Eric DARMON Ass. Professor at the University of Rennes 1 Member of CREM, Center of Research in Economics and Management, common research unit of CNRS and University of Rennes 1) Member of IDEC, Center for Digital Economics and Competition M@RSOUIN Research fellow, Môle Armoricain de Recherche sur la SOciété de l'information et les Usages d'internet Born on 01/12/1977 in Nice (France), French citizenship Contact : Faculté des Sciences Economiques et CREM-CNRS 7, place Hoche F-35560 RENNES Cedex eric.darmon «at» univ-rennes1.fr http://perso.univ-rennes1.fr/eric.darmon +33 (0)2 23 23 33 34 RESEARCH TOPICS Internet Economics o E-commerce, online advertising o Software (open source, piracy) o Digital piracy o Innovation Market Theory (search & matching models) Cognitive Economics o Behavioral Game Theory o Multi-Agent Systems (JAVA programming) DEGREES Ph.D. in Economics, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (UNSA), Three essays on the organization of electronic markets, sponsored by a research grant of the French government (2005) Master of Science Degree "Industrial Organization and Economic Dynamics" (French "Maîtrise" and "DEA"), University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 1998-2000 POSITIONS 2006- : Ass.Professor at the University of Rennes 1, Econ Dpt. ; Research fellow at CREM-CNRS, IDEC Center and M@RSOUIN 2005-6: Lecturer at ENST-Bretagne (engineer school) and at EDHEC-Nice (Business School) 2000-6: Lecturer at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis This version : March 2013 1/5
RESEARCH Published papers or edited issues Proprietary or Open Source software: winner takes all competition, partial adoption and efficiency (with D.Torre and T. Le Texier) Revue d Economie Industrielle, n 136, 4ème trimestre 2011, pp. 109-140 Special issue edited on Recent Advances in the Economics of Open Source software of the International Journal of Open Source software & Processes (publication of the Information Resources Management Association), vol. 1, No. 2 (April June 2009), co-edited with D. Torre Back to software "profitable piracy": the role of information diffusion, (with A. Rufini and D. Torre), Economics Bulletin, 2009 Vol. 29 no.2, pp. 543-553 Open Source and Commercial Platforms: is coexistence a temporary or a sustainable outcome? (with D. Torre), International Journal of Open Source software & Processes, 2009, vol. 1, No. 2, pp.67-80 Nash vs Reinforcement Learning on a Search Market: some Similarities and Differences between Individual and Social learning, (with R. Waldeck) European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 2006, (vol.19), n 2 Can Boundedly Rational Sellers Learn to Play Nash Does it matter to play Nash? Pricing with adaptive sellers (with R. Waldeck), Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, 2006 (1) No. 2, pp. 147-169 Convergence of Reinforcement Learning to Nash Equilibrium: a search-market experiment (with R. Waldeck), Physica A, september 2005, vol. 355, pp. 119-130. Adoption and Use of Electronic Markets: Individual and Collective Learning (with D. Torre), Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, march 2004, vol. 7, n 2. Transition vers un Marché Electronique et Communautés Médiatées (with D. Torre), Revue d Economie Politique, march 2004, vol. 113, pp. 91-115. Other publications / Position papers Comment l'hadopi est-elle perçue par les internautes français?, with T.Penard, S.Dejean and R.Suire, M@RSOUIN position paper, July 2012 Etat des lieux des pratiques légales et illégales en ligne : la montée du piratage de proximité, with R.Suire, S.Dejean, T.Penard, M@RSOUIN position paper, July 2012 Le commerce électronique améliore-t-il l efficacité des marchés?, Net PME News n 233, 28 feb 2006 Comparing Nash to Adaptive Sellers, Advances in Cognitive Economics, NBU Series in Cognitive Science, edited by Boicho Kokinov, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cognitive Economics, Sofia, August 2005. (with R. Waldeck) "Coordination entre marchés traditionnels et marchés électroniques", Perspectives Economiques, Ministère de l Economie du Luxembourg (STATEC), actes du Premier Colloque international "En route vers Lisbonne: vers une économie de la Connaissance", Luxembourg, 12-13 sept. 2004 (with D. Torre) 2/5
Working Papers (available on request) To Sponsor or not to Sponsor: Sponsored Search Auctions with Organic Links (with M.Arnold and T.Penard) Dual licensing with competition (with D.Torre) Who should enforce what? Digital piracy and illegal behaviors with an 'outside' option (with T. Le Texier) Software distribution with unobservable characteristics and strategic user adoption (with D.Torre and A.Rufini) Work(s) in progress The effects of anti-piracy laws on users' perceptions and behaviors: an empirical analysis (with M.Arnold, S.Dejean and T.Penard) Determinants of SME's Adoption of Open Source Software and ERP: lessons from the French case (with N.Colombier) Empirical analysis of SME's use of webmarketing strategies (with M.Zeroukhi) Participations to Research Projects Ongoing projects : - Head of the SISCOM project on Statistical Analysis and Modelling of Hybrid Open Source communities (2013) - PEPS project on Interacting networks and digital Open Source communities (2013) - FRAMBLE project (ANR funding) on Conflicts in Franchising (participation to the "Franchising and E-commerce" Task) - ADAUPI project (2011-2013) as for Analyse des Décisions, Attitudes et Usages de Piratage sur Internet, funded by M@RSOUIN : theoretical & empirical investigation of the impacts of anti-piracy measures on internet users Past projects : - Project M@RSOUIN CREATE (2007-9) - Project GET ENST-Bretagne «DisPairSe» (évaluation économique d un dispositif innovant basé sur l IPv6 (2006-8) - Project "Organisation des Marchés Electroniques: Emergences et Dynamiques", ACI-CNRS «Systèmes Complexes en SHS» (2004-2006) - ELICCIR Project: "Emergence de L'Individu au Comportement Collectif : Interactions et Représentations", ACI-CNRS «Systèmes Complexes en SHS», 2003-2005 - Project "Economie des Communautés Médiatées et Marchés en ligne", Programme Interdisciplinaire du CNRS SHS-STIC, Axe 3 «Construction d une économie et d une société de l Information», 2002-2005 3/5
Communications to Conferences/Workshops/Seminars EPIP Conference (KU Leuven, Sept 2012) Paris-Sud Telecom ICT Conference, June 2012 29èmes Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée (Brest Fr, June 2012) Invitation to DICE Seminar (Dusseldorf, January 2012) EARIE 2011 (Stockholm, Sept. 2011) 9 th ZEW ICT Conference (Mannheim, June 2011) 48 th AFSE Conference (Paris, Sept. 2010) 4 th Free/Libre Open Source Software International Workshop (Jena, July 2010) Int. Conference on Digital Business Models (Paris, June 2010) 3 rd Free/Libre Open Source Software International Workshop (Padova, July 2009) 7th M@RSOUIN Workshop (Guidel, June 2009) 2 nd Free/Libre Open Source Software International Workshop (Rennes, June 2008) 3 rd Telecom-Paris Conference on the Economics of ICT (Paris, June 2008) 1 st Free/Libre Open Source Software International Workshop (Sophia Antipolis, May 2007) ADIS Conference on Online Services (December 2007) 3 rd Model-to-Model (M2M) Workshop (GREQAM-Marseille, Mars 2007) "En route vers Lisbonne" - Second colloque luxembourgeois sur l'economie de la Connaissance (Luxembourg, Novembre 2006) EARIE 2006 (Amsterdam, Septembre 2006) "En route vers Lisbonne" - Second colloque luxembourgeois sur l'economie de la Connaissance (Luxembourg, Nov. 2006) EARIE 2006 (Amsterdam, Sept. 2006) Conference on the Economics of ICT (Paris, June 2006) 11th annual WEHIA (Bologna, June 2006) 12ièmes Journées de l ACSEG, (Aix-en-Provence, 17-18 Nov. 2005) XVièmes Journées du SESAME (Rennes, Sept. 2005) LIV e Conférence annuelle de l AFSE (Paris, Sept. 2003) International Conference on Cognitive Economics (Sofia, Aug. 2005) 5th ZEW Conference on ICT (Mannheim, July 2005) 10th Annual WEHIA (Stirling, June 2005) 22èmes JMA (Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée), (Hammamet May 2005) International Conference on "ICT and Inequalities" (Paris, Nov. 2004) Premier Colloque international "En route vers Lisbonne: vers une économie de la Connaissance" (Luxembourg, Sept. 2004) "New Economic Windows 2004: Complexity Hints for Economic Policy" (Salerno, Sept. 2004) First Bonzenfreies Conference on "Market Dynamics and Quantitative Economics", (Alessandria, Sept. 2004) Conference "Shifting Boundaries: Governance, Competence and Economic Organization in the Knowledge Economy", (Bristol, Sept. 2004) Conférence "Défauts de coordination : théories et politiques économiques", COFAIL- Université de Paris X-Nanterre (Paris, June 2004) Journées Doctoriales du GDR "TIC et Société", Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, January 2004) International Conference on "Market Dynamics" (Sophia Antipolis, Nov. 2003) LII e conférence annuelle de l AFSE (Paris, Sept. 2003) 1st NAACSOS Conference, (Pittsburgh, June 2003) ; Workshop Complexity, (Aix en Provence, May 2003) 5 th Conférence "Economics of ICT" organized by the Berlecon Research Institute (Berlin, June 2003) 4/5
3rd EMAEE conference (Augsburg, April 2003) Workshop "Analyse Economique du Commerce Electronique: théorie et pratique", ENST- Paris (Paris, Dec. 2002) TEACHING ACTIVITIES Director of the Master 1 st -year program Strategy Logistics & E-Business, University of Rennes 1, Econ. Dpt (since 2010) Coordinator of the Master 1 EGE (Business Economics & Management), University of Rennes 1, Econ. Dpt (since 2010) Director of the 1 st year Bachelor in Economics & Management (2007-2010) (Selected) Courses : University of Rennes 1 Undergraduate: Microeconomics (imperfect competition) ; Business Strategy (intro to IO) ; economic computing with Mathematica Graduate: Business games (e-commerce, telecom) ; Economics of ICT ; Economics of Software and Information systems ; Economics of Innovation Supelec (engineering shool) : Microecomics University of Montpellier (Political Science, graduate) : economic issues on digital communication IGPDE (French Ministry of Economics of Finance, exec.) : Business cases and Strategy 2009- : Coordinator of the Excellence program "Introduction to Research in Economics" for Bachelor students at the University of Rennes 1 (dpt of Economics) ; organizer of the INSIDE seminar (dissemination of research activities for bachelor students) MISCELLANEOUS FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software) Network (2007-) : Member of the scientific committee of a series of workshops on FLOSS (Nice 2006, Rennes 2007, Padova 2009, Jena 2010) Editorial and refereeing activities Member of the Editorial board ( Secretariat ) of the Revue d'economie Industrielle (2006-9) Referee for several peer journal (Review of Network Economics, Revue d'economie Industrielle, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Communications & Strategy) and peer-revieved conferences (AFSE, ICIS Conference) Organizer of the CREM Seminar IO/Public Economics (2006-2008) Elected Member of the Department Council (Conseil de Faculté, 2008-2013) and Member of recruiting committees (University of Rennes 1, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis), since 2012 Visiting fellow: University of Delaware (2013), ENCG (2012), University of Nice (2011, 2012) 5/5