October 16–17, 2025
Room Auditorium 4
Description
The objective of this workshop is to foster interactions between the fields of Finance and Industrial Organization. The workshop will feature a keynote by Alessandro Gavazza (London School of Economics) and 10 to 12 paper presentations over the course of two days with discussants and ample time for interactions. We welcome empirical and theoretical submissions that borrow from both fields thematically or methodologically.
Call for Papers
You are invited to submit a paper for the TSE IOFi conference. The conference will be held in person at the Toulouse School of Economics, on 16-17 October 2025.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Competition between financial service providers
- Entry of new players in the financial intermediation chain (Fintechs, NBFIs)
- Integration between different financial services (e.g., payment and credit) or between financial services and other activities (e.g., social networks and payment)
- The role of data in the provision of financial services, Open Banking
- The use of structural estimation techniques to analyze the demand for financial products and/or strategic interactions between financial firms.
- The impact of the organization of financial firms for product market competition.
We provide accommodation, lunches and dinners for presenters but will not cover travel expenses.
Submission deadline: June 1st 2025
Acceptance decision: Mid July 2025
Local organizers
Matthieu Bouvard (TSE)
Patrick Coen (Bank of England & TSE)
Chuqing Jin (TSE)
Selection Committee
Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto)
Matteo Benetton (UC Berkeley)
Milo Bianchi (TSE)
Erica Jiang (University of Southern California)
Scott Nelson (University of Chicago)
Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University)
Eric Richert (University of Chicago)
Martin Schmalz (University of Oxford and PCAOB)
Marianne Verdier (University Paris 2 Panthéon Assas)
Milena Wittwer (Boston College)
Yufeng Wu (Ohio State University)
Conference secretariat
For further information, please contact Emilie Lopez & Valérie Placier at iofi@conference@tse-fr.eu