The online Economics of Platforms Seminar will meet the first Thursday of each month.
Hosted by TSE Digital Center, this virtual seminar series is focused on the economics of platforms. Seminars can cover all aspects related to the economics of platforms including, for example, competition, strategy, design, governance, and policy issues. We hope to attract a good mix of applied theory, empirical papers, and policy discussions.
Contacts
To propose a talk, please contact one of the co-chairs of the Scientific Committee:
Andrei Hagiu: ahagiu@gmail.com or Julian Wright: wright.economics@gmail.com
To obtain a link to a seminar and to be put on our mailing list, please contact Emilie Lopez.
Seminar guidelines
The speaker will present for 40 mins, 5 mins for the discussant and we will have 15 mins for Q&A. Each seminar will be moderated, and participants can post their questions to the chat room on Zoom. Questions will usually be channeled through the moderator. Participants (other than the speaker and moderator) should leave their mic off unless asked by the moderator to speak." More detailed rules will be shared in due course.
Upcoming Talks
Seminars will take place the first Thursday of each month at 2.00 PM Toulouse Time via Zoom.
Thursday, February 5, 2026: Michele Bisceglia (Yale), "Regulating Privacy Policies On Digital Platforms" (with Alessandro Bonatti and Fiona Scott Morton)
Discussant: Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne); Moderator: Alex Smolin (TSE)
Past Talks
Thursday, December 4, 2025: Jana Gieselmann (University of Edinburgh), "(Mis)-Matchmaker"
Discussant: Yair Antler (Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University) ; Moderator: Hanna Halaburda (NYU Stern School of Business)
Thursday November 6, 2025: Renjie Bao (Princeton University), “Just One More Clip”: Short Videos, Big Self-Control Problems.
Discussant: Guy Aridor (Northwestern Kellogg School of Management). Moderator: Ginger Jin (University of Maryland)
Thursday October 2nd, 2025: Tat-How Teh (Nanyang Technological University), “Network interoperability and platform competition” (with Jinglei Huang, Guofu Tan and Junjie Zhou).
Discussant: David Ronayne (ESMT Berlin). Moderator: Alexandre de Cornière (TSE)
Thursday, September 4, 2025: Aaron P. Kaye (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) , "The Personalization Paradox: Welfare Effects of Personalized Recommendations in Two-Sided Digital Markets"
Moderator: Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School). Discussant: Stephan Seiler (Imperial College Business School)
Tuesday, July 1, 2025: Zhijun Chen (Monash University), "Paying Consumers for Their Data: An Economic Analysis of Data Acquisition and Digital Privacy"
Moderator: Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto). Discussant: Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics)
Tuesday, June 3, 2025: Michael Sullivan (University of Western Ontario), "Fee Optimality in a Multi-Sided Market"
Moderator: Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland). Discussant: Marc Rysman (Boston University)
Tuesday, May 6, 2025: Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto), "Selling Certification, Content Moderation, and Attention" (with Rahul Deb and Matthew Mitchell)
Moderator: Greg Taylor (University of Oxford). Discussant: Byung-Cheol Kim (University of Alabama).
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025: Andrew Rhodes (Toulouse School of Economics), "Digital Ecosystems and Data Regulation" (with Jidong Zhou and Junjie Zhou)
Moderator: Alexandre De Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics). Discussant: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University), "'Sherlocking' and Platform Information Policy" (with Kyungmin Kim and Arijit Mukherjee)
Moderator: Alex Smolin (TSE). Discussant: Chengsi Wang (Monash University)
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025: Regina Seibel (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), "The Cost Of The Cold-Start Problem On Airbnb" (with Florian Dendorfer)
Moderator: Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School). Discussant: Imke Reimers (Cornell University)
- Talks of 2020-2024 academic year: list here
Scientific Committee
Co-chairs: Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics), Andrei Hagiu (Boston University), Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)
Members: Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission (Tokyo), Heski Bar-Isaac (University of Toronto), Özlem Bedre-Defolie (ESMT-Berlin), Luis Cabral (NYU-Stern School of Business), Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University), Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School), Alexandre De Cornière (TSE), Amelia Fletcher (University of East Anglia), Andrey Fradkin (Boston University-Questrom School of Business), Hanna Halaburda (NYU-Stern School of Business), Shota Ichihashi (Queen’s University), Doh-Shin Jeon (TSE), Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland), David Salant (TSE), Alex Smolin (TSE) Yossi, Spiegel (Tel Aviv University), Greg Taylor (University of Oxford), Tiffany Tsai (National University of Singapore), Junjie Zhou (Tsinghua University).
