Using a two-stage Game of Chicken, Cabon-Dhersin and Ramani (2007) examine the impact of population heterogeneity on cooperative behaviour. For that purpose, they introduce two different types of agents, namely those who always cooperate and those who strategically cooperate. The aim of the...

A strong positive relation is generally assumed between monetary incentives and effort on the one hand, and between effort and performance on the other hand, which legitimates the introduction of monetary incentives in economic laboratory experiments. Still, the empirical impact of incentives on...

Pour comprendre comment se font les atteintes à l'environnement, la notion de risque doit être étudiée sous tous ses aspects historique, cognitif, et bien sûr quant à son appréhension sociétale. Depuis l'alerte lancée par Ulrich Beck, très nombreuses sont les réflexions à ce sujet,...

Quels sont les risques financiers liés à la pollution pour une entreprise ? Ce rapport porte sur le marché de l'assurance du risque pollution en France. Par risque pollution, nous faisons référence aux risques financiers qu'entraîne, pour une entreprise, le fait d'être à l'origine d'une...

This paper discusses the growth model with environmental constraints recently presented in (Acemoglu et al., 2011) which focuses on the redirection of technical change by climate policies with research subsidies and a carbon tax. First, Acemoglu et al.'s model and chosen parameters yield...

This case study describes the social aspects of Total's CO2 integrated capture, transport and storage pilot project in Frontsouthwestern France, from the initial press conference February 8th, 2007 to the announce of its end in 2013. The economic and social context was favorable. The company...

Climate change damage assessments are commonly based on long term growth models that neglect disequilibrium processes, assumed to be transient over short periods. This thesis highlights, from a set of modelling exercises, how important the short-term transients and the endogenous economic...

On the efficiency of climate policies international coordination. This article analyses the economic efficiency of climate policies international coordination acknowledging long term perspectives and political constraints. It questions the economic and political viability of emission trading...

We discuss, by a philosophical method inspired of Quine, the nature of the risk posed by GMOs. Our analysis concludes to the religious origin of the belief of researchers to overall resilience of nature to perturbations of the genetic molecular combination.

La croissance spectaculaire des marchés du photovoltaïque dans différents pays donne l'illusion d'un décollage commercial de cette technologie alors qu'elle se fonde sur le développement de marchés très subventionnés par des tarifs d'achat pour tirer le développement des capacités de...