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The enforcement of contracts is necessary for efficient exchange in economic activities. The predominance in agriculture of informal contracts leads in many countries to the implementation of specific legal rules for contract law. This article emphasises the complementarities between public and...
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Le secteur de la distribution automobile en Europe présente une particularité au regard des règles générales de la concurrence : il fait l'objet d'un règlement d'exemption par catégorie. Celui ci autorise la permanence de relations verticales fortes entre les constructeurs et leurs...
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The enforcement of contracts is necessary for efficient exchange in economic activities. The predominance in agriculture of informal contracts leads in many countries to the implementation of specific legal rules for contract law. This article emphasises the complementarities between public and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008795633
regarding monopoly and cartel policy. Undertakings have to manoeuvre through a complex universe. Not only must they master the … competition and add up to the aforementioned. Monopoly and cartel policy presents itself as an important limitation to the freedom … harmful to competition insomuch as cartel and monopolies or taking advantage of a dominant position are means generally …
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organized in a "well-coordinated" cartel. After discussing the way the cartel reacts to any auction mechanism, we show that if … the cartel pay to get an efficient allocation or randomly allocating the item. We then discuss the way to implement this …
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Les enseignements de Murray Rothbard relatifs au monopole et à la concurrence ont l'immense avantage d'en présenter une conception réaliste, au contraire des manuels conventionnels mettant leurs lecteurs sur la piste d'une fausse dichotomie entre concurrence pure et parfaite et concurrence...
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025982
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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