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Michel Simioni, Christine Thomas-Agnan, and Thi-Huong Trinh

September 2018

Vietnam is undergoing a nutritional transition like many middle-income countries. This paper proposes to highlight the socio-demographic drivers of this transition over the period 2004-2014. We implement a method of decomposition of between-year differences in economic outcomes recently proposed in...

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Bruno Jullien, and Yassine Lefouili

vol. 14, n. 3, September 2018, pp. 364–392

This paper discusses the effects of horizontal mergers on innovation. We rely on the existing academic literature and our own research to present the various positive and negative effects of mergers on innovation. Our analysis shows that the overall impact of a merger on innovation may be either...

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Quang Le Van, Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Thanh-Viet Nguyen

vol. 3, n. 9, September 2018

The objective of this study is to assess sustainable development and the potential for green growth of the marine capture fisheries in Vietnam. We use “standard” bio-economic models with additional terms to correct some of ecosystem externalities and to define reference points for the fisheries....

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Marcel Boyer, Anne Catherine Faye, E. Gravel, and Rachidi Kotchoni

vol. 31, n. 1, September 2018, pp. 50–82

We analyze significant challenges and pitfalls faced by antitrust authorities in the implementation of competition policies particularly against naked cartels and propose measures principled in economic theory to circumvent these issues. We review leniency programs in different jurisdictions, the...

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Marc Ivaldi, and Catherine Muller-Vibes

vol. 29, n. 3, September 2018, pp. 363–376

In this paper, we empirically analyze the French print media market by modeling the existence of a reciprocal effect between the size of the readership and the amount of advertising. For this two-sided platform, we measure the cross-effects of advertising on the readership and periodical popularity...

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George-Marios Angeletos, Fabrice Collard, and Harris Dellas

vol. 86, n. 5, September 2018, pp. 1689–1726

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Thierry Magnac

vol. 69, n. 5, September 2018, pp. 683–708

On décrit, dans cette revue, les articles récents qui se sont attachés à construire des méthodes empiriques structurelles pour estimer les préférences des agents, étudiants et universités, ou élèves et écoles, qui participent à des mécanismes d'allocation centralisée. Ces recherches empiriques s'...

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Andrea Attar, Eloisa Campioni, and Gwenaël Piaser

vol. 111, September 2018, pp. 1–15

We study games in which several principals design mechanisms in the presence of privately informed agents. Competition is exclusive: each type of each agent can participate with at most one principal and meaningfully communicate only with him. Exclusive competition is at the centre stage of recent...

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Andrea Enache, and Jean-Pierre Florens

vol. 131, September 2018, pp. 45–58

Regulation models are a special class of contract models that have received a lot of attention from economists in the last few decades. This continuous interest has been motivated by an increasing need in designing regulatory policies in a world where decentralization and delegation of public...

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M’hand Fares, Saqlain Raza, and Alban Thomas

vol. 53, n. 2, September 2018, pp. 367–395

Many quality signals—both private and public—have been used to foster the development of food quality in the agro-food markets: mainly brands and common certified labels. Previous research has typically focused on either brand or certified label efficiency independently, while in many instances...

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