Publications of the Chair

The Finance-Climate Nexus

2023
Authors :
Laurence Scialom

The failure of market mechanisms to respect the carbon budget, to assess climate-based financial risks, and to reallocate financial flows on a more sustainable greenhouse gas emission pathway call for strong public interventions and for a strong involvement of both central banks and regulators in the structural change of finance.

Energy and rural households well-being : Do the facts hold the promise of prosperity?

2023
Authors :
Ahmed Tritah, Chloé Saurel

This paper reviews the evidence from the recent literature regarding the impact of electricity on rural households. The authors' reading of the currently available evidence suggests that while access to electricity is necessary to support local economic development and stimulate a more inclusive labor market, it is however not sufficient.

Conventional and unconventional economic policies in an econometric SFC model of the French economy

2024
Authors :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

The 2008 and Covid crises have led to increasing public debts and to the launching of unconventional economic policies. Thanks to a complete description of the balance sheets of the domestic and foreign agents, stock-flow consistent (SFC) modelling was well equipped to evaluate their economic consequences. 

A stock flow consistent model for the French economy in Macromodelling, economic policy and methodology: economics at the edge

2022
Authors :
Jacques Mazier, Luis Reyes

Reyes and Mazier present a first version of an econometric stock flow consistent (SFC) model of the French economy – an aggregate model with a single product, five domestic agents and the rest of the world with a complete representation of real and financial sectors in stocks and flows.