About
La Poste Group is facing new economic challenges as their postal operators are facing major changes in their working environment due to the arrival of new communication technologies.
La Poste Group and TSE have been working together for almost 30 years. This research partnership with TSE, through theoretical and empirical contributions, is intended to provide academic insight into the issues raised by these challenges.
Several research topics will lead to publications in scientific journals. The results will be shared with an informed public during seminars but also with the public during the annual FSR (Florence School of Regulation) conference and the biennal TSE postal and delivery conference.
La Poste Group is a member of the TSE Partners Club, and supports the TSE Digital Center and the TSE Infrastructure & Network Center.
Research topics
Econometrics
- Econometrics of parcel delivery service costs and demand
- Towards a convergence of e-commerce's share of retail trade worldwide or in certain regions of the world?
- Using customer surveys to estimate the sensitivity of demand to supply attributes
- Econometrics of postal contact point network costs - Focus on rents
- Econometrics of distribution costs in relation to volumes
Economic theory
- Definition of relevant markets in the postal sector and regulation of the dominant position of postal operators
- Platform regulation, artificial intelligence, trust
- Valuing La Poste's data: from Open Data to data monetization
- Costs and benefits of CSR
- Silver economy and dependency financing
Researchers
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Estelle Malavolti
TSE Associate Faculty
Full Professor at the French University of Civil Aviation (ENAC)
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Publications
Entry and Competition in the Postal Market: Fondations for the Construction of Entry Scenarios
Identifying the Effects of Scientific Information and Recommendations on Physicians' Prescribing Behavior
On the Effect of Parallel Trade on Manufacturers’ and Retailers’ Profits in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Optimal Intertemporal Curative Drug Expenses: The Case of Hepatitis C in France
Optimal Pricing and Price-Cap Regulation in the Postal Sector
Pooled Procurement of Drugs in Low and Middle Income Countries
Restoring Ramsey tax lessons to Mirrleesian tax settings: Atkinson-Stiglitz and Ramsey reconciled"
Service Quality, Competition and Regulatory Policies in the Postal Sector
Structure optimale des prix dans le secteur postal
The design of insurance contracts for home versus nursing home long-term care
Universal Service: an Economic Perspective
Worksharing, Access and Bypass: The Structure of Prices in the Postal Sector
Working paper
Access Pricing and Imperfect Competition
Analyse descriptive de la demande de travail dans la distribution du courrier à partir de la statistique 742
Antibiotic Demand in the Presence of Antimicrobial Resistance
Cost of the mission of transport and delivery of printed press: theory and evidence
Coûts et rendements d'échelle de la Poste
Data and the regulation of e-commerce: data sharing vs.dismantling
E-commerce and parcel delivery: environmental policy with green consumers
E-commerce and parcel delivery: environmental policy with greens consumers
E-commerce, parcel delivery and environmental policy
Environmental Regulation, Market Power, and Socially Responsible Firms
Modélisation économétrique de la distribution du courrier
Note méthodologique préliminaire à une analyse économétrique de la production du secteur postal en France
Past conferences
13th Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services, April 16–17, 2026, room Auditorium Jean-Jacques Laffont and Auditorium A4.
12th biennial Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economics and Delivery Services, TSE, April 4–5, 2024, room Auditoriums 3 - 4.
11th bi-annual Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery Services, TSE, April 7–8, 2022, room Auditorium 3.
Tenth Bi-annual Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery Services, TSE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, March 29–30, 2018, room MS001-MS002-MS003.
Ninth bi-annual Postal Economics Conference on E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery Services, TSE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Toulouse, France, March 31 to April 1, 2016, room MS001.
22nd Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Frascati, Italie: Center for Research in Regulated Industries – Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick, June 4–7, 2014.
Eighth bi-annual Postal Economics conference : E-commerce, Digital Economy and Delivery services, Toulouse, April 3–4, 2014, room MS 001.
Preliminary programRound Table video
Seventh bi-annual conference on The Economics of the Postal Sector in the Digital World, Toulouse, France, March 22–23, 2012.
Sixth Conference on "Regulation, Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector", Toulouse, France, March 25–26, 2010.
ProgramSpecial Issue of the review of Network Economics
Fifth Conference on Regulation, Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector, Toulouse, France, March 13–14, 2008.
Fourth Conference on "Regulation, Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector" , Toulouse, France, March 16–17, 2006.
Third Conference on "Regulation, Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector", Toulouse, France, November 13–14, 2003.
Second Conference on "Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector", Toulouse, France, December 6–7, 2001.
First Conference on "Competition and Universal Service in the Postal Sector", Toulouse, France, March 26–27, 1999.
PORTRAIT
Claire Borsenberger
Head of the Doctrine and Modeling Department
Regulation, Competition, and Institutional Relations division
La Poste Groupe
'TSE helps La Poste Groupe to develop world-class research'
TSE alumna Claire Borsenberger reflects on a 30-year partnership that has guided the postal operator’s response to liberalization and e-commerce
Read the interview.
Published in the TSE Reflect January, 2023.
Contact
Scientific Director Helmuth Cremer
Head of Research Partnerships and Centers Eve Séjalon
