18 May 2026Workshop 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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