La libéralisation de l'activité d'un secteur économique à céder des actifs des entreprises historiques à de nouveaux entrants. Dans cet article, nous montrerons que lorsqu'il s'agit d'une activité à risque, le gain de la fragmentation de cette activité ne peut être évalué sans...

This paper applies to adverse selection theory the advances made in the field of ambiguity theory. It shows that i) a relevant second-best contract induces no production distortion considering the efficient agent as in the standard case. But the principal has to pay a higher information rent...

This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the...

Ultra-hazardous risky activities as nuclear industry cannot be considered as "normal industries" i.e. industries without abnormal environmental and health risks. Consequently, the industrial organization of these specific sectors is of the utmost importance. This paper aims at studying this...

This paper analyzes the meaning of comparing the economic performance of strict liability and negligence rule in a unilateral standard accident model under Knightian uncertainty. It focuses on the cost expectation of major harm on which the injurers form beliefs. It shows first that, when the...

It is undeniable that the donors exert some environmental liability for the loans they grant to risky activities. However, the 1996 amendments to CERCLA have exempted lenders of much of their responsibility. This article shows that this situation tends to become perennial. This raises the...

This paper uses standard methods in stochastic calculus tomeasure the cost of the agency conflict that pits electedofficials of French municipalities against the communities theyrepresent in the management of the water supply. Under the Frenchlegal code, the municipalities are responsible for...

The aim of this paper is to study the environmental economic policy of the two main theoretical representations of sustainable growth: the so-called "neoclassical" trend and the evolutionary trend. In spite of noteworthy analytical differences, we make clear that both trends cannot specify...