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 WP, articles of the group

A Welfare Analysis of Genetic Testing in Health Insurance Markets with Adverse Selection and Prevention

Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 58, n° 2, , pp. 443-483

Water pricing and markets: Principles, practices and proposals

Sarah Ann Wheeler, Céline Nauges, and Quentin R. Grafton

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 47, n° 2, , pp. 487-514

The Effectiveness of Local Conservation Ballots

Dylan Hogan, Eyal G. Frank, Josephine Gantois, and Anouch Missirian

AEA Papers and Proceedings, vol. 115, , pp. 403-408

Water pricing and markets: Principles, practices and proposals

Céline Nauges, Sarah Ann Wheeler, and Quentin R. Grafton

TSE Working Paper, vol. 24-1634,

Nash versus Kant: A game-theoretic analysis of childhood vaccination behavior

Philippe De Donder, Humberto Llavador, Stefan Penczynski, John E. Roemer, and Roberto Vélez

Journal of Economics,

Motivating Public Sector Employees: Public Good Contributions in Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority

George Joseph, Josepa Miquel-Florensa, Yi Rong Hoo, Sanjay Pahuja, and Tewodros Tebekew

Economic Development and Cultural Change, vol. 73, n° 3,

The Health Technology Assessment Approach of the Economic Value of Diagnostic Tests - A Literature Review

Discover Health Systems, vol. 4, n° 26,

Lock-in in Renewable Energy Generation under Constraining Capacities and Heterogenous Conversion Performances

Michel Moreaux, and Jean-Pierre Amigues

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1638,

The Dynamic and Heterogeneous Effects of COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates in the USA

Manh-Hung Nguyen, Viet-Ngu Hoang, Son Nghiem, and Lan Anh Nguyen

Health Economics, vol. 34, n° 3, , pp. 518-536

Climate Change, Labor Market Frictions, and Inequality

Aditya Goenka, Lin Liu, Manh-Hung Nguyen, and Haokun Pang

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1622,

Fair Innings: An Empirical Test

Matthew Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt, Eugénie de Laubier, and Nicolas Treich

TSE Working Paper, vol. 25-1630,

Contracts in the reform of the EU electricity market

CEPR Policy Insights, vol. 139,

List of Seminars of the group

Past

Environmental regulation informed by biased experts

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 3 June 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Stefan Ambec

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Past

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 3 June 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Catherine Wolfram

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Past

A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change.

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 27 May 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Robert Metcalfe

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Past

Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Climate-Economy Model with Heterogeneous Households

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 13 May 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Thomas Douenne

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Past

To be announced

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 6 May 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Alex Pfaff

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Past

The End of Oil

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 29 April 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Ryan Kellogg

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Past

Global Coordination Challenges in the Transition to Clean Technology: Lessons from Automotive Innovation

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 22 April 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Marion Dumas

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Past

Assessing the Potential of Tax Policies in Reducing Environmental Impacts from European Food Consumption

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 18 March 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Charlotte Plinke

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Past

Greater Flexibility in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from an RCT in the Amazon

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 11 March 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Gabriela Demarchi

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Past

Landing on Water: Air Interdiction, Drug-Trafficking Displacement, and Violence in the Brazilian Amazon

  • Seminar

  • Behavior, Institutions, and Development Seminar

  • Date 7 March 2024

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Rodrigo Soares

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Past

Agricultural Productivity Growth and Deforestation in the Tropics

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 4 December 2023

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Raphaël Soubeyran

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Past

Temperature and Maltreatment of Young Children

  • Seminar

  • Environmental Economics Seminar

  • Date 27 November 2023

  • Place Auditorium 4

  • Speaker or organiser Ludovica Gazze

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Conferences

Animal Welfare Economics Conference 2027

  • Conference

  • Date From 10 to 11 June 2027

  • Place Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont

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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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Past

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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