Les publications de la Chaire

Thèse : Mining in Africa at a Crossroads: Development, Environmental Stress, and Conflict Dynamics

2025
Auteurs :
Mboundor DIOUF

Mboundor DIOUF soutiendra sa thèse “Mining in Africa at a Crossroads: Development, Environmental Stress, and Conflict Dynamics” le 17 octobre 2025 à 13h30 Sujet de thèse :...  

Le débat sur la dette publique

2025
Auteurs :
Dominique Plihon

La question de la dette publique française est au cœur des débats depuis de nombreuses années et donne lieu à des affirmations alarmistes dont la plus connue est celle de François Fillon en 2007. Il est utile de poser les termes de ce débat, en précisant ce que recouvre la dette publique, les causes de...

La dédollarisation : une stratégie de vaccination contre les sanctions ?

2025
Auteurs :
Dominique Plihon

Si les États-Unis sont apparus comme la puissance mondiale dominante depuis la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, c’est non seulement en raison de leur puissance...  

Signal received? Carbon price and financial–environmental performance prioritization in EU ETS firms

2025
Auteurs :
Ethan Eslahi, Anna Creti, María-Eugenia Sanin

Understanding how firms interpret and respond to carbon price signals based on their strategic priorities is crucial for aligning climate policies with corporate financial and environmental objectives. By examining how carbon price signals can shape firms’ financial–environmental priorities, these findings offer actionable insights for designing policies that better balance profitability and sustainability in the...

Imperfect Competition and the Adoption of Clean Technology: The Case of CCS in Cement

2025
Auteurs :
Quentin Hoarau, Jean-Pierre Ponssard

his paper studies the adoption of clean technology in an oligopolistic setting, focusing on carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the cement sector. Firms can choose between two technologies: a carbon-
intensive ("dirty") technology and a low-carbon ("clean") one.

Greening the car fleet: demand characteristics, policy impacts and new product introduction

2025
Auteurs :
Ariane Bousquet

Globally, the transport sector is the second-largest source of CO2 emissions, with private road transportation accounting for the majority of these emissions. In this study, we use a structural model and a novel dataset of the French new and used car markets to estimate the determinants of private car demand and price sensitivity. Our findings...

Long-term sustainability of zero-growth capitalism: activity, employment and unemployment according to different modes of income distribution

2025
Auteurs :
Laurent Cordonnier, Jacques Mazier

This paper studies the long-term consequences of a zero-growth regime on the evolution of employment and unemployment, depending on the assumptions we can make concerning the evolution of the working population, labor productivity and working hours.

European scenarios and climate policies in a new global context

2025
Auteurs :
Jacques Mazier and Pascal Petit

The world economy is not anymore a multipolar world, but clearly tends towards a bipolar one since the global trade war launched by Donald Trump with a major confrontation between US and China. For the future the four European scenarios presented are unequally likely or desirable. 

Diffusing Water Management Know-How Between a French Mne and an Indian Utilities Company in Chennai, India – La mayonnaise n’a pas pris

2025
Auteurs :
Akil Amiraly

To improve the management of the public water supply service in the city of Chennai, the French utility company Veolia provided to Chennai Metro Water technical assistance from 2002 to 2006, under the institutional support of an international donor, the World Bank.  This case illustrates how instilling managerial and technical changes in public water utilities...

The hybrid domain for energy in India: A case study exploring the diffusion of off-grid solar power

2025
Auteurs :
Akil Amiraly; Haruki Sawamura; Christopher Williams

The purpose of this study is to reveal how the urban market for off-grid energy production in the hybrid domain developed in the Indian context and to critically reflect on this phenomenon.