Les administrations publiques n'ont pas toutes une politique tarifaire officielle et complète, mais elles ont toutes des pratiques tarifaires. L'objet de cette étude consiste, dans un premier temps, à déterminer les meilleures pratiques en matière de tarification. L'étude répertorie ainsi...

Last April, the Task Force examining user fees for public services published its report “Mieux tarifer pour mieux vivre ensemble.” The group's labours were framed by a mandate to examine the issues and advise the government in its elaboration of a new user-fee policy. Mostly, the task force...

The general interest would require that the use of major equipments be priced at their marginal cost, including all opportunity costs such as congestion and pollution costs. At least, prices should be lowered until full utilization of these equipments is obtained. This is a result that...

In this document, we present the notion of a cost game, defined as a cooperative game where the gain from cooperation is the cost reduction obtained when the projects of a set of agents are realized in a coordinated way. The problem is then to decide how this gain will be shared among agents or...

In this paper, we present the main solution concepts for cooperative games, which have been used in the context of cost games. We put a special emphasis on the concept of core. We also present the concepts of semicore, von Neumann-Morgenstern stable set, nucleolus and Shapley value. However, we...

La plupart des organisations, sinon toutes, répartissent d'une manière ou d'une autre des coûts communs entre leurs diverses composantes ou encore entre leurs différents partenaires. Ces problèmes de partage de coûts communs se posent avec de plus en plus d'acuité car les règles de...

Il est possible de schématiser le processus de création de valeur en trois étapes. L'investissement génère des coûts qu'il convient de répartir entre les clients avant de les recouvrir (en intégrant une marge) à l'aide d'un outil adéquat de tarification. Le lien qui unit...

We model the interactions between the management mode and costs of water services in order to compare their performances and pricing. We estimate those models on French panel data. We find that the choice by the local authority depends on the service costs and characteristics. There is no...

We model the interactions between management regimes (municipal vs. delegated) and operating costs of water supply services in order to compare their performance and pricing. We estimate the models from panel data in France. We show that the choice between management regimes at the local...

In this paper, we present the different cost sharing methods one can find in the economic literature. We regroup the methods into three sets : the proportional methods, the cooperative game theory methods and the serial cost sharing methods. All those methods are presented through the stylized...