[fre] Le modèle des marchés électriques décentralisés présente plusieurs défaillances de marché dans l’articulation des décisions de court terme et de long terme. Il ne permet pas d’orienter correctement les investissements en équipements capitalistiques tant de pointe que de base...

[eng] The basic idea of the paper is that the empirical meaning of rules is far from being totally contained in their initial statement. The article concentrates on the economic scope of rules and regulations, and their implementation by players such as the State bureaucracy, regulatory...

In June 2004, France adopted a new PPP contract known as the contrat de partenariat. Most features of this new procurement method have been drawn out from the best practices of the British Private Finance Initiative (PFI) policy. Firstly, long-term service contracts with performance-related...

The Post Danmark judgment may cast the light on the interpretations by the EU Court of Justice of crucial dimensions of the competition policy as: selective price cuts, above-cost rebates, costs test for exclusionary abuses with common costs. As we see one of the main interests of the decision...

This article analyzes some of the issues raised by institutionalized public-private partnerships in an economic perspective. We demonstrate that although they may address some of the main limits of purely contractual public-private partnerships, such as the issues of control, know-how transfer,...

THE FRENCH CONSEIL DE LA CONCURRENCE AND THE LIBERALISATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES. A CASE-LAW ANALYSIS The purpose of this paper is to underline the role of independent agencies, such as the French Competition Council, in the liberalisation process of public utilities. In a sector like...

Risks allocation in Government contract performance is a key issue for both economic analysis and legal doctrine. However one factor which restrains the dialogue between law and economics (in France at least) is that, while economics develops normative and pure theories of optimal risk...

An optimal level of investment in broad­band network infrastructures cannot be reached only though market?s incentives. If Public-Private Partnerships might be needed to overcome such market failures, they might nevertheless induce two kinds of competition concerns. First, the private...

Les fonds publics d'investissement stratégique constituent une catégorie particulière de fonds d'investissement. D'une part, ils sont contrôlés par des entités publiques (Etat, collectivités territoriales ou autres organismes publics). D'autre part, ils sont investis d'une mission...

Cette contribution s'interroge sur l'impact de la politique européenne de concurrence sur les droits de propriété des opérateurs dominants et sur leur liberté contractuelle. Non seulement pèse sur ces derniers la notion de responsabilité particulière vis-à-vis de la préservation d'une...