Margaret Kyle

Margaret Kyle is Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology, MINES ParisTech.

She studies 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. Her 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 related to innovation and access to therapies in developing countries. Her papers have been published in various journals of economics, strategy and health policy, including the RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Health Services Research, and Health Affairs.

Professor Kyle is an associate editor at the International Journal of Industrial Organization and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy. She previously held positions at Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University, London Business School, and the Toulouse School of Economics, and is a visiting professor at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the University of Hong Kong and Northwestern University.

Recent Publications

Kyle, M.K., 2025. Lessons for the United States from Pharmaceutical Regulation Abroad. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 39(2), pp.53-78. https://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php?doi=10.1257/jep.39.2#page=55

Castaldi, C., Giuliani, E., Kyle, M. and Nuvolari, A., 2024. Are intellectual property rights working for society?. Research Policy, 53(2), p.104936. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733323002202

Kyle, M., 2022. COVID-19 and clinical trials. Resilience and Ingenuity Global Innovation Responses to COVID-19. https://cepr.org/system/files/publication-files/167264-resilience_and_ingenuity_global_innovation_responses_to_covid_19.pdf#page=184

Kyle, M.K., 2022. Incentives for pharmaceutical innovation: What’s working, what’s lacking. Journal du Droit de la Santé et de l’Assurance-Maladie (JDSAM), 35(5), pp.24-40.