Emmanuelle Auriol


Emmanuelle Auriol is a French economist. She is chair of the Women in Economics Committee.

Career

Auriol is an IDEI researcher, a member of the Toulouse School of Economics and professor of economics at the University of Aix-Marseille and Toulouse I. She is mainly devoted to the study of the regulation and organization theory, including industrial organization and the economics of development.
Auriol is a fellow of the European Economic Association. She is also a regular contributor to Le Monde and the economic press.

Political positions

In 2015, as a solution to the problems posed by illegal immigration, Auriol proposed in Libération to "legalize economic immigration by selling visas to people who wish to work with us." In 2021, she was the co-author of a government-sponsored report that described how France's growth has been hampered by its immigration policies.
Ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, Auriol publicly endorsed Emmanuel Macron's candidacy.

Awards

Other activities

Personal life

Auriol is married and has two children.

Publications

  • « Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay », IDEI Working Paper, no 661, 18 février 2011. et Stéphane Straub )
  • « Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries », IDEI Working Paper, no 555, mai 2009.
  • « Public Private Partnerships in Water and Electricity in Africa », Agence Française de Développement, no 38, janvier 2007.
  • « Privatizations in Developing Countries and the Government's Budget Constraint », IDEI Working Paper, no 459, mai 2004.
  • « Quality Signaling through Certification. Theory and an Application to Agricultural Seed Market », IDEI Working Paper, no 165, 2003.
  • « The Costs and Benefits of Symbolic Differentiation in the Work Place », IDEI Working Paper, no 101, 2000, révision 2002.

Articles in journals

  • « Education and Migration Choices in Hierarchical Societies: The Case of Matam, Senegal », Regional Science and Urban Economics. doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2012.04.005.
  • « On the Optimal Number of Representatives », Public Choice. doi:10.1007/s11127-011-9801-3.
  • « A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts », Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2011.10.003.
  • « The Marginal Cost of Public Funds and Tax Reform in Africa », Journal of Development Economics, vol. 97, no 1, janvier 2012, p. 58-72. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2011.01.003.
  • « Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly », The Economic Journal, vol. 119, no 540, octobre 2009, p. 1464-1493. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02291.x.
  • « Capture and Corruption in Public Utilities: the Cases of Water and Electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa », Utilities Policy, vol. 17, no 2, juin 2009, p. 203-216.
  • « Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries », The World Bank Economic Review, vol. 23, no 1, 2009, p. 77-100. doi:10.1093/wber/lhn014.
  • « Status and Incentives », The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 39, no 1, Spring 2008, p. 305-326.
  • « On Robust Constitution Design », Theory and Decision, vol. 62, no 3, mai 2007, p. 241-279.
  • « Corruption in Procurement and Public Purchase », International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 24, no 5, septembre 2006, p. 867-885.
  • « Telecommunication Reforms in Developing Countries », Communications & Strategies, Special Issue, IDATE, Montpellier, novembre 2005, p. 31-53.
  • « Taxation Base in Developing Countries », Journal of Public Economics, vol. 89, no 4, Special Issue: Cornell - ISPE Conference on Public Finance and Development, avril 2005, p. 625-646. doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.04.008.
  • The explosive combination of religious decentralization and autocracy: The case of Islam,
  • Sale of visas: A smuggler's final song?
  • Government outsourcing: Public contracting with private monopoly