FROM PRICE CONTROL TO COMPETITION: PRICE POLICY IN FRANCE FROM THE 1940S TO THE 1980S

DU CONTRÔLE DES PRIX À LA CONCURRENCE: LA POLITIQUE DES PRIX EN FRANCE DES ANNÉES 1940 AUX ANNÉES 1980

Michel-Pierre Chélini
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Michel-Pierre Chélini: CREHS - Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes - Histoire et Sociétés - UA - Université d'Artois

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Abstract: Prices are an essential component of markets and incorporate a lot of information about the products or services exchanged. From 1940 to 1986 there existed in France at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance a price control administration, the essential justification of which was France's propensity for inflation higher than that of its partners: 5.4 % on annual average from 1950 to 2000 compared to 4% for the United States or 2.8% for the FRG. The service was first called Economic Control, then evolved in stages until in 1986 it became Directorate-General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression, gradually moving from vigilant monitoring of prices to their contractual regulation and finishing in competition policy

Keywords: Prices regulation; Inflation policy; France 1940-1990 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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Published in Patrick Fridenson, François Monnier, Albert Rigaudière. Concurrences et marchés, Droit et institutions du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Comité pour l'Histoire Economique et financière de la France, CHEFF, pp.237-264, 2023, Histoire économique et financière - XIXe-XXe, 978-2-11-162108-4. ⟨10.4000/books.igpde.16840⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/books.igpde.16840

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