Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle (Mines Paris – PSL and CEPR) currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology. Her research concerns innovation, productivity and competition. She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Recent work examines the effect of trade and IP policies on the level, location and direction of R&D investment and competition. She also works on issues of innovation and access to therapies in developing countries.

Her papers have been published in various journals of economics, strategy, and health policy, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Antitrust Law Journal, Management Science, and Health Affairs.