Environmental and natural resource economics

Environmental planning, climate mitigation, risk and value of life, land sharing, catastrophe aversion etc...

The group brings together around thirty-five TSE researchers and PhD students working on Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management. Topics of research include the economics of natural resources (notably water resource management, growth and climate change, and energy transition); the evaluation of public policies (including the issue of risk and uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis); the political economy of the environment; economics and biology (notably human-environment interactions); behavioral environmental economics.

Activities of the group

  • Environmental slot, Monday, 10:00 – 12:15, organized by Mathias Reynaert and Nicolas Treich. Assistant: Aline Couratier

     •​ 10:00 – 10:45: workshop
     •​ 10:45 – 11:00: coffee break
     •​ 11:00 – 12:15: seminar

  • Conferences

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The group heads up the EEP master (Path "Environmental Policy and Energy Economics" (EPEE) or Path "Economics and Ecology")
It is supported by INRAe (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment) and CNRS-InEE (Institute for Ecology and Environment of the National Center of Scientific Research).

List of members of the group

David Alary

TSE Research Faculty

Professor and Deputy Dean of Education, TSE

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Ingela Alger

IAST/TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, CNRS

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Stefan Ambec

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, INRAe

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Jean-Pierre Amigues

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, INRAe

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Henrik Andersson

TSE Research Faculty

Associate Professor, TSE

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Nicolas Astier

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor at the Paris School of Economics.

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Cécile Aubert

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor, University Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

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Julien Bétaille

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of public law, University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour

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Philippe Bontems

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, INRAe

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Lucie Bottega

TSE Affiliated Faculty

Lecturer / Educational Innovation Officer, TSE

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Stéphane Cezera

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Engineer IT, INRAe

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Sylvain Chabé-Ferret

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, INRAe-TSE

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List of WP, articles of the group

Does the climate challenge justify degrowth?

André Grimaud, Gilles Lafforgue, and Luc Rougé

Economics Letters, vol. 267, n° 113070,
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Tarification d’accès et qualité du réseau dans le transport ferroviaire

Philippe Bontems, Marie-Françoise Calmette, and David Martimort

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1753,
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A development of a new measure for renewable energy uncertainty in Vietnam by using natural language processing and textual analysis

Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Le Thanh Ha

Energy Nexus, vol. 22, n° 100662,
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Bargaining over EU Budgetary Items: Trade-offs and Marginal Valuations

Roberto Balado-Naves, Marian Garcia-Valinas, and Vera Zaporozhets

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1752,
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A Contribution Margin Approach to Imperfect Competition

Philippe Bontems

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1759,
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Not so Costly: Cost Structure and Firm Behavior

Philippe Bontems

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1760,
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Does the climate challenge justify degrowth?

André Grimaud, Gilles Lafforgue, and Luc Rougé

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1748,
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The Stranding Cost of Agricultural Subsidies under Climate-Transition and Biodiversity-Regulation Risks

Manh-Hung Nguyen

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1746,
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Creative Destruction and Energy Transition

Jean-Pierre Amigues

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1749,
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Valuing Disaster Prevention: Desert Locust Monitoring and Control

Josephine Gantois, Anouch Missirian, Evelina Linnros, Anna Tompsett, Amir Jina, Gordon C. McCord, and Eyal G. Frank

NBER Working Papers, vol. 35215,
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A Two-Sided Model of Television Competition with Advertising Pricing and Endogenous Reinvestment

David Bardey

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1736,
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Highway to sell: How to renew concessions if you want it

Philippe Bontems, Marie-Françoise Calmette, and David Martimort

Economics of Transportation, vol. 45, n° 100447,
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List of Seminars of the group

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 7 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Steve Cicala (Tufts University)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 7 December 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Milan Quentel (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 30 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Zhi Li (Xiamen University - Chine)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 23 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Jing Li (Tufts University)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 16 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Jessie Lu (Columbia University)

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To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 9 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Katinka Holtsmark (University of Oslo)

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Designing Electric Vehicle Subsidies for Equity and Efficiency

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 2 November 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Hyuk-soo Kwon (University of Chicago)

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Long-term contracts and efficiency in the liquefied natural gas industry

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 12 October 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Nahim Zahur (Queen's University)

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The Carbon Incidence of Cross-Subsidies: A Dividend and a Squeeze

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 28 September 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Cristian Huse (University of Oldenburg)

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Pricing Protection: Credit Scores, Disaster Risk, and Home Insurance Affordability

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 18 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Joakim Weill

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Long Run Cost Benefit Rules

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 11 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Antony Millner

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Draining Across Borders: How Common Pools Fuel Inequality

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 4 May 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Lucija Muehlenbachs

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Contact

Sylvain Chabé-Ferret

Group leader

Marion Desquilbet

Group secretary

Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache

Conferences

Animal Welfare Economics Conference 2027

  • Conference

  • Date From 10 to 11 June 2027

  • Place Auditorium 3

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Past

15th Energy and Climate Economics Conference

  • Conference

  • Date From 4 to 5 June 2026

  • Place Auditorium 3 JJL -Auditorium 4

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14th Toulouse Conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate

  • Conference

  • Date From 6 to 7 June 2024

  • Place Auditoriums A3-A4

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