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Consumer acceptance of sufficiency in the face of climate challenges. – ACSOBRIC
The context of climate emergency raises the question of how to massively and rapidly change consumer behavior (HCC, 2023). The ACSOBRIC project starts from the «normative» sufficiency approach, that is, driven by the public authorities and driven by environmental objectives (Francois-Lecompte and B
Building energy efficiency and public policies – BEEPP
The energy renovation of buildings is essential to achieve carbon neutrality in France by 2050. To accelerate this renovation, the French government has implemented various schemes. But these do not have the expected effects. The decision-making process regarding the energy renovation of owners' hom
Beyond Linearization: Automated Inference for Non-linear State Space Models – BLISS
The proposal addresses the need for advanced inference methods in economics and finance, focusing on dynamic non-linear models. Key application areas include forecasting inflation, estimating non-linear DSGE models, representing risk premia in macro-finance, and continuous-time modeling for derivati
Industries and Lobbies Delaying or Driving the Energy Transition – LOBBIES
The LOBBIES project aims to shed light on the strategic behavior of stakeholders affected by the energy transition, their economic motivations, the way they form coalitions and special interest groups, and the channels through which they influence public policies and international negotiations. Meth
Valuation of eco-responsible post-consumer behaviors – ValPostConso
Given the challenges of the ecological and social transition, and the growth opportunities of the circular economy, marketing needs to re-examine its contribution to society. Since the 1980s, the majority of researchers and practitioners have focused on maximizing the value of offers perceived by co
The eclipse of lit markets: understanding the rise of opaque trading mechanisms in Europe – ECLIPSES
This proposal outlines a research agenda for an empirical approach to studying the role of dark or opaque trading mechanisms in Europe. Trading arrangements that limit pre-trade transparency can be divided into two categories. The first includes off-exchange venues like dark pools. The second is
Interactions between corporate and personal taxation – INTERTAX
Most of the activity of modern economies is carried out within corporations, i.e. legal entities that are separate from their owners. Nevertheless, despite this legal separation, companies are owned by individuals. It is essential to take account of these links of ownership and control of companies
Women Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century France – INDUSTRIFEM
The INDUSTRIFEM project concerns the question of female entrepreneurship in France in the nineteenth century, which remains largely underrated. Economic history has long accorded women entrepreneurs a very minor place, relegating them to the status of historical anecdotes. This perspective of a brea
Sentientist Benefit-Cost Analysis – SentientBCA
This project aims to integrate the welfare of sentient animals into the evaluation of public policies. Sentience, defined as the capacity to be conscious and possess the cognitive faculties necessary to experience emotions, constitutes a fundamental pillar in philosophy for moral consideration. The
Biases in prospective learning and dynamic choice – PROSPECT
Decades of empirical research in behavioral economics and psychology have generated abundant evidence showing that individuals’ decisions in economically relevant situations often deviate systematically from the paradigm of perfect rationality. Two categories of anomalies have garnered particular at
When sustainability meets financial markets – SFM
The efficiency of financial markets depends on timely and accurate information about companies, including non-financial information. Sustainability reporting, which enables companies to disclose their environmental, social and governance (ESG) activities and their impact on society, is crucial for i
The labor market determinants of firm size – FIRMSIZE
In labor economics, significant attention has focused on labor market frictions affecting the matching of workers and firms. Labor market frictions, in essence, impose costs on workers and firms, such as prolonged unemployment duration for workers or missed business opportunities for firms. While it
Advances in Ethical and SOcial Preferences – AESOP
It is now widely recognized that consideration for others plays a major role in many economic decisions. Indeed, economic analysis has developed behavioral models of social preferences that have explained, with relative success, many stylized facts. However, these models suffer from two significant
Preserving Africa's Forests Alongside Economic Development – AfrForDev
Since the beginning of the century, Africa has been the second fastest growing region in the world (AUC/OECD, 2023), with both fast population growth and important signs of structural change in many countries. At the same time, it has also been the continent with the highest rate of deforestation
Complexity in Decision Making – CDM
This research examines how preference and complexity, stemming from choice differentiation, influence decision-making. Gaining insight into the measurement of these abstract qualities is pivotal for guiding product development, market analysis, and predicting industry shifts. Existing models that me
The Emotional Consumption of vulnerable Spaces – ECOS
This research project aims to understand the emotional experiences of individuals related to spaces particularly impacted by environmental change, and how these experiences shape lifestyles and consumption patterns. Distress and nostalgia have been identified during long-lasting and uncontrollable s
Inclusion of stigmatized people in the workplace: the case of lesbian employees – ODILE
Inclusion has become a vital issue for companies and organisations (Cottrill et al., 2014) and has been proposed to complement the notion of diversity, emphasizing the importance of authenticity at work. Practices of inclusion in organizations are critical in the case of invisible social identities
The role of unsystematic risk in financial markets – RUFM
The proposed research project undertakes a comprehensive analysis of the role of unsystematic risk within the realm of financial markets. In contrast to prevailing conventional wisdom, which posits that only systematic risk is rewarded in financial markets, our investigation substantiates, both theo
From Machine Learning to Structural Econometrics with Discrete Variables – MLSEDV
Machine Learning (ML) is experiencing an exceptional development in many fields. The success of ML has several reasons, including the ability to capture more complex relationships than those implied by linear and non-linear parametric or semi-parametric models. An important method in ML is the tree
Taxation and Intellectual Property: R&D, (re-)location of assets and profit shifting – TaxIP
The goal of this project is to enrich the scientific knowledge of the relationship between the location of Intellectual Property (IP) assets, R&D efforts and taxation, and of the implications in terms of profit shifting. There is a large consensus both in the academic literature and policy discussio
Fiscal behavior, Aid and Decentralization in Uganda – FISCAID
FISCAID proposes to use Uganda as an empirical case study to provide an in-depth analysis of the various mechanisms through which foreign assistance affects the fiscal behavior of the recipient country, focusing on public domestic expenditure and revenues at the national and sub-national levels as w
Cognitive Biases and Information Choices: A Study of Individual Decision-Making – CogBIC
The research project focuses on the challenges individuals face when developing effective information search strategies. The project builds upon experimental findings obtained in an experimental paradigm simulating a recruitment situation. Most participants adopt an intuitive but less informative in
Geographical equity in decentralized policies: theory and application to care for dependent elderly people – EQUIDEC-2
How can we assess the geographical equity of public policies affecting essential living conditions (health, social, education, etc.) when they are partly decentralised to local authorities? This is the central question of the EQUIDEC-2 research project, which combines two dimensions. A theoretical d
TRANSFORMative virtual reality experiences for AGING well – TRANSFORM-AGING
While a growing body of research identifies loneliness as a root cause of distress and poor health among the elderly, highlighting it as a public health concern, recent studies suggest that immersive experiences in virtual reality (VR) designed for older adults can mitigate these effects by fosterin
The MAny DIMensions of INequality – MADIMIN
The project aims at developing and implementing new methods for appraising inequalities in human condition when those inequalities are multidimensional and/or ordinal. An important aspects of those considered inequalities concerns the opportunity to succeed. The project will contribute to these issu
Exploring co-workers’ network impact: a new lever for the adoption of healthy and pro-environmental behaviours – ResPro
The choices we make on a daily basis, whether it's regarding diet, physical activity, or mobility, have significant implications for both our health and the environment. On the one hand, the health issues associated with a lack of physical activity or a poor diet are a major challenge for society. I
Economics of Digital Ecosystems: Private and Public Regulation – EDECOSYSTEM
Digital ecosystems significantly impact modern economies by introducing new business opportunities and disrupting traditional industries. Policymakers are concerned with the power of these ecosystems due to their effects on competition, innovation, and consumer welfare. While the strategic managemen
Public Debt Sustainability Criteria: A Reappraisal – SustainDebt
Whether public debt can be sustained is a crucial consideration in any macroeconomic analysis of fiscal policy. However, currently, there is no satisfactory criterion for assessing the sustainability of public debt. Existing macroeconomic models on debt sustainability suffer from (a) internal incons
Determinants and impact of AI Education – AI-Edu
“The best way to send knowledge from one place to another is to wrap it up in a person”. This famous quote by Robert Oppenheimer depicts the importance of individuals in acquiring and transferring knowledge. Among individuals acting as vectors for knowledge transfer, PhD graduates, a highly educated
Integrating global challenges into organizational innovation strategies – ECO-INNOVATE
In the face of global challenges, organizations must proactively integrate corporate social responsibility into their innovation strategies, necessitating a paradigm shift. ECO-INNOVATE is at the heart of this transformation. With the dynamic capabilities theory, it explores how organizations can ef
Digital Literacy, Misinformation and Governance – DIGILITERACY
The unprecedented pace of innovations and the widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) worldwide have given rise to a unique set of opportunities for governance. Governments have harnessed these technologies to streamline processes and enhance online access to public