Chair or Research Initiative
Research initiative on telecommunications in the Digital Age
Partner since the early 1990s
Orange is a longstanding partner of TSE: the research collaboration between France Télécom and the Institute of Industrial Economics began in the early 1990s. Since then, the partnership has been continuously renewed, evolving over time to address new and emerging issues.
Activities
Launched in early 2026, the Telecommunications in the Digital Age research initiative is jointly developed by the two organizations and combines several forms of collaboration:
- Research projects on topics of common interest,
- Research seminars led by TSE-P researchers,
- Academic support on economic issues related to regulatory challenges.
The research projects supported through this initiative are designed from a long-term perspective, with regular interactions between TSE researchers and Orange teams.
Priority research areas
- Dynamic effects in mergers
- The concept of “FRAND” (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory)
- Regulation of satellites
About Orange
Orange is a French telecommunications group and a multi-service operator active across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. It provides connectivity services (fixed-line, mobile, internet, and television) as well as digital solutions for individuals, businesses, and public institutions. The Group positions itself as a trusted digital partner, with the ambition of making digital technologies safer, more inclusive, and more sustainable.
All publications
Platform Liability and Innovation
Horizontal Mergers and Incremental Innovation
Economics of Procurement and Organizational Design: A review of selected literature
Price cap regulation with limited commitment
Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation
Market Structure and Investments : A Progress Report
Environmental Sustainability and the Digital Revolution: A Systematic Review of the ICT and its Environmental Impact
Platform Liability and Innovation
The Economics of Platform Liability
Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications
Vers une régulation concurrentielle des plateformes
Collusion between two-sided platforms
Seminars
2024-2025
Presentations for the Journée de l’économie règlementaire
- October 6, 2025: Industrial Policy, Jean Tirole
- April 29, 2025: Regulation and Economic Performance, Bruno Jullien, Matthieu Bouvard
- October 1, 2024: Price Regulation in the Telecommunications Sector, Bruno Jullien, Matthieu Bouvard
- March 26, 2024: Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities, Challenges, and Regulation, Do-Shin Jeon and Bruno Jullien
Seminars'presentations
April 29, 2025:
- Buying Components
- FRAND for Data Sharing
2022-2023
- November 7, 2023: Price Regulation, Cost Recovery, and Stranded Assets
- March 14, 2023, "The cloud economy", Jacques Crémer
- December 8, 2022, "Interoperability and competition policy", Bruno Jullien
- November 8, 2022, "Fair cost sharing", Matthieu Bouvard
- June 22, 2022, "Market structure, mergers and investments", Yassine Lefouili and Bruno Jullien
2020-2021
- June 2, 2021, "Data, Privacy, Dystopia", Jean Tirole
- December 2, 2021, "Cost sharing in the digital services value chain: Illustration through environmental costs", Henrik Andersson and Bruno Jullien
2019-2020
- April 4, 2019, "Competition between platforms," Renato Gomes and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- June 27, 2019, "Competition Policy for the Digital Era", Jacques Crémer
- December 3, 2019, "AI and Big Data: what impact on competition", Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- June 17, 2020, "Blockchains and applications", Christophe Bisière
- September 15, 2020, "Spectrum Auctions and Market Structure", Patrick Rey and David Salant
2017-2018
- April 27, 2017, "Horizontal cooperation, merger and investment", Bruno Jullien and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- November 23, 2017. "Limited rationality, competition and market regulation", Yassine Lefouili and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- March 29, 2018, "Privacy: some recent developments", Yassine Lefouili and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- June 20, 2018, "Fusion and Innovation", Bruno Jullien and Yassine Lefouili
- September 25, 2018, "Measuring prices in telecoms", Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- November 29, 2018, "Vertical restrictions in the platform economy", Bruno Jullien and Yassine Lefouili
2015-2016
- April 22, 2015, "Network effects and competition", Yassine Lefouili and Wilfried Sand-Zantman.
- July 2, 2015, "Attention economy and regulation of free services", Bruno Jullien and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- November 26, 2015, "Mergers and entry", Yassine Lefouili and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- April 14, 2016, "Taxation of digital platforms", Bruno Jullien and Yassine Lefouili
- October 13, 2016, "In which cases should competitors be allowed to cooperate with each other? The answers from the economic analysis", Patrick Rey, Bruno Jullien and Yassine Lefouili
2013-2014
- March 27, 2013, "Economic Analysis of Concentrations", by Bruno Jullien and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- June 25, 2013, "The Competition/Investment Relationship", by Jérôme Mathis and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- November 14, 2013, "The Economics of Personal Data", by Bruno Jullien and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- January 16, 2014, "The Economic Analysis of Margin Squeeze Tests", by Bruno Jullien and Patrick Rey
- May 22, 2014, "Innovation, Intellectual Property and Antitrust (Part I)", by Yassine Lefouili and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- June 26, 2014, "Innovation, Intellectual Property and Antitrust (Part II)", by Bruno Jullien and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
- October 21, 2014, "Objectives and criteria for the economic evaluation of competition authorities", by Jérôme Mathis and Wilfried Sand-Zantman
Experts
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Scientific reports
Vers une régulation concurrentielle des plateformes
Taxation in the Digital Economy
Cooperation between firms for infrastructure
Network Effects
Welfare Standards in Competition Policy
Competition and Investment: What do we know from the literature?
The Economics of Margin Squeeze
L’Analyse économique des pratiques de fidélisation
Net Neutralité: développements récents de la littérature économique
La régulation des monopoles
Contact
Bruno Jullien
Scientific director
Eve Séjalon
Responsable Partenariats de recherche et Centres
Pascale Maréchal
Chargée de projets partenariats de recherche
