- Director, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (from 2012 to 2021)
- Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics (from 2000)
- Lecturer and Reader, University of Cambridge (from 1988 to 2000)
- D.Phil., University of Oxford (1988)
- B.A., University of Oxford (from 1977 to 1990)
- Behavioural and Institutional Economics
- Competition Policy and Industrial Economics
- Very long run economic history
- Economics of religion