Export Competitiveness Effects of US Ethanol Mandates: An Ex-Post Assessment
...market power. Using a generalized event study we find that the 2005-2007 RFS mandates reduced US exports by approximately 43% for corn, 49% for soybeans, and 34% for wheat relative...
Carbon Pricing and Household Finance: How Banks Price Transition Risk in Auto Loans
...difference-in-differences design, we find that banks respond to Germany’s carbon price announcement by raising interest rates by 0.5 percentage points, with larger increases for loans on fuel-intensive vehicles and for...
Can Information Shape Macroeconomic Disaster Risk Perception and Stimulate Investment? An Experiment with Experts and Laypersons
...leading to underinvestment in our portfolio task. However, we find that communicating historical information about the frequency of macroeconomic disasters helps to correct misperceptions of this frequency and stimulate investment....
Policy design in the context of multiple pollutants and regulators
...tend to respond to this challenge by developing separate policies for each externality but do not recognize that many externalities are interrelated. Based on a two-phase optimization approach formulated in...
A paraître : « Introduction à l’économie de l’environnement : Comment les économistes voient l’environnement » par Philippe Mahenc
...l’Université de Montpellier et membre du CEE-M (Center for Environmental Economics – Montpellier). Il a enseigné l’économie dans les Universités de Toulouse, Angers, Perpignan, Montréal, et en Afrique. Il a...
The Creative-Destructive Force of Hurricanes: Evidence from Technological Adoption in Colonial Jamaican Sugar Estates
...beet sugar, and the equalization and finally elimination of sugar import duties across the British empire led to a need for more efficient ways to produce sugar. However, it has...
Strategic Nuclear Policies: Theory and Evidence
Nuclear energy use varies widely across European countries with similar economic and technological characteristics. The present research aims to partly explain why. Using parliamentary debates from 1960 to the present...
Playing Dumb to Look Green?
...a trade-off between their monetary payoff and their pro-environmental preferences. We propose that individuals use information complexity as an excuse to make self-serving mistakes, which allow them to behave more...
Contributive inequality aversion in Group Contests
Experimental research often challenges traditional group contest theory, revealing that individuals’ decisions are influenced by other-regarding preferences. Building on this insight, this study examines how inequality concerns shape effort distribution...
Workshop ANR group : “in-group favoritism in intergroup conflicts”
...Willinger (CEE-M) Lunch : 12h30-14h: Brasserie Pompette (sur invitation) MONDAY, DECEMBER 11 (AFTERNOON) : PRESENTATIONS 14h-16h: Petros Sekeris (MBS/CEE-M): “Confidence and Performance in Tournaments and Contests”. Simon Varaine (CEE-M): «...