For over half a century, the highly protective status of commercial leases in France has primarily benefited tenant shopkeepers. This approach is at odds with foreign laws. The current economic European integration raises legal and economic issues with respect to the future of this status, which...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> The article presents the main contributions of the economic analyses of regulatory competition and emphasizes the numerous analogies between the notion of competition in the market for goods and services and the ?market? for legal rules. It then questions the relevance of the economic analyses...