In 1997, a new legislation banning below-invoice retail prices came into force in France. Individually negotiated discounts could no longer be passed on to consumers, which is equivalent to allowing industry-wide price oors. The anti-competitive effects of such practices are well-known. The...

The European Commission recently considered abolishing the notification system and focusing on a regime of ex-post investigations. Our objective is to show that a better understanding of markets can justify this reform. Whe the precision of the Competition Authority's analysis is not high...

We analyze the competitive effects of upfront payments made by manufacturers to retailersin a contracting situation where rival retailers offer contracts to a manufacturer. In contrast toBernheim and Whinston (1985, 1998), who study the situation in which competing manufacturersoffer contracts...

Depuis le début des années 1970, le secteur commercial a connu une accumulation de lois destinées à encadrer le développement de la grande distribution (lois Royer et Raffarin) et à protéger ses petits concurrents et ses fournisseurs (loi Galland). Les effets inflationnistes de ces...

[fre] Modernisation de la politique communautaire de concurrence. . La Commission européenne s'est récemment posé la question de la modernisation du traitement des accords entre entreprises. Elle souhaite modifier le système actuel de contrôle des accords par notifications, au profit d'une...