- DateFrom 16 to 17 June 2026
- Room Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4
Thank you !
It was a sincere pleasure to welcome you at the 4th Health Economics Conference on June 16-17, 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.
Find out more, check out the TSE Health Center's playlist.
Background & objective
The objective of the conference, organized by the TSE Health Center at the Toulouse School of Economics, with the help of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). The aim was to explore recent contributions in understanding the organization and regulation of healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors.
It provided a platform for exchanging views on research findings that offer valuable insights for shaping health policies, particularly in connection with financing, regulation, innovation, incentives and access to healthcare.
Speakers
Keynote speakers
- Jonathan Gruber (MIT) - Replay
- Neale Mahoney (Stanford University) - Replay
Roundtable
“Challenges of the US Most Favored Nation Policy for Pharmaceutical Pricing and Innovation” - Replay
- Pierre Dubois (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR) - Chair
- Virginie Beaumeunier (President CEPS)
- Pedro Pita Barros (Nova School of Business, Lisbon)
- Catherine Raynaud (Head of international policy & communication, Pfizer France)
- Nicolas Schlumberger (Head of Market Access at Sanofi France)
- Moritz Suppliet (DG SANTE, European Commission)
- Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR)
Organizing committee
Angelique ACQUATELLA (TSE), Pierre DUBOIS (TSE and CEPR), Jean TIROLE (TSE and CEPR)
Supported by
Carolina Arteaga (University of Toronto), Demographic Divergence: The Legacy of the Opioid Epidemic
Pierre Bodere (Yale University), Wait Times for Surgery in the U.S.: Measurement and Allocative Efficiency in Private Insurance
Ignacio Cuesta (Stanford University), Public Procurement vs. Regulated Competition in Selection Markets
Omer Dagan (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beersheba), Strategic Effort and Organizational Performance: Evidence from a Hospital Reform
Jimena Ferraro (Universidad de San Andrés), Easy Like Sunday Morning: Organizational Design and Physician Agency in Birth Timing
Luiz Felipe Fontes (INSPER), Allocating Talent in Organizations: Evidence from Quasi-Random Exits of Physicians
Jonathan Gruber (MIT), What is Universal Health Coverage?
Charu Gupta (Harvard University), From Private to Public: Pharmaceutical R&D Following an IPO
Hung Le (Aalto University), Competition or Collusion? Entry Decisions in the Swedish Pharmaceutical Market
Anwita Mahajan (University of California, San Diego), The Effects of Dialysis Firm Consolidation on Patient Health
Neale Mahoney (Stanford University), The Rise of Healthcare Jobs
Luca Maini (Harvard Medical School), Insurance Design and the Passthrough of Nominal Drug Prices
CONFERENCE HIGHTLIGHTS
Conference replays on the TSE Health Center's playlist
Conference venue
Toulouse School of Economics
1 Esplanade de l'Université - Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont & Auditorium 4
31080 Toulouse cedex 06
Conference secretariat
Marie-Hélène DUFOUR & Valérie NOWACZYK (TSE)
