Policy outreach

TSE’s scientific communication aims at structuring the economic debate, improving the design of the economic policy and facilitating the exchange between policy makers, managers and researchers.

One of the Foundation’s objectives is to create value with TSE’s scientific work transferring economic knowledge to firms and public administration and providing counsel to decision-makers. Building on frontier theoretical work, researchers at the Toulouse School of Economics have developed models for analyzing, interpreting and understanding industrial structures and the behavior of firms, customers, suppliers and markets. They have also developed customized methodologies designed to assist companies’ decision-making based on their own specific data.

TSE, through its strong ties with private decision-makers in the industrial and financial sectors and with public decision-makers, allows this state-of-the-art academic research to become the state-of-the-art practice in the policy realm.

To promote research, the foundation has developed different communication instruments: Conferences, policy TSE notes, Op-eds, Interviews, TV/TSE.

TSE Notes

A new general-public collection of mini-books on different public-debate subjects has been recently published.

On December 2008, during the financial crisis, Jean Tirole has published a first book on the "crisis lessons" as well as Jean-Charles Rochet on the "Future of bank regulation" (these two notes are gathered together with a third one by Jean-Charles Rochet and Mathias Dewatripont in a English language book “Balancing the Banks”, Princeton University Press, June 2010).

On December 2009, a new book on long-term care was published by Helmuth Cremer, Philippe De Donder and Pierre Pestieau :

Conferences

The foundation organizes public-debate conferences. As an example, the conference on Financial crisis took place at the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment on December 2008 and was the opportunity to comment the 2 first TSE Notes.

In July 2008, under the auspice of the French Presidency of the European Union,  TSE co-organized with the Ministry of  Higher Education and Research a conference on "Knowledge for Growth - European Strategies in a Global Economy" which aimed at identifying the most relevant methods to stimulate innovation in Europe and setting out the main thrust of a European strategy for the promotion of the rapid growth of knowledge.

TSE is also much involved in the climate change economic issues and organized in the same European auspice, in September 2008 the conference on "Social Sciences and Humanities Facing Climate Change Challenges:  An Agenda for Europe".

On April 9, 2010, TSE also added to the debate on the political economy aspects of the ongoing global financial crisis with a conference on "the Political Economy of the Financial Crisis Toulouse".