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Hai-Anh H. Dang, Manh-Hung Nguyen et Toan L.D. Huynh

n° 22-1372, septembre 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...

Marc Ivaldi et Jiekai Zhang

vol. 70, n° 3, septembre 2022, p. 591–630

This paper contributes to the analysis of mergers in two-sided markets, notably those in which a platform provides its service for free on one side but obtains all its revenues from the other, as in the digital TV industry. Specifically, we assess a decision of the French competition authority...

Ayden Higgins et Koen Jochmans

n° 22-1366, septembre 2022, révision décembre 2024

We consider the problem of identifying the parameters of a time-homogeneous bivariate Markov chain when only one of the two variables is observable. We show that, subject to conditions that we spell out, the transition kernel and the distribution of the initial condition are uniquely recoverable (...

Olivier Jean Blanchard, Christian Gollier et Jean Tirole

n° 22-1360, septembre 2022

Doh-Shin Jeon, Yassine Lefouili et Leonardo Madio

n° 22-1361, septembre 2022, révision juillet 2025

We study a platform's incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced by...

Charlotte Cavaillé et Karine Van Der Straeten

n° 22-1358, septembre 2022

Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers’ understanding of the political...

Charlotte Cavaillé et Karine Van Der Straeten

n° 22-145, septembre 2022

Research shows that opposition to policies that redistribute across racial divides has affected the development of the American welfare state. Are similar dynamics at play in Western Europe? For many scholars, the answer is yes. In contrast, we argue that researchers’ understanding of the political...

Peiyao Ma, Andrea Mantovani, Carlo Reggiani, Annette Broocks et Nestor Duch-Brown

n° 22-1371, septembre 2022

Dominant platforms such as Booking.com and Amazon often impose Price Parity Clauses to prevent sellers from charging lower prices on alternative sales channels. We provide quasi-experimental evidence on the full removal of these price restrictions in France in 2015 for three major international...

Marcel Boyer

vol. 35, n° 1, septembre 2022, p. 134–163

Prosecution of the retail gasoline price-fixing cartel in Quebec was the culmination of the largest and one of the most successful criminal investigations in the history of the Competition Bureau of Canada. In June 2008, criminal charges were brought against a number of individuals and companies...

Milo Bianchi, Rose-Anne Dana et Elyès Jouini

vol. 74, septembre 2022, p. 505–546

Consider a firm owned by shareholders with heterogeneous beliefs and run by a manager who chooses random production plans. Shareholders do not observe the chosen plan but only its realization. The financial market consists of assets contingent on production realizations. A contract for the manager...