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The Effects of Banning Advertising on Demand, Supply and Welfare: Structural Estimation on a Junk Food Market

Dubois, Pierre; Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

dynamic oligopoly supply in which multi-product firms compete in prices and advertising budgets. We model the impact of …Restricting advertising is one way governments seek to reduce consumption of potentially harmful goods. There have been … increasing calls to apply a similar policy to the junk food market. The effect will depend on how brand advertising influences …

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Market Size and Pharmaceutical Innovation

Dubois, Pierre; de Mouzon, Olivier; Scott Morton, Fiona; … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

%. An elasticity below 1 is also a plausible implication of the hypothesis that innovation in pharmaceuticals is becoming …

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"Impacts of Patent Expiry and Regulatory Policies on Daily Cost of Pharmaceutical Treatments: OECD Countries, 2004-2010"

Berndt, Ernst; Dubois, Pierre - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012

Cross-country variability in regulatory frameworks, industrial policy, physician/pharmacy autonomy, brand/generic distinctions, and in the practice of medicine contributes to ambiguous interpretations of pharmaceutical cost comparisons. Here we report cross-country comparisons that: (i) focus on...

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Oligopoly Intermediation, Relative Rivalry, and the Mode of Competition

Hamilton, Stephen; Bontems, Philippe; Lepore, Jason - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

of oligopoly intermediation that reveals the mode of competition to be an equilibrium outcome that depends on the …

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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals

Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

We provide a method allowing identification of margins in an oligopoly price competition game when prices may not be …

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Mass Retailers’ Advertising Strategies Faced with Different Competitor Store Formats: Commodity Stores or Hard Discounts.

Bergès, Fabian; Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012

This article analyzes the effects of international trade policies on an imperfect competitive domestic market, taking into account not only consumers but also upstream and downstream firms. We first study the impact of a classic import tax decrease and we find that upstream firms are harmed and...

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Health Care Network Formation and Policyholders' Welfare

Bardey, David; Bourgeon, Jean Marc - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2010

We develop a model in which two insurers and two health care providers compete for a fixed mass of policyholders. Insurers compete in premium and offer coverage against financial consequences of health risk. They have the possibility to sign agreements with providers to establish a health care...

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The design of insurance coverage for medical products under imperfect competition

Bardey, David; Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Marie - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2015

This paper studies the design of health insurance with ex post moral hazard, when there is imperfect competition in the market for the medical product. Various scenarios, such as monopoly pricing, price negotiation or horizontal differentiation are considered. The insurance contract specifies...

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Production Standards, Competition and Vertical Relationship

Bouamra-Mechemache, Zohra; Jianyu, Yu - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the collective choice of production standards by farmer and pro- cessor groups within a vertical food supply chain, taking into account their competition behaviors. In a context in which raising standards cannot translate into a direct price premium to consumers, we...

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Vertical Integration as a Source of Hold-up

Allain, Marie-Laure; Rey, Patrick; Chambolle, Claire - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

While vertical integration is traditionally seen as a solution to the hold-up problem, this paper highlights instead that it can generate hold-up problems — for rivals. We first consider a successive duopoly where competition among suppliers eliminates any risk of hold-up; downstreamfirms thus...

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