Claire CHAMBOLLE

Claire CHAMBOLLE is a Research Director at INRAE (Paris Saclay Applied Economics) and a Part-Time Professor at École Polytechnique. She holds significant advisory roles including membership in the European Commission's Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy (EAGCP), the Executive Committee of EARIE, and the Agricultural Commercial Dispute Settlement Committee. Her academic credentials include a PhD in Economics from Université Paris 1 (2000) and an HDR from Université du Capitole, Toulouse (2014).

Her research focuses on industrial organization, competition policy, and agricultural economics, with expertise in vertical relationships, buyer power, and retail market regulation. Key themes include the analysis of mergers, bargaining dynamics, innovation incentives, and competition law impacts.

Her publications demonstrate consistent focus on competition economics, with recent work exploring buyer power theories, vertical integration effects, and exclusionary practices. Methodologies span theoretical modeling, empirical analysis, and experimental approaches to market behavior.

Awards:

• EAAE Research Discovery Award (2017) for research on retail mergers

She maintains active collaborations with research networks including the Centre for Competition Policy and RBB Economics. Current projects investigate input price discrimination, markups in supply chains, and regulation in grocery retail sectors.