• Pesticide taxes, the spread of agroecological practices, bans on importing products grown with pesticides that are not authorized in France… There are many possible ways to significantly reduce pesticide use, but they do not all have the same expected effects on crop yields and farmers’ incomes.

For nearly twenty years, France has been seeking to reduce pesticide use through a series of measures and plans that have so far failed to achieve their initial objectives. Reducing pesticide use remains a priority because recent scientific research increasingly confirms the harmful impacts of pesticides on both human health and biodiversity. In addition, the effectiveness of pesticides can decline over time, while climate change tends to increase their use. But can France achieve a significant reduction in pesticide use without harming the agri-food sectors?

An article written by Julie Subervie (Research Director at INRAE, CEE-M), Alexandre Gohin (INRAE, SMART), Jean-Noël Aubertot (INRAE, AGIR), and Raja Chakir (INRAE, PSAE).

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Workshop organized as part of the ANR Lobbies project: Industries and Lobbies: Obstacles or Drivers of the Energy Transition.

This project is led by the CEE-M, the Paris School of Economics (PSE), the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and the Center for Industrial Economics (CERNA), and is coordinated by Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (PSE).

The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Economics, Av. Raymond Dugrand – Richter Campus, Lecture Hall C003.

• Standard presentations (35-minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of discussion) and blitz presentations (20-minute presentations with limited time for questions) will alternate to address the issues studied within the framework of this research project.

Programme :

• Thursday, May 21

08h30 – 09h00 Welcome

09h00 – 10h30 Plenary session 1

• Marco Catola (Univ. of Pisa) and Cecilia Vergari (Univ. of Pisa) “Lobbying as an Entry Barrier” (Standard presentation)
• Benjamin Leffel (Univ. Nevada, Las Vegas) and Thomas Lyon (Univ. Michigan–Ann Arbor) “Dirty Opposition, Clean Support in Global Corporate Climate Lobbying” (Standard presentation)

10h30 – 11h00 Coffee

11h00 – 12h30 Plenary session 2

•  Liam Lods (Toulouse School of Economics) and David Martimort (Toulouse School of Economics) “Regulating the Stakeholders’ Firm” (Standard presentation)
•  Houda Hafidi (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) “Climate Lobbying and Green Voting in the European Parliament: Evidence from Roll-Call Votes”
• (Standard presentation)

12h30 – 14h30 Lunch

14h30 – 16h00 Plenary session 3

•  Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), Charles Figuières (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) and Mathis Preti (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) “Diversion Research” (Standard presentation)
•  Patrick González (Univ. Laval) "A Contest of Beliefs: Lobbying with Endogenous Information" (Blitz presentation)
• Pierre Fleckinger (Mines Paris – PSL Univ.), Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris – PSL Univ.) and Aude Pommeret (Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc) “The economics of greenhushing” (Blitz presentation)

16h00 – 16h30 Coffee

16h30 – 18h00 Plenary session 4

•  Olivier Beaumais (Univ. Rouen), Dorothée Charlier (Univ. Savoie Mont-Blanc), Olivier Gergaud (KEDGE Business School) and Rosanne Logeart (Paris School of Economics) " Generative AI and the Environment: Perceptions, Trust and Behavior of the French” (Standard presentation)
•  Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics) and Thomas Lyon (Univ. Michigan–Ann Arbor) “Understanding the Links between CSR and Corporate Lobbying” (Standard presentation)

20h00 – 22h00 Dinner

• Friday, May 22

09h00 – 10h30 Plenary session 5

• Dorothée Brécard (Univ. Toulon) "Green skepticism, competition, and welfare in vertically differentiated markets” (Standard presentation)
•  Guillaume Cheikbossian (Univ. Montpellier) and Miao Dai (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute) "Indirect and direct lobbying on international trade in waste" (Standard presentation)

10h30 – 11h00 Coffee

11h00 – 12h30 Plenary session 6

• Rick Harbaugh  Indiana Univ. Bloomington), Thomas Lyon (Univ. Michigan–Ann Arbor) and John Maxwell (Indiana Univ. Kelley School of Business) “Electoral Competition, Polarization, and the Limits of Outside Lobbying: A Cheap Talk Approach” (Standard presentation)
•  Philippe Bontems (Toulouse School of Economics) and David Martimort (Toulouse School of Economics) “Climate Agreements for Sale” (Blitz presentation)
•  Mouez Fodha (Paris School of Economics), Fabien Prieur (Univ. Montpellier) and Francesco Ricci (Univ. Montpellier) "To Recycle or not to Recycle, that is the Question" (Blitz presentation)

 12h30 – 14h30 Lunch

14h30 – 15h45 Plenary session 7

•  Fabien Prieur (Univ. Montpellier) “Strategic fossil expansion and the timing of the energy transition” (Standard presentation)
•  Dorothée Brécard (Univ. Toulon) and Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics) "Blocking Green: Agenda-Setting, Media Salience, and the Political Economy of Environmental Taxation". (Blitz presentation)

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Xiamen University School of Economics (Xiamen, China) and the Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier (Montpellier, France) agreed in 2024 to launch a collaborative program on shared research topics at the intersection of environmental economics and behavioral and experimental economics.

With this in mind, the CEE-M and the Xiamen University School of Economics (SOE) launched a joint workshop, the first edition of which took place in 2024 in Montpellier, and the second in 2025 in Xiamen.

The workshop returns to Montpellier for its third edition, to be held on June 26 and 27, 2026.

Organization and contacts: Fabien Prieur and Marc Willinger for the CEE-M, Zhi Li for Xiamen University

• Préliminary Program

Friday, June 26 2026 - Amphithéâtre Pétrarque, à la Faculté de Droit et Science Politique

08:30 – 08:45 | Coffee and Tea

08:45 – 09:00 | Welcome address

09:00 – 10:30 | Session 1

• Stefan Ambec (TSE): Climate and industrial policy with carbon border adjustment
• Roberta Terranova (EIEE): Forecasting the Transition: Expectation Dynamics under Climate Policy Volatility

10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30 | Session 2

• Bing Zhang (Nanjing U.): From Sensory Intuition to Digital Rationality: How Real-Time CEMS Data Disclosure Reshapes the Logic of Public Environmental Participation in China
• Yinggang Zhou (Xiamen U.): Carbon Markets, R&D Subsidies, and Green Innovation: Evidence from China

12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30 | Session 3

• Adrien Huu Nguyen (CEE-M): Beyond the Basket: Do Socially Responsible Consumers Build Sustainable Portfolios?
• Sebastien Pouget (TSE): An Experiment on the Stakeholder Firm: Shareholders, Consumers and Corporate Externalities

15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee break

16:00 – 18:15 | Session 4

• Mathieu Lefebvre (BETA): Climate polices under income inequality
• Astrid Hopfensitz (GATE): Keep it Clean! Civic Engagement for Environmental Sustainability and Norm Enforcement in the City
• Zhi Li (Xiamen U.): Reward and Penalty Mechanisms in Leading Climate Coalition: An Experimental Investigation

19:30 | Dinner

Saturday, June 27 2026 - Institut de Botanique

09:00 – 09:30 | Coffee and Tea

09:30 – 10:30 | Session 5: Keynote lecture

• Thomas Sterner (U. of Gothenburg): Externality Shifting. Are we improving the environment or destroying it?

10:30 – 12:00 | Session 6

• Carlos Chávez (U. de Talca): Exclusion and common pool resource management. Experimental evidence
• Katrin Erdlenbruch (CEE-M): Managing Common Pool Resources under Catastrophic Risk: Insights from Continuous-Time Experiments

12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break

13:30 – 15:00 | Session 7

• Charles Figuières (AMSE): An axiomatic characterization of Rao’s quadratic entropy
• Mengdi Liu (U. of International Business and Economics): Eyes Off the Smoke: Strategic Interdependency under Imperfect Monitoring

15:00 – 16:30 | Session 8

• Xiaofang Dong (Xiamen U.): When the Rain Falls: Extreme Weather, Commuting,and Urban Labor Supply
• Francesco Ricci (CEE-M): Opening mines under the risk of geoeconomicfragmentation: A real option approach

Organizers: Fabien Prieur and Marc Willinger for CEE-M, Zhi Li for Xiamen University

More information to come.

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The team responsible for conducting the project “Training Teachers to Educate a New Generation of Environmental Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the CLIMASCO Program”, selected through the call launched by the IDEE program and the Office for Climate Education (OCE), includes two members from CEE-M.

Climate change education (CCE) is increasingly regarded as a central lever of public policy to prepare younger generations to face the environmental transition. However, rigorous causal evidence remains limited regarding how to design school programs that are both effective and easily scalable, particularly when teachers face practical, pedagogical, and contextual constraints in their implementation.

The project Training Teachers to Educate a New Generation of Environmental Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the CLIMASCO Program focuses on evaluating professional development initiatives implemented as part of the CLIMASCO project to strengthen climate change education and ecological transition education in France.

The project will test different approaches aimed at strengthening climate change education in French middle schools, analyze how these interventions influence teachers’ knowledge, their sense of self-efficacy, and their pedagogical practices, and assess whether these changes translate into improvements in students’ climate literacy, support for climate policies, and pro-environmental behaviors — including through their educational orientation choices — as well as potential spillover effects within schools. Variations in the intensity, nature, and cost of the interventions will make it possible to compare their cost-effectiveness.

The research team responsible for conducting this project is composed of Simon Briole  (Université de Montpellier, CEE-M), Carlo Barone (Sciences Po Paris), Coralie Chevallier (École Normale Supérieure-PSL), Nina Guyon (Paris School of Economics, École Normale Supérieure-PSL, Institut des Politiques Publiques), and Emmanuelle Lavaine (Université de Montpellier, CEE-M).

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Le Centre d’Economie de l’Environnement de Montpellier (CEE-M), offer a Phd opportunity  : "Decision in motion: posture, locomotion, and economic behavior"

The project is structured around three sets of research questions corresponding to the main dimensions of economic decision-making. The first focuses on individual preferences, examining how posture and movement affect risk attitudes, ambiguity aversion, and intertemporal preferences. The second addresses social preferences, analyzing the impact of bodily engagement on altruism, cooperation, trust, and coordination dynamics. The third examines the depth of strategic reasoning, exploring how movement influences iterative reasoning processes and the trade-off between motor demands and cognitive resources. Overall, the project aims to test the robustness of core findings in experimental economics by explicitly incorporating the bodily dimension of decision-making, and to identify the cognitive and physiological mechanisms underlying decision-making in motion.

• Application deadline : june 27th, 2026.
• Starting date :  october, 1st, 2026
• Duration : 36 month

Contacts

• Dimitri Dubois
• Marc Willinger

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The Centre d’Économie de l’Environnement de Montpellier (CEE-M) is actively involved in this training alongside BIOPOLIS-CIBIO and several partner institutions, contributing in particular to the teaching of economic approaches to the management of biological invasions.

In the face of the growing impact of biological invasions—recognized as a major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem change—this course offers a multidisciplinary approach combining theoretical and practical sessions. Participants will be trained in remote sensing and Earth observation tools, invasive species modelling, indicators for management and reporting, as well as economic tools for management.

Aimed at PhD students, researchers, and anyone interested in strengthening their skills in this field, the course will host a maximum of 15 participants.

Applications are now open for the advanced course which will take place from 6 to 9 July 2026 at BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, in Vairão, Portugal

📅 6–9 juillet 2026
📍 BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, Vairão (Portugal)
📌 Date limite de candidature : 22 mai 2026

Dans le cadre du projet EcoInvasionS, 5 places sont spécifiquement réservées à des étudiants (Master, doctorat) et post-doctorants de Montpellier. Ces places bénéficient d’une prise en charge complète (inscription, transport et hébergement)

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Congratulations to Simon Briole, Junior Professor Chair at CEE-M, who has officially joined the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab,(J-PAL Europe) network as an “invited researcher” for a three-year period.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab brings together affiliated researchers from universities around the world. It is organized into seven regional offices, each hosted by a local university.

J-PAL Europe is committed to reducing poverty by ensuring that social policies are grounded in rigorous scientific evidence. Its approach relies on randomized controlled trials (RCTs), which make it possible to accurately measure the effectiveness of social interventions. The organization then shares these findings with governments, NGOs, and donors to support the scaling up of effective programs.

Visit the J-PAL Europe website >>>
View Simon Briole’s profile >>>

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Created in 2014 by two members of the CEE-M, Sophie Thoyer and Pauline Lécole, the CAPeye website brings together a wide range of resources to explore, analyze, and deepen one’s understanding of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We met with the two coordinators of this monitoring and training initiative dedicated to the CAP..

• What led you to create the CAPeye platform? What needs were you aiming to address?

What led you to create the CAPeye platform? What needs were you aiming to address?

The original idea, when we launched CAPeye, was to design a tool that could serve two main purposes. The first was to provide information on a regular basis, but not in the same way as the press or mainstream media. We wanted to deliver content that is more thoroughly analyzed and better explained, aimed at a specific audience.

The second objective was to collect and offer training resources on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). We wanted to provide courses accessible to everyone: those who are not very familiar with the CAP but wish to understand how it works, how it is funded and decided, as well as those who already have some knowledge and are looking for more in-depth, specialized insights. We therefore organized the content into two main categories: “CAP for Beginners” and “CAP for Experts.”

• You mentioned a specific audience — who exactly are you targeting?

First of all, it is important to clarify that we are not addressing farmers who want to learn how to complete their CAP declarations or estimate the subsidies they are entitled to. Our goal is not to replace agricultural advisory services, but rather to clearly explain how the CAP was built, its objectives, and how it has evolved over time.

We primarily target an informed audience that seeks to better understand the logic behind CAP interventions. This includes researchers, academic staff, and secondary or technical education teachers. For instance, an agronomist working on crop rotation may need to understand how public policy incentives related to crop diversification function.

Our second target audience consists of master’s students, engineering students in agronomy, spatial planning, or natural resource management. This audience is often in a learning phase and can benefit from CAPeye as a way to gain a broad and structured overview of the CAP.

Finally, our website is also widely used by media professionals and journalists. When agricultural issues make the headlines, they need to understand the CAP—its regulations and mechanisms—since it frames agricultural activity in France and across Europe. For non-specialists, this is highly complex. We are therefore frequently contacted by journalists seeking clarification, as the CAP is a particularly intricate topic.

• CAPeye also offers online training. Could you tell us more about the content you provide?

For all these audiences, we felt it was important to offer targeted training on the CAP, whether for self-learning or for deepening specific topics.

On CAPeye, we provide two types of training. The first is called “CAP for Beginners,” which is freely accessible. Users can find short video clips, concise PowerPoint presentations, and thematic dossiers covering major CAP periods or specific topics such as “peri-urban agriculture and the CAP” or “mountain agriculture.” All of this content is designed to help users understand why agricultural policies are needed, why the CAP exists, how it functioned in the 1960s, how it works today, and so on. To help users assess what they have learned, we also provide a series of quizzes.

We also offer more advanced content in the form of structured courses. These are available upon free registration and are distributed under a Creative Commons license, making them freely accessible. Several modules are specifically dedicated to the CAP, such as its purpose, its history, and so on. We also provide an additional module on public policy evaluation.

In total, we offer around ten online courses that can be followed independently of one another. It is not a MOOC, as there is no predefined progression between the available courses.

• There is also the “News” section, which could even be described as “News Analysis.” How do you choose your topics and sources?

Our objective is not to simply reproduce information that can be found elsewhere. We aim to provide thoughtful content that takes a step back, drawing on our expertise to place current events within a broader historical and contextual perspective, and to explain the underlying reasons and mechanisms behind them.

As for topic selection, it varies. Sometimes we jointly decide to address a topic from an original angle. At other times, we build on the research we conduct with our PhD students or interns. For example, we wrote an article on the history of CAP simplification—a topic that is currently in the spotlight due to farmers’ protests, but which has in fact been part of the CAP reform agenda for over 30 years and is the subject of ongoing doctoral research.

Regarding sources, we subscribe to Contexte Agro, which allows us to closely follow developments in agriculture and agricultural policy. It is a very comprehensive but paid source. We also monitor general media outlets such as France Info, Libération, and Le Monde, as well as professional press and more specialized journals where valuable insights can sometimes be found. However, we try as much as possible to go directly to primary sources. We therefore also follow platforms such as Euractiv, and more specifically for CAP-related issues, CAP Reform, a blog run by an Irish colleague.

Keeping up with the news also requires time, as developments move very quickly. We have therefore moved away from a twice-monthly publication schedule. Today, we publish less frequently, which suits us better, as we prioritize quality over quantity.

Today, our newsletter has more than 400 subscribers, and CAPeye offers a comprehensive resource with over sixty news analyses that can be searched by keywords. All articles are archived on the platform, as we believe it is important to preserve these analyses, which contribute to documenting the evolving history of the CAP.

• CAPeye website>>>
• Suscribe to CAPeye newsletter >>>
• Contacts : Sophie Thoyer et Pauline Lécole

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“Too much tax kills tax,” says the famous phrase by the American economist Arthur Laffer. But what if, for France, it were more complicated than that? Aren’t there other social, emotional, or moral considerations at play?

Although taxation has historically been the financial tool used to collect the resources necessary for the functioning of the state, it is nonetheless a complex social phenomenon. This is what our research has highlighted. Because alongside financial gain, many other social, emotional, or moral considerations help explain our complex relationship with taxation.

In an article published in The Conversation, Cécile Bazart (University of Montpellier, CEE-M), Aurélie Bonein (University of Rennes), and The Conversation, Cécile Bazart (University of Montpellier, CEE-M) examine the current underlying factors behind the loss of legitimacy of tax collection.**

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CEE-M is pleased to welcome Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme as a visiting scholar at CEE-M from March 11 to April 3, 2026.

Marie-Ève Gaboury-Bonhomme is a Quebec colleague from Université Laval whose work focuses on agricultural policies, risk management, and pesticide reduction.

She has been a professor in the Department of Agri-Food Economics and Consumer Sciences at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences of Université Laval since 2019. She holds a PhD from the École nationale d’administration publique and specializes in public policy analysis.

Ms. Gaboury-Bonhomme’s research, applied to the realities of the agricultural and agri-food sectors, draws on political science, sociology, and agricultural economics. Her work seeks to better understand the evolution of the objectives and functioning of government interventions.

• For further information, please contact Pauline Lécole

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