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

Watch an example of research work led within the group

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

James K. Hammitt

TSE Associate Faculty

INRAE Chair at TSE - secondment from Harvard

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Bård Harstad

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University

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Norbert Ladoux

TSE Research Faculty

Professor Emeritus, TSE

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Gilles Lafforgue

TSE Associate Faculty

Professor of Economics, Toulouse Business School (TBS)

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Stefan Lamp

TSE Associate Faculty

Research Fellow, TSE-P

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Graham Macklin

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: François Salanié

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Anouch Missirian

TSE Research Faculty

Assistant Professor of Economics, INRAe

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Alejandro Mizrahi Cengarle

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: Mathias Reynaert

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Céline Nauges

TSE Research Faculty

Research Director, INRAe

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Manh-Hung Nguyen

TSE Research Faculty

Researcher, INRAe

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Antonia Pacelli

Post-Docs, Engineers and Assistants

Research Engineer, INRAe

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Lilian Rebaï

TSE PhD Student

Supervisor: François Salanié

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List of WP, articles of the group

Learning about best management practices: Theory and experimentation under the umbrella of crop insurance

Cécile Aubert, Yann Raineau, and Marc Raynal

European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol. 53, n° 1, January 2026, pp. 341–373

An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union

Tristan Earle Grupp, Prakash Mishra, Mathias Reynaert, and Arthur Van Benthem

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1703, January 2026

Judging social priority and the marginal utility of income among individuals

James K. Hammitt

The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, vol. 34, n° 100639, January 2026

An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union

Tristan Earle Grupp, Prakash Mishra, Mathias Reynaert, and Arthur Van Benthem

The Review of Economic Studies, 2026, forthcoming

On the predictability of the effects of data centers electricity demand shocks

Claude Crampes, and Antonio Estache

TSE Working Paper, vol. 26-1726, January 2026

Incentivizing Physicians' Diagnostic Effort and Testing with Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection

David Bardey, Philippe De Donder, and Marie-Louise Leroux

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, January 2026

Economic Incentives to Develop and to Use Diagnostic Tests: A Litterature Review

David Bardey, Philippe De Donder, and Vera Zaporozhets

Journal of Economic Analysis, vol. 4, December 2025

Taxing and nudging to reduce carbon emissions

Stefan Ambec, Henrik Andersson, Stéphane Cezera, Ayşegül Kanay, Benjamin Ouvrard, Luca A. Panzone, and Sebastian Simon

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1690, November 2025, revised January 2026

Animal Economics

Nicolas Treich

November 2025

Environmental Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops

Anouch Missirian, Frederik Noack, Dennis Engist, Josephine Gantois, Vasundhara Gaur, Batoule F. Hyjazie, Ashley Larsen, Leithen K. M’Gonigle, Matin Qaim, Risa D. Sargent, Eduardo Souza-Rodrigues, and Claire Kremen

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1684, October 2025