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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WP and articles of the group

Price Discrimination and Online Sales in the Automobile Industry

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Isis Durrmeyer, Jean-François Fournel, and Alessandro Iaria

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1654, June 2025

The Buyer Power Effect of Retail Mergers: An Empirical Model of Bargaining with Equilibrium of Fear

Céline Bonnet, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, and Hugo Molina

The RAND Journal of Economics, vol. 56, n° 2, June 2025, pp. 194-215

Des contrats dans les filières agricoles, forêt-bois et halieutiques

Marie-Benoît Magrini, Raphaèle-Jeanne Aubin-Brouté, Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Gérard Marty, and Annick Vignes

May 2025

Platform Disintermediation with Repeated Transactions

Andreea Enache, and Andrew Rhodes

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1645, May 2025, révision August 2025

Dynamic Effort Choice in High School: Costs and Benefits of an Academic Track

Olivier De Groote

Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 43, n° 2, April 2025

Third-Degree Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets

Alexandre de Cornière, Andrea Mantovani, and Shiva Shekhar

Management Science, vol. 71, n° 4, April 2025, pp. 3340-3356

Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority

George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew

Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 73, n° 3, April 2025

All-receive procurement auctions

Patrick Rey, Simon Loertscher, and Leslie Marx

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1637, April 2025

Collusion in Bidding Markets: The Case of the French Public Transport Industry

Philippe Gagnepain, and David Martimort

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1631, March 2025

Covid-19 impact on bike-sharing systems: Lessons from Toulouse and Lyon

Marc Ivaldi, and Walter Nunez

Case Studies on Transport Policy, vol. 19, n° 101374, March 2025

The welfare impact of recommendation algorithms

Laura Doval, and Alex Smolin

ACM SIGecom Exchanges, vol. 22, n° 2, March 2025, pp. 56-65

Optimal Contracts under Moral Hazard, Adverse Selection and Limited Liability

David Martimort, Jean-Christophe Poudou, and Lionel Thomas

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1625, March 2025, révision October 2026

List of Seminars of the group

Past

Identification of the Impact of Industry-Wide Promotion Campaigns on Movie Demand

Date 4 November 2024
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Andreea Enache

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In Hot Water: Clarifying the Price Effects of Brexit

Date 4 November 2024
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Joris Hoste

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From Research to Policy: Merger Control in a National Competition Agency

Date 18 October 2024
Place Auditorium A4
Speaker or organiser Thibaud Vergé

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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? Evidence from Chemistry

Date 14 October 2024
Place Auitorium4
Speaker or organiser Pierre Azoulay

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Identification and Estimation of Demand Models with Endogenous Product Entry and Exit

Date 7 October 2024
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Alessandro Iaria

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Towards a Legal Theory of Digital Ecosystems

Date 4 October 2024
Place Auditorium A4
Speaker or organiser Ioannis Lianos

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A Theory of Digital Ecosystems

Date 1 October 2024
Place Zoom Meeting
Speaker or organiser Paul Heidhues

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Retail Competition and Business Models: A Multi-Product Perspective

Date 23 September 2024
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Zhijun Chen (Monash University)

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Data, Privacy Laws and Firm Production: Evidence from the GDPR

Date 3 September 2024
Place Zoom Meeting
Speaker or organiser Mert Demirer

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Evaluating The Impact of Privacy Regulation on E-Commerce Firms: Evidence from Apple’s App Tracking Transparency

Date 2 July 2024
Place Zoom Meeting
Speaker or organiser Guy Aridor

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Optimal Urban Transportation Policy: Evidence from Chicago

Date 10 June 2024
Place Auditorium 4
Speaker or organiser Milena Almagro

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Buyer-Optimal Platform Design

Date 4 June 2024
Place Zoom Meeting
Speaker or organiser Daniele Condorelli

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Contact

Andrew Rhodes

Group leader

Conferences and workshops

5th Health Economics 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

Date 15 June 2027
Place Auditorium A3 - JJ. Laffont

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19th Digital Economics Conference

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

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