El presente trabajo presenta un método prospectivo simplificado que sirve para estimar incrementos y reducciones de precios esperados, asociados con casos antitrust de prácticas colusivas y de abusos de posición de dominio en los cuales no resulta posible comparar datos reales de situaciones...

Este trabajo desarrolla un modelo de equilibrio de un mercado con diferenciación horizontal de productos en el cual las empresas fijan los precios de las variedades que proveen y, en ciertos casos, alguna de ellas actúa como líder de precios. Dados esos elementos, el trabajo explora qué...

This article analyzes the basic characteristics of the Argentine competition law and the way in which it has been enforced in several important antitrust cases. We begin with a section that introduces the evolution of the law, followed by another section about the basic economic and legal...

El presente trabajo desarrolla una metodología de estimación de sistemas de demanda, que sirve para calcular la elasticidad crítica a utilizar en la definición de mercados relevantes dentro de un sector en particular, y para simular los efectos unilaterales de fusiones horizontales que...

This paper argues that accountability in organizations should not be constrained to responsibilities alone, but it must also comprise the previous commitments without which responsibilities remain meaningless. It also asserts that transparency should not be merely predicated upon the production...

This paper argues that special purpose vehicles, SPVs, are two-edged financial constructs whose bad edge consists in conveying opaque governance, whereas its good one amounts to interesting financial engineering. Firstly, the notion of opaque governance is highlighted, to focus next on SPVs and...

Governance risks stem from the own governance of any organization. The paper puts forward an operational viewpoint of those risks, by mapping the most distinctive categories of governance analysis onto time-dependent governance variables. Afterwards, risks conveyed by the latter are measured...

When Minsky put forward his financial instability hypothesis, he resorted – among other macroeconomic tools of analysis – to categories like income, balance-sheet, and portfolio cash flows, so as to cope with the successive stages of hedging, speculative and Ponzi schemes. This paper makes...

Members of cooperatives are patrons and owners simultaneously, which turns out to be a consequential feature ingrained in that sort of business associations. This paper puts forward some contributions to the subject. Firstly, it defines a primary cooperative, making hence a contrast with...

Whereas a clinical approach to organizations has a well-deserved predicament, narrowing down such viewpoint to governance issues in organizations shows that there has been, so far, an almost complete neglect of this field of enquiry, on which this paper intends to make a contribution. Firstly,...