CHARLIER , Christophe

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Prudence analysed by Smith in the Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS) as the sentiment including ethics and selfishness should be an object of particular attention for scholars interested in the 'Smith problem', and more generally, for those interested in the introduction of ethics in economic analysis. In this article, we try to explain, first,...

Cet article propose une analyse de décisions récentes de la Cour de Justice des Communautés européennes (CJCE) à propos de protections juridiques nationales pour des denrées alimentaires. L'article envisage ensuite les formes de protection envisageables suite à ces décisions et compare le recours à la marque collective comme protection de la...

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Cet article présente le rapport du groupe spécial de l'OMC dans le différend commercial "Communautés européennes - Protection des marques et des indications géographiques pour les produits agricoles et les denrées alimentaires" pour ce qui concerne le respect du principe du traitement national. Sur cette base, il analyse ensuite les relations...

The irreversibility effect is traditionally presented in a context of uncertainty in which, whatever the behaviour of the decision maker is, the information concerning the profitability of the irreversible project is growing as the time goes. In this article on the contrary it is supposed that only an irreversible commitment allows the decision...

Cet articleanalyse les caractéristiques de la traçabilité telle quelle est « réclamée » par le règlement européen 178/2002 et évalue les exigences formulées permettant a priori d'atteindre l'un des objectifs fixés par ce règlement : éviter « les inutiles perturbations » dans la gestion des risques alimentaires

The aim of this article is to show that traceability, initially a means of differentiating products, has now become a production standard, as a result of it having become the prevalent mechanism relied upon by the vast majority of producers to ensure food safety. However, a coordination problem naturally emerges among producers attempting to...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in Ontario that have a local content requirement...

En avril 2014, la Commission européenne a révisé ses Lignes directrices sur les aides d'Etat en matière de soutien aux énergies renouvelables et de protection de l'environnement. Dans cet article, nous montrons dans quelle mesure l'approche plus économique de l'évaluation des aides qui y est proposée peut contribuer à l'appréciation des aides...

In response to sanitary crisis, risk management has become a central issue for food producers and distributors in Europe. Organisational responses to sanitary risks usually implying traceability have been conceived by firms. One of the main tasks here is to deal with coordination of the different operators of a food chain. The European Union...

The first commercial dispute settled by the WTO under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement concerned the disagreement between the European Communities and the United States over the European import ban on meat and meat products derived from cattle to which hormones have been administered for growth promotion purposes. The purpose of this...

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) aims at estimating a monetary value for environmental or public health degradation. In a regulatory context, it should be seen as a complementary tool to risk assessment to aid public decision-making. CBA should therefore be particularly relevant in the governance of modern biotechnology. Genetically modified...

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An important strand in the economic literature focuses on how to provide the right incentives for households to recycle their waste. A growing number of stud- ies, inspired by psychology, seek to explain waste sorting and pro-environmental behavior, and highlight the importance of social approval and the peer effect. The present theoretical...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policies to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. These policies can generate trade frictions. For example, in the Canadian renewable energy dispute the EU and Japan claimed that Feed in...

The paper analyzes the interactions between trade and renewable energy policies based on the EU-China solar panel dispute which is the most significant antidumping (AD) complaint in Europe. We build a price competition duopoly model with differentiated products and intra-industry trade in photovoltaic (PV) equipment. We show that an optimal...

The paper analyzes the interactions between trade and renewable energy policies based on the EU--China Solar Panel dispute which is the most significant antidumping (AD) complaint in Europe. We build a price competition duopoly model with differentiated products and intra-industry trade in photovoltaic equipment. We provide two relevant types...

The European Regulation 834/2007, responsible for the definition of the European Organic Label since 2009, allows a non-intentional presence of authorised GMOs limited to the threshold of 0.9 % in organic production. Such a threshold, when strictly positive, allows organic producers to keep the organic label in case of a small GM contamination....

The China-Raw Materials dispute recently arbitrated by the WTO opposed China as defendant to the US, the EU and Mexico as the claimants on the somewhat unusual issue of export restrictions on natural resources. For the claimants, Chinese export restrictions on various raw materials, of which the country is a major producer, create shortages in...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in Ontario that have a local content requirement...

Risk management has become a central issue in sanitary crises. Agro food firms have devised organizational responses to sanitary risks, usually implying better traceability. European Regulation 178/2002 established mandatory traceability. This paper provides a critical appraisal of the European Regulation on traceability. The analysis...

Faced with the energy transition imperative, governments have to decide about public policy to promote renewable electrical energy production and to protect domestic power generation equipment industries. For example, the Canada - Renewable energy dispute is over Feed-in tariff (FIT) programs in Ontario that have a local content requirement...