Toulouse Lectures in Economics
01/02/2011
30 March - 1 April 2011
Randall Wright, Professeur à l'université du Wisconsin-Madison, présentera les 8èmes Toulouse Lectures in Economics les 30, 31 mars 2011 et 1er avril 2011 - Amphi Colloque de 17H00 à 18H30
Risk Management after the crisis
01/02/2011
April 6-7, 2011
This conference, sponsored by the European Research Council and the SCOR, will bring together academics (from HEC, INSEAD, TSE, Oxford, MIT, CEMFI, Maryland, UCLA, Wisconsin, Zürich, ...) and practitioners (from ECB, SCOR, Rio Tinto, Banque de France, ...) to discuss issues related to risk-management, risk-taking, financing, liquidity and crisis. The goal is to analyze the economic driving forces underlying these phenomena, and to discuss private and public policy responses.
The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet
13/01/2011
January, 13-14 2011
The objective of this 6th bi-annual conference, co-sponsored by the Institut D’Economie Industrielle and the Toulouse School of Economics, is to discuss recent academic contributions to the economics of Intellectual Property, and of the Software and Internet Industries, whether theoretical, econometric, experimental or policy oriented.
Macroeconomics Workshop
03/12/2010
Information frictions and price adjustments
- Macroeconomics Workshop - December 3, 2010, Toulouse, 08:30-18:00, room MF 323.
Organized by Christian Hellwig (TSE-GREMAQ).
This workshop presents recent research on the topic of information frictions and price adjustments.
EC2 Conference: 17-18 December 2010
18/11/2010
Annual international conference on research in quantitative economics and econometrics
The 21st (EC)2 Conference will be held in Toulouse, France, December 17-18 2010. (EC)2 is a series of annual international conferences on research in quantitative economics and econometrics. The first conference in the series was organized in 1990. The acronym (EC)2 stands for Conferences of the Econometrics Community.
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The main aim of these conferences is to provide a convenient forum for both senior and junior European researchers in quantitative economics and econometrics to discuss their research results.The theme of the conference for 2010 is Identification in Econometrics, Theory and Applications. The Program Chair is Elie Tamer from Northwestern University.
Firms, environment and natural resources
14/06/2010
14-16 June 2010
This workshop deals with the working and regulation of markets for polluting products and natural resources, as well as the emergence of the so-called “eco-industry”.
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The presentations address various issues such as:
- asymmetric information between the government or an environmental agency and the polluting industry or the supplier of an exhaustible resource ;
- the role played by the government both in setting a market for tradeable emissions permits and designing environmental taxation ;
- government’s commitment to reduce polluting emissions and provide firms with credible incentives to invest in R&D ;
- the regulation of polluting activities, risky activities and the encouragement of carbon offsets such a forestation ;
- the emergence of an eco-industry due to the growing concern for the environment ;
- the difficulty of international cooperation for the environment.
Industrial Organization and the Food Processing Industry
10/06/2010
June 10-11, 2010
L'objectif de cette conférence est de discuter des dernières contributions théoriques et empiriques dans le domaine du fonctionnement des marchés alimentaires. Une attention particulière sera accordée à l'analyse formelle du comportement des marchés industriels, aux relations entre agriculture, industries de transformation des aliments, aux réseaux de distribution et aux nouvelles problématiques des questions de santé. Les sujets concernent la nourriture et la santé (obésité, politique publique, …), le marketing dans la distribution alimentaire, le comportement et le pouvoir du marché dans l'industrie de transformation alimentaire, les relations contractuelles dans la chaîne agro-alimentaire, les coopératives et les contrats, la qualité des produits, de l'information et de la sécurité alimentaire, des droits de propriété intellectuels et de la biotechnologie, les OGM, , la performance et l'analyse de la productivité du secteur agro-alimentaire.
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Topics to be covered include food and health (obesity, public policy, …), marketing in food retailing, market conduct and market power in the food processing industry, contractual relationships in theagro-food chain, cooperatives and contracts, product quality, information, and food safety, intellectual property rights and biotechnology, GMO, performance and productivity analysis of the agro-food sector.
CEPR conference on Applied Industrial Organization
27/05/2010
The CEPR Applied IO conference series aims to contribute to an analytical understanding of the issues raised by competition and investment, develop empirical protocols and tests of economic models, promote the exchange and the dissemination of results at the forefront of research, and finally, evaluate current competition and regulation policies.
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It covers the state of the art in applied and empirical industrial organization. Pinelopi Goldberg (Princeton University), Roman Inderst (University of Frankfurt and CEPR) and Jonathan Levin (Stanford University) have confirmed their participation as keynote speakers.
The conference is preceded by the Seventh CEPR School in Applied Industrial Organisation. The aim of the annual School is to provide a forum for intellectual exchanges between PhD students and more experienced researchers in the field of industrial organisation.
Conference on the Political Economy of the Financial Crisis, Toulouse, France, April 9, 2010
09/04/2010
Organized by Augustin Landier in Toulouse
The aim of this conference was to contribute to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis, and to stimulate research in this area. Topics that were discussed include: regulatory capture and lobbying, bailout negotiations, and consumer protection. The conference was co-sponsored by the European Banking Center (EBC) at Tilburg University and the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE).
Conference on The Economics of Energy markets
28/01/2010
28-29 January 2010
The 7th conference on Energy Markets brought together in Toulouse top researchers and practitioners, in order to facilitate exchanges between these two communities on recent advances in the economics of electricity and natural gas industries. During two plenary sessions and six parallel sessions, speakers addressed a variety of questions on wind power and energy storage, asset divestiture, exclusive contracts, pipelines regulation, financial transmission rights, polluting emissions, etc. On this occasion, Jean Tirole also presented "Climate change Policy: a new international architecture", extract of his report to the Conseil d'Analyse Economique.