Ce rapport est consacré à l'analyse économique des marchés français et européen de l'électricité et du gaz naturel. Dans la première partie du rapport, les auteurs présentent le contexte énergétique mondial avec la place prise par les problèmes environnementaux dans l'utilisation de...

[eng] Energy, growth and economic analysis. This article intends to show that energy-economie growth relationship is insufficiently explored, particularly at the structural level. A number of methodological tools are available, or have to be worked out, to estimate the substitutions which may be...

Time-inconsistency can arise when a government attempts to convince private sector to use a particular alternative energy (gas, green electricity...) rather than petroleum products. By introducing taxes and feed-in prices, a government would encourage firms and households to switch to an...

Two main conditions must simultaneously be met for the European gas market to become a competitive market: 1) the absence of collusion among the various actors; 2) the setting of a fair and efficient tariff system for the gas pipelines. In order to evaluate the possibility of collusion among...

The objective of this paper was to analyse the weight of natural gas in the European Union and to insist on two points: the role of long-term contracts for supply security and the impact of geopolitical considerations in the relationships with the main suppliers, Russia and Algeria. But for the...