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Economics of the Transition to a Sustainable
Society
2-3 November 2023
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Turgot, Paris
High-level event upon invitation, sessions open to interested researchers and students
Organizers
Lucas Bretschger, ETH; Katheline Schubert, PSE; Mouez Fodha, PSE
Topics
Climate policy, energy transition, environmental risks, resource scarcity, economic growth, green innovation, generational justice, sustainable development
Detailed Program
Wednesday 1 November 2023
18.30 – Welcome Drink at the Restaurant La Bonbonnière
Thursday 2 November 2023
08.45 – 09.00 Welcome at the conference venue
09.00 – 09.15 Opening Address
Tasos Xepapadeas
09.15 – 10.30 Session A: Risk in Environment and Society
Chair: Sjak Smulders
Alexandra Brausmann: Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters
Stéphane Zuber: Opposite ethical views converge under the threat of catastrophic climate change
Stefan Baumgärtner: Responsibility for regime shifts in managed ecosystems
Aleksei Minabutdinov: Machine Learning for Continuous-Time Models with Climate Shocks and Financial Disasters
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session B: Environment and Growth
Chair: Pietro Peretto
Aude Pommeret: Stress discounting
Evgenij Komarov: All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health
Thomas Steger: DICE: The Long Run
Andreas Schaefer: Climate Policy, Productivity, and Appropriate Technologies
Lin Zhang: The Price of Wind under Climate Change
12.30 – 14.00 Standing lunch at Panthéon
14.00 – 15.50 Session C: Empirical Environmental Economics
Chair: Katheline Schubert
Melissa Newham: The impact of mergers on green innovation
Joelle Noailly: Policy uncertainty and investments in renewable energy
Christa Brunnschweiler: Power to learn: Reliable electricity and education in India
Ara Jo: Substitution between Clean and Dirty Energy with Biased Technical Change
Katrin Millock: Mobility after flood
15.50 – 16.20 Coffee
16.20 – 17.30 Panel on Future Climate and Energy Policy
Chair: Karen Pittel
Simone Borghesi
Xavier Labandeira
Yakov Tsur
Karen Pittel
17.30 – 18.00 Joint visit of the Sorbonne
19.30 Dinner at Restaurant Le Petit Marguery Rive Gauche
Friday 3 November 2023
09.00 – 10.30 Session D: Environmental Economics Theory and Policy
Chair: Mouez Fodha
Andreas Lange: Goals
Armin Schmutzler: Providing Innovation Incentives for the Ecological Transition
Frank Krysiak: Who Should Drive Green Technology Transitions in Developing Countries: State-Owned Enterprises versus Private Firms
Alena Miftakhova: Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements
Grisha Perino: Revealed preferences for mitigation options and the role of public expert advice
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 Session E: Technical Change and Sustainability
Chair: Wolfram Schlenker
Matthias Leuthard: Overcoming the carbon trap: Climate policy and technology tipping
Pietro Peretto: Sustainable Growth and Secular Trends
Gerard van der Meijden: Endogenous Fossil Eliminating Technical Change and the Energy Transition
Mads Greaker: International cooperation on the environment: The case for a green innovation club
Rob Hart: Are research subsidies the key to stimulating a green transition?
12.30 – 14.00 Standing lunch at Panthéon
14.00 – 15.30 Session F: Growth and Sustainable Resource Use
Chair: Cees Withagen
Francesco Ricci: Efficient recycling
Susanne Soretz: Societal trust in governments and state leader behavior: a macroeconomic view on the provision of global public goods
Geir Asheim: National accounting for global externalities
Bob Cairns: Sustainability and its Seven Sins
Martin Quaas: Economic growth and the distributional effects of privatizing natural resources
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee
16.00 – 17.10 Panel on Climate Economics and Risk
Chair: Sjak Smulders
Simon Dietz
Wolfram Schlenker
Sjak Smulders
17.10 – Closing Address
Cees Withagen
19.00 – 21.00 Conference Dinner at Restaurant Bouillon Racine
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