The online Economics of Platforms Seminar will meet the first Tuesday of each month.
Hosted by TSE Digital Center, this virtual seminar series is focused on the economics of platforms. Seminars can cover all aspects related to the economics of platforms including, for example, competition, strategy, design, governance, and policy issues. We hope to attract a good mix of applied theory, empirical papers, and policy discussions.
Contacts
To propose a talk, please contact one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee:
Andrei Hagiu: ahagiu@gmail.com or Julian Wright: wright.economics@gmail.com
To obtain a link to a seminar and to be put on our mailing list, please contact Marie-Hélène Dufour
Seminar guidelines
The speaker will present for 40 mins, 5 mins for the discussant and we will have 15 mins for Q&A. Each seminar will be moderated, and participants can post their questions to the chat room on Zoom. Questions will usually be channeled through the moderator. Participants (other than the speaker and moderator) should leave their mic off unless asked by the moderator to speak." More detailed rules will be shared in due course.
Upcoming Talks
Seminars will take place the first Tuesday of each month at 2.00 PM Toulouse Time via Zoom.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025:
Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto), "Content Moderation for Sale: Selling Attention through Steering and Certification"
Moderator: Greg Taylor (University of Oxford). Discussant: TBA
Past Talks
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025: Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics), "Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation" (with Jidong Zhou and Junjie Zhou)
Moderator: Alexandre De Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics). Discussant: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University), "'Sherlocking' and Platform Information Policy" (with Kyungmin Kim and Arijit Mukherjee)
Moderator: Alex Smolin (TSE). Discussant: Chengsi Wang (Monash University)
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025: Regina Seibel (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), "The Cost Of The Cold-Start Problem On Airbnb" (with Florian Dendorfer)
Moderator: Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School). Discussant: Imke Reimers (Cornell University)
Tuesday, December 3th, 2024: Yaron Yehezkel (Coller School of Management, Tel-Aviv University), "Competing for Cookies: Platforms’ Business Models in Data Markets with Network Effects" (with Sarit Markovich)
Moderator: Hanna Halaburda (NYU-Stern School of Business). Discussant: Tat-How Teh (Nanyang Technological University)
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024: Tobias Salz (MIT), "Sources of Market Power in Web Search: Evidence from a Field Experiment" (with Hunt Allcott, Juan Camilo Castillo, Matthew Gentzkow and Leon Musolff)
Moderator: Andrey Fradkin (Boston University-Questrom School of Business). Discussant: Paul Heidhues (DICE)
Tuesday, October 1st, 2024: Paul Heidhues (DICE), "A Theory of Digital Ecosystems" (with Mats Köster, Botond Köszegi)
Moderator: Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto). Discussant: Patrick Rey (TSE)
Tuesday, September 3, 2024: Mert Demirer (MIT Sloan School of Management), "Data, Privacy Laws and Firm Production: Evidence from the GDPR" (with Diego J. Jiménez Hernández, Dean Li and Sida Peng)
Moderator: Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota). Discussant: Christian Peukert (Université de Lausanne)
Tuesday, July 2, 2024: Guy Aridor (Northwestern University), "Evaluating The Impact of Privacy Regulation on E-Commerce Firms: Evidence from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency" (with Yeon-Koo Che, Brett Hollenbeck, Maximilian Kaiser and Daniel McCarthy)
Moderator: Tiffany Tsai (National University of Singapore). Discussant: Garrett Johnson (Boston University)
Tuesday, June 4, 2024: Daniele Condorelli (University of Warwick), "Buyer-Optimal Platform Design" (with Balazs Szentes)
Moderator: Alexandre De Cornière (TSE). Discussant: Alessandro Bonatti (MIT Sloan School of Management)
Tuesday, May 7, 2024: Tony Ke (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) "Information Design of Online Platforms" (with Song Lin and Michelle Y. Lu)
Moderator: Alex Smolin (TSE). Discussant: Andrew Rhodes (TSE)
Tuesday, April 2, 2024: Tobias Klein (Tilburg University) "How Important are User-generated Data for Search Result Quality?" (with Madina Kurmangaliyeva, Jens Prüfer and Patricia Prüfer)
Moderator: Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia). Discussant: Gregory Crawford (Chief Economist, Zalando, and Professor University of Zurich)
Tuesday, March 5, 2024: Rafael Jimenez-Duran (Bocconi University and Chicago Booth Stigler Center) "When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media" (with Leonardo Bursztyn, Benjamin Handel and Christopher Roth)
Moderator: Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School). Discussant: Ro'ee Levy (Tel Aviv University)
Tuesday, February 6, 2024: Jacopo Gambato (University of Mannheim, ZEW) "Platform-Enabled Information Disclosure" (with Martin Peitz)
Moderator: David Salant (TSE). Discussant: Tat-How Teh (NTU Singapore)
- Talks of 2020-2023 academic year: list here
Scientific Committee
Co-chairs: Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics), Andrei Hagiu (Boston University), Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)
Members: Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission (Tokyo)), Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto), Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT-Berlin), Luis Cabral (NYU-Stern School of Business), Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University), Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School), Alexandre De Cornière (TSE), Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia), Andrey Fradkin (Boston University-Questrom School of Business), Hanna Halaburda (NYU-Stern School of Business), Shota Ichihashi (Queen’s University), Doh-Shin Jeon (TSE), Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland), David Salant (TSE), Alex Smolin (TSE) Yossi, Spiegel (Tel Aviv University), Greg Taylor (University of Oxford), Tiffany Tsai (National University of Singapore), Junjie Zhou (Tsinghua University).
