Christian Barrère is agrégé in economic sciences et director of the OMI research lab (trade organisations and institutions) and of the Masters Degree "Institutions, organisations, performances".

He is a specialist in the economics of institutions and is particularly interested  in the various types of organisation and regulation of markets. He contributed to renew the economic approach of heritage. He more specifacally worked on the economics of art, luxury goods, haute couture, Champagne and also the economics of creativity.

Publications:

C.BARRERE, W.SANTAGATA,  "Defining Art : from the Brancusi Trial to the Economics of Artistic Semiotic Goods",  International Journal of Arts Management , 1999,  pp. 28-40.

C.BARRERE, "Luxe aristocratique et luxe marchand: Balenciaga, LVMH et PPR", Les Cahiers de la recherche Luxe-Mode, 2003. pp 53-68.

C.BARRERE (en collaboration avec W.Santagata et B.Courault), "La mode : une économie de la créativité et du patrimoine",  Rapport pour le Ministère de la Culture, 2003, 312 p.