This paper examines the effects of trade liberalization on merger behavior. We endogenize merger choice among owners in an oligopolistic industry in asymmetric countries to analyze the consequences of trade cost reductions on competitiveness and welfare. In this context, the non-cooperative game...

[eng] The aim of this paper is to call attention on the complexity of the press market. Therefore, the fixation of a price for a newspaper or a magazine is very uneasy because of the specificity of this type of product : for example, the complexity of the production and distribution costs, the...

We examine the design of national emission taxes in an international trade setting with imperfect competition and trade costs. The main point of the paper is that there can exist a consistency problem with respect to tax policy in a setting where trade costs are positive. In particular, when...

We show how a large country’s entrance on world markets can lead to lower and less quality diversity available to consumers rather than more. In our model, autarky quality is directly proportional to the willingness to pay for quality and home market size, and inversely proportional to the...

[fre] Notre but est d'analyser les conséquences de l'ouverture des frontières entre deux monopoles polluants régulés, en l'absence de toute politique environnementale stratégique. La première question posée est de savoir si le libre échange permet une bonne réallocation de la production...

[eng] Location of activities : a two-sectors model with transportation costs. P. Krugman is arguing that a reduction of manufactured goods transportation costs favors concentration of industrial activity. In an economy with two sectors - the « agricultural » one being characterized by perfect...