Liege
MAY 23-24, 2023
The 6th doctoral workshop was hosted at the Université de Liege in May 2023. The best paper award was granted by the organizing committee to Louise Eisefeld from Toulouse School of Economics for empirical research on entry and acquisitions in software markets.
Tuesday
23 MAY 2023
8:45 – 9:00 welcome by the local organizer: Axel Gautier (Université de Liege)
Session 1:
Chair: Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute)
9:00 – 9:30 How digital media markets amplify news sentiment
Lara Marie Berger (University of Cologne)
9:30 – 10:00 Feeding for good? On regulating social media platforms
Miguel Risco (Universität Bonn)
10:00 – 10:30 Social Learning and Market Structure: The Case of Airbnb
Florian Dendorfer (University of St. Gallen)
10:30 – 11:00 coffee BREAK
Session 2:
Chair: Paul Belleflamme (Université Catholique de Louvain)
11:00 – 11:30 Welfare Effects of Platforms’ Exclusivity Clauses
Marit Holler (University of Tübingen)
11:30 – 12:00 Competition among online streaming platforms to vertically integrate or not?
Mengxi Zhang (Heinrich-Heine Universität Dusseldorf)
12:00 – 12:30 Competition in the ad-tech stack and integration
Pierre-François Darlas (Telecom Paris)
12:30 – 13:30 lunch
Session 3:
Chair: Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom Paris)
13:30 – 14:00 Artificial Intelligence and its Effect on Competition and Factor Income Shares
Richard von Maydell (ETH Zürich)
14:00 – 14:30 The Challenges of Deploying an Algorithmic Pricing Tool: Evidence from Airbnb
Mohsen Foroughifar (University of Toronto)
14:30 – 15:00 Fair Gatekeeping in Digital Ecosystems
Michele Bisceglia (Toulouse School of Economics)
15:00 – 15:30 coffee BREAK
Session 4: keynote lecture
Chair: Axel Gautier (Université de Liege)
15:30 – 16:45 Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Recommendations and Competition
Giacomo Calzolari (European University Institute)
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday
24 MAY 2023
Session 5:
Chair: Marc Bourreau (Telecom Paris)
9:00 – 9:30 Optimal Operating Mode of a Platform
Julia Reimerr (University of Würzburg)
9:30 – 10:00 Big Tech Acquisitions and Innovation: An Empirical Assessment
Laureen de Barsy (LCII, HEC Liege)
10:00 – 10:30 Entry and Acquisitions in Software Markets
Louise Eisefeld (Toulouse School of Economics)
10:30 – 11:00 coffee BREAK
Session 6:
Chair: Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics)
11:00 – 11:30 The Environmental Implications of Renting The Runway
Matteo Bulgarelli (KU Leuven, UC Louvain)
11:30 – 12:00 Working with a Rockstar: Peer Effects on Within-Project Productivity
Lena Abou El-Komboz (Ifo Institute, LMU Munich)
12:00 – 12:30 Reputation Concerns and the End-Game Effect: When Reputation Works and When it Doesn’t
Chiara Belletti (Telecom Paris)