Eric Avenel is a professor of economics at Université de Rennes 1 and a member of CREM (Centre de Recherche en Economie et Management, UMR CNRS 6211). His research work is dedicated to competition policy with a special emphasis on vertical integration and vertical contracting. His published work includes papers in prominent journals of the industrial economics field.
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The Airtours criteria do not allow establishing ex post the existence of a collective dominant position as they are used to identify market situations where there is a risk that a collective dominant position emerges in the future. In an ex post intervention, it is necessary to demonstrate that (...)
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Competition authorities are generally concerned about the decreasing number of bidders resulting from a merger in a bidding market. Economic theory shows, however, that a decrease in the number of candidates may result in a more competitive outcome of the tendering process. The paper discusses (...)
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