Publications of the Chair

Stopping Behaviors of Naïve and Non-Committed Sophisticated Agents when They Distort Probability

2017
Authors :
Yu-Jui Huang, Adrien Nguyen-Huu, Xun Yu Zhou

We consider the problem of stopping a diffusion process with a payoff functional involving probability distortion. We study stopping decisions of naïve agents who reoptimize continuously in time, as well as equilibrium strategies of sophisticated agents who anticipate but lack control over their future selves’ behaviors.

Coupled Climate–Economy–Biosphere (CoCEB) model – Part 1: Abatement efficacy of low-carbon technologies

2017
Authors :
Keroboto B. Z. Ogutu, Fabio D'Andrea, Michael Ghil, Charles Nyandwi

The CoCEB model is used to evaluate hypotheses on the long-term effect of investment in emission abatement, and on the comparative efficacy of different approaches to abatement. While many studies in the literature treat abatement costs as an unproductive loss of income, we show that mitigation costs do slow down economic growth over the...

Relational Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being: Influence of Exclusion and Ethnic Polarization

2017
Authors :
Rakesh Gupta N.R.

This paper presents novel approach about ethnic polarization in a country and extends its relevance beyond social conflict and civil wars to subjective well-being (SWB) and relational capabilities construct.

Coherent Multidimensional Poverty Measurement

2017
Authors :
Gaël Giraud, Rakesh Gupta N. R.

This paper presents a family of multidimensional poverty indexes that measure poverty as a function of the extent and the intensity of poverty.

The macrodynamics of household debt, growth, and inequality

2017
Authors :
Gaël Giraud, Matheus Grasselli

How do inequality and growth evolve in the long run and why? This paper analyses the interplay between household debt, growth and inequality within a monetary, stock-flow consistent framework.

The New Classical Explanation of the Stagflation: A Psychological Way of Thinking

2016
Authors :
Aurélien Goutsmedt

Abstract: The stagflation phenomenon is regarded as one of the cause of the Keynesian paradigm breakdown in the 1970s. The New Classical school took...  

Tradable emission permits: beyond pollution abatement motives

2015
Authors :
Maria-Eugenia Sanin

In this paper we study how the electricity market characteristics determines the choices made by electricity generators in the U.S. market for SO2 allowances.

Economic Development: Is Social Capital Persistent?

2015
Authors :
Rakesh Gupta

This paper is published in Papiers de Recherche AFD, n°2015-17, Décembre. Abstract : This paper, on the one hand, goes a step closer to...  

Managing Base of the Pyramid as a Business Opportunity: A Longitudinal Field Study.

2015
Authors :
Thomas André, Jean-Pierre Ponssard

In the last decade a growing articulation of the business strategy of the firms with some specific global societal challenge in line with its...  

The deployment of BEV and FCEV in 2015

2015
Authors :
Julien Brunet, Alena Kotelnikova, Jean-Pierre Ponssard

In Europe the transport sector contributes about 25% of total GHG emissions, 75% of which come from road transport. Contrarily to industrial emissions road...