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

Elissa Philipp Gentry

TSE Associate Faculty

Associated Professor, Sandra Day O' Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

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Renato Gomes

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Catarina Goulão

TSE Research Faculty

Researcher in Economics (INRAE & TSE)

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Charu Gupta

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Research Fellow, TSE

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Carole Haritchabalet

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of Economics, University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour

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Pascal Heid

TSE PhD Student

Supervisors: Mathias Reynaert

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Chenchen Huang

TSE PhD Student

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Marc Ivaldi

TSE Research Faculty

Professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Toulouse (EHESS)

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Doh-Shin Jeon

TSE Research Faculty

Professor of Economics, TSE

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Chuqing Jin

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Bruno Jullien

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, CNRS

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Yassine Lefouili

TSE Research Faculty

Professor in Economics

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WP and articles of the group

Gaming the Giants: How Startups Shape Innovation to Spark Acquisition Wars

Ozlem Bedre Defolie, Gary Biglaiser, and Bruno Jullien

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1738,

A Model of Information Security and Competition

Alexandre de Cornière, and Greg Taylor

Marketing Science, vol. 45, n° 2, , pp. 249-489

Dynamic Recommendation Bias

Doh-Shin Jeon, and Mikhail Drugov

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1742,

On The (Relative) Merits of Money Burning For Optimal Contracting

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1739,

Pharmaceuticals and Digital Health: Evidence from Data-driven Insights on the Insulin Market

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1743,

Calibrated Mechanism Design

Laura Doval, and Alex Smolin

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1718,

The Dynamic Market for Short-Cycle Higher Education Programs

Juan Esteban Carranza, Maria Marta Ferreyra, and Ana Gazmuri

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1717,

Pharmaceutical Advertising in Dynamic Equilibrium

Pierre Dubois, and Ariel Pakes

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1729, ,

Robust Trust

Piotr Dworczak, and Alex Smolin

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1709,

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

David Martimort, and Aggey Simons (Semenov)

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1704, ,

An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union

Tristan Earle Grupp, Prakash Mishra, Mathias Reynaert, and Arthur Van Benthem

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1703,

A Demand-Side Driven Explanation of Niche Lobbying: A Theory and Some Application to Climate-Biodiversity Policy

Perrin Lefebvre, and David Martimort

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1706,

List of Seminars of the group

Past

Taming Tech Giants’ Algorithms: An analysis of consumers’ choices on Amazon

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 5 March 2026

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Michela Boldrini

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Regulating Privacy Policies on Digital Platforms

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 5 February 2026

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Michele Bisceglia

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Network interoperability and platform competition

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 8 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Tat-How Teh

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(Mis-)Matchmaker

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 4 December 2025

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Jana Gieselmann

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Data analytics for algorithmic pricing

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 17 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Rafaelle Fiocco

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Data-Driven Mergers and Data Monetization

  • Seminar

  • Digital Workshop

  • Date 12 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Zhijun Chen

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Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 10 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Anna Russo

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“Just One More Clip”: Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems

  • Seminar

  • Economics of Platforms Seminar

  • Date 6 November 2025

  • Place Zoom

  • Speaker or organiser Renjie Bao

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Selling on Recommender Platforms: Demand Boost versus Customer Migration

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 3 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Heiko Karle

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The Natural Monopoly Paradox: Incumbent Inefficiency and Entry

  • Seminar

  • Economic Seminar Series on Competition Policy

  • Date 31 October 2025

  • Place Auditorium A4

  • Speaker or organiser Sean Ennis

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Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector

  • Seminar

  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 30 October 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

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Competition policy in labour markets

  • Seminar

  • Economic Seminar Series on Competition Policy

  • Date 17 October 2025

  • Place Auditorium A4

  • Speaker or organiser Eshien Chong

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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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