4th Health Economics Conference

Scope and objectives

The Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the TSE Health Center are pleased to invite submissions to the 4th Health Economics Conference, taking place on June 16th and 17th, 2026, in Toulouse.
This conference aims to explore recent contributions in understanding the organization and regulation of healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. It provides a platform for exchanging views on research findings that offer valuable insights for shaping health policies, particularly in connection with health investment and innovation.

Organizing committee

Angie Acquatella (TSE)
Pierre Dubois (TSE, CEPR)
Jean Tirole (TSE, CEPR)

Keynotes speakers

Jonathan Gruber (MIT)
Neal Mahoney (Stanford University)

Two roundtables 

(to be announced)

Research themes

We welcome research papers in the domain of financing of innovation, R&D, intellectual property rights, patents, orphan disease financing, organization and access of health care, competition, regulation of pharmaceutical markets, diagnostic, clinical trials regulation, international aspects of competition and regulation, parallel trade, reference pricing, performance pay systems, precision medicine, telemedicine, digital technologies,

Call for papers

To submit your abstract or paper, click here.

Papers should be submitted by February 16th, 2026.
Abstracts will be considered, but papers are most likely to be accepted.
Notification of acceptance will be given no later than March 5th, 2026. 

Travel and Funding

We normally do not provide travel funding for travel for speakers in contributed session. A limited number of travel grant will be available to PhD students and junior scholars. Please state in your submission whether you wish to be considered for such funding.

Conference Venue

Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
1, Esplanade de l’Université
31080 Toulouse Cedex 06 - France

Useful information

•    Start on the morning of Tuesday, June 16th and conclude on the evening of Wednesday, June 17h
•    In person conference in Toulouse.
•    Attendance is free but registration is mandatory.
•    Registration to the conference will be possible within the limit of available seats.

Contact

Conference secretariat: Marie-Hélène Dufour & Valérie Nowaczyk
E-mail: healthconf@tse-fr.eu

Partners

We thank the "Investment for the Future Program" (Bpifrance for ARPEGE), the European Research Council (ERC) as well as the partners of the TSE Health Center for their support.

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