertical integration in the video games industry and on the structural estimation of markups and productivity growth. Xavier Wauthy holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). He is Professor of Economics at Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis and invited professor at UCL where he is also a member of CORE. His research covers various fields of applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on Industrial Organization. Part of this research considers the organization of higher education quasi-markets in a strategic context.