Current research

In-house vs. Outsourced Data Analytics & E. Darmon & J-M. Zogheib – mimeo

Product Liability Influences Incentives for Horizontal Mergers & T. Friehe & E. Langlais - EconomiX WP 2024-10

Endogenous market structures, product liability, and the scope of product differentiation & E. Langlais – EconomiX WP 2022-18

Horizontal mergers on platform markets: cost savings vs two-sided network effects? & E. Baranes & T. Cortade – MPRA Paper 2019-5 (revised version of NET Institute WP n° 2014-12)

In progress

Algorithms against Human Decision-Making? The Case of Pricing  & E. Darmon & A. Gautier & J-M. Zogheib 

Personalized Pricing with Linear Demand: A Note & E. Darmon & J-M. Zogheib

Merger control and endogenous information provision: When being tough may become a weakness & J-P. Tropeano 

Partial ownership, minority shareholdings and product design

Publications (peer-reviewed)

« Environmental Liability and Product Customization: Strict Liability versus Negligence Revisited » & E. Langlais - conditionally accepted International Review of Law and Economics  (previously circulated as "Incentives to differentiate under environmental liability laws: Product customization and precautionary effort" / EconomiX WP 2022-20)

« Cournot competition on Hotelling line yields at most three varieties » & E. Langlais – Review of Industrial Organization, 2024 (forth.)

« Merger selection, evidence provision and the timing of merger control » & J-P. Tropeano – Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023

« Horizontal mergers, cost savings, and network effects » & A. Rasch – Bulletin of Economic Research, 2023

« Learning by Litigation: An Application to Antitrust Commitments » & J-P. Tropeano – International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2022

« Upward Price Pressure in two-sided markets: Incorporating feedback effects » & B-O. Johansen & L. Sørgard – International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2021

« Market collusion with joint harm and liability sharing » & F. Baumann & M. Charreire – International Review of Law and Economics, 2020

« Enforcement vs Deterrence in Merger Control: Can Remedies Lead to Lower Welfare? » & L. Sørgard – Review of Law & Economics, 2018

« How procedures shape substance: Institutional design and antitrust evidentiary standards » & J-P. Tropeano – European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018

« Enforcement of merger control: Theoretical insights for its procedural design » – Revue Economique, 2016

« Succes and Failure of Bargaining in Merger Control: The Case of Asset Divestitures » & B. Chopard & T. Cortade – Economic Modelling, 2015

« Where to locate to escape predation? » – Econnomics Bulletin, 2014

« Fight Cartels or Control Mergers? On the Optimal Allocation of Enforcement Efforts within Competition Policy » & J-P. Tropeano – International Review of Law and Economics, 2013

« Horizontal market concentration: Theoretical insights from the spatial models » – Reasearch in Economics, 2012

« Do Remedies Affect the Efficiency Defense? An Optimal Merger-Control Analysis » & J-P. Tropeano – International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2012

« Cournot competition in spatial markets: a complementary result on complementarity » – Economics Bulletin, 2011

« Contrôle des concentrations et lutte anticartels: Substituts ou compléments? » & J-P. Tropeano – Revue Economique, 2010

« Negotiating Remedies: Revealing the Merger Efficiency Gains » & J-P. Tropeano – International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2009

« Merger, spin−off and divestiture: insights from a spatial model » – Economics Bulletin, 2006

« Horizontal Mergers in the Circular City: A Note » – Economics Bulletin, 2005

Other publications

« On the law and economics of public interest defense for cartels » – Concurrences, 2-2020

« Remedies: Structural, behavioral, both, or none? Enforcement trade-offs for mergers and antitrust » – Competition Policy International / Antitrust Chronicle, April 2020

« La politique de la concurrence et les défis de l’économie numérique » & E. Baranes – Annales des Mines (Réalités Industrielles), 2016