One major consequence of ecological disruptions and climate change is to make our future more and more uncertain, and societies face the challenge of moving toward a greener and sustainable economy. This raises a number of scientific challenges: among others, it is important to appropriately define and assess environmental risks, to understand how individuals behave in such situations, and to analyze how innovative financing and investment strategies might help societies address environmental changes.
This research group tackles these challenges by relying on research expertise in environmental economics, experimental economics, econometrics and finance. In particular, our research combines theoretical and experimental methods, option value theory, optimization under uncertainty and laboratory experiments.
Research works are focused on two main priorities. The first one is related to the problem of risk modeling. The aim is to analyze mitigation, prevention and adaptation behaviors in risky environments in order to understand how to deal with major environmental risks. The second priority focuses on the potential of investment and financing strategies to address environmental challenges. Different issues are analyzed, such as the impact of firms’ corporate social and environmental responsibility strategies, or the price dynamics in environmental markets.
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Ph.D Students & Post-docs
Staff
Commons as a risk-management tool : theoretical predictions and an experimental test
2020
Revue d'Economie PolitiqueGeneral stopping behaviors of naive and non-committed sophisticated agents, with application to probability distortion
2020Mathematical FinancePaving the way to coastal adaptation pathways: An interdisciplinary approach based on territorial archetypes
2020Environmental Science and PolicyValue creation and value appropriation In innovative coopetition projects
2020M@n@gementPositionnement stratégique de la Chine en Méditerranée : le projet Belt and Road Initiative
2019Les Cahiers scientifiques du transportFirst Results on the French version of the ICECAP-A questionnaire
2019Journal de gestion et d'économie de la santéAcceptabilité sociale des mesures d’adaptation au changement climatique en zones côtières : une revue de dix enquêtes menées en France métropolitaine
2019VertigO : La Revue Électronique en Sciences de l'EnvironnementA dual-process memory account of how to make an evaluation from complex and complete information
2019Revue EconomiqueOptimal sharing rule for a household with a portfolio management problem
2019Mathematical Social SciencesEconomic valuation of the loss and damage from climate change: A review of some current issues
2019Journal International de Bioéthique et d’Ethique des SciencesThe effect of short selling and borrowing on market prices and traders’ behavior
2019Journal of Economic Dynamics and ControlThe impact of flood management policies on individual adaptation actions: Insights from a French case study
2019Ecological EconomicsHow do markets react to (un)expected fundamental value shocks? An experimental analysis.
2019Journal of Behavioral and Experimental FinanceWhat can catastrophic events tell us about sustainability ?
2019Journal of Mathematical EconomicsPreferences among coastal and inland residents relating to managed retreat: Influence of risk perception in acceptability of relocation strategies
2019Journal of Environmental ManagementTruth-telling under Oath
2019Management ScienceThe strategic environment effect in beauty contest games
2019Games and Economic BehaviorResistance to relocation in flood-vulnerable coastal areas: a proposed composite index
2019Climate PolicyPerception du temps de transport par les usagers de l’autocar et du covoiturage : quelle valeur du temps pour les déplacements longue distance en France
2018Les Cahiers Scientifiques du TransportShall we pay all? An experimental test of Random Incentivized Systems
2018Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsSpatial renewable resource extraction under possible regime shift
2018American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Funding : ORA-Plus framework by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the Netherlands Organizations for Scientific Research (NWO), German Research Foundation (DFG), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS )
- Duration : 2016 – 2019
- Contact : WILLINGER Marc
The project aims to analyze the effects of macroeconomic policies, both monetary and fiscal, regulations related to information disclosure, and introduction of financial instruments within analytical frameworks that are based on more realistic behavioral foundations.
We will conduct research both at the individual and collective levels by combining laboratory experiments, computational experiments, and mathematical modeling, while paying a close attention to how individual decisions are aggregated into collective outcomes how collective outcomes feedback into individual decisions.
- Funding : ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
- Duration : 2020 – 2023
- Contact : COURTOIS Pierre et MAGDALOU Brice
The impacts of future climatic conditions on agriculture and marine fisheries are expected to be widespread, complex, geographically variable, and mostly unfavorable, particularly in tropical countries where human development and health are of serious concern. Here we hypothesize that coastal towns and villages close to marine protected areas (MPAs) can better alleviate poverty in the context of land desertification than their counterparts without any management action on nearby marine ecosystems. We propose to test the link between biodiversity protection and economic development over a long time period (up to 20 years) by combining the most up-to-date (i) spatially gridded socioeconomic information, (ii) satellite imagery analyses, (iii) artificial intelligence and (iv) in situ observations in developing countries of the Mozambique channel.
- Funding : French Research National Agency ANR-17-CE02-0011
- Duration : 2017-2019
- Contact : WILLINGER Marc
Humans have colonized diverse environments so that specific genes, providing adaptation to each environment, are highly likely to have locally evolved (such as adaptation to high-altitude hypoxia).
These genes provide adaptation to a local, or specific, environment through a permanent physiological change or, alternatively, a behavioural change. Numerous genes are known to influence behaviour in experimental settings, such as alleles at the dopamine receptor locus D4 (DRD4), which is associated with attitudes toward risk.
However, direct evidence of selection acting on such genes is, to date, lacking. Active volcanoes and their exposed populations represent unique assets in the study of the roots of such adaptation responses.
The aims of this project are thus to: 1) study risk-taking people behaviour across contrasting environments, both at-risk and (almost) without risk; 2) examine the possibility of a local adaptation to risky environments; and 3) identify all relevant selected genes involved in this local adaptation.
The at-risk environments considered are flanks and surrounding plains of hazardous, active volcanoes, on which stable rural groups have developed.