This article discusses the discount rate to be used in projects that aimed at improving the environment. The model is quite stylized and involves two different goods, one is the usual consumption good whose production increases exponentially, the other is an environmental good whose quality...

The article titled "Autour des taux écologiques" is a study of an economic environment in which individuals don’t care only about their intertemporal flow of consumption but also about the quality of a given natural resource, say air or water, denoted hereafter environmental good.

This book brings together the lectures notes from the seminars held at the Finance and Sustainable Development Chair from 2007 to 2009. The first part is concerned with climate change policies, with particular emphasis on the relevance of traditional economic concepts and methodologies...