International audienceFrance Telecom (FT), SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT) have been fined by France's Conseil de la Concurrence (CC) for organizing a mobile phone cartel with stable market shares (one-half, one-third and one-sixth, respectively) and for directly exchanging commercial information. While not contesting the legal decision, it is argued here that the economic reasoning is flawed. (1) As the CC made much of the firms' stable market shares, we have first followed this line of reasoning by considering that the market shares are quotas under uniform costs. Even if there is a general incentive to form a monopolistic cartel, BT was too small for it to be worth its while to join it; it is not necessary to exchange information directly to c...
In this paper we analyse a generalization of vertical monopolies in which monopoly suppliers trade e...
The most prominent goal of every competition law system is to ensure that businesses compete in the ...
This thesis examines the effect of public policies on the functioning of competitive markets. It add...
International audienceFrance Telecom (FT), SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT) have been fined by France's ...
Accepted, ForthcomingInternational audienceTo foster competition the French government authorized a ...
This paper provides an insight into the antitrust investigation initiated by the French competition ...
International audienceVoice services were the main source of revenue for French fixed and mobile tel...
This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommun...
International audienceVoice services were the main source of revenue for French fixed and mobile tel...
International audienceModeling the competition among telecommunication opera- tors (or providers) as...
Regulation and competition: some elements of economic theory, by David Encaoua. This paper present...
This paper analyses the development of mobile telephony in France and Germany in 1998-2002. We condu...
A virtual operator is fragile when it is in competition with other virtual operators. This is explai...
For many years it has been assumed that the local part of telecommunication systems were « natural m...
The issue of disruptive operators has recently gained interest among researchers and regulators. Fro...
In this paper we analyse a generalization of vertical monopolies in which monopoly suppliers trade e...
The most prominent goal of every competition law system is to ensure that businesses compete in the ...
This thesis examines the effect of public policies on the functioning of competitive markets. It add...
International audienceFrance Telecom (FT), SFR and Bouygues Telecom (BT) have been fined by France's ...
Accepted, ForthcomingInternational audienceTo foster competition the French government authorized a ...
This paper provides an insight into the antitrust investigation initiated by the French competition ...
International audienceVoice services were the main source of revenue for French fixed and mobile tel...
This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommun...
International audienceVoice services were the main source of revenue for French fixed and mobile tel...
International audienceModeling the competition among telecommunication opera- tors (or providers) as...
Regulation and competition: some elements of economic theory, by David Encaoua. This paper present...
This paper analyses the development of mobile telephony in France and Germany in 1998-2002. We condu...
A virtual operator is fragile when it is in competition with other virtual operators. This is explai...
For many years it has been assumed that the local part of telecommunication systems were « natural m...
The issue of disruptive operators has recently gained interest among researchers and regulators. Fro...
In this paper we analyse a generalization of vertical monopolies in which monopoly suppliers trade e...
The most prominent goal of every competition law system is to ensure that businesses compete in the ...
This thesis examines the effect of public policies on the functioning of competitive markets. It add...