Paris
May 4-5, 2018
The 2nd doctoral workshop was hosted by Telecom ParisTech in May 2018. The best paper award was granted by the organizing committee to Emil Palikot from Toulouse School of Economics for his empirical research on the statistical discrimination on online platform (co-authored with Xavier Lambin).
Friday
4 May 2018
12:00 – 13:00 BUFFET LUNCH (Hall Barrault)
13:00 – 13:10 WELCOME BY THE LOCAL ORGANIZER
13:10 – 14:10 KEYNOTE SPEECH: Privacy protection and consumer retention
BRUNO JULLIEN (Toulouse School of Economics)
Session 1: Chair: Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics)
14:10 – 14:50 Mixed competition in Next-Generation Networks
JEAN-MARC ZOGHEIB (Telecom ParisTech) and Marc Bourreau
Discussant: Axel Gautier (University of Liege)
14:50 – 15:30 Superstars in two-sided markets: exclusivity or not?
LEONARDO MADIO (University of York), Elias Carroni and Shiva Shekhar
Discussant: Alexandre de Cornière (Toulouse School of Economics)
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session 2: Chair: Axel Gautier (University of Liege)
16:00 – 16:40 The effect of big data on recommendation quality: the example of Internet search
MAXIMILIAN SCHAEFER (DIW Berlin) and Szabocs Lorincz and Geza Sapi
Discussant: Sebastian Wichert (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
16:40 – 17:20 Information frictions on an online service market
MILENA PETROVA (Toulouse School of Economics)
Discussant: Roxana Fernandez (ENSEA)
17:20 – 18:00 Do social media matter? The impact of Twitter on US politics
TIZIANO ROTESI (Bocconi University)
Discussant: Gracia Cecere (Telecom Ecole de Management)
19:00 DINNER: Atelier de Maître Albert (for speakers and discussants)
Saturday
5 May 2018
(Amphitheater Émeraude)
Session 3: Chair: Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
09:00 – 09:40 Robots and employment in offshoring countries: Evidence from Mexican local labor markets
MARIUS FABER (University of Basel)
Discussant: Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
09:40 – 10:20 Structural estimation of limited attention on eBay Germany
KEVIN DUCBAO TRAN (DIW Berlin)
Discussant: Vicente Lagos (Telecom ParisTech)
10:20 – 10:40 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4: Chair: Marc Bourreau (Telecom ParisTech)
10:40 – 11:20 Does reputation hinder entry? Study of Statistical discrimination on a platform
EMIL PALIKOT (Toulouse School of Economics), Xavier Lambin
Discussant: Uli Laitenberger (Telecom ParisTech)
11:20– 12:00 Organic social information with heterogeneous buyers
LOIS SIMANJUNTAK (University of Manchester), Carlo Reggiani, Alejandro Saporiti
Discussant: Marc Bourreau (Telecom ParisTech)
12:00 – 13:30 LUNCH (Brasserie Circus)
Session 5: Chair: Paul Belleflamme (Aix-Marseille University)
13:30– 14:10 Estimating consumer inertia in repeated choices of smartphones
AMBRE NICOLLE (Telecom ParisTech), Lukasz Grzybowski
Discussant: Jiekai Zhang (KU Leuven)
14:10 – 14:50 Mergers in the digital economy
JOE LAMESCH (University of Liege)
Discussant: Jordana VIOTTO (University of Dauphine)
14:50 – 15:30 Firm responses to high-speed Internet
STEIMER HENRIKE (University of Munich)
Discussant: Thomas Fackler (Ifo Institute for Economic Research)
15:30 – 15:50 COFFEE BREAK
Session 6: Chair: Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom ParisTech)
15:50 – 16:30 License negotiations in SEP-intensive industries: Do the rules play the game?
JUSTINE BULKAERT (University of Liege)
Discussant: Paul Belleflamme (Aix-Marseille University)
16:30 – 17:10 Market definition for broadband internet: need be boundaries drawn along bandwidth?
VALENTIN LINDLACHER (Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Andreas Mazat
Discussant: Lukasz Grzybowski (Telecom ParisTech)