This paper investigates the relationship between electricity demand and temperature in the European Union. We address this issue by means of a panel threshold regression model on 15 European countries over the last two decades. Our results confirm the non-linearity of the link between...

Nous traitons des fondements de la fiscalité de l’énergie dans une perspective d’optimisation des approvisionnements auprès de fournisseurs étrangers à la Communauté européenne. Notre modèle permet de distinguer et d’évaluer trois termes formant la taxe optimale : le terme...

We propose a model of seasonal gas markets which is flexible enough to include supply and demand shocks while also considering exhaustibility. The relative performances of alternative policies based on price caps and associated measures or tariffs are discussed. We illustrate with structural...