France Telecom (FT), SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT) have been fined by France's Conseil de la Concurrence (CC) for …-uniform market shares are explained by the costs in Cournot competition which can be deduced from the observed market shares by … assuming that the costs are kept the same when switching from Cournot competition to any form of cartel. We deduced that market …

In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate … hedonic price regressions using data on tariff plans offered by the main mobile telecommunications operator in France between …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the …

To foster competition the French government authorized a fourth operator, lsquo;Free', to enter the country's mobile …-third and one-sixth of the market. By using a stylized model of France's phone market, we have examined what we call the … regulator's nightmares and dreams. If Cournot competition is in place before Free's entry, minimizing the total profit fails to …

-end competition made such semi-collusion more difficult to sustain because of increased business stealing incentives. Consumers gained …

We use panel data on 36,104 municipalities in metropolitan France over the period 2010-2014 to estimate two models of … of municipalities in France within the next years. …

We use panel data on 36,104 municipalities in metropolitan France over the period 2010-2014 to estimate two models of … of municipalities in France within the next years …

of conduct, related markups and intensity of competition. We develop a cointegrated VAR (vector autoregression) based …