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Competition and intellectual property in the European Union

Crampes, Claude; Encaoua, David; Hollander, Abraham - HAL - 2006

This article shows how European courts have managed tensions between antitrust and intellectual protection in three areas: (1) Parallel imports and market segmentation; (2) Refusals to supply essential inputs protected by patents and copyrights; (3) Forms of conduct by copyright collectives.

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Sub-Saharan African Cotton Policies in Retrospect

Delpeuch, Claire; Leblois, Antoine - HAL - 2011

Calls for liberalizing cash crop sectors in sub-saharan Africa have been voiced for decades. Yet, the impact of reforms remains elusive in empirical studies. This paper offers new opportunities to solve this problem by creating precise and consistent market organisation indices for 25 African...

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Learning from the economics of networks to enhance poverty alleviation in African cotton zones

Fok, Michel - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) were run by monopolistic para-statal organisms for a long time. They embarked upon a restructuring/liberalisation process as of the mid-1980s but the outcomes were mitigated at best. As these sectors resemble service distribution networks...

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The Free Trade Agreement Between the United States and Morocco. The Importance of a Gradual and Assymetric Agreement

Jallab, Mustapha Sadni; Abdelkmalki, Lahsen; Sandretto, … - HAL - 2007

. Our simulations show that the various modalities of trade liberalization may have different impacts on the welfare, the …

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Cotton policy in SSA: a matter of institutional arrangements related to farmers' constraints

Fok, Michel - HAL - 2008

of privatization/liberalization, at distinct modalities, within the implementation of globalization-oriented policies …

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Paving the way for reconsidering the working of market economies: the Minsky perspective

Ülgen, Faruk - HAL - 2012

This essay develops the financial instability hypothesis of Hyman Minsky through an analysis of the pitfalls of the liberal regulatory framework in order to deal with long-standing and long-lasting financial issues of capitalist economies. It argues that the roots of the 2007/08 crisis are...

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Liberalization in the Water Sector : Three Leading Models.

Ménard, Claude; Aleksandra, Peeroo - HAL - 2011

limits of that process. Then, a historical and global overview of the liberalization movement and the actual state of the … liberalization process in the water sector. Section III looks at how these factors operate in three models of liberalization … challenges of liberalization in the water sector, which have to do with guaranteeing integrity and coherence of water systems. …

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