Publications of the Chair

Energy consumption and energy poverty in lower income countries: drivers for a solar transition

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

Read the full thesis "Electrification, environnement et développement économique dans les pays en développement"

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.

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...

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...

Functionalism in ecology and economics: Epistemological affinities and temptations

2022
Authors :
Hadrien Lantremange

This article reviews the epistemological debates about functionalism in ecology. While identifying current area of scientific validity, t emphasizes, in particular, that functionalism depends on the system examined and remains inapplicable wherever singularity prevails. 

Shaky foundations: Central bank independence in the 21st century

2022
Authors :
Jérôme Deyris, Gaëtan Le Quang et Laurence Scialom

Central bank independence (CBI) has often been presented as a superior institutional arrangement demonstrated by economists in the 1980s for achieving a common good in a non-partisan manner. In this article, we argue that this view must be challenged.

Heterogenous effects of rural electrification on child labor in Nigeria

2022
Authors :
Claire Salmon and Jeremy Tanguy

This paper investigate in particular how child labor varies depending on the nature of electricity supply and the electrical appliances used in the household. We find that the employment probability of children from electrified households is lower than that of children living in non-electrified households only when the household combines grid access and a generator as sources...