Patrick Legros is a Professor of economics at the “Université libre de Bruxelles” in Belgium and a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Northeastern since 2016. He is also currently the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission.

Professor Legros studied in France and in the United States and he started his career at Cornell University. He is a fellow of the research center ECARES at SBSEM, and a fellow of CEPR. His research interests lie in industrial organization, the theory of organizations, the theory of assortative matching in markets, information economics, and the design of education policies. He received an ERC Advanced grant for developing the field of “Organizational Industrial Organization”.

Professor Legros was one of the winners of the first Review of Economics Tour. He holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the development of an “Organizational Industrial Organization”. He also has received prestigious funding for his researches including: the FNRS, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation, the European Commission and the European Research Council.

Patrick Legros is an applied microeconomist specialized in Industrial Organization and Organization Theory, with an extensive experience in Competition.

Patrick Legros

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Patrick Legros is a Professor of economics at the “Université libre de Bruxelles” in Belgium and a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Northeastern since 2016. He is also currently the managing editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and a member of the European Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission.

Professor Legros studied in France and in the United States and he started his career at Cornell University. He is a fellow of the research center ECARES at SBSEM, and a fellow of CEPR. His research interests lie in industrial organization, the theory of organizations, the theory of assortative matching in markets, information economics, and the design of education policies. He received an ERC Advanced grant for developing the field of “Organizational Industrial Organization”.

Professor Legros was one of the winners of the first Review of Economics Tour. He holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant for the development of an “Organizational Industrial Organization”. He also has received prestigious funding for his researches including: the FNRS, the Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation, the European Commission and the European Research Council.