Publications of the Chair

Cattle diet and the carbon footprint of beef: a meta-analysis

2025
Authors :
Maxence Gérard

Grass-based beef cattle production systems are generally perceived as beneficial to the environment. However, the climate impact of grass-based systems compared to systems based on energy-dense feeds remains controversial. The findings highlight potential trade-offs between climate goals and other sustainability objectives (e.g., biodiversity, animal welfare).

Quels sont les déterminants de la transparence climatique des entreprises en Europe ?

2024
Authors :
Jeanne Amar, Samira Demaria, Sandra Rigot

La transparence : une condition nécessaire à la réorientation des investissements vers une économie bas carbone, mais pas suffisante. Quels sont les déterminants qui influencent la transparence climatique des firmes européennes ?

Enseigner l’éthique autrement pour prévenir les conflits d’intérêts et la capture

2025
Authors :
Laurence Scialom

A new approach to the teaching of ethics to prevent conflicts of interest and capture. 

Evaluating second-hand EVs subsidies Efficiency and Welfare Gains

2025
Authors :
Ariane Bousquet, Juan-Pablo Montero, Maria-Eugenia Sanin

The recent inclusion of second-hand EV subsidies in several countries raises questions about their economic rationale. Contrary to conventional thinking, we show that while subsidies for second-hand EVs are often justified on equity grounds, they also improve efficiency as they influence the equilibrium composition of the vehicle fleet.

The rise and fall of neoliberalism: Evidences from an ecological and regulationist analysis of France (1960–2020)

2025
Authors :
Alban Pellegris, Victor Court

This article explores the critical role of energy in shaping capitalist modes of development, and their entry into crisis, in France between 1960 and 2020. This analysis challenges traditional views that regard energy primarily as an exogenous shock and instead posits energy as a fundamental metabolic constraint in capitalist accumulation regimes and proves that neoliberalism's...

Carbon taxation in a global production network

2025
Authors :
Jordi Planelles, María-Eugenia Sanin

Herein we study carbon taxation considering the structure of the global production network. With this purpose we characterize how the implementation of a carbon tax in one country-sector can generate sizeable fluctuations on global emissions and welfare through its impact on the structure of production.

Main challenges regarding development and sustainability in economics and finance

2025
Authors :
Stéphane Goutte, Maria-Eugenia Sanin

Balancing development and climate sustainability is a critical issue confronting nations worldwide. This is the core focus of our new journal, Development and Sustainability in Economics and Finance (DSEF). This article provides an initial overview of the type of research DSEF seeks to publish.

Warning words in a warming world: central bank communication and climate change

2025
Authors :
Emanuele Campiglio, Jérôme Deyris, Davide Romelli, Ginevra Scalisi

This paper studies climate-related central bank communication using a novel dataset containing 35,487 speeches delivered by 131 central banks from 1986 to 2023. It employs natural language processing techniques to identify and trace the evolution of key climate-related narratives centred around (i) green finance, and (ii) climate-related financial risks. Equity returns of "green" firms outperform those of "dirty" firms...

Mission Accomplished? A Post-Assessment of EU ETS Impact on Power Sector Emissions

2024
Authors :
Mohammadehsan Eslah, Anna Creti, María-Eugenia Sanin

This paper leverages a new method in the construction of credible counterfactuals for causal inference. This paper adopts a Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) modeling framework alongside a set of contemporaneous predictors related to power sector emissions to build counterfactual estimates of emissions for each post-intervention period and analyze the policy implementation effect by...

Délocalisations dans un contexte d’échanges internationaux et de concurrence imparfaite: Quels sont les impacts des délocalisations en fonction de la qualité environnementale de la technologie utilisée

2024
Authors :
Julie Ing, Jean-Philippe Nicolaï

Cet article étudie dans le cadre d’un modèle d’équilibre partiel à deux pays, le Nord et le Sud, les effets du changement de localisation des entreprises dans un contexte de concurrence internationale et imparfaite.