Renaud Coulomb

Professor of Economics, Ecole des Mines Paris-PSL University, CERNA

Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne, Department of Economics


Contact Information

Renaud.Coulomb  //\\at//\\  minesparis.psl.eu

CERNA, Ecole des Mines Paris-PSL University

60, Boulevard Saint Michel

75272 PARIS Cedex 06 

+33 (0)6 88 13 38  XXX 16


In environmental and resource economics, I study the impacts of climate change mitigation on energy resource use and on the (market) value of energy firms and their assets.  In political economy, I examine the value of political connections for firms or board members, sometimes at the expense of society.  

My goal is to produce policy-relevant research outcomes that are empirically-grounded and theoretically-soundMy  research is question-driven: depending on the project,  I rely on applied micro  methods or applied theory, combining both when relevant.  

Prior to joining Mines Paris – PSL, I was a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Melbourne. I also worked as a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment) and at the Ecole Centrale Paris (CGI).  I hold a PhD and a master’s degree in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and a master’s degree in International Relations from Sciences-Po Paris, and a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. 

CV available here

What's new?

— "'Bad' Oil, 'Worse' Oil, and Carbon Misallocation", with Fanny Henriet and Léo Reitzmann, Working Paper, Paris School of Economics, n° 2021-38, June 2021.  Working Paper, Conditionaly accepted to The Review of Economic Studies.