Depuis le déchaînement de la crise, l’organisation des transactions boursières n’a pas vraiment fait l’objet de velléités réformatrices. Pourtant, les opportunités spéculatives, comme les risques encourus dépendent aussi de l’organisation des marchés sur lesquels on opère. La...

This paper discusses the economic referentials which underlie public intervention. First part presents our institutional approach. This one goes away from works based on rules as constraints or contracts between individualities. Our approach is based on rules as relations between actors which...

This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the economic, legal and public policy rationales for the application of taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities. The motivation for such taxes has been more often linked to the fiscal revenues generated than to their potential...

This chapter is the introduction to the book Nudge and the Law: A European Perspective. It sets the scene for an exploration of the legal implications of the emergent phenomenon of behaviourally informed intervention. More precisely, we focuses on the challenges and opportunities it may offer to...

In recent decades, governments across the world actively cooperated to harmonize and coordinate policies “behind the borders” through a variety of harmonization efforts at multilateral, as well as regional and bilateral, levels. These efforts have been dictated by the trade liberalization...

Although few citizens outside of the livestock industry have heard about this veterinary drug, ractopamine is set to become not only the source of public concern but also the trigger of another endless transatlantic trade dispute. After years of scientific and political deadlock, the Codex...

French Abstract: Que ce soit en Suisse ou dans l'Union Européenne, les cadres réglementaires des marchés de l'assurance évoluent et imposent aux différents acteurs de mettre en place une fonction actuarielle (article 48 de la Directive Solvabilité 2) ou de désigner un actuaire responsable...

French Abstract: Dans son arrêt n° 62/2016, la Cour constitutionnelle belge a récemment rejeté plusieurs recours intentés contre divers instruments légaux ayant contribué à intégrer les règles du Pacte budgétaire européen (et notamment la fameux principe d'équilibre budgétaire)...