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Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2011

In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and rm managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries...

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Gas Release and Transport Capacity Investment as Instruments to Foster Competition in Gas Markets

Chaton, Corinne; Gasmi, Farid; Guillerminet, Marie-Laure; … - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010

Motivated by recent policy events experienced by the European natural gas industry, this paper develops a simple model for analyzing the interaction between gas release and capacity investment programs as tools to improve the performance of imperfectly competitive markets. We consider a regional...

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Eliciting the Regulation of an Economic System: The Case of the French Rail Industry

Ivaldi, Marc; Pouyet, Jérôme - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010

Based on the modern theory of regulation, the analysis aims to characterize the effective economic regulation of the … French railway industry. The methodology consists in econometrically testing various scenarios of regulation and determining … operator (RO), SNCF, the two behavioral hypotheses of reference which we consider –absence of regulation of the rail operator …

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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Flochel, Thomas; Straub, Stéphane - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2011

A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra...

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Public-Private Partnerships and Government Spending Limits

Maskin, Eric; Tirole, Jean - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2006

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Lobbying in Antidumping

Gasmi, Farid; Malin, Eric; Tandé, François - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2004

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When Is Building a Library Consortium Beneficial?

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2013

This paper identifies strategies to build a library consortium from a long term point of view. Contrary to the conventional wisdom to build a consortium around groups of homogenous institutions (Davis, 2002), we find that libraries with similar preferences are likely to lose from building a...

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Market Definition in Printed Media Industry: Theory and Practice

Argentesi, Elena; Ivaldi, Marc - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2005

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Interconnection among Academic Journal Websites: Multilateral versus Bilateral Interconnection

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2009

Electronic academic journal websites provide new services of text and/or data mining and linking, indispensable for efficient allocation of attention among abundant sources of scientic information. Fully realizing the benefit of these services requires interconnection among websites....

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Bundling and Competition for Slots: On the Portfolio Effects of Bundling

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2009

We consider competition among sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products to a buyer having limited slots. We study how bundling affects competition for slots. Under independent pricing, equilibrium often does not exist and hence the outcome is often inefficient. When...

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