The impact of human activities on the environment results in increasing competition for access to natural resources, and in major environmental and social changes. Addressing the consequences of such effects require changes in the way societies interact. How can we deal with such impacts without supranational institutions, or when the power of such institutions is limited? Is it then possible to promote appropriate coordination between agents in order to manage environmental issues? How do individual preferences induce pro-environmental behaviors? Is the effect of inequalities on cooperation positive or negative? What is the role of equity in the way environmental policies are designed?
This research group tackles these challenges by relying on political economics, social choice theory and environmental economics. More specifically, we rely mainly on game theory, contract theory, axiomatic approaches and applied econometrics.
Research works are focused on two main priorities. The first one is related to the specifics of governance systems: we analyze the interplay between interacting agents’ behaviors and governance systems, accounting for different scales (local, national, international). The second priority focuses on individuals’ preferences and the effect of inequalities, in particular inequalities in the access to natural resources and in the vulnerability to climate changes.
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Ph.D Students & Post-docs
Fertile Ground for Conflict
2019
Journal of the European Economic AssociationHow to turn crowding-out into crowding-in? An innovative instrument and some law-related examples
2019European Journal of Law and EconomicsBuilding new kinds of meta-models to analyse experimentally (companion) modelling processes in the field of natural resource management
2019Environmental Modelling & SoftwareComportements pro-environnementaux et exposition à la nature : une étude expérimentale
2019Revue EconomiqueDo people trust more when they are happy or when they are sad? Evidence from an experiment
2019Managerial and Decision EconomicsHarnessing the power of identity to encourage farmers to protect the environment
2019Environmental Science and PolicySpatial data infrastructure management: a two-sided market approach for strategic reflections
2019International Journal of Information ManagementThe perils of democracy
2019Journal of Economic Behavior & OrganizationInequality measurement with an ordinal and continuous variable
2019Social Choice and WelfareContracts for the management of a non-renewable resource under asymmetric information and structural price breaks
2018Annals of Economics and StatisticsShall we pay all? An experimental test of Random Incentivized Systems
2018Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics"Facta Non Verba": an experiment on pledging and giving
2018Journal of Economic PsychologyEnvironmental investments: too much of a good thing?
2018International Journal of Production EconomicsHow crucial are preferences for non-tradable goods and cross-country sectoral TFP gap for integration?
2018Journal of MacroeconomicsSocial norm interventions as an underappreciated lever for behavior change in energy conservation
2018Journal of Energy and DevelopmentExtracting information or resource? The Hotelling rule revisited under asymmetric information
2018Rand Journal of EconomicsContracts for the management of a non-renewable resource under asymmetric information and structural price breaks
2018Annals of Economics and StatisticsOn the difficulty of collusion in the presence of a more efficient outsider
2018Journal of Institutional and Theoretical EconomicsMoral self-licencing and social dilemmas: an experimental analysis from a taking game in Madagascar
2018Applied EconomicsHow status seeking may prevent Coasean bargaining
2018Review of Law and Economics
- Funding : ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) ANR-15-CE05-0008
- Duration : 2015 – 2019
- Contact : MAHENC Philippe
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are now central actors of policy-making processes as well as initiators of public debates about the needs of environmental policies.
They play a critical role in public politics by providing people with information about the environmental state of the world, bringing social and environmental issues to public awareness, and mobilizing support for political action on these issues.
The aim of the project is to provide analysis and new insight into the economic behavior and strategies of NGOs with respect to the environment.
- Funding : ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) ANR-16-CE41-0005
- Duration : 2016 – 2020
- Contact : MAGDALOU Brice
Building on the fiction of the paternalistic ethical observer, we propose to construct measures of socio-economic performance and well-being that (i) acknowledge the multidimensional nature of well-being, (ii) pay due attention to the distribution and interaction between the attributes, and (iii) take full account of the measurability nature of the attributes.
These measures will make one able to provide answers to questions of interest for the policy-maker and the general public like the following:
- Q1. Can we correctly claim that our health system guarantees equal access to medical care whatever the circumstances of the individuals? Is a move in direction to the British health care system likely to reduce the inequalities of health statuses among the population?
- Q2. Does the poor performance on average of French students at the PISA tests go along with high inequalities in the distributions of the scores suggesting that the French educational system might be doubly inefficient?
To which extent inequalities – provided that there is evidence of such inequalities – in reading, mathematics and problem solving are related to the socio-economic characteristics of the parents and more generally to their origins? - Q3. Is ex-post redistribution by means of progressive tax-benefit systems more effective in reducing the long run income inequalities than an ex-ante redistributive policy that would tax more heavily the intergenerational transmission of wealth?
- Funding : ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) ANR-15-CE26-0004
- Duration : 2015 – 2019
- Contact : MAGDALOU Brice
How do individuals perceive inequalities? Do we have to consider all inequalities as unfair?
In parallel to the worsening of the income and wealth inequalities, the last decades have also been characterised by increased social risks. These essentially originate in the profound changes in the labour market structure that go along with a deterioration of the unemployment rates. Hence, even if individuals are concerned with fairness considerations, it is not clear to what extent preferences for redistribution can be associated with such motives. Redistribution can be perceived as social insurance, and thus risk aversion of the individuals may came into play.
The project aims at shedding new light on the preferences for redistribution, by providing a better description of people’s perceptions of inequality and social risks.
The benefits for society of the project would be to provide the social planner with implementable social decision rules which reflect the individual preferences for redistribution, that can be used in public policy making.