Industrial Organization

Market structure and regulation, contracting, pricing, auction mechanisms, privacy, bundling, patents...

The Industrial Organization group has the objective to promote excellent research and teaching in Industrial Organization as well as formation of good students in Industrial Organization.  The group is composed of about thirty researchers active in the field.

Activities of the group

  • IO seminar: Monday from 14h15 to 15h30, organized by Chuqing Jin and Doh-Shin Jeon
  • IO workshop: Monday from 12h30 to 14h00, organized by Alex de Corniere
  • Competition Policy Workshop and Seminar: Friday from 15h30 to 17h, organized by Patrick Rey and Estelle Malavolti
  • Digital Economics Conference: organized by Jacques Crémer, Paul Seabright and Alex de Corniere
  • Energy and Climate Conference: organized by Stefan Ambec and Mathias Reynaert
  • Annual CSIO/TSE Industrial Organization Workshop: organized by Isis Durrmeyer

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List of members

Angélique Acquatella

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Stefan Ambec

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, INRAe

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Emmanuelle Auriol

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Gary Biglaiser

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of Economics, UNC

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Léa Bignon

TSE PhD Student

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics at KU Leuven

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Céline Bonnet

TSE Research Faculty

Research Director, INRAe

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Christian Bontemps

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, ENAC & TSE

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Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher in Economics, INRAe

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Marcel Boyer

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor Emeritus, Dpt Economics, CIRANO, Montréal

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Emilio Calvano

TSE Associate Faculty

Associate professor, Université LUISS (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Roma)

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Stéphane Caprice

TSE Research Faculty

Researcher in Economics, INRAe

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Giovanni Colla Rizzi

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Patrick Rey

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WP and articles of the group

Getting auctions for transportation capacity to roll

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2027, forthcoming

Digital mergers: recent insights and policy implications

Chiara Fumagalli, Bruno Jullien, Yassine Lefouili, and Michele Polo

Information Economics and Policy, vol. 73, n° 101174,

Mergers and Investments in New Products

International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 108, n° 103291,

Optimal Fixed-Terms Contracts under One-Sided Enforcement and Persistent Adverse Selection

David Martimort, and Aggey Simons (Semenov)

Journal of Mathematical Economics, vol. 126, n° 103294,

Cross-country comparison of ex-ante sugar tax evaluations: Evidence from the biscuit, non-alcoholic beverage, and dairy dessert markets in France, Spain, and the United Kingdom

Céline Bonnet, Pauline Leveneur, Maxime Tranchard, and Olivier Allais

Health Policy, vol. 172, n° 105706,

Incentives and the City: Towards a Theory of Urban Governance

Yue Li, David Martimort, Martin Rama, and Stéphane Straub

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1775,

Platform Governance and Information Disclosure in Markets with Add-Ons

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1778,

Personalized Pricing and the Value of Past Purchase Histories: An Empirical Perspective

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1779,

Data Sharing, Privacy, and Innovation in Healthcare

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1783,

Water: Human Right, Pricing, and Trading

Marcel Boyer, and Maria Kouyoumijian

University of Toronto Press,

Nonlinear Pricing in Oligopoly: How Brand Preferences Shape Market Outcomes

Renato Gomes, Jean-Marie Lozachmeur, and Lucas Maestri

The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 57, n° 3, , pp. 663-685

Economie du désordre mondial

Albin Michel - PUF,

List of Seminars of the group

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 7 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Teck Yong Tan (University of Rochester)

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When Does Quality Beat Data? Gaining Momentum in Dynamic Platform Competition

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 3 December 2026

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern School of Business)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 16 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Sandro Shelegia (University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)

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Joint IO-Finance Seminar - Platform money

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

    Finance Seminar, TSE - TSM-R

  • Date 9 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Kathy Yuan

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An Empirical Framework for Platform Markets

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 5 November 2026

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Tobias Klein (Tilburg University)

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The Digital Markets Act in Practice: Enforcing the Interoperability of Messaging Services

  • Seminar

  • Competition Policy Seminar

  • Date 16 October 2026

  • Place Auditorium A4

  • Speaker or organiser Chiara Caccinelli (ARCEP)

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Past

Using Deep Learning to Compute Equilibria in High-Dimensional Dynamic Stochastic Games

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 12 October 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton Pennsylvania University)

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Decoding Rankings: Consumer Search, Price Competition, and Platform Regulation

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 1 October 2026

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Hanlin Zhao

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Past

Key Findings from the 2026 International AI Safety Report

  • Seminar

  • Digital Workshop

  • Date 30 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Carina Prunkl (INRIA - Paris)

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Past

Competition under Financial Constraints in Procurement Markets

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 21 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Andres Gonzalez-Lira (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

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Past

Tax Evasion, Exclusionary Practices, and Competition Policy

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

    Public Economics Seminar

  • Date 9 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Martin Besfamille (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

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Past

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 7 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Jin Li (HKU Business School)

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Contact

Andrew Rhodes

Group leader

Conferences and workshops

5th Health Economics Conference

  • Conference

  • Date From 16 to 17 June 2027

  • Place Auditorium A3 Jean-Jacques Laffont & Auditorium A4

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The Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovation, Access, and Stewardship

  • Conference

  • Date 15 June 2027

  • Place Auditorium A3 - JJ. Laffont

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19th Digital Economics Conference

  • Conference

  • Date From 7 to 8 January 2027

  • Place Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4

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