FOREWORD: COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS - CONSUMER WELFARE - BIG DATA - DIGITAL - ACADEMIC RESEARCH

Restoring the primacy of consumer in the competitive analysis

In today’s digital world, the tools available to practitioners and regulators allow to better stand the consumer at the heart of competitive analysis. This beneficial development can’t occur without giving a core spot to academic research.

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  • MIT Sloan School of Management
  • University of California (Berkeley)
  • Paris School of Economics
  • Toulouse School of Economics
  • Altermind (Paris)
  • Paris Dauphine University
  • Altermind (London)

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David Thesmar, David Sraer, Jérôme Pouyet, David Martimort, Erwan Le Noan, Henri Isaac, Mathieu Laine, Restoring the primacy of consumer in the competitive analysis, February 2017, Concurrences N° 1-2017, Art. N° 83409, pp. 1-4

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