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

Pascale Champalaune

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Frédéric Cherbonnier

TSE Research Faculty

Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Toulouse

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Claude Crampes

TSE Research Faculty

Professor Emeritus of Economics, TSE

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Charlotte De Cannière

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor, TSE

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Philippe De Donder

TSE Research Faculty

Senior Researcher, CNRS

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Marion Desquilbet

TSE Research Faculty

Researcher in Economics, INRAe

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Konrad Dierks

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Christian Gollier

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Isis Durrmeyer

TSE Research Faculty

Professor, TSE

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Johannes Gessner

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Postdoctoral Fellow, TSE

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Christian Gollier

TSE Research Faculty

Professor in Economics

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André Grimaud

TSE Research Faculty

Professor Emeritus, TSE

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Jean-Louis Guy

TSE Affiliated Faculty

Assistant professor, TSE

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List of WP, articles of the group

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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Patterns in sustainable food choices and policy support: Novel evidence from nine countries

Céline Giner, Céline Nauges, and Katherine Hassett

Food Policy, vol. 139, n° 103047,
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Les déterminants socio-démographiques de la prise en charge des personnes âgées en situation de perte d’autonomie

Witnie Compere, Bertrand Achou, Philippe De Donder, Raquel Fonseca, Franca Glenzer, Minjoon Lee, and Marie-Louise Leroux

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1720, ,
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Capital Sunk, Emissions Locked: The Economics of Energy Transitions under Carbon Constraints

Michel Moreaux, Jean-Pierre Amigues, and Manh-Hung Nguyen

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26--1721,
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Self-protection and self-insurance in pest management: The role of risk preferences and beliefs

Douadia Bougherara, Céline Nauges, François Salanié, and Fabienne Féménia

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1719,
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At home versus in a nursing home: Long-term care settings and marginal utility

Philippe De Donder, Bertrand Achou, Franca Glenzer, Minjoon Lee, and Marie-Louise Leroux

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 183, n° 105254,
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Epistemic Capital and Two-Trap Growth in the AI Era

Manh-Hung Nguyen

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1722,
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The welfare cost of ignoring the beta

Christian Gollier

Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, vol. 4, n° 1, , pp. 147–172
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Catastrophes, delays, and learning

Matti Liski, and François Salanié

The Review of Economic Studies, 2026, forthcoming
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Bargaining over EU Budgetary Items: Trade-offs and Marginal Valuations

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

Applied Economics, 2026, forthcoming
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Judging Social Priority and the Marginal Utility of Income Among Individuals

James K. Hammitt

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1707,
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List of Seminars of the group

Past

Transport Pricing to Promote E-biking and Reduce Externalities: Insights from a GPS-Tracked Experiment

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 13 April 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Beat Hintermann

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Diversion Research

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 30 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Yann Bramoullé

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Weathering Poverty

  • Seminar

  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 26 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Robin Burgess

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Human-Centered Forecasting: an AI-led transformation of climate adaptation for smallholder farmers

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 16 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Amir Jina

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Optimal Second-best Menu Design: Evidence from Residential Electricity Plans

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 9 March 2026

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Nicholas Vreugdenhil

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Strategic Avoidance and the Welfare Impacts of U.S. Solar Panel Tariffs

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 15 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Todd Gerarden

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Why do Inefficient Policies Persist? Evidence from Price Freezes in Energy Markets

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 8 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Antonio Bento

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Low Emission Zones: Transition Technologies and the Value of Commitment

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 1 December 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Imelda

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How Firms Cut Carbon

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 24 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Ivan Rudik

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Public Goods, Distribution, and Optimal Taxation

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 17 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Olof Johansson-Stenman

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Additionality and Asymmetric Information in Environmental Markets: Evidence from Conservation Auctions

  • Seminar

  • Industrial Organization seminar

  • Date 10 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Anna Russo

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Agricultural productivity and deforestation

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 3 November 2025

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Ryan Abman

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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 Jean-Jacques Laffont

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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 JJ Laffont -A4

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