- DateFrom 8 to 9 January 2026
- Room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4
Thank you!
It was a sincere pleasure to welcome you at the 18th Digital Economics Conference on January 8-9, 2026 at TSE.
The Scientific Committee warmly thanks its partners and participants for being a part of this scientific event and for contributing to its success.
We invite you to consult the section EVENT of the site which announces all conferences proposed by TSE.
SAVE THE DATE - Next edition January 7-8, 2027
Background & objective
The objective of the conference, organized by the TSE Digital Center at the Toulouse School of Economics, with the help of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of the digital economy and its consequences for modern societies.
The conference will feature contributions in economics - theoretical, econometric, experimental and policy oriented - as well as contributions from other social sciences and computer and data science.
Speakers
Keynote speakers
- Monika Schnitzer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and chair of the German Council of Economic Experts
- Laura Veldkamp, Columbia Business School
Roundtable
Is there enough competition in the AI stack? What (if anything) should be done about it?
- Adam COHEN (OpenAI)
- F. Enrique GONZÁLEZ-DÍAZ(Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton)
- Oliver LATHAM (Charles River Associates)
- Rikke Riber RASMUSSEN (Google)
- Jacques CREMER (TSE) - Chair
Read the full roundtable summary here
Organizing committee
Alexandre de Cornière (TSE, CEPR), Jacques Crémer (TSE, CEPR) and Paul Seabright (IAST, TSE, CEPR)
Supported by
Brett Hollenbeck, The Impact of LLM Adoption on Online User Behavior
Shota Ichihashi, Mechanism Design for Ad-Supported Platforms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Doh-Shin Jeon, AI safety and competition
Jan Krämer, Are Preset Defaults Harmful?
Ro'ee Levy, Digital News Consumption: Evidence from Smartphone Content in the 2024 US Elections
Gaston Llanes, App Store Competition
Flavio Pino, Machine data sharing and innovation incentives
Jean-Christophe Poudou, Dynamic platform competition 'In' and 'For' the market
Marcel Preuss, Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms
Marina Rizzi, Self-Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of Content: A Cross Platform Analysis
Sandro Shelegia (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Ranking algorithms, learning, and pricing
Fabian Slonimczyk, This Candidate is [MASK]. Prompt-based Sentiment Extraction and Reference Letters
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
The State of Competition in the AI Stack
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Corporate Relations
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Partnership research
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Digital
Conference venue
Toulouse School of Economics
1 Esplanade de l'Université - Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont & Auditorium 4
31080 Toulouse cedex 06
Conference secretariat
Mélanie Bataillard / Emilie Lopez