Publications of the Chair

Energy consumption and energy poverty in Morocco

2022
Authors :
Maryème Kettani, Maria Eugenia Sanin

This paper studies energy demand determinants and energy poverty in Morocco and assess to which extent the adoption of PV panels could help achieve a just energy transition.

Electrification and Deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire: a spatial econometric analysis

2023
Authors :
Alpha Ly, Raja Chakir, Anna Creti

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Too green to be true? Forging a climate consensus at the European Central Bank

2022
Authors :
Jérôme Deyris

In its 2021 strategy review, the European Central Bank's Governing Council unanimously decided to make climate change one of its priorities for the coming years. In this article, we try to understand how this change was achieved.

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The Capitalocene in light of history: Or why an early Anthropocene makes more sense

2023
Authors :
Victor Court

Several researchers argue that the root cause of today’s ecological disaster is not the anthropos, but the way we have been organizing the global economy through capitalism. It follows that we would be living in the Capitalocene rather than the Anthropocene. In this article, we demonstrate that the Capitalocene concept suffers from four intrinsic flaws

Social Preferences and the Distribution of Rewards

2022
Authors :
Raphael Soubeyran, Nicolas Quérou, Mamadou Gueye

This paper analyzes the optimal reward scheme in an organization involving agents with social preferences whose tasks are complementary.

Energy practices and population cohorts: the case of Mexico

2022
Authors :
Rossella Bardazzi, Maria Grazia Pazienza, Maria Eugenia Sanin

Developing countries are advancing towards universal energy access with high fertility rates and young population. Socio-demographic and economic evolutions will influence future energy consumption patterns. Herein, we use Mexico as a case study to estimate determinants of residential electricity consumption as well as the importance that a shift in generational preferences has on such...

Conventional and unconventional economic policies in an econometric SFC model of the French economy

2022
Authors :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

A first version of an econometric SFC model of the French economy based on the accumulation accounts from INSEE and on the financial accounts of the Bank of France has been presented (Mazier and Reyes, 2022). It provides the overall structure, the main equations and the basic properties of the model. This paper is...

A stock flow consistent model for the French economy in Macromodelling, economic policy and methodology: economics at the edge

2022
Authors :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

Reyes and Mazier present a first version of an econometric stock flow consistent (SFC) model of the French economy – an aggregate model with a single product, five domestic agents and the rest of the world with a complete representation of real and financial sectors in stocks and flows.

Unconventional monetary policy in an econometric SFC model of the French economy: some lessons for financing the low carbon transition

2022
Authors :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

An econometric SFC model of the French economy is presented. The structure of the model is analogous to that of already existing national-level SFC models. The dynamic
simulations on the past over the period 1996-2019 provide acceptable results. In a second part the effects of unconventional monetary policy are evaluated such as the distribution of
helicopter money in...

Do French firms follow a transparent or climate-friendly path?

2022
Authors :
Jeanne Amar, Samira Demaria, Sandra Rigot

Corporate disclosures related to climate risks are one of the ways to fight climate change by improving financial transparency for investors. An initial assessment, five years after the COP 21, of the climate disclosure practices of French companies (CAC 40) 2015-2019 will be presented. While the results are encouraging, they need to be put into...