Summer School : Industrial Organization

Applied platform economics

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Location: Paris

For: professionals, researchers and graduate students

Duration: 1 week

Dates: June 16 to June 20, 2025

Application: From January 15 to May 19, 2025

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Overview

Two-sided markets and networks can be found in many industries, including search engines or communication networks such as the media and the internet. This program will focus on these industries, and propose a discussion on important issues that are currently debated in the economic literature and policy circles : Platforms and Data, Media Platforms and Advertising, Social Media Platforms, and Search and Platform Design.

Objective

This program introduces participants to the key concepts at the frontier of applied platform economics. The point of departure is the concept of two-sided markets, where two groups interact through an intermediary, or platform, that captures the value of externalities between the groups. This program will focus on online platform economics with a special focus on social media, advertising, and the design of search engines.

Skills acquired

After completing the summer program, participants will specifically be able to work on:

Theoretical tools and empirical methods related to online platform economics
Platform competition
Two sided market
Media and advertising
Social media
Online search

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ECTS credit which PSE validates
316

participants in all programs in 2023
70

nationalities

Prerequisites

Our summer school is aimed at graduate students, PhD students, young scholars and young professionals.

Students are assumed to have good knowledge of (Master level or very good undergraduate level):

Game Theory
Microeconomics
Econometrics

Each professor has additional pre-requisites in each course description

Exciting activities

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To be sure you make the most of your stay in Paris, PSE offers social events, such as a boat tour. It’s a wonderful way to balance your everyday studies with the chance to visit the must-sees of the City of Light.

For centuries, Paris has created and recreated itself as one of the most beautiful and charming cities in the world, thanks to its architecture, its restaurants and cafes, and its river banks. It is unique: contemporary without having sacrificed its classical features.