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18th Digital Economics Conference

  • 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? 

Read the full roundtable summary here

Organizing committee

Alexandre de Cornière (TSE, CEPR), Jacques Crémer (TSE, CEPR) and Paul Seabright (IAST, TSE, CEPR)

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Brett Hollenbeck, The Impact of LLM Adoption on Online User Behavior

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Shota Ichihashi, Mechanism Design for Ad-Supported Platforms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Doh-Shin Jeon, AI safety and competition

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Jan Krämer, Are Preset Defaults Harmful?

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Ro'ee Levy, Digital News Consumption: Evidence from Smartphone Content in the 2024 US Elections

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Gaston Llanes, App Store Competition

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Flavio Pino, Machine data sharing and innovation incentives

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Jean-Christophe Poudou, Dynamic platform competition 'In' and 'For' the market

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Marcel Preuss, Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Marina Rizzi, Self-Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of Content: A Cross Platform Analysis

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Sandro Shelegia (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Ranking algorithms, learning, and pricing

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

Fabian Slonimczyk, This Candidate is [MASK]. Prompt-based Sentiment Extraction and Reference Letters

18th Digital Economics Conference, Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4, From 8 to 9 January 2026

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

Photo - Bandeau 18th Digital Economics Conf

The State of Competition in the AI Stack

  • Corporate Relations

  • Partnership research

  • Digital

TSE hosted the 18th edition of its Digital Economics Conference on January 8–9, 2026, in Toulouse. One of the highlights was a roundtable discussion entitled “Is there enough competition in the AI stack? What (if…

PROGRAM

 

Conference venue

Toulouse School of Economics

1 Esplanade de l'Université - Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont & Auditorium 4

31080 Toulouse cedex 06

Coming to TSE

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Conference secretariat

Mélanie Bataillard / Emilie Lopez

digitconf@tse-fr.eu 

 

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