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

Digital mergers: recent insights and policy implications

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

Information Economics and Policy, vol. 73, n° 101174, December 2026

Mergers and Investments in New Products

Anna D’Annunzio, Yassine Lefouili, Bruno Jullien, and Leonardo Madio

International Journal of Industrial Organization, vol. 108, n° 103291, October 2026

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, October 2026

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, October 2026

Water: Human Right, Pricing, and Trading

Marcel Boyer, and Maria Kouyoumijian

University of Toronto Press, September 2026

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, September 2026, pp. 663-685

Economie du désordre mondial

Jean Tirole, and Karine Van Der Straeten

Albin Michel - PUF, September 2026

Platform Liability and Innovation

Doh-Shin Jeon, Yassine Lefouili, and Leonardo Madio

International Economic Review, vol. 67, n° 3, August 2026, pp. 763-778

Platform Disintermediation with Repeated Transactions

Andreea Enache, and Andrew Rhodes

Management Science, vol. 72, n° 8, August 2026, pp. 6433-7379

The Effects of Sin Taxes and Advertising Restrictions in a Dynamic Equilibrium

Rossi Abi Rafeh, Pierre Dubois, Rachel Griffith, and Martin O'Connell

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, vol. 18, n° 3, August 2026

The Dynamic Market for Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs

Juan Esteban Carranza, Maria Marta Ferreyra, and Ana Gazmuri

Journal of Human Capital, vol. 20, n° 2, July 2026

Trust with Evidence

Amirreza Ahmadzadeh

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1764, July 2026

List of Seminars of the group

To be announced

Date 7 December 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Teck Yong Tan (University of Rochester)

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To be announced

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

Date 9 November 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Kathy Yuan

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

Date 16 October 2026
Place Auditorium A4
Speaker or organiser Chiara Caccinelli (ARCEP)

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

Date 12 October 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Ulrich Doraszelski (Wharton Pennsylvania University)

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Past

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

Date 1 October 2026
Place Zoom
Speaker or organiser Hanlin Zhao

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Key Findings from the 2026 International AI Safety Report

Date 30 September 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Carina Prunkl (INRIA - Paris)

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Competition under Financial Constraints in Procurement Markets

Date 21 September 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Andres Gonzalez-Lira (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

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Tax Evasion, Exclusionary Practices, and Competition Policy

Date 9 September 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Martin Besfamille (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

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To be announced

Date 7 September 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Jin Li (HKU Business School)

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AI, Algorithmic Recommendations and Competition

Date 8 June 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Emilio Calvano

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Past

Combining Human Expertise with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Evidence from Radiology

Date 1 June 2026
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Tobias Salz

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Contact

Andrew Rhodes

Group leader

Conferences and workshops

19th Digital Economics Conference

Date From 7 to 8 January 2027
Place Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4

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Sustainable Aviation Workshop

Date 11 December 2026
Place Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont

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4th Health Economics Conference

Date From 16 to 17 June 2026
Place Auditorium 3 JJ Laffont - Auditorium 4

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