Industrial Economics Institute
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The industrial economics institute (French: Institut D'Economie Industrielle) (IDEI) is a research center in economics located in Toulouse
(France) within the University of Toulouse
I. It was founded in 1990 by Jean-Jacques Laffont
. The IDEI serves a dual purpose: allowing the University of Toulouse I to be competitive at an international level; providing administrations and companies with an interface between their activities and economic research.
IDEI tackles both theoretical and applied economic problems and supplies state-of-the-art tools developed by economic research to decision-makers in eight research areas:
The department is particularly well-known for its work in industrial organization
and in the economics of information. Among the department's prominent faculty are the economists Jean Tirole
and Jacques Crémer.
The IDEI also hosts the MPSE (Midi Pyrénées Sciences Economiques) graduate school of economics that recruits the ablest students from all countries in the European Union and further afield.
Toulouse
Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...
(France) within the University of Toulouse
University of Toulouse
The Université de Toulouse is a consortium of French universities, grandes écoles and other institutions of higher education and research, named after one of the earliest universities established in Europe in 1229, and including the successor universities to that earlier university...
I. It was founded in 1990 by Jean-Jacques Laffont
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Jean-Jacques Marcel Laffont was a French economist specializing in public economics and information economics. Educated at the University of Toulouse and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris, he was awarded the Ph.D...
. The IDEI serves a dual purpose: allowing the University of Toulouse I to be competitive at an international level; providing administrations and companies with an interface between their activities and economic research.
IDEI tackles both theoretical and applied economic problems and supplies state-of-the-art tools developed by economic research to decision-makers in eight research areas:
- Industrial Organization, Regulation and Competition Policy
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- Insurance, Banking and Finance
- Energy, Environment, Agriculture
- Macroeconomics, Growth and International Economics
- Economics of Developing Countries and in Transition Countries
- Methodology: Econometrics, Statistics and Economic Theory
- Public Economics, Health, Labour and Education
The department is particularly well-known for its work in industrial organization
Industrial organization
Industrial organization is the field of economics that builds on the theory of the firm in examining the structure of, and boundaries between, firms and markets....
and in the economics of information. Among the department's prominent faculty are the economists Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole
Jean Marcel Tirole is a French professor of economics. He works on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and economics and psychology. Tirole is director of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation at the Toulouse School of Economics, and scientific director of the Industrial...
and Jacques Crémer.
The IDEI also hosts the MPSE (Midi Pyrénées Sciences Economiques) graduate school of economics that recruits the ablest students from all countries in the European Union and further afield.