[eng] Coordination in the French construction industry relies on principles that generate numerous failures. Authorities as well as some large companies push for changes by encouraging the use of coordination techniques inspired by those in use in manufacturing industries. We try to analyze the...

[fre] Régulation de l'Internet. L'autorégulation nécessite-t-elle un cadre institutionnel ?. . Internet constitue-t-il le modèle idéal d'une économie autorégulée ? La capacité d'y établir de manière décentralisée un système de droits de propriété support de négociations...

[fre] Introductif à une série de contributions sur l'économie d'Internet, cet article a un triple objectif. On y rappelle tout d'abord quelques faits et principes fondamentaux caractérisant la morphologie d'Internet, son fonctionnement, ses modalités de régulation, ainsi que son histoire...

Is Internet an ideal model for a self-regulated economy? It seems possible to decentrely organize and render enforceable a property right system on which interindividual negotiations could be based. Moreover, traditional State intervention is no longer operable since Internet users can by pass...

As an introduction to a series of contributions about Internet economics, the present paper has three goals. We firstly recall several basic facts and principles characterizing the morphology of the Internet, its operating system, its regulation procedures, as well as its rapid success which...

This paper presents a new methodology aimed at building institutional indicators. Up to now, all the available indicators have relied on an analysis of the supply of legal protection. Conversely we propose here a methodology based on the analysis of the demand for legal protection, as it is...

There are two remedies to the breach of a contract: the damages rule, that is prevailing in the Common Law system, and the specific performance rule, that is dominant in the Civil Law system. Economic justifications have often been given for the first rule, but the second. Using the incomplete...