October 27–28, 2020
online
Conference co-organized with Ant Financial (Alibaba Group). This conference and Tokenomics will have a common program on October 27 afternoon.
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
The joint program with Tokenomics 2020
12:15 – 1:00 pm: Keynote speech - Long CHEN (Secretary-General Luohan Academy, Ant Financial) “On inclusive open finance in the digital age”
1:00 - 2:30 pm Joint Session on Platforms and Blockchain/Crytocurrencies
•1:00 – 1:30 : “Token-Based Platform Finance” - Ye LI (Ohio State University) joint with Lin WILLIAM CONG and Neng WANG
•1:30 – 2:00 : “When Do Smart Contracts and IoT Improve Efficiency? Automated Execution vs. Increased Information”, Hanna HALABURDA (NYU Stern) joint with Yannis BAKOS
•2:00 – 2:30 : “Product Market Competition with Crypto Tokens and Smart Contracts” Evgeny LYANDRES (Boston University)
3:00 – 3:45 pm: Keynote speech - Jean TIROLE (TSE) - “Some economics of fintech”
Wednesday, October 28, 2020
9:30 – 11:45 am: Session 1: Academic presentations
Moderator: Alexandre de Cornière (TSE)
•9:30 – 10:15: “Shelving or Developing? Acquisition of Potential Competitors” Massimo MOTTA (UPF) joint with Chiara FUMAGALLI and Emanuele TARANTINO
Discussant: Patrick REY (TSE)
•10:15 – 11:00: "Regulating Platform Fees under Price Parity" Renato GOMES (TSE), joint with Andrea MANTOVANI
Discussant: Thibaud VERGE (ENSAE)
•11:00 – 11:45: "Platform Design when Sellers Use Pricing Algorithm" Andrew RHODES (TSE), joint with Justin JOHNSON and Matthijs WILDENBEEST
Discussant: Emilio CALVANO (University of Bologna)
11:45 – 1:00 pm: Lunch break
1:00 - 2:30 pm: Round Table “Regulation and Antitrust of Digital Platforms”
Moderator: Jean TIROLE (TSE)
- Jacques CRÉMER (TSE)
- Amelia FLETCHER (Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia’)
- Eliana GARCES (Facebook)
- Pierre RÉGIBEAU (European Commission)
2:45 - 3:30 pm: Keynote speech - Marc Rysman (Boston University) “Empirics of Two-Sided Markets”
Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)
3:45 - 6:00 pm: Session 2: Academic presentations
Moderator: Daniel Ershov (TSE)
•3.45 – 4:30: “When FinTech Competes for Payment Flows " Haoxiang ZHU (MIT), joint with Christine PARLOUR and Uday RAJAN
Discussant: Guillaume PLANTIN (Sciences Po)
•4:30 – 5:15: "Competitive Advertising on Brand Search: Traffic Stealing and Consumer Selection” Andrey SIMONOV (Columbia University)
Discussant: Maria-Ana VITORINO (INSEAD)
•5:15 – 6:00 “Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Returns to Scale Using a Digital Platform Merger” Chiara FARRONATO (HBS) joint with Andrey FRADKIN
Discussant: Francesco DECAROLIS (Bocconi University)
