ECO is a multidisciplinary group of CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, research unit CNRS 9194) that focuses on the digital economy and the transformation of markets, business models, and corporate strategies driven by new technologies.
Both theoretical and empirical methods from industrial economics are employed to analyze the competitive dynamics of markets and the economic challenges raised by data-driven innovations. Special attention is given to artificial intelligence, the economics of data and fintech industries.
The team also explores regulatory issues and public policies aimed at balancing innovation, competition, data protection, and security. Our research is conducted in collaboration with a wide network of academic partners, as well as businesses, industrial stakeholders, and public organizations, especially through research chairs.
Faculty staff
David BounieProfessor
Head of the Digital Finance Chair
Marc BourreauProfessor
Director of the Innovation & Regulation Chair
Laurie CiaramellaAssociate Professor
Myriam DavidoviciAssociate Professor
Laurent GilleEmeritus Professor of Economics
Louis PapeAssistant Professor
Patrick WaelbroeckProfessor
The team news
Laurie Ciaramella receives a grant for young researcher !
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 09/07/2024Assistant professor in Economics, she receives an ANR (Agence nationale de la recherche, French Research [...]
It is Taxing to be Coherent: an award-winning paper in Money Macro & Finance
PhD, Digital Economy — 02/07/2024Ivan Shchapov, PhD student at Télécom Paris and CREST, receives the 3rd Peter Sinclair prize at [...]
Review: one year of research 2022
Faculty Members, Innovation — 13/06/2023The document depicts the great variety of scientific fields, research projects and applications generated by this abundant ecosystem.
Trustworthy and Responsible AI Lab by Axa and Sorbonne University
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI — 03/05/2022Several members of the OpAIE team attended the inaugural seminar of the Trustworthy and [...]
Review: one year of research
Faculty Members, Innovation — 28/04/2022The generously illustrated 94-page document depicts the great variety of scientific fields, research projects and applications generated [...]
David Bounie: analysis of the digital technologies and payment industries
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 22/03/2021In ILB Brief Risk Forum series, David Bounie, professor of economics at Télécom Paris and [...]
A year of research and innovation
Faculty Members, Innovation — 10/03/2021The generously illustrated 84-page document depicts the great variety of scientific fields, research projects and applications [...]
Covid-19: contact tracing applications, new perimeter for conversation
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 18/11/2020Claire Levallois & Iva Meseguer: Many voices have spoken out against the implementation of this [...]
Consumption in crisis time: Real Time Bank Insights
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 15/10/2020The French Council of Economic Analysis (CAE) publishes a study on the evolution of consumer habits during the [...]
Co-investment and network sharing in Europe
Digital Economy — 05/06/2020The Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) is an organization bringing together European actors, public (Arcep, CSA…) and private [...]
Health crisis, what safeguards for our fundamental freedoms?
Digital Trust, Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 04/06/2020The current pandemic and unprecedented measures taken to slow its spread provide an [...]
Why is infrastructure and investment sharing so fraught with difficulty?
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 27/05/2020The report authors, Marc Bourreau, Winston Maxwell (Télécom Paris), and Steffen Hoernig [...]The Covid-19 containment seen through French consumer transaction data
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 26/05/2020Using billions of anonymised French bank card transactions from before and during the COVID-19 [...]Covid-19: Consumers' Mobility, Expenditure & Online-Offline Substitution
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 30/04/2020This paper investigates a number of general phenomena connected with consumer behaviour in [...]
For remote or local facial recognition, the ethical issues are not the same
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI, Faculty Members — 09/03/2020There are many uses of facial recognition, such as local identity [...]
Hotel Rankings : Best Scientific Paper award for Ulrich Laitenberger et al.
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 15/01/2020The "Outstanding Scientific Performance" award from the Sponsors' Association of the [...]
"Integrating ethics into algorithms raises titanic challenges"
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 07/12/2019Two researchers from Télécom Paris, David Bounie and Winston Maxwell, describe in an op-ed piece to Le [...]
Data brokers: the middlemen running the markets
Digital Economy, Faculty Members — 20/11/2019Over the past five years, major digital technology stakeholders have boosted the data broker business. These [...]
Is the explicability of algorithms a fundamental right?
Digital Trust, Faculty Members — 02/09/2019It is essential to respond with discernment to the demand for transparency on the operation of algorithms, say [...]
Algorithms: bias, discrimination and equity
Digital Trust, Data Science & AI, Faculty Members — 26/02/2019Algorithms are becoming more and more involved in our daily lives, such as decision support algorithms [...]
