Publications of the Chair

Thesis – Essays in experimental and development economics

2022
Authors :
Gwen-Jiro Clochard

Experimental economics offers the possibility to study the behavior of economic agents in ideal conditions, as it allows for the complete control of the environment of participants. This thesis presents results from several field experiments, as well as their contributions to the literature.

Macro-dynamics of the energy transition : robustness, money velocity and public policies

2022
Authors :
Edouard Dossetto

The aim of this work was to develop a robust transition model that should be able to provide information on public policies to avoid either an attractive equilibrium with fossil fuel-intensive capital only, or a collapse due to a climate-induced Minsky moment

Thèse – Economic growth, energy use and climate change : a historical and prospective approach

2020
Authors :
Emmanuel Bovari

Achieving the energy shift requires an evolution of the structural and financial structures to develop, finance, and deploy low-carbon assets. Based on a historical and prospective approach, this PhD thesis develops four essays devoted to an analysis of the viability of the energy shift within the framework of a structural approach.

Thèse – Déploiement des énergies renouvelables : déterminants globaux et financement participatif en france

2020
Authors :
Clémence Bourcet

The focus of this thesis is the French renewable energy crowdfunding sector because it has experienced a strong growth in the context of a favorable regulatory environment. I conduct a case study of a French crowdfunding platform specialized in renewable energy projects to better understand its business model and the risks associated with it.

Regional clusters for the energy transition a cost-benefit analysis

2020
Authors :
François TEYSSIER D’ORFEUIL

This report uses the cost-benefit analysis framework to assess the economic efficiency of the Zero Emission Valley, both from the private and public perspectives, compared to a diesel mobility status quo scenario.

PhD thesis – Sustainable metal extraction, steady-state good production and cooperative wealth allocation among nations and generations : a transdisciplinary approach

2019
Authors :
Fatma Zahra Rostom

This dissertation offers a transdisciplinary modeling approach to feed the debates raised by the long-run availability of mineral materials. It investigates the plausibility of a depletion threat posed to key metal resources within the current century.

Essays on social capital and welfare measurements

2018
Authors :
Rakesh Gupta

the primary motivation for this dissertation is to explore the concepts of social capital, relational capabilities, subjective well-being and development, and especially the linkages between them.

Master thesis – Cities coordination for a decarbonized mobility Application for the deployment of fuel cell electric buses

2019
Authors :
Lucie Moulin

The development of new technologies to address the challenges of decarbonized mobility in cities, such as hybrid, battery or fuel cell technologies, suffer from...  

Master thesis – The design of innovation policy for the energetic transition

2019
Authors :
Margarita Kirneva

Implementation of big innovative projects is often subject to big financing problems. On the one hand, the possibly profitable project can require an outstanding...  

Doctoral Thesis – Macroeconomists and the stagflation. Essays on macroeconomy’s transformation in the 1970’e

2017
Authors :
Aurélien Goutsmedt

This thesis' goal is to study the influence of New Classical economists on macroeconomics in the 1970s, by appealing to an historiographical framework which puts at the heart the role played by the stagflation, and by confronting the results of this work to the standard narrative.