Technical standards take such a big part in our daily life (cars, mobile phones, food and so on) that it seems to become an invisible phenomenon. The construction of these standards is mainly embedded in international arenas and networks. Scholars still know few of actors and know-how in this...

This paper analyses the potentially defensive behaviour of patent race winners and its effect on aggregate R&D effort. It proposes a quality-ladders model that endogenously determines leaders technology advantages and who innovates. Product market regulation can have either a positive or a...

Les effets des alliances entre firmes appartenant à des pays d'inégal développement suscitent un intérêt particulier non seulement lié au transfert matériel inhérent des alliances, mais aussi au développement de la capacité d'absorption technologique, et précisément l'analyse de...

In the early 1980’s, Bernard Lassudrie-Duchêne was one of the first authors to analyse theorically and empirically the international production process decomposition (or fragmentation). This phenomenon, which explains a large part of the intermediate goods international trade, has become one...

Plant-derived vaccines may soon displace conventional vaccines. Assuming there are no major technological barriers undermining the feasibility of this innovative technology, it is worthwhile to generate quantitative models of regulatory burden of producing and diffusing plant-derived vaccines in...

Strategic surprise lies in wait. There is no surprise if competitors can figure out one's intentions before end. We examine how enlightened strategists can enact the socially-embedded knowledge that prevails over competitors' behavior to their very own favor. Findings suggest that firms can...

We model comparative advertising as brands pushing up own brand perception and pulling down the brand image of targeted rivals. We watched all TV advertisements for OTC analgesics 2001-2005 to construct matrices of rival targeting and estimate the structural model. These attack matrices identify...

A firm chooses a price and the product information it discloses to a consumer whose tastes are privately known. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition on the match function for full disclosure to be the unique equilibrium outcome whatever the costs and prior beliefs about product and...