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Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...
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Cet article propose une analyse économique comparative de différentes règles de droit utilisées en cas de rupture de contrat. Il met plus particulièrement l'accent sur trois critères: la rupture efficace du contrat, l'existence d'investissement spécifique dans la relation contractuelle et...
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We analyze the incentives of a controlling shareholder of a firm to acquire, directly or indirectly through his firm, shares in a competitor. We charaterize the conditions under which these partial acquisitions as well as the equilibrium toehold and its nature: controlling or silent. We find...
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Cet article propose une analyse économique comparative de différentes règles de droit utilisées en cas de rupture de contrat. Il met plus particulièrement l'accent sur trois critères: la rupture efficace du contrat, l'existence d'investissement spécifique dans la relation contractuelle et...
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We analyze the incentives of a controlling shareholder of a firm to acquire, directly or indirectly through his firm, shares in a competitor. We charaterize the conditions under which these partial acquisitions as well as the equilibrium toehold and its nature: controlling or silent. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855618
The sale of ideas (e.g. through licensing) facilitates vertical specialization and the division of labor between research and development. This specialization can improve the overall efficiency of the innovative process. However, these gains depend on the timing of the sale: the buyer of an idea...
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We show that resale-below-cost laws enable producers to impose industry-wide price-floors to retailers. This mechanism suppresses downstream competition but also and more surprisingly dampens upstream competition, leading to higher prices and lower welfare. Price-floor may be more profitable for...
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This paper analyzes the impact of a merger in the French retail sector on food prices, using a consumer panel data. We perform a di fference-in-diff erences analysis by comparing price changes in stores for which the local market structure is aff ected by the merger to unaff ected stores. In...
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The determination of optimal fines to deter the formation or continuation of cartels is a major objective of competition policy. We provide an analysis of static and dynamic frameworks to characterize the restitution and deterrence properties of fines: cartel stability depends on their ability...
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Cet article étudie un effet pervers inflationniste de l'interdiction de la revente à perte. Dans un modèle où un producteur en monopole vend son produit par l'intermédiaire de distributeurs différenciés, nous montrons que l'interdiction de la revente à perte peut permettre au producteur...
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