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Power constraints and firm-level total factor productivity in developing countries

Alpha LyFinancial regulation and innovative financingPublicationsPublicationsResearch areaResearch FellowsComments Off on Power constraints and firm-level total factor productivity in developing countries

We analyze the effects of power constraints on manufacturing firms’ TFPR. Statistically, the power constraints treatment variable is not random for the firms. Power constraints negatively and significantly affect firm-level TFPR. Average productivity 11% lower for exposed firms compared to unexposed firms. The acquisition of backup generators or investment in R&D mitigates this effect.

Electrification or deforestation? Evidence from household practices in Côte d’Ivoire

Alpha LyFinancial regulation and innovative financingPublicationsPublicationsResearch areaResearch FellowsComments Off on Electrification or deforestation? Evidence from household practices in Côte d’Ivoire

This paper investigates the impact of electrification on household practices related to deforestation in Côte d’Ivoire, specifically focusing on the expansion of arable farms and the use of biomass fuels.  

Looking at the relationship between electrification and the expansion of arable farms inspired by Angelsen and studying  data from the latest four waves of the household Living Standards Measurement Surveys (1998, 2002, 2008, and 2015), we find that increased access to electricity significantly reduces both the average size of arable farms and the collection of firewood from forests. 

Un nouveau contrat écologique

Alors que notre époque est marquée par l’urgence climatique, la transition écologique peine à s’enclencher. L’ouvrage plaide pour concerter la transition écologique et engager l'ensemble de la société dans la construction d’un avenir commun. Semblable à un processus constituant, ce changement d’approche vise à construire un nouveau contrat écologique, un compromis de société qui décloisonne les questions sociales, économiques et écologiques.

Functionalism in ecology and economics: Epistemological affinities and temptations

Hadrien LantremangeMacro-economical and societal challengesPublicationsPublicationsResearch areaResearch FellowsComments Off on Functionalism in ecology and economics: Epistemological affinities and temptations

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. 

Economic rationality, ecological rationality and the orientation issue

The economic agent was previously assumed to be distinct from its environment and that nothing was forcing him to act on it. With the ecological crisis, every agent appears to be inserted into an environment, which he modifies in an irreversible way without even having decided to do so. This changes in depth the way in which economics can represent the agent and the optimal action: it is rationality itself that is modified in what we call "ecological rationality".

Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities

Financial regulation and innovative financingHugues ChenetPublicationsPublicationsResearch FellowsComments Off on Climate change and biodiversity loss: new territories for financial authorities

We analyse the current and possible ways forward in this consideration of climate and biodiversity by finance, highlighting the extent to which they may either contribute to and/or suffer from those environmental changes.