Publications of the Chair

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...

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...

Green bond: the emperor wears no clothes

2021
Authors :
Ivar Ekeland, Julien Lefournier

This article demonstrates that the green bond cannot constitute an incentive to carry out a green project.

From words to deeds? Climate change and the European Central Bank

2021
Authors :
Jérôme Deyris, Tanguy Bonnet

Using textual analysis methods, we study how the topic of climate change has appeared and evolved in the speeches of the ECB's Executive Board members since 1997.

Why finance professionals hold green and brown assets? A lab-in-the-field experiment

2021
Authors :
Adrien Nguyen-Huu, Sébastien Duchêne, Dimitri Dubois, Marc Willinger

We assess the impact of environmental externalities on portfolio decisions in a lab-inthe-field experiment on finance professionals and students. Subjects show pro-environmental preferences, with...  

A practical approach for curbing congestion and air pollution: Driving restrictions with toll and vintage exemptions

2021
Authors :
Leonardo Basso, Juan-Pablo Montero, and Felipe Sepulveda

Article published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Congestion and local air pollution continue to be a serious problem in many cities around...  

Who emits CO2? Landscape of ecological inequalities in France from a critical perspective

2021
Authors :
Antonin Pottier, Emmanuel Combet, Jean-Michel Cayla, Simona de Lauretis, and Franck Nadaud

This article provides a panorama of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inequalities between French households. It presents in a detailed and critical manner the methodological...  

Relocation in presence of polluting and heterogeneous technologies

2020
Authors :
Julie Ing and Jean-Philippe Nicolaï

This paper demonstrates that the offshoring of a dirty firm as compared to the offshoring of a clean firm is worse for the environment, better for northern consumers, and better for the domestic profits. The results are reversed in case of reshoring.

Showing off cleaner hands: mandatory climate-related disclosure by financial institutions and the financing of fossil energy

2021
Authors :
Jean-Stéphane Mésonnier and Benoît Nguyen

We investigate the real effects of mandatory climate-related disclosure by financial institutions on the funding of carbon-intensive industries.