Nicolas Treich, TSE researcher, will present to TSE Students "Behavioral Environmental Policy", on Thursday, 13 November 2014.
Room MB II Manufacture des Tabacs. (from 5 to 6.30 pm)
Abstract:
Policy-makers are increasingly interested in behavioral instruments which may help better manage environmental problems. These instruments respond to individuals' behavioral limitations, such as cognitive mistakes, or build on people feelings towards the environment. They provide a low cost alternative to traditional economic instruments like pigouvian taxes that often work imperfectly. But they also face a set of challenges, including the difficulty to evaluate welfare effects, and to conceive a robust environmental policy based on context-dependent effects. The lecture will illustrate this critical discussion with two behavioral schemes that have been widely implemented: "green nudges" and "corporate environmental responsibility