[eng] The financial authority, independent of the government and with quasi executive, legislative and judicial power, is like a monster in the French political system, but it could not be another way : the market regulator does not depend on the government because the latter, means of Treasury,...

[fre] L’autorité de régulation financière, indépendante du gouvernement et dotée de pouvoirs quasi éxécutifs, législatifs et judiciaires, apparaît comme un monstre dans l’organisation politique française, mais il ne peut en être autrement, parce que l’organe qui régit le...

The context for this book is the increasingly complex relationship between economic theory and competition law which gives rise to lively political and academic debate on the direction competition law should take in a more global and innovation-oriented market place.

Considers the contribution of Attilio da Empoli to the theory of value and distribution and especially his contribution to the theory of monopolistic competition. During the 1920s a lively discussion developed about the link between the cost structure of the individual firm and the degree of...

The topic of this article is the analysis of the interplay between daily carbon, electricity and gas price data with the European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS) for CO2 emissions. In a first step we have performed Granger causality tests for Phase I of the EU ETS (January 2005 until...

The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has imposed a price on the allowances for CO2 emissions of electricity companies. Integrating this allowance price into the price of electricity earns a rent for companies who have received these allowances for free. During Phase I, 2005-2007,...