Cet article porte sur le design organisationnel des réformes d'industries de réseaux. Plus précisément, nous nous interrogeons sur la pertinence du modèle de déintégration verticale complète adopté par la Grande Bretagne dans les industries électrique et ferroviaire. Au regard de la...

Using an original database concerning 1102 French local public authorities in 2001, we explore the relationships between prices charged by private operators in water contracts and ex post competition. We show that prices charged in contracts in which operators are in a monopoly situation...

This paper analyses the French recent experience of franchising in the urban public transport sector in the light of Transaction Cost Economics arguments. It provides theoretical arguments supported by empirical evidence explaining why the compulsory use of competitive tendering in this sector...

This paper assesses the contribution of laboratory experiments to the economics of design applied to the electricity industry. The analysis is dedicated to wholesale markets, and reviews the results accumulated to date concerning both the general architecture of power markets and the very...