Publications

Natural monopoly, two-sided markets, price differentiation: 3 essays on the regulation of telecommunications

par dans Publications, Regulation

Natalia Shutova, an Economist and consultant at TERA Consultants, successfully defended her doctoral thesis on September 24, 2013. The thesis was written under the direction of Laurent Benzoni at the École Doctorale des Sciences Economiques at the Panthéon-Assas University. This thesis is part of an investment in intellectual capital by TERA Consultants in order to keep […]

TERA’s participation in the workshop “Restrictive Practices and competition law” organized by the French Ministry of Finance

par dans Competition, Publications

Laurent Benzoni, Founding Partner of TERA Consultants, co-chaired and gave a presentation at the workshop “Restrictive Practices and competition law“, organized by the French Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud (DGCCRF). The workshop was introduced by Nathalie Homobono (Director General of the DGCCRF), with interventions from Jean-Bertrand Drummen, Member the French Competition Authority and […]

A cost-effective method to aggregate non-substitutable goods within the same relevant market

par dans Competition, Publications

By Julien Pellefigue and Paul Le Coz – TERA Consultants. The definition of the relevant market is a crucial step in competitive analysis as it helps calculate the market share of each players and obtain an indication of their market power. Conventionally, two properties are aggregated in the same relevant market when they are substitutable […]

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 […]

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