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Implementing incentive regulation through an alignment with resource bounded regulators

Glachant, Jean-Michel; Khalfallah, Haikel; Perez, Yannick; … - HAL - 2013

demanding to implement, these various tools are: a- cost plus, b- price/revenue cap, c- output or performance-based regulation … implement. Lastly, conclusions for the regulation of networks are derived. A workable regulation of network relies on a …

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An assessment of Incentive Regulation in electricity networks: The story so far

Khalfallah, Haikel - HAL - 2013

Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy systems for long term transition to a … smart grid. Regulation of network companies' activities should consider both cost efficiency objectives and other objectives … such as quality and network innovation. It is in this context that incentive regulation tools are discussed and assessed in …

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DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COMPETITION

Encaoua, David; Madies, Thierry - HAL - 2012

The contemporary tensions between patents and competition no longer reside in the traditional trade-off between the exclusionary right given to an inventor to encourage innovation, and the welfare loss induced by the market power associated to this right. They rather result from three important...

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Economic Rationales of Exclusive Dealing ; Empirical Evidence from the French Distribution Networks

Fadairo, Muriel; Yu, Jianyu - HAL - 2014

This paper investigates the rationales of exclusive dealing (ED), which is one of the most common forms of vertical restraint and attracts intense policy debates in anti-trust regulations. Based on a survey of the theoretical literature, we derive several hypotheses relative to the anti- and...

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Rationalizability and Efficiency in an Asymmetric Cournot Oligopoly

Desgranges, Gabriel; Gauthier, Stéphane - HAL - 2014

We study rationalizable solutions in a linear asymmetric Cournot oligopoly. We show that symmetry across firms favors multiplicity of rationalizable solutions: A merger (implying a greater asymmetry across firms) makes out-of-equilibrium behavior less likely and should dampen &lquo;coordination&rquo;...

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DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COMPETITION

Encaoua, David; Madies, Thierry - HAL - 2014

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European competition policy modernization : from notifications to legal exception

Loss, Frédéric; Malavolti, Estelle; Vergé, Thibaud; … - HAL - 2008

Council Regulation (EC) 1/2003 came into force in May 2004 and replaced the mandatory notification of agreements by a …

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Bankruptcy Risk, Product Market Competition and Horizontal Mergers

Franck, Bernard; Pape, Nicolas Le - HAL - 2010

We consider an oligopolistic industry including leveraged firms and unleveraged ones where firms are engaged in a sequential decision-making process. At the first stage of the game, a firm and her bank, considering the demand uncertainty and the distribution probability of the shock, evaluate a...

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Patent Pools and the Dynamic Incentives to R&D

Dequiedt, Vianney; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2007

Patent pools are cooperative agreements between several patent owners to bundle the sale of their respective licenses. In this paper we analyze their consequences on the speed of the innovation process. We adopt an ex ante perspective and study the impact of possible pool formation on the...

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New Firm Formation and the properties of local knowledge bases: Evidence from Italian NUTS 3 regions

Colombelli, Alessandra; Quatraro, Francesco - HAL - 2013

firms in Italy is associated to the exploitation of well established technological trajectories grounded on competences …

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