This paper examines the major barriers to the deployment of geothermal, small hydro and advanced coal power generation technologies in Vietnam. It ranks their severity by applying the analytical hierarchy process to data from a survey of 37 domestic experts and stakeholders. Key barriers to a...

This paper presents a dynamic model of the reinsurance market for catastrophe risks. The model is based on the classical capacity-constraint assumption. Reinsurers choose every year the quantity of risk they cover and the level of external capital they raise to cover these risks. The model...

The effect of electrified vehicles (EVs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is subject to debate. Many studies assess EV's per-mile emissions based on the current carbon content of electricity. We use a simulation model to generate contrasting scenarios of the carbon content of European...

White certificate schemes mandate energy companies to promote energy efficiency with flexibility mechanisms, including the trading of energy savings. A unified framework is used to estimate the costs and benefits of the schemes implemented in Great Britain in 2002, in Italy in 2005 and in France...

A strong positive relation is generally assumed between monetary incentives and effort on the one hand, and between effort and performance on the other hand, which legitimates the introduction of monetary incentives in economic laboratory experiments. Still, the empirical impact of incentives on...

economists often think that environmental taxes are the best available tools to cope with environmental damages. In addition, they may allow policy-makers to raise what economists refer to as a "double-dividende". However, they appear not to be used for efficacity as well as equity and...

Climate mitigation is largely done through investments in low-carbon capital that will have long-lasting effects on emissions. In a model that represents explicitly low-carbon capital accumulation, optimal marginal investment costs differ across sectors. They are equal to the value of avoided...

Alors que des efforts importants de réduction des nuisances sont envisagés danscertains secteurs de l'économie (comme l'industrie qui est au cœur du processus de Kyoto), letransport apparaît comme un enjeu essentiel des politiques de développement durable dans les20 prochaines années....

In this paper, we give new sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution of theg-maximum equality. As an application, we prove a new fixed point theorem.

Dans le cadre de scénarios facteur 4, et de la mise en œuvre d'une taxe carbone endogène au modèle pour respecter cette contrainte, l'analyse de sensibilité aux paramètres que sont le prix des énergies fossiles, la mise en œuvre de politiques et mesures, et de maîtrise de la demande...