Publications

Co-ranking mates: Assortative matching in marriage markets

We show that co-ranking is the necessary and sufficient condition for assortative matching with strictly nontransferable utility. This condition is equivalent to the GID condition …

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Patrick Legros

Quantifying antitrust damages: Towards non-binding guidance for courts

This report, prepared for the European Commission by Oxera with economic contributions from Patrick Legros and co-authors, provides guidance on the quantification of damages in …

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EU competition policy in a global world

This chapter reviews forces shaping current competition laws and initiatives, particularly those easing convergence between the USA and EU. Convergence may ease when countries are …

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Competing for ownership

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Patrick Legros

The Nobel Prize: What is mechanism design and why does it matter for policy-making?

Mechanism design theory is a major breakthrough in the modern economic analysis of institutions and markets. It revolutionalised the way economists think about optimal institutions …

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Pricing of scientific journals and market power

We analyze the empirical relationship between journal prices, their quality measured by their citation counts, their age, as well as conduct of publishers. The database covers 22 …

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Beauty Is A Beast, Frog Is A Prince: Assortative Matching With Nontransferabilities

We present sufficient conditions for monotone matching in environments where utility is not fully transferable between partners. These conditions involve not only complementarity …

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Patrick Legros