I'm a researcher with the French National Scientific Council (CNRS), based at Paris School of Economics, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. My main research interests are in the field of environmental and resource economics, and public economics. Research topics include public policy evaluation, economic instrument choice for environmental policy, voluntary approaches to pollution control, social norms and environmental policy, and technology adoption.
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Nonpoint Source Pollution When Polluters Might Cooperate (with François Salanie), Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy (2005)
Regulating Pollution with Endogenous Monitoring (with David Sunding and David Zilberman), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2002)
The paper offers a new perspective on nonpoint source pollution by explicitly considering the cost...
Ex Post Policy Evaluation
The Effect of Uncertainty on Pollution Abatement Investments: Measuring Hurdle Rates for Swedish Industry (with Asa Lofgren and Céline Nauges), Resource and Energy Economics (2008)
We estimate hurdle rates for firms' investments in pollution abatement technology, using ex post data....
Evaluation of the Danish Agreements on Industrial Energy Efficiency (with Signe Krarup), Reality Check: The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan (2007)
We review the evidence on the Danish agreements on industrial energy efficiency in terms of...
Ex Post Evaluation of an Earmarked Tax on Air Pollution (with Céline Nauges), Land Economics (2006)
In this paper we do an ex post evaluation of the French tax on air...
NOx Emissions in France and Sweden: Advanced Fee Schemes versus Regulation (with Thomas Sterner), Choosing Environmental Policy: Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe (2004)
Food Safety and the Demand for Organic Food
Consumer Preferences for Organic Foods (with Mette Wier, Lars Garn Hansen, and Laura Morch Andersen), Organic Agriculture: Sustainability, Markets and Policies (2003)
Environment and Development
The factors behind CO2 emission reduction in transition economies (in French) (with Natalia Zugravu and Gérard Duchêne), Recherches Economiques de Louvain - Louvain Economic Review (2009)
The Central and Eastern European countries significantly reduced their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 1995...
Technology Transfers in the Clean Development Mechanism, Environment and Development Economics (2002)
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offers abatement savings under the Kyoto Protocol by allowing credits...
Water policy
Household Adoption of Water-Efficient Equipment: The Role of Socio-economic Factors, Environmental Attitudes and Policy (with Celine Nauges), Environmental and Resource Economics (2010)
Using survey data of 10,000 households from 10 OECD countries, we identify the driving factors...