[eng] This article examines the strategic role of gas storage and its regulation in an environment comprising a gas spot market. In keeping with the literature on the topic, we view storage as an instrument that a supplier uses to ensure flexibility when meeting peak demand. In that situation,...

In this paper, we analyze the strategic function of gas storage focusing on how gas storage decisions impact competition between gas companies on both spot and downstream markets. Using a two-tier oligopolistic structure, we first show that gas storage is actually used strategically even in a...

L'objectif de ce papier est d'étudier les interactions entre contrôle des structures et contrôle des comportements. Dans le cadre d'un modèle proche de Bernheim et Whinston (1990), nous montrons comment la relation entre concentration des marchés et comportement collusif peut être...