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....

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 subject of the conference is "Knowledge for Growth: European Strategies in a Global Economy." The conference has thus two broad objectives. First, to take stock of the recent contributions on the knowledge economy and identify the building blocks of national and European Strategies to...

The 2008 conference will in particular cover the following topics: • Investment • Unbundling • Coordination • Retail competition • Climate change and energy markets

Topics: Industrial economics and econometrics of the postal sector. • Access and competition. • Demand analysis and the market of mail. • Service of General Economic Interest, Universal service and competition. • Postal sector and national planning. • Cost and pricing. • The postal...

Topics: - Industry Regulation and Consequences - Industrial organization of the drug industry (and of other parts of the health sector) - Health System Reform, with a special emphasis on European health systems - Economics and Value of Health

The subject of the conference is "Empirical Models of Product Differentiation."

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.).

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....