Conference
on the economics of
Information
and Communication Technologies
Paris, Oct 5-6, 2012
This 2-day international conference will gather in Paris academic researchers involved in the field of the economics of Information & Communication Technologies. Theoretical, empirical as well as policy-oriented articles will be presented.
• Network competition, diffusion of broadband, regulation
• ICT and productivity
• Net neutrality
• Network externalities and standards
• Patents, intellectual property and competition policy in ICT industries
• Piracy, peer-to-peer, copyright
• Software, Open source development
• Privacy, anonymity, security, Digital Rights Management, trust
• Two-sided markets, e-commerce, online auctions, dating sites
• Price discrimination, versioning, bundling, dynamic pricing
• Word-of-mouth, online communities, informational externalities
• Crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, person-to-person lending
• Advertising, media and online content
• New business models in the television industry, pay per view
• Cultural variety and the long tail of e-commerce
Keynote speakers: Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim) and Joel Waldfogel (University of Minnesota)
Scientific committee: Marc
Bourreau (TELECOM ParisTech), Tobias Kretschmer (University of Munich), Patrick
Rey (Toulouse School of Economics), Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College London and Innovation &
Regulation Chair), and Patrick Waelbroeck (TELECOM ParisTech).
Registration information:
The Orange “Innovation and Regulation” Chair will cover accommodation expenses of conference participants who present or discuss an accepted paper. Depending on funding, travel expenses will be partially or fully covered as well. There will be no registration fee.
For more information, please contact econict@telecom-paristech.fr.
The conference will take place at Telecom
ParisTech, Paris, France (46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris France).