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Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009

This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using … perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of …

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A new International Database on Education Quality: 1965-2010

Altinok, Nadir; Diebolt, Claude; Meulemeester, Jean-Luc De - HAL - 2012

The aim of this paper is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the relative performance of …

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TOOLS, STANDARDS AND MARKET POSITIONING

Liotard, Isabelle - HAL - 2006

strengthening, more particularly in software and business methods areas because these informational goods could be viewed as generic …

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Firms' contribution to open source software and the dominant skilled user

Jullien, Nicolas; Zimmermann, Jean-Benoît - HAL - 2008

: Free/libre or open-source software (FLOSS) is nowadays produced not only by individual benevolent developers but, in … that, beside factors like the importance of software as a core competence of the firm, the role of users on the related … empirical stylized facts drawn from the recent trends in the software industry …

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How Nuclear Power Plants in Spain are reacting to the Massive Introduction of Renewable Energy

Armstrong, Margaret; Sasaki, Asana; Novel-Cattin, Frederic - HAL - 2014

This paper analyses the evolution of the bidding strategies of nuclear power plants on the Spanish day-ahead auction market, over the 11-year period from 2002 until December 2012. During that time the proportion of renewable energy especially wind and solar power increased dramatically. At the...

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Market Power and Collusion on Interconnection Phone Market in Tunisia : What Lessons from International Experiences

Debbichi, Sami; Hichri, Walid - HAL - 2014

We try in this paper to characterize the state of mobile phone market in Tunisia. Our study is based on a survey of foreign experience (Europe) in detecting collusive behavior and a comparison of the critical threshold of collusion between operators in developing countries like Tunisia. The...

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Cost-saving or Cost-enhancing Mergers: the Impact of the Distribution of Roles in Oligopoly

Pape, Nicolas Le; Zhao, Kai - HAL - 2010

We consider ﬁrms perfectly symmetrical on production costs in the pre-merger game but the cost of the merged entity may be amended due to the anti-competitive effects of the merger. The lack of empirical precision concerning the effect of the merger on production costs (Scherer, 1980 or Tichy,...

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A contribution of experimental economics toward characterization of the use of market power in oligopolisitc markets

Petit, Fabien; Phulpin, Yannick; Saguan, Marcelo; … - HAL - 2007

Despite the numerous researches about imperfect competition, the market power remains difficult to quantify using traditional economics methods. In this paper, we propose an experimental economics design and outline some ways of analysis of its results toward characterization of the use of...

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Intertemporal Emissions Trading and Market Power: A Dominant Firm with Competitive Fringe Model

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2009

In international emissions trading schemes such as the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, the suboptimal negotiation of the cap with respect to total pollution minimization leads us to critically examine the proposition that generous allocation of grandfathered...

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Intertemporal Emissions Trading and Allocation Rules: Gainers, Losers and the Spectre of Market Power

Chevallier, Julien - HAL - 2009

Stemming from politically given market imperfections in a tradable permits system, this paper develops a Stackelberg game with two types of non-cooperative agents to describe how a large -potentially dominant- agent may exercise market power at the expense of a competitive fringe. In a dynamic...

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