My ongoing research projects develop along the following themes:

1) I recently worked on two very different projects from which two books came out. With my colleagues John Groenewegen and Rolf Kunneke, fromTU Delft, we  finalized a book on the interactions between institutions and technology in network infrastructures. Preliminary results have been published in different journals and books (see my vitae), and an overview of the underlying model in its early phase is available from the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2010).  This project benefited from the support of the Next Generation Infrastructures foundation (Netherlands) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR) over several years.

Very differently, with my colleague and friend Mary Shirley, we proceeded to an in-depth revision of our Handbook of New Institutional Economics, with a selection of chapters from the previous edition (2005/2008) that have been deeply revised and almost half of the chapters from new contributors. The book is available OPEN ACCESS, thanks to a generous donor

2) I am part of different research projects that intend to develop a more advanced version of the New Institutional Economics model, with applications to urban water services, agri-business, fisheries management, and environmental issues. Beside the publication of numerous papers, these projects have also led to the delivery of reports for international organizations (World Bank, OECD, etc.).

3) With Olivia Jensen and other colleagues from the National University of Singapore (where I have been adjunct professor in 2017-2018), we recently worked on a project to assess the role of meso-institutions in the governance of several water utilities in East Asia.(see article in JOIE, December 2024)

4) With Elisabeth Dries, Gaetano Martino, Gustavo Oliveira, Stefano Pascucci, Annie Royer, Sylvia Saes, and Paula Schnaider, we have been working and continue to do so on projects about institutional settings that differentiate the implementation and enforcement of public policies, with application to agricultural and environmental policies in different countries. A special issue of the Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE) will come out soon based on some of these researches.

5) Last, over the last decades I have worked  quite closely with Russian colleagues on the reforms of different Russian infrastructures (airports, energy, etc.) as well as on theoretical issues. Several reports and articles came out of this activity. Unfortunately, this collaboration has been interrupted by the ongoing war in Ukraine.