Internet network operates by combining common and non market technology and resources on one hand and private and marketable resources on the other hand. Internet protocol addresses and connection protocols are historically non market resources but relationships between networks involve payments...

</titre> Taking as a starting point the hegemonic place occupied by the concepts of rent and rentier state in the social sciences and humanities literature on Algeria, this article re-examines the process that led to the predominance of hydrocarbons in the Algerian economy and the Algerian state. This...

[eng] This article shows that the results of the studies on the relation between the use of Information an Communication Technologies (ITC) and economic performances are influenced by measuring instruments used. In the first part, we present the main results of these studies and we raise some...

[eng] Antidumping duties are now widely considered as a non tariff barrier in international trade. The problem is that dumping is still view as an unfair practice by international trade regulation. This paper explains this paradox by both the economic acceptance of dumping and the abuse of...

[fre] Après un examen critique des théories qui attribuent la corruption, à la rente pétrolière et au fonctionnement rentier de l'économie ou de l'État, ou encore à la nature néo-patrimoniale du pouvoir, l'auteur préfère centrer son analyse sur le caractère administré de...

In Europe, competition authorities have the power to close antitrust cases with “commitment decisions” after the concerned firms have offered agreed remedies. We show that the optimal use of this instrument is governed by a tradeoff between deterrence of potentially anticompetitive practices...

</titre> Since the 1970?s, Algeria?s dependency on hydrocarbons has dramatically increased. In the last decade, this sector has represented more than 40% of GDP. The country suffers from Dutch disease symptoms such as deindustrialization and increases in prices of non tradable goods and services, and...

This paper studies horizontal mergers in vertically related markets. In a two-level Cournot model, with an intermediate and a final market, we show that downstream mergers inducing size effects are, ceteris paribus, more profitable than upstream ones. Moreover, a merger at one level reduces the...