Yassine Kirat
Équipe d’Économie-Le Havre Normandie (EDEHN-EA7263) 25, rue Philippe Lebon - 76057 Le Havre Cedex, France
Email: yassine.kirat@univ-lehavre.fr
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/yassinekirat/main-page
Research Interests
Main: Energy economics, Environmental economics, Development economics
Methodologies: Structural econometric models, Time series, Panel data
Education
2015-2019
PhD in Economics
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris School of Economics, under the supervision of Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline
Thesis title: "Economic and environmental impacts of natural resources abundance"
Thesis defended on 5th December at Paris School of Economics, 75014 Paris
2014-2015
MSc “Economie Théorique et Empirique (ETE)”
Paris School of Economics - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Master’s dissertation: "The impact of shale gas exploitation on the US manufacturing sector"
2013-2014
MSc “Modélisation Statistique, Economique et Financière (MOSEF)”
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
2009-2012
Bachelor Degree in Economics
Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France
Academic Positions and Professional Experience
2023-Present
Assistant Professor (tenure) - EDEHN, Université Le Havre Normandie, France.
2021-2023
Post-doc - Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans, Université d’Orléans, France.
2020-2021
Consultant for Hendyplan, Belgium. The mission was for the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Cyprus. The work included a discussion on the forecasting approach used by Cypriot economists (inventory of their different data files, comments and suggestions for improvement of the forecasting method in place).
2020-2021
Consultant for Hendyplan, Belgium. The mission was to assess the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the relevant industrial sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
2020-2021
Consultant for STATEC, Luxembourg. The first mission consisted in the integration of the cost of CO2 in the LuxGEM computable general equilibrium model and Short Term Forecasting. The second mission consisted of infra-annual energy consumption forecast.
2018-2020
Assistant lecturer (ATER) - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
2015-2018
Doctoral contract - Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
2017
Visiting Research Fellow - Department of Economics of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
2012
Internship - Directorate General of Taxes and Estates, Senegal.
Research Activities
Publications
"Carbon curse in developed countries"
Collaboration with M. Chiroleu-Assouline and M. Fodha. Energy Economics (August 2020 vol.90) (CNRS 2, HCERES A).
"The US shale gas revolution: An opportunity for the US manufacturing sector?"
International Economics (October 2021 vol.167) (CNRS 3, HCERES B).
"Impact assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic on financial markets"
Collaboration with D. Kirat. Economics Bulletin (AccessEcon, vol. 42(2), pages 667-677) (CNRS 3, HCERES B).
"Revisiting the resource curse: does volatility matter?"
Kyklos (June 2024, https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12396) (CNRS 2, HCERES A).
"Unveiling the Nexus: Climate Change, Green Innovation, and the Pendulum of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions"
Collaboration with T.Prodromou and S.Suardi. Energy Economics (June 2024, Forthcoming) (CNRS 2, HCERES A).
Working Papers
"Carbon curse: As you extract, so you will burn"
Collaboration with A. Desrozier and A. Reisinezhad. Submitted to Energy Economics (CNRS 2, HCERES A).
Work in Progress
"Does developed financial system help to reduce pollution?"
Collaboration with A. Desroziers and S. Suardi.
"Does it pay to be good? A global assessment using Socially Responsible indices"
Collaboration with A. Desroziers.
"Rare Earth: A Strategic Resource that Impacts the Financial Performance of High Tech Firms"
Conferences and Seminars
06-2024
9th Conference Euro-Africaine in Finance and Economy/ Mediterranean Workshop in Economic Theory (CEAFE/MWET), Rennes, France.
11-2023
Monash Environmental Economics Workshop (MEEW), Melbourne, Australia.
09-2022
9th French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE), Rouen, France.
05-2022
8th International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues (ISEFI), Paris, France.
10-2020
Sustainable Use of Resource in Economic Dynamics (SURED), Ascona, Switzerland.
05-2019
5th French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE), Aix-en-Provence, France.
10-2018
Annual conference of the Climate Economics Chair «Energie, Climat et Développement, Paris, France.
06-2018
7th Euro-African Conference in Finance and Economics (CEAFE), Tunis, Tunisia.
06-2018
37th edition of International Energy Workshop (IEW), Göteborg, Sweden.
05-2018
The 6th International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues (ISEFI), Paris, France.
04-2018
Environmental Economics: a Focus on Natural Resources, Orléans, France.
07-2017
23rd annual conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Athens, Greece.
06-2017
40th annual conference of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), Singapore, Singapore.
05-2017
Econometrics and Business Statistics Seminar (EBS), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
11-2016
Annual conference of African PhD (APC), Tunis, Tunisia.
11-2016
Développement Durable Environnement et Energie seminar (DDEE), EconomiX, Paris, France.
09-2016
3rd French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE), Bordeaux, France.
05-2016
Paris Environmental and Energy Economics seminar (PEES), Maison des Sciences Économiques, Paris, France.
References
Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline (advisor)
Email: m.chiroleu-assouline@psemail.eu
Anna Creti
Email: anna.creti@dauphine.psl.eu
Mouez Fodha
Email: mouez.fodha@univ-paris1.fr
Rick Van der Ploeg
Email: rick.vanderploeg@economics.ox.ac.uk