In many jurisdictions, competition authorities and market regulators question the principle of interchange fees. Such fees exist on almost all interbank card payment platforms. It would seem, however, that the European commission would like to go as far as to completely abolish these fees, not...

In the context of a new regulation of interchange fees for card payments, the European Commission proposes to force the splitting of the card scheme in two legally and organizationally independent entities: one that would develop the ‘brand” and continue selling licences to payment...

French Abstract: Résumé en Français: Cet article reprend les enseignements, théoriques, statistiques et économétriques, de l'économie en matière de fraude fiscale. Il est rappelé que de très nombreux paramètres pèsent sur la décision du contribuable de frauder ou de rester dans la...

The paper analyzes a policy proposition to take into account indirect land use changes in the evaluation of GHG emissions by biofuel industry. Based on an extensive survey of scientific literature onILUC, it is argued that, due to the absence of a satisfactory scientific evaluation of ILUC, the...

As a process of “quiet harmonization” is taking among competition laws of the various Member States, the question I wish to address may seem a little bit provocative: Do we need competition law at all ? This may look even more extreme if you consider that most of the proponents of...

Le titre de cette conférence est très ambitieux. Si je devais toutefois résumer le contenu de la conférence en quatre mots ce serait : bilan : positif, perspectives : incertaines. A dire vrai, la Théorie de la Décision est en crise, et ce depuis vingt bonnes années ; depuis que les doutes...