[eng] Productive Structures in Urban Transport and Effects of Regulatory Arrangements . by Philippe Gagnepain . French urban transport is a highly regulated industry. Different contractual systems create contrasting cost-cutting incentives. The purpose of this paper is to study the industry's...

The goal of this paper is to assess the impact on the performance of firms that participate in Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) funded by the Fifth European Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (EU-FP5). A special emphasis is made on the User-friendly Information Society...

We study the effect of entry on costs and competition in the Portuguese mobile telephony industry.\ We construct and estimate a model that includes demand, network, and cost equations. The latter accounts for inefficiency and cost reducing effort. Our results suggest that the entry of a third...

Une attention croissante est accordée aux enjeux économiques des services de transport en commun. Les questions relatives à la production et les coûts de transport, ainsi qu'aux effets de la réglementation et des politiques de subventions sur les performances de l'opérateur sont d'un...

This article proposes to evaluate empirically the consequences of the rent-seeking behavior of football clubs on their costs. The empirical work entails estimating a football wage, result, and demand system with data on clubs competing in the first and second Spanish leagues during the 1996-2003...