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Léa Deleris
Toulouse: TSE, February 25, 2021, 17:00–18:00, room Zoom
A glimpse into the day-to-day life and ecosystem of a data science team in a large financial institution
Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics)
February 25, 2021, 11:00–12:30, room Zoom
Artificial intelligence (AI) innovation is data-intensive. States have historically collected large amounts of data, which is now being used by AI firms. Gathering comprehensive information on firms and government procurement contracts in China’s facial recognition AI industry, we first study how...
Ulrich Laitenberger (Telecom Paris Tech)
February 23, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
Meta-search platforms (MSPs) help consumers to compare product prices between different sales platforms. MSPs are often integrated with one of the sales platforms, which can give rise to self-preferencing. A case in point is the online hotel booking industry, where the major online travel agencies...
Anna Samarina
February 23, 2021, 11:30–12:30, BDF, Paris, room Visio
Ruslan Momot (HEC, Paris)
February 9, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study the incentives of a digital business to collect and protect users’ information. The information the business collects improves the service it provides to consumers, but it may also be accessed, at a cost, by strategic third parties in a way that harms users, imposing privacy costs. We...
February 6, 2021, 09:00–16:30, room salon virtuel
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics), and Malgorzata Majewska
Toulouse: TSE, February 5, 2021, 15:30–17:30, Online
Merger of firms with overlapping market activities reduces price competition that typically raise prices and producers' profits at the expense of immediate consumer welfare but the benefit on long term innovation in markets such as pharmaceuticals. The total welfare trade-off thus depends crucially...
Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)
January 26, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and entry in an industry (like that of digital platforms) where customers face switching costs and enjoy network externalities. The prospect of an acquisition by the incumbent platform...
Van Lelyveld (VU Amsterdam)
January 19, 2021, BDF, Paris, room Visio
Oren Reshef (Washington University in Saint Louis)
January 12, 2021, 14:00–15:00, Zoom Meeting
The entry of firms into a platform has an ambiguous effect on the profitabil- ity of incumbent firms’ operating on the platform: While entry increases competitive pressure on incumbents, supply-side expansion may attract new consumers—effectively increasing total platform size and presumably...
