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...

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...