Master Dissertation Supervisor Olivier Bertrand

WHO AM I ?   2005-2008: Assistant professor, Université de Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales, France. 2005: Post-doctoral fellowship at the IUI - The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000-2004: PhD thesis in economics at the University of Paris I Sorbonne (France) supervised by Pr. Jean-Louis Mucchielli. Title: “Determinants and effects of cross-border M&A: Empirical and theoretical applications to the 1990-2000 M&A wave”. 2000-2004: Research scholar and teaching assistant at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. 1999-2000: D.E.A in International and Development Economics, University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. 1998-1999: Admission to the highest French competitive examination for teachers in France (Agrégation externe) in economics and management. 1997-1998: Admission to the Ecole Normale Supérieur (Cachan). 1997-1998: Maîtrise of applied economics (major in international economics), University of Paris IX Dauphine.

RESEARCH TOPICS   1. Mergers and Acquisitions 2. Multinational Firms and Foreign Direct Investment 3. Competition Policy 4. Internationalization of R&D and Innovation

PAST RESEARCH Domestic versus Cross-Border Acquisitions: Which Impact on the Target Firms’ Performance, with Habib Zitouna, Applied Economics, vol.40, N°17, 2008.   European Competition Policy in International Markets, with Marc Ivaldi, in Fragmented Power: Europe and the Global Economy, edited by André Sapir, Bruegel, 2007.   Location Choices of Multinational Firms: The Case of Mergers and Acquisitions, with Jean-Louis Mucchielli and Habib Zitouna, Journal of Economic Integration, vol.22, N°1, 2007.   R&D and M&A: are cross-border M&A different? An investigation on OECD countries, with Pluvia Zuniga, International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol.24, N°2, 2006.   Trade Liberalization and Industrial Restructuring: the role of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions, with Habib Zitouna, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, vol.15, N°2, 2006.   On the Effects of Economic Integration on Greenfield Investments and cross-border M&A location pattern, Journal of Economic Integration, vol.20, N°1, 2005.

WORKING PAPERS Effects of Foreign Acquisitions on R&D Activity: Some Evidence from Firm-level data.   Efficiency Gains and Foreign Takeovers: Remoteness Matters, with Habib Zitouna. Should R&D Champions be Protected from Foreign Takeovers? , with Katariina Hakkala, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson.   Do domestic acquisitions enhance export performance ?   Evaluating the role of coordination and information costs in international business transactions at a macroeconomic level: the missing factor, with Habib Zitouna.

ON-GOING RESEARCH International M&A and Domestic Performance, with Laurence Capron.   Cartel and M&A in Developing Countries, with Marc Ivaldi (UNCTAD project).   M&A and Upstream-Downstream Linkages, with Fabian Bergès-Sennou and Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache.   M&A and Outsourcing.   Merger Risk: Some Evaluation, with Nicolas Nalpas.   Assessment of Gains from Cross-border Mergers, with Marc Ivaldi and Jrissy Motis.

M&A RESEARCH PROGRAM M&A in Russia: a) Local market of corporate control and domestic M&A. b) International acquisitions from Russian MNE and their process of internationalization. Topic could be extended to emerging markets (e.g. Mexico, Brazil, China). Perspective: Economics, Corporate Finance, Strategic Management Joint Methodologies: a) Construction of dataset and empirical investigation (basic statistics, econometrics) b) Case studies and interviews