January 8–9, 2026
Toulouse
Thank you !
The organizing committee thanks you all for your presence and involvement. We invite you to visit the events section to see more, and to keep an eye out for the next edition.
Conference objectives
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.
Keynote speakers
Monika Schnitzer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and chair of the German Council of Economic Experts
Laura Veldkamp, Columbia Business School
Organizing committee
Alexandre de Cornière (TSE, CEPR), Jacques Crémer (TSE, CEPR) and Paul Seabright (IAST, TSE, CEPR)
Submissions
Submissions are closed.
Registration fees
The registration fees are waived for speakers, discussants, partners, TSE members and TSE students.
- Academic participants: 150€
- Non academic participants: 250€
The registration fees cover lunches, coffee breaks ans conference dinner.
As of December 22, 2025, the conference dinner is FULL.
New registration fees from December 22:
- Academic participants: 75€
- Non academic participants: 175€
Registration deadline: December 31st, 2025
Conference venue
Toulouse School of Economics
1 Esplanade de l'Université - Auditoriums 3 & 4
31080 Toulouse cedex 06
Contact
Conference secretariat: Mélanie Bataillard / Emilie Lopez
E-mail: digitconf@tse-fr.eu
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List of communications
Kevin Ducbao Tran, “Cleanin' It Up: Unshrouding Hidden Fees on a Peer-to-Peer Platform”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Özlem Brede Defolie, “Curation with moral hazard: Why platforms host low quality”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, revised February 18, 2026.
Jean-Christophe Poudou, “Dynamic platform competition 'In' and 'For' the market”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Flavio Pino, “Machine data sharing and innovation incentives”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Simon P. Anderson, “Targeting Persuasive Advertising”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Anahid Bauer, “The impact of recommender system changes on production and consumption of news in social media platforms: the case of Instagram”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Xintong Han, “When Randomness Leads to Profit: Evidence from a Large Creator Platform”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Renjie Bao, “"Just One More Clip'': Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Dante Donati, “Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Adam Feher, “Is AI Trained on Public Money? Evidence from US Data Centers”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Mushegh Harutyunyan, “Curbing Digital Overconsumption: Strategic Implications of Screen Time Limits”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Emeric Henry, “Fact-Checking and Misinformation: Evidence from the Market Leader”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Brett Hollenbeck, “The Impact of LLM Adoption on Online User Behavior”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Shota Ichihashi, “Mechanism Design for Ad-Supported Platforms: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Doh-Shin Jeon, “AI safety and competition”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Jan Krämer, “Are Preset Defaults Harmful?”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Ro'ee Levy, “Digital News Consumption: Evidence from Smartphone Content in the 2024 US ElectionsDigital News Consumption: Evidence from Smartphone Content in the 2024 US Elections”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Gaston Llanes, “App Store Competition”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Marcel Preuss, “Algorithmic Attention and Content Creation on Social Media Platforms”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Marina Rizzi, “Self-Regulation of Social Media and the Evolution of Content: A Cross Platform Analysis”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Sandro Shelegia, “Ranking algorithms, learning, and pricing”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Fabian Slonimczyk, “This Candidate is [MASK]. Prompt-based Sentiment Extraction and Reference Letters”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Alex Smolin, “The Economics of Large Language Models: Token Allocation, Fine-Tuning, and Optimal Pricing”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Stéphane Straub, “Digital Infrastructure, Green Transition? Evidence from Input-Output Networks”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Koleman Strumpf, “Social Network Addiction”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Pedro Teles, “Regulating Artificial Intelligence”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Marshall Van Alstyne, “Truth is Warranted: The Impact of Voluntary Accountability on Misinformation”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, January 2026, revised June 10, 2026, Toulouse.
Yaron Yehezkel, “When does quality beat data? Gaining momentum in dynamic platform competition”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.
Yuan Yimming, “Artificial Intelligence and Skills: Evidence from Contrastive Learning in Online Job Vacancies”, 18th Digital Economics Conference, Toulouse, 2026, revised June 10, 2026.