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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologies. Each domestic firm is controlled by a national regulator in a common market made of two...
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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …
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A Theory of BOT Concession Contracts
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and 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 entice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008921773
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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
absence of a credible regulatory agency, regulation is achieved through public ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124293
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Identifying Industry Margins with Unobserved Price Constraints: Structural Estimation on Pharmaceuticals
Dubois, Pierre; Lasio, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
chosen in some markets, for example due to regulation. We use our identification strategy to study the effects of regulatory …-ulcer drugs that allows us to explore the drivers of demand, to identify whether regulation in France truly affects margins and … increased over the 2004-2007 period because of new regulation of price setting that reduced branded drugs prices but increased …
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