A long-term litigation has opposed AMD to Intel, the dominant firm in the chips market. The first reproached the second pricing practices aiming at excluding it from the market on another basis than a competition on the merits.Intel was accused of implemented an anticompetitive strategy through...

This article analyzes some of the issues raised by institutionalized public-private partnerships in an economic perspective. We demonstrate that although they may address some of the main limits of purely contractual public-private partnerships, such as the issues of control, know-how transfer,...

La convergence numérique a des effets ambivalents sur la concurrence. D'une part, elle renforce la contestabilité des positions acquises en redéfinissant les frontières des marchés. D'autre part, elle peut favoriser des stratégies anticoncurrentielles de forclusion des marchés au travers...

In this paper, we examine whether budget-constrained public authorities are more likely to use a PPP (Public Private Partnership) than traditional procurement methods. Then, we study the possible mechanisms underlying this choice. Our empirical test focuses on France and consists of a two-stage...

Most of the literature devoted to analysing public–private partnership (PPP) contracts focuses on issues related to competition. This article intends to study a less frequently considered matter, the financial clauses of these contracts as steering tools of the PPP.

We study the design of optimal (private and/or social) insurance schemes for formal home care and institutional care. We consider a three period model. Individuals are either in good health, lightly dependent or heavily dependent. Lightly dependent individuals can buy formal home care which...