Thursday, January 11, 2024
SUZANNE SCOTCHMER MEMORIAL LECTURE
CHAIR: Fiona SCOTT MORTON (Yale University)
Paul HEIDHUES, Mats Köster and Botond Kőszegi (Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics or DICE, Heinrich-Heine University)
"Exploiting Defaults across Digital Markets"
PARALLEL SESSION 1A – Product recommendations/targeting
CHAIR: David MARTIMORT (TSE)
Shota ICHIHASHI (Queen’s University) and Alex Smolin (TSE)
"Buyer-Optimal Algorithmic Consumption"
Discussant: Matthew MITCHELL (University of Toronto)
Daniele CONDORELLI (University of Warwick) and Balazs Szentes (London School of Economics)
"Buyer-Optimal Platform Design"
Discussant: Alex SMOLIN (TSE)
Markus REISINGER (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) and Heiko Karle (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)
"Imperfect Targeting and Advertising Strategies"
Discussant: Simon P. ANDERSON (University of Virginia)
PARALLEL SESSION 1B – Empirical price discrimination
CHAIR: Isis DURRMEYER (TSE)
Yanyou CHEN (University of Toronto), Yao Luo (University of Toronto) and Zhe Yuan (Zhejiang University)
"Driving the Drivers: Algorithmic Wage-Setting in Ride-Hailing"
Discussant: Luise EISFELD (HEC Lausanne)
Tiffany TSAI (National University of Singapore) and Nan Chen (National University of Singapore)
"Price Competition Under Information (Dis)Advantage"
Discussant: Chuqing JIN (TSE)
Francesco GABRIELE (University of Southern California)
"Personalized or Uniform Pricing? E-commerce Behavior-based Price Discrimination"
Discussant: Isis DURRMEYER (TSE)
PARALLEL SESSION 2A – Frontiers in economics of platforms
CHAIR: Sara SHAHANAGHI (TSE)
Tim SIMCOE (Boston University Questrom School of Business), Doh-Shin Jeon (TSE, Universityof Toulouse Capitole, CEPR) Yassine Lefouili (TSE, University of Toulouse Capitole), Yaxin Li (TSE, University of Toulouse Capitole)
"Ecosystems and Complementary Platforms"
Discussant: Gary BIGLAISER (The University of North Carolina)
Florian SCHUETT (KU Leuven and Tilburg University) and Amedeo Piolatto (UAB & BSE & IEB)
"Platform Design and Rent Extraction"
Discussant: Mikhail DRUGOV (New Economic School)
Anna D'ANNUNZIO (Toulouse Business School)
"Platform Transaction taxes and Feemium Pricing"
Discussant: Lijun PAN (Nanjing University)
PARALLEL SESSION 2B – Social media and welfare
CHAIR: Andrea MANTOVANI (TBS)
Jordan LOPER (Université Clermont Auvergne, CERDI)
"Connecting the Unconnected: Facebook Access and Female Political Representation in Sub- Saharan Africa" SLIDES
Discussant: Giacomo LEMOLI (TSE-IAST)
Rafael JIMENEZ-DURAN (Bocconi University), Leonardo Bursztyn (University of Chicago and NBER), Benjamin Handel (University of California Berkeley and NBER) and Rafael Christopher Roth (University of Cologne, Max Planck Institute for Collective Goods, briq, CESifo, and CEPR)
"When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media"
Discussant: Renaud FOUCART (Lancaster Business School)
David GILO (Buchmann Faculty of Law), Ariel Porat and Yevgeny Tsodikovich
"Addiction to a Network"
Discussant: Leonardo MADIO (University of Padova)
ROUNDTABLE: THE WHO AND HOW OF REGULATION
CHAIR: William KOVACIC (Georges Washington University)
- David EVANS (Berkeley Research Group)
- Roee LEVY (Tel Aviv University)
- Fiona SCOTT MORTON (Yale University)
- William KOVACIC (Georges Washington University
Friday, January 12, 2024
PARALLEL SESSION 3A – Economics of data
CHAIR: Bruno JULLIEN (TSE)
Bruno CARBALLA SMICHOWSKI (European Commission JRC), Néstor Duch-Brown (European Commission JRC), Seyit Höcük (Centerdata), Pradeep Kumar (Centerdata), Bertin Martens (TILEC, Tilburg University), Joris Mulder (Centerdata) and Patricia Prüfer (Centerdata & Tilburg University)
"Economies of Scope in Data Aggregation: Evidence from Health Data"
Discussant: Maximilian SCHAFER (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School)
Jan KRAMER (University of Passau), Daniel Schnurr (University of Regensburg), Bastian Haberer (University of Passau)
"Do Consumers Benefit from Selling their Data? The Economic Impact of Personal Data Brokers on Digital Markets"
Discussant: Yossi SPIEGEL (Tel Aviv University)
Shiva SHEKHAR (Tilburg School of Economics and Management), Chongwoo Choe (Monash University) and Noriaki Matsushima (Osaka University)
"The Bright Side of the GDPR: Welfare-Improving Privacy Management"
Discussant: Radostina SHOPOVA (Economic Research Institute in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
PARALLEL SESSION 3B – Macroeconomics and trade
CHAIR: Fabrice COLLARD (TSE)
César HIDALGO, Viktor Stojkoski, Philipp Koch (Center for Collective Learning, University of Toulouse) and Eva Coll (Center for Collective Learning, University of Toulouse, LEREPS, Sciences Po Toulouse)
"The Geography of Digital Trade"
Discussant: Paul SEABRIGHT (TSE)
Antoine DUBUS (ETH Zürich), Marko Köthenbürger and Mathieu Parenti
"Trade in Data"
Discussant: Doh-Shin JEON (TSE)
Roxana MIHET (HEC Lausanne & SFI), Orlando Gomes (Lisbon Accounting and Business School) and Kumar Rishabh (University of Lausanne, and University of Basel)
"Cyber Risk-Driven Innovation in the Modern data Economy"
Discussant: Fabrice COLLARD (TSE)
PARALLEL SESSION 4A – Data & algorithms
CHAIR: Christophe BISIERE (TSE)
Ksenia SHAKHGILDYAN (Bocconi University), Francesco Decarolis (Bocconi University), Gabriele Rovigatti (Bank of Italy,) and Michele Rovigatti (Bocconi University)
"Artificial Intelligence & Data Obfuscation: Algorithmic Competition in Digital Ad Auctions"
Discussant: Jorge PADILLA (Compass Lexecon)
Carlo REGGIANI (JRC Seville and University of Manchester), Bruno Carballa-Smichowski (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Seville) Yassine Lefouili (Toulouse School of Economics) and Andrea Mantovani (TBS Business School, Toulouse)
"Data Sharing or Analytics Sharing?"
Discussant: Greg TAYLOR (University of Oxford)
PARALLEL SESSION 4B – Regulation mechanisms
CHAIR: Özlem BEDRE-DEFOLIE (EUI Florence)
Ying BAO (University of Illinois), Limin Fang, Zining Liu, Matthew Osborne
"The Effect of Quality Disclosure on Firm Entry and Exit Dynamics: Evidence from Online Review Platforms"
Discussant: Helena PERRONE (University of Mannheim)
Harry PEI (Northwestern University)
Reputation Effects with Endogenous Records
Discussant: Ali SHOURIDEH (Carnegie Mellon University)
PARALLEL SESSION 5A – Frontiers in economics of Platforms
CHAIR: Alex SMOLIN (TSE)
Roee LEVY (Tel Aviv University), Luca Braghieri (Bocconi) and Hannah Trachtman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Demand for Online News, Inertia, and Misperceptions
Discussant: Karine VAN DER STRAETEN (TSE)
Maryam SAEEDI (Carnegie Mellon University), Adrian Casillas (MIT Sloan), Maryam Farboodi (MIT Sloan, NBER and CEPR), Layla Hashemi (George Mason University) and Steven Wilson (Brandeis University)
"(Dis)Information Wars"
Discussant: Jens PRÜFER (Tilburg University and University of East Anglia)
PARALLEL SESSION 5B – Price discrimination Ø Auditorium 3
CHAIR: David SALANT (TSE)
Jean-François FOURNEL (Toulouse School of Economics, Université Toulouse Capitole), Isis Durrmeyer (Toulouse School of Economics, Université Toulouse Capitole), Mario Samano (HEC Montreal)
"Personalized Pricing and the Value of Past Purchase Histories: An Empirical Perspective"
Discussant: Hester ZHANG (IESE Business School)
Sandro SHELEGIA (UPF), Mark Armstrong (UCL)
"A Search Model of Remarketing"
Discussant: Andrew RHODES (TSE)
KEYNOTE LECTURE
CHAIR: Patrick REY (TSE)
Andrei HAGIU (Boston University Questrom School of Business)
"Data-feedback Loops, AI, Commoditization and Competitive Advantage"