Publications

Opening the black box of transfer pricing to better articulate competition law and international tax law

par dans Competition, Publications

By Laurent Benzoni and Julien Pellefigue published in the Review Concurrences N° 2-2013. The article describes specific issues when evaluating the anti-competitive nature of certain practices conducted by multinational companies. More specifically, it is to highlight the risks associated with the use of “transfer pricing” tax to carry out certain economic tests (eg. test for predatory […]

Anti-competitive practice of price discrimination in the residential mobile telephony market

par dans Publications, Strategy

By Laurent Benzoni, Pierre-Yves Deboudé and Thanh Pham-Doan. The French Competition Authority (Autorité de la Concurrence) has fined Orange and SFR €180 million for their anti-competitive practice of price differentiation (Decision n°12-D-24). TERA Consultants were appointed by Bouygues Telecom, the plaintiff, to conduct economic studies for the case. The complaint focused on on-net offers by […]

Cost analysis of Emergency Call Answering Services – Presentation at EENA conference

par dans Publications, Regulation

By Denis Basque and Anh Tuc Nguyen. The analysis was presented by Denis Basque, partner at TERA Consultants, in Riga, Latvia at the workshop of EU Emergency Services. It gave an overview of the cost assessment of Emergency Call Answering Services (ECAS) in Ireland. The project was conducted by TERA Consultants for ComReg in order […]

Mergers control: reconsideration of the structural analysis

par dans Competition, Publications

By Laurent Benzoni and Julien Pellefigue. Since the 1980s, economists have focused on behavioral analysis. This approach has contributed to the development of regulations on mergers control, decreasing the importance of structural analysis in favor of the study on unilateral and coordinated effects, as shown by the latest version of the U.S. Merger Guidelines which […]

The impact of cultural spending of cities: analytical survey of 47 cities across the world

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By Laurent Benzoni, Chloé Dahiot, Pierre-Yves Deboudé and Anh Tuc Nguyen. In the framework of the Forum d’Avignon, consultancy Kurt Salmon built a database in 2009 and 2010, comprising 47 cities across 21 countries and 5 continents (28 cities in Europe, 12 in America, 3 in Asia, 2 in Oceania, 1 in Africa). Eleven indicators […]

Competitive dynamics between MNOs in the mobile telecommunications single Market: lessons from the US Experience

par dans Competition, Publications

Article by Laurent Benzoni, Bruno Deffains, Anh Tuc Nguyen and Olivier Salesse. Within the framework of the Digital Single Market, the European Commission is paving the way for a Single Market in the European mobile telecommunications services by, among others, studying how to reduce regulation heterogeneity in the 27 fragmented national markets. This article aims […]

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