This article explores the economic characteristics of the Italian gas storage system. Microeconomic and qualitative methods are used to shed light on past, present and forecasted trends. Notwithstanding the entrenched stagnation of the sector, the analysis highlights a break in trends. The...

This work contributes to the debate on coordination of international environmental policy by revisiting Mandell (2008)’s result who, on the ground of Weitzman (1974)’s model, is in favor of a decentralized regulation at the sectorial or country level instead of a unified one. We show that...

I examine competition in the sector of mortgage life insurance, in particular the periodic switching right (PSR), by which the borrower can change his insurer once every period (say, every year). The PSR is likely to have pro competitive effects (lower premium), but by the same move, to lead to...

Cette étude examine l’impact de la divulgation publique des honoraires d’audit, exigée par COB, sur l’évaluation des honoraires d’audit des périodes suivantes. Notre modèle théorique prévoit que la publication des honoraires conduira à l’amélioration de la précision et à la...

The aim of our paper is to determine the efficiency of the asymmetric regulation of the Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) in a market where the firms are differentiated in size and with commercial offers that include calling club effects. Major regulatory issues are related to these analyses,...

En s'inspirant de la normalisation comptable anglo-saxonne, la Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) propose un référentiel de publication volontaire d'informations sociétales. La transposition présente des limites qui rendent en fait ses principes inapplicables. Néanmoins il tend à s'imposer...