Publications of the Chair

The Urban Green Space Dilemma

2025
Authors :
L. Tuffery, S. Anougmar, B. Bayramoglu, C. Cantuarias-Villessuzanne and M. David

Urban green spaces improve quality of life, but may reduce car space. We first propose a theoretical model to analyze this trade-off. Positive global willingness-to-pay (WTP) is observed for scenarios that improve biodiversity and air cooling with minimal loss of car space, while negative WTP arises when car space is greatly reduced without substantial...

Comment évoluent les émissions du transport de voyageurs en France ?

2025
Authors :
Aurélien Bigo

 

Le transport de voyageurs en France représente plus de 20 % des émissions nationales de gaz à effet de serre. L’article suit leur évolution depuis 1960 et la contribution de 5 leviers de transition est étudiée : demande de transport, report modal, remplissage et consommation d’énergie des véhicules, et décarbonation de l’énergie.

The equity and efficiency trade-off of carbon tax revenue recycling: A re-examination

2025
Authors :
Emmanuel Combet, Gaëlle Le Treut, Aurélie Méjean, Antoine Teixeira

This paper examines the macroeconomic and distributive impacts of carbon pricing reforms.

Do Corporate Governance Mechanisms Help to Reduce Carbon Emissions? Some Empirical Evidence on Listed Companies in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan

2025
Authors :
Cécile Cezanne, Gaye Del Lo, Yves Kassi, Sandra Rigot

 In this paper, we analyze the role of firms in mitigating climate change through their model of corporate governance. Our findings vary depending on the high- or low-emission sector. Based on these results, we propose several managerial and policy implications that can help improve corporate climate performance.

The difficult reappropriation of an ancient technical knowledge: Rainwater harvesting in Ahmedabad (India)

2025
Authors :
Akil Amiraly

In situations of water shortage and unreliability of the public water supply service, the rehabilitation of old water supply systems could constitute an additional source of supply. The chapter questions both the rationale of their rehabilitation and the state of nowledge associated with their use, based on the example of the old city of Ahmedabad in...

La finance à impact : éclairage sur les pratiques d’une société française de gestion d’actifs solidaires

2025
Authors :
Philippe Devin

Cet article propose une analyse comparative d’un fonds solidaire « 90-10 » recherchant principalement la performance financière (fonds « A ») et d’un fonds solidaire spécialisé (fonds « B »), privilégiant la création d’impacts positifs sans performance financière. Ces fonds combinent les notions d’impact et de solidarité de manière hybride : communication d’une part, pratiques de financement et de sélection d’autre...

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. 

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.