Workshop | Resource and Energy Economics | November 2-3

Paris School of Economics is glad to invite you to the “Resource and Energy Economics” workshop organized in partnership with ETH-Zürich.

• Date: November 2-3, 2023
• Venue: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Turgot, Paris

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• Organisers: Lucas Bretschger (ETH Zurich), Katheline Schubert (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Mouez Fodha (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
• Topics: Climate policy, energy transition, environmental risks, resource scarcity, economic growth, green innovation, generational justice, sustainable development

Programme

Thursday November 2, 2023

08.45-09.00: Welcome

09.00-09.15: Opening Address
Tasos Xepapadeas

09.15-10.30: Session A: Risk in Environment and Society
Chair: Sjak Smulders

• Alexandra Brausmann
  Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters
• Stéphane Zuber
  Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change
• Stefan Baumgärtner
  Responsibility for regime shifts in managed ecosystems
• Aleksei Minabutdinov
  Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Models with Climate Shocks and Financial Disasters

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-12.30: Session B: Environment and Growth
Chair: Pietro Peretto

• Aude Pommeret
  Stress discounting
• Evgenij Komarov
  All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health
• Thomas Steger DICE: The Long Run
• Andreas Schaefer
  Climate Policy, Productivity, and Appropriate Technologies
• Lin Zhang
  The Price of Wind under Climate Change

12.30-14.00: Standing lunch at Panthéon

14.00-15.50: Session C: Empirical Environmental Economics
Chair: Katheline Schubert

• Marica Valente
  Waste Policy Evaluation and Machine Learning
• Melissa Newham
  The impact of mergers on green innovation
• Joelle Noailly
  Policy uncertainty and investments in renewable energy
• Christa Brunnschweiler
  Power to learn: Reliable electricity and education in India
• Ara Jo
  Substitution between Clean and Dirty Energy with Biased Technical Change
• Katrin Millock
  Mobility after flood

15.50-16.20: Coffee

16.20-17.30: Panel on Future Climate and Energy Policy
Chair: Karen Pittel

• Simone Borghesi
• Xavier Labandeira
• Yakov Tsur
• Karen Pittel

17.00-18.00: Joint visit (for those who are interested)

Friday, November 3 2023

09.00-10.30: Session D: Environmental Economics Theory and Policy
Chair: Mouez Fodha

• Andreas Lange
  Goals
• Armin Schmutzler
  Providing Innovation Incentives for the Ecological Transition
• Frank Krysiak
  Who Should Drive Green Technology Transitions in Developing Countries: State-Owned Enterprises versus Private Firms
• Alena Miftakhova
  Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements
• Grisha Perino
  Revealed preferences for mitigation options and the role of public expert advice

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-12.30: Session E: Technical Change and Sustainability
Chair: Simone Valente

• Matthias Leuthard
  Overcoming the carbon trap: Climate policy and technology tipping
• Pietro Peretto
  Sustainable Growth and Secular Trends
• Gerard van der Meijden
  Endogenous Fossil Eliminating Technical Change and the Energy Transition
• Mads Greaker
  International cooperation on the environment: The case for a green innovation club
• Rob Hart
  Are research subsidies the key to stimulating a green transition?

12.30-14.00: Standing lunch at Panthéon

14.00-15.30: Session F: Growth and Sustainable Resource Use
Chair: Cees Withagen

• Francesco Ricci
  Efficient recycling
• Susanne Soretz
  Societal trust in governments and state leader behavior: a macroeconomic view on the provision of global public goods
• Geir Asheim
  National accounting for global externalities
• Bob Cairns
  Sustainability and its Seven Sins
• Martin Quaas
  Economic growth and the distributional effects of privatizing natural resources

15.30-16.00: Coffee

16.00-17.10: Panel on Climate Economics and Risk
Chair: Sjak Smulders

• Simon Dietz
• Amos Zemel
• Wolfram Schlenker
• Sjak Smulders

17.10: Closing Address Session

• Alain Ayong Le Kama
• Kirill Borissov
• Cees Withagen

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