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This article presents an empirical study of all the cartels convicted by the European Commission, from 1969 to 2009 (111 cartels). It provides an analysis of their characteristics in terms of organizational structures, affected industries and markets, cartels effects on prices, cartels duration,...
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[eng] This paper investigates how licensing between competitors can create significant barriers to competition. Several theoretical models have shown that licensing an innovation to a competitor can facilitate collusion, deter entry by more efficient firms or hinder technological progress. As a...
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[eng] R&D alliances have been recently the subject of an abondant litterature (transaction costs approach, evolutionnary perspective, technological externalities theory). But these different approaches focus principally on the internal gain of R&D alliance (so called the «specific gain») which...
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[eng] Patent and Drugs in Developing Countries. This article surveys the empirical literature on how patents affect access to drugs in developing countries. In the short run, higher prices and lower access rates are very likely, notably for those countries that benefited from a competitive...
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[eng] The European Industrial Policy Europe's industrial policy first appeared as a sectorial one when the European Coal and Steel Community was put in place. This highly interventionist institution proved efficient in managing the « life-cycle » of the coal and steel industries. It very...
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This paper aims at evaluating the scope of the bargaining power theory which considers direct investment restrictions—particularly regarding capital ownership—as the result of a bargaining process between the MNE and the host country. Three points are specifically studied: the conflict...
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