This article addresses the efficiency of regulation policy in the telecommunications sector. First, the concepts of static and dynamic efficiency are reviewed, with the main policies used into achieve these goals identified, while distinguishing effective competition from industrial policy....

Effects of globalisation on territorial strengths and weaknesses have often been assessed depending on the industrial activities, leading to promote public policies towards manufacturing sector, without slowing de-industrialisation. However, services may boost the industrial areas. This article...

The purpose of this article is to measure the concentration of tertiary activities in Europe. Usually, these sectors are depicted as ‘invisible goods’ by international economics theories. However, the expansion of the tertiary sector in developed economies, liberalisation and an increasing...

This article offers a critical analysis of the usual arguments in favour of tuition fees : i) the iniquity of the French system, ii) the efficiency of fees to select, guide and encourage the effort, iii) the financing of the university. We defend the thesis that, due to these costs and due to...

: D83, L43, L51, L96

In this paper, we compare the optimal access regulation under three different market configurations that approximate the different stages of telecommunications market liberalization. We show that in the first stage of market liberalization the regulator has to balance between static efficiency...

[fre] Les nomenclatures actuelles sont-elles adaptées à l'étude des mutations industrielles ? À cette question, nous répondons que, si les éclairages fournis par les statistiques nationales sont indéniables, la construction des nomenclatures ne permet pas de segmenter les activités de...

Since electricity market restructuring, questions over adequate levels of R&D investments persisted. Using an unbalanced panel data of 70 electricity-generating firms across 15 Organisations of Economic Co-operation and Development countries from 1990 to 2008, this paper empirically examines the...