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Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper, we discuss the choice for build-operate-and-transfer (BOT) concessions when governments and managers do not share the same information regarding the operation characteristics of a facility. We show that larger shadow costs of public funds and larger information asymmetries entice...

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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologies. Each domestic firm is controlled by a national regulator in a common market made of two...

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Government Outsourcing: Public Contracting with Private Monopoly

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Picard, Pierre M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation … to regulation is proposed in which firms are free to enter the market and to choose their price and output levels … than traditional regulation where governments commit to both investment and operation cash-flows. This is especially …

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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Flochel, Thomas; Straub, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra...

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Sale of Visas: A Smuggler's Final Song?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We study how smugglers respond to different types of migration policies - legalisation through the sale of migration visas, or more traditional repressive policies through borders' enforcement, employers' sanctions or deportation - by changing the price they propose to illegal migrants. In this...

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Heterogeneity in R&D Cooperation Strategies

Belderbos, Rene; Carree, Martin A; Diederen, Bert; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We explore heterogeneities in the determinants of innovating firms’ decisions to engage in R&D cooperation, differentiating between three types of cooperation partners: suppliers and customers (vertical cooperation), competitors (horizontal cooperation), and universities and research...

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Undertakings and Antidumping Jumping FDI in Europe

Belderbos, Rene; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper studies the effects of EU antidumping policy when foreign firms have the possibility to 'jump' antidumping measures by engaging in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the EU. Using a multi-stage framework, we study the EU administration's choice between an antidumping duty and a...

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European Anti-dumping Policy and the Profitability of National and International Collusion

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

whether antidumping regulation helps to establish, maintain or rather endanger full cartels as well as cartels restricted to …

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Endogenizing Know-How Flows Through the Nature of R&D Investments

Cassiman, Bruno; Pérez-Castrillo, J David; Veugelers, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this Paper we carefully link knowledge flows to and from a firm’s innovation process with this firm’s investment decisions. Three types of investments are considered: investments in applied research, investments in basic research, and investments in intellectual property protection. Only...

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R&D Cooperation Between Firms and Universities: Some Empirical Evidence from Belgian Manufacturing

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents an econometric analysis of firm and industry characteristics conducive to cooperation with universities, using Community Innovation Survey data for Belgium. We find that large firms are more likely to have cooperative agreements with universities. These agreements are formed...

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