This dissertation investigates the economic competition among green technologies in the context of the energy transition, with a particular focus on low-carbon hydrogen. Beyond the classic "grey-to-green" paradigm that models cleaner technologies replacing fossil-fuel-based alternatives, this work emphasizes the increasingly relevant competition within green technologies.
This thesis explores the major challenges of decarbonizing the transport sector, with a focus on the French automobile market. It highlights the limitations of poorly targeted subsidies and recommends more effective policies, such as support for used electric vehicles and standards for the size of new electric vehicles.
We exploit new data on NGO campaigns that target banks financing fossil fuels ("brown'' banks) to build a measure of French banks' environmental reputation, which we merge with granular data on bank deposits and loans of households in France over 2010-2020. We find that banks receive relatively fewer household deposits when they are perceived as browner.
Ce workshop s'adresse particulièrement aux chercheurs et chercheuses. En présence de Véronica Salazar (IIE, Stockholm), Anna Papp (MIT), Ludovica Gazze (Warwick), Ondine Berland (LSE), Anouch Missirian (INRAE, TSE), Mathieu Parenti (INRAE, PSE), François Bareille (INRAE, PSAE) et Julien Wolfersberger (AgroParisTech, PSAE).
Through this paper, Guy Meunier characterizes how biodiversity concerns reshape the efficient allocation of land exploitation as a function of damage curvature and food-demand elasticity. Overall, the analysis highlights the role of indirect production reallocation and market-mediated feedbacks in biodiversity-oriented agricultural policy.
This study examines the impact of trade agreements and their specific provisions on the sustainability of marine fisheries resources.
Bioenergies from dedicated crops or wood have faced substantial criticisms due to their significant land requirements. Certain bioenergy pathways, such as biogas generated from crop residues, manure, or food waste, appear to be exempt from this criticism. However, these feedstocks are byproducts of agricultural activities that generate emissions not covered by current climate policies in most countries.
How the increased trade openness and correspondingly higher marginal propensity to
import explains the lower efficiency of economic policy in the context of economic openness. Using an empirical stock-flow consistent model for the French economy (SFC FR), we analyze the macroeconomic impacts of these policies through a series of macroeconomic shocks.
This study examines the impact of climate aid on deforestation in Africa from 2001 to 2021, using a novel dataset of geocoded aid projects. The effects are heterogeneous and vary by initial forest cover: aid increases deforestation in densely forested areas, while it appears to reduce deforestation where forest cover was initially sparse.
We study the relationship between culture and environmental conservation through the lens of deforestation. Focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 2001-2021, we show that changes of national leaders affect deforestation in a way that depends on the environmental culture of their ethnic group’s. Our results suggest that culture is an important lever for environmental conservation in Africa.
Ce workshop s'adresse particulièrement aux chercheurs et chercheuses. En présence de Véronica Salazar (IIE, Stockholm), Anna Papp (MIT), Ludovica Gazze (Warwick), Ondine Berland (LSE), Anouch Missirian (INRAE, TSE), Mathieu Parenti (INRAE, PSE), François Bareille (INRAE, PSAE) et Julien Wolfersberger (AgroParisTech, PSAE).
