Topics: - The economics of e‐commerce and parcel delivery, - The digital economy, - Economic policy and regulation issues,

Topics: • competition and regulation in transport and distribution • smart grid • capacity markets • national vs. supranational regulation • long term contracts • retail competition • markets for pollution permits • costs and integration of renewable energy

An indicative list of topics that could be addressed by the conference, both at the theoretical and empirical level, includes: - Impact evaluation of infrastructure at the household and firm level - Infrastructure and social policies - Infrastructure and industrial policies - Infrastructure and...

The Prize Jean-Jacques Laffont, created in 2005 by the City of Toulouse in partnership with IDEI rewards every year in autumn, an international high level economist whose research, in the spirit of Professor Jean-Jacques Laffont, combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics....

Price formation in marketing channels is of considerable interest for those involved in these channels but also for public authorities. For instance, farmers frequently protest against intermediaries, and, more specifically, against retailers. They often accuse those players of not (or...

In economies where resources are uncertain, risk sharing mechanisms enable to reallocate goods for consumption in a more efficient way than resources are. Nevertheless, efficiency requires complete markets. Since the seminal paper of Townsend (1994) who rejected the hypothesis of complete...

The SCOR-IDEI chair aims to support the theoretical and applied research on risk sharing mechanisms with the willingness to combine methodologies from financial economics, industrial organization and econometrics. The first conference will bring together academics and practitioners to exchange...

Preliminary program: - Dimitri Vayanos and Paul Woolley “An Institutional Theory of Momentum & Reversal” - Catherine Casamatta and Sébastien Pouget “Fund Managers’ Contracts and Short Termism” - Jamie McAndrews, Jérome Mathis, Jean-Charles Rochet “Rating the raters” - Informal...

The conference will bring together academics, policymakers and business representatives to discuss issues related to the dynamics and growth of network industries (information and communication technologies, energy, transport, postal services, etc.).