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Taxicab regulation and urban residents' use and perception of taxi services: a survey in eight cities

Darbéra, Richard - HAL - 2010

1. Several market failures would justify some forms of price control and entry regulation in the taxicab industry … regulation to changing market conditions. Hence, faced with a sclerotic service supply, several cities and countries have … thoroughly deregulated their taxi industry... only to gradually bring back some elements of regulation later on. Since the late …

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Reforming Trade in Services and Negotiation Processes in Morocco

Diani, Adil - HAL - 2011

that considerable care must be given to the assessment of the nature, pace and sequencing of regulatory reform and … of services are gaining in importance in Morocco's foreign trade policy. Moreover, Morocco has continued to reform its …

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The impact of Business Regulatory Reforms on Economic Growth

Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - HAL - 2012

regulatory reform is associated with a 0.15 percent increase in growth rate of GDP. …

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Shaping and reshaping the work organisation : including or excluding low skilled labour? The case of the nurse assistant in Germany, France and the United Kingdom

Grimshaw, Damian; Carroll, Marilyn; Jaehrling, Karen; … - HAL - 2006

The hospital industry could be characterised on the one hand as under “industrial constraints” (just in time, 24 hours …

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The role of relational competence in the health care sector

Pauget, Bertrand; Cabrol, Mathieu - HAL - 2013

is expected on the construction site of a new hospital in France. …

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DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COMPETITION

Encaoua, David; Madies, Thierry - HAL - 2012

The contemporary tensions between patents and competition no longer reside in the traditional trade-off between the exclusionary right given to an inventor to encourage innovation, and the welfare loss induced by the market power associated to this right. They rather result from three important...

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Rationalizability and Efficiency in an Asymmetric Cournot Oligopoly

Desgranges, Gabriel; Gauthier, Stéphane - HAL - 2014

We study rationalizable solutions in a linear asymmetric Cournot oligopoly. We show that symmetry across firms favors multiplicity of rationalizable solutions: A merger (implying a greater asymmetry across firms) makes out-of-equilibrium behavior less likely and should dampen &lquo;coordination&rquo;...

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DYSFUNCTIONS OF THE PATENT SYSTEM AND THEIR EFFECTS ON COMPETITION

Encaoua, David; Madies, Thierry - HAL - 2014

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Patent Pools and the Dynamic Incentives to R&D

Dequiedt, Vianney; Versaevel, Bruno - HAL - 2007

Patent pools are cooperative agreements between several patent owners to bundle the sale of their respective licenses. In this paper we analyze their consequences on the speed of the innovation process. We adopt an ex ante perspective and study the impact of possible pool formation on the...

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Economic Rationales of Exclusive Dealing ; Empirical Evidence from the French Distribution Networks

Fadairo, Muriel; Yu, Jianyu - HAL - 2014

This paper investigates the rationales of exclusive dealing (ED), which is one of the most common forms of vertical restraint and attracts intense policy debates in anti-trust regulations. Based on a survey of the theoretical literature, we derive several hypotheses relative to the anti- and...

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