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....