Romain Lestage
Home page: https://sites.google.com/view/romain-lestage

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization, urban economics, cultural economics.
Digital markets, network industries, innovation, regulation, economy of China and Northeast Asia.
CURRENT POSITION

Since September 2013: Assistant professor, Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing, China), School of Management Science and Engineering.
Research: Theoretical and empirical research on the economics of the Internet, telecommunications, and media.
Teaching: Economics of Innovation and New Technology (undergraduate), Microeconomics (undergraduate), Industrial Organization (undergraduate), Advanced Economics Reading (undergraduate and graduate), Academic and Professional Communication (undergraduate and graduate), Managerial Economics (graduate), Topics in French Culture, Economy, and Public Policy (undergraduate).
Supervision of reports and research projects by graduate and undergraduate students.
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

February 2012 – July 2013: Postdoctoral researcher, Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France), Economics and Social Sciences Department.
Theoretical and empirical research on the economics of the Internet and media.
March 2011 – February 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), Technology Management Economics and Policy Program.
Research: Theoretical and empirical research on regulation and innovation in telecommunications.
Teaching: Managerial Economics (graduate, 45 hours), Industrial Organization (graduate, 45 hours).
Supervision of research projects in telecommunications and energy economics.
DOCTORAL STUDIES

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Paris North, January 2011.
Research funded by France Telecom Group.
Title: Liberalization, investment and innovation: The case of telecommunications.
Advisors: David Flacher (professor at the University of Paris North), Jean-Hervé Lorenzi (professor at Paris-Dauphine University).
Referees: Cristiano Antonelli (professor at the University of Turin), Marc Bourreau (professor at Telecom ParisTech), Nicolas Curien (professor at CNAM and ARCEP College member), Benjamin Coriat (professor at Paris 13 University) and Didier Lombard (president of France Telecom Group).
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Papers in international refereed journals
Net neutrality and asymmetric platform competition; with M. Bourreau. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 55(2):140-171, April 2019.
E-commerce and the market structure of the recorded music industry; with M. Bourreau and F. Moreau. Applied Economics Letters, 24(9):598-601, February 2017.
Input prices and product differentiation. B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 16(3), July 2016.
Level of access and infrastructure investment in network industries; with M. Bourreau and P. Do?an. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 46(3):237-260, December 2014.
Infrastructure investment and optimal access regulation in the different stages of broadband market liberalization”; with D. Flacher. Telecommunications Policy, 38(7):569-576, August 2014.
Competition and investment in telecommunications: Does competition have the same impact on investment by private and state-owned firms?; with D. Flacher, J. Kim, and Y. Kim. Information Economics and Policy, 25(1):41-50, March 2013.
Access regulation and infrastructure investment in the mobile telecommunications industry; with J. Kim, Y. Kim, N. Gaston, D. Flacher, and Y. Kim. Telecommunications Policy, 35(11):907-919, December 2011.

Papers in French refereed journals
Niveau d’accès et investissement dans les réseaux de telecommunications; with M. Bourreau and P. Do?an. Revue Economique, 67 :141-152, 2016.
The Deployment of Very High-Speed Broadband Networks: Regulations and Geographical Inequalities; with D. Flacher. Revue d’Econonie Industrielle, 127:15-45, September 2009.
Chapters in books
Le déploiement de la fibre, in M. Bourreau (ed), Régulation des communications électroniques, chapter 13. Lavoisier, Paris, 2016.
Les politiques de libéralisation et l’innovation : le cas du secteur des télécommunications, with D. Flacher, in Jean-Hervé Lorenzi and Alain Villemeur (eds), L’innovation au c?ur de la nouvelle croissance, pp.263-297. Economica, Paris, 2009.
Presentations in international conferences
Econometric Society, Asian meeting, 2019. European Summer School Conference in Competition and Regulation, CRESSE Conference, 2018. International Telecommunications Society, ITS Seoul, 2018. Singapore Economic Review, Singapore Economic Review Conference, 2015. Society of Interdisciplinary Business Research, Conference on Interdisciplinary Business & Economics Research, 2014. European University Institute, Florence School of Regulation, Scientific Seminar on the Economics and Policy of Communications and Media, 2014, and Workshop on Performance in Network Industries, 2011. The Industrial Organization Society, 11^th Annual Conference, 2013. European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, 36^th, 37^th, and 40^th annual conferences, 2009, 2010 and 2013.