Les publications de la Chaire

Subsidising Electric Cooking to Protect the Environment: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the D.R. Congo

2025
Auteurs :
Sébastien Desbureaux, Lara Collart, Nik Stoop, Raphael Soubeyran, Marijke Verpoorten, Mathieu Couttenier, Christine Cikesa, Jean de la Croix Kembere Mulwahili,Natsuno Shinagawa

This randomized controlled trial investigates how to accelerate the transition to the cleanest cooking fuel, electricity, and quantifies the benefits for people and the environment. 

Historical Carbon Debts and Credits – 1750-2023

2025
Auteurs :
Tobias Angel, Alain Naef

Historical contributions of carbon emissions differ widely between nations, constraining climate change negotiations. Cumulative country estimates ignore historical populations, overstating the role of large-population countries. In this paper, we present a global accounting framework. Adding CO2 emissions from land use change radically reshapes the map, moving Brazil from the world’s 8th largest creditor to...

Monnaie et Finance Ecologique / Ecological Economics and Finance -An Introduction to Sustainable Monetary and Financial Systems

2025
Auteurs :
Thomas Lagoarde-Segot, Laurence Scialom, et 13 autres auteurs

Quinze spécialistes, issus des grandes écoles et universités françaises, ont contribué à la rédaction du manuel, dans le cadre d’un groupe de travail bénévole du Sustainable Development Solutions Network des Nations Unies.This textbook, written by fifteen economists from the SDSN France network, provides an accessible introduction to ecological economics and finance.

Thesis: Three essays on the economics of the green transition

2025
Auteurs :
Chloé Saurel

The energy transition is a worldwide endeavor that most countries have come to acknowledge, thanks to the work of scientists all over the world. The use of fossil fuels in our energy-intensive economies for the past centuries has dramatically increased global warming (+1.5 degrees Celsius since preindustrial times), and public policies play a key...

Thèse : La finance solidaire en france : quelle évaluation extra-financière de la création d’utilité sociale chez les institutions financières ?

2025
Auteurs :
Philippe Devin

Cette thèse analyse l'évolution de la finance solidaire en France à travers l'essor des fonds d'investissement solidaires. Elle met en lumière les tensions entre logique financière et l'objectif solidaire initial, en s'appuyant sur trois cas. 

The Environmental Consequences of Economic Inequalities: A Systematic Empirical Literature Review

2025
Auteurs :
Luc Elie, Tobias Angel, Alexandre Berthe

Greater economic inequalities increase environmental degradation in most cases. Building on evidence from 136 studies and 406 empirical tests between 1998 and 2022, we construct a database enabling an in-depth analysis of the literature. Our main findings are threefold. 

Thèse : Au-delà de Pigou : politiques et leviers comportementaux pour réguler les externalités environnementales liées à la viande

2025
Auteurs :
Maxence Gérard

Cette thèse s'intéresse à la régulation des externalités environnementales liées à la production et la consommation de viande. Elle vise à la fois à proposer des instruments de second rang lorsque les politiques pigouviennes ne peuvent pas être mises en place par le régulateur, et à comprendre comment mobiliser les normes morales et sociales pour...

Thesis: Competing green technologies : The case of low-carbon hydrogen

2025
Auteurs :
Albin Kasser

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.

Thesis: Designing scenarios for assessing the economic and systemic consistency of low carbon mobility innovations

2025
Auteurs :
Ariane Bousquet

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.

Climate-Conscious Bank Customers

2025
Auteurs :
Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier and Clément Mazet-Sonhilac

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...