Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique - UMR5824

 Professor of Economics
 Dean of the Department of Economics, University of Saint-Etienne

Contact : autant@univ-st-etienne.fr
Full CV here

 Fields of interest :

• Economics of innovation
• Knowledge diffusion
• Spatial econometrics
• Network analysis
• Policy evaluation

 Selected publications :

• Assessing the collaboration and network additionality of innovation policies : a counterfactual approach to the French cluster policy (with Alain N’Ghauran), Industrial and Corporate Change, 2021, vol. 26(1).
• A heterogeneous coefficient approach to the knowledge production function (with J. LeSage), Spatial Economic Analysis, 2019, vol. 14(2), pages 196-218.
• Agglomeration externalities in Ecuador. Do urbanisation and tertiarisation matter ? (with C. Guevara and S. Riou), Regional Studies, 2019, vol. 53(5), pages 706-719.
• The Role of R&D Collaboration Networks on Regional Knowledge Creation : Evidence from Information and Communication Technologies (with S. Hazir and J. LeSage), Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97-3, pp.579-567.
• European Knowledge Neighbourhood : Knowledge production in EU neighboring countries and intensity of the relationship with EU countries (with Chalaye, S., Gagliardini, E., & Usai, S.), Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 2017, 108(1), pp 52-75.
• Technological interdependence between South American countries : A spatial panel data growth model (with Carolina Guevara), Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine, 2015, 1-2, pp 181-210.
• Determinants of cross-regional R&D collaboration : some empirical evidence from Europe in biotechnology (with Selin Hazir), Annals of Regional Science, 2014, 53 (2), pp 369-393.
• Editors’ introduction to spatial knowledge networks : structure\, driving forces and innovative performances (with R. Cowan and N. Massard), Annals of Regional Science, 2014, 53 (2), pp 315-323.
• Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation Policies within the European Regions : New Challenges based on recent empirical evidence (with Muriel Fadairo and Nadine Massard), Research Policy, 2013, 42 (1), pp. 196-210.
• Spatial econometrics of innovation : Recent contributions and research perspectives, Spatial Economic Analysis, 2012, vol. 7 n°4, décembre, pp.403-419.
• Agglomeration and social return to R&D : Evidence from French plant productivity changes (with Jean-Pascal Guironnet and Nadine Massard), International Journal of Production Economics, 2011, vol. 132, n° 1, pp. 34-42.
• Quantifying knowledge spillovers using spatial econometric tools (with James LeSage), Journal of Regional Science, 2011, vol. 51, n° 3, pp. 471–496.
• Firm Innovation Strategies : a spatial cohort multinomial probit approach (with James LeSage and Olivier Parent), Annales d’Economie et de Statistiques, 2007, 87-88, pp. 63-80.
• Social distance versus spatial distance in R&D cooperation. Empirical evidence from European collaboration choices in Micro and nanotechnologies (with Pascal Billand, David Frachisse and Nadine Massard) Papers in Regional Science, 2007, 86 (3), pp. 495-519.