Winter 2008 (Archives)
Location : McGill University
855 Sherbrooke West, Leacock 429 Pavillon
9:00 – 12:00
| 11 janvier / January 11 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) John Hartwick (Queen’s University) 2) Robert Cairns (McGill University) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Declining Exhaustible Resource Rent with Small, Distinct Extractive Firms 2) Sustainable Development of Easter Island |
| 18 janvier / January 18 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Guiomar Martìn-Herràn (Universidad de Valladolid) 2) Joan Canton (Université d’Ottawa) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Property Rights for Natural Resources and Sustainable Growth in a Two-Country Trade Model 2) Redealing the cards: how an eco-industry modifies the political economy of environmental taxes |
| 25 janvier / January 25 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Vincent Boucher et Yann Bramoullé (Université Laval) 2) Jérémy Luchetti (HEC Montr eal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Risk Aversion and International Environmental Agreements 2) Choosing and Sharing |
| 1 février / February 1 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Pablo Andrès Domenech (HEC Montréal) 2) Lucia Sbragia (GERAD, HEC Montréal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Forest Conservation and CO2 emissions: a Viability Approach 2) Dynamic models for international environmental agreements |
| 8 février / February 8 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Johnson Kakeu (Université de Montréal) 2) Skander Ben Abdallah et Pierre Lasserre (UQAM) 3) Sophie Legras (GERAD) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Quest for the Top Status and Global Warming 2) Harvest age, species choice, and uncertainty in forestry 3) Coupled markets for coupled externalities : water management in the context of irrigation-induced salinity |
| 15 février / February 15 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) John Janmaat (University of British Columbia, Okanagan) 2) Ngo Van Long (McGill University) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Fishing in a Shallow Lake: A Case for Effort Controls 2) Relative Consumption and Resource Extraction under Perfect Property Rights (addedum : notes) |
| 22 février / February 22 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Georges Zaccour (GERAD, HEC Montréal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Sustainability of cooperation in differential games (A tutorial) |
| 29 février / February 29 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Carolyn Fischer (Resources for the Future) 2) Louise Lavoie (UQAM) 3) Didier Tatoutchoup (Université de Montréal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Competing Environmental Labels 2) Lifestyles and Risk on Health and Longevity 3) The impact of paper recycling on the stock of trees |
| 7 mars / March 7 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Marie-Hélène Hubert (University of Victoria) 2) Barnabé Djegnéné (Université de Montréal) 3) Eric Bahel (Université de Montréal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Land-use, land-use changes and biological carbon sequestration 2) Agricultural Cooperatives Reputation and Endogenous Membership in Mixed Duopsonies 3) Optimal management of strategic reserves of nonrenewable natural resources |
| 14 mars / March 14 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Walid Marrouch (HEC Montréal) 2) Denis Claude (GERAD, HEC Montréal) 3) Markus Herrmann (Université Laval) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) A Trade-Environment Coalitional Game: WTO versus Kyoto 2) Pollution accumulation and the greening of consumption: notes on the design of the optimal tax policy 3) Monopoly Pricing of an Antibiotic Subject to Bacterial Resistance |
| 21 mars / March 21 | |
| Congé de Pâques / Easter break |
| 28 mars / March 28 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Sjak Smulders (University of Calgary and Tilburg University) 2) Hassan Benchekroun (McGill University) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Endogenous technological change and the cost of environmental policy 2) On the equivalence of open-loop and feedback Nash equilibrium in an oligopoly on the market for a nonrenewable resource (paper2) |
| 4 avril / April 4 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Yevenunye Keoula (HEC Montreal) 2) Calvin Atewamba (Université de Montréal) 3) Samer Atallah (McGill University) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Living with the curse of dimensionality: Closed-loop optimization in a large-scale fisheries simulation model 2) On using average extraction cost data to estimate the Hotelling rule 3) Choice of Market Instruments with Strategic Firms |
Bibliographie / Bibliography :
1) Woodward, R.T. , Y.S Wui,. and W.L. Griffin. “Living with the curse of dimensionality: Closed-loop optimization in a large scale fisheries simulation model” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87(2005) 48-60
2) “Steady-state growth in a Hotelling model of resource extraction”, C.-Y. Cynthia Lina, Gernot Wagner, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54 (2007) 68–83.
3) Biglaiser, G., J. K. Horowitz, et al. (1995). “Dynamic pollution regulation.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 8(1): 33-44.
Moledina, A. A., J. S. Coggins, et al. (2003). “Dynamic environmental policy with strategic firms: prices versus quantities.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45(2, Supplement 1): 356-376.
Weitzman, M. L. (1974). “Prices vs. Quantities.” The Review of Economic Studies 41(4): 477-491.
Weitzman, M. L. (1980). “The “Ratchet Principle” and Performance Incentives.” The Bell Journal of Economics 11(1): 302-308.
| 11 avril / April 11 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Bruno Nkuiya (Université de Montréal) 2) Eric Dufresne (UQAM) 3) Octave Keutiben (Université de Montréal) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) Asymmetry and self-enforcing International Environmental Agreement 2) A review of discounting in the context of climate change 3) A Spatial Model of International Trade in Exhaustible Resources: Welfare, Trade Policy and Rent Sharing |
| 9 mai / May 9 | |
| • Responsable / In charge : | 1) Aart de Zeeuw (Tilburg University) 2) Stephen Salant (University of Michigan) |
| • Sujet / Topic : | 1) The Economics of Shallow Lakes 2) Willpower and the Optimal Control of Visceral Urges |
Bibliographie / Bibliography :
1) Maler, K.G., Zepapadeas A., De Zeeuw, A. “The Economics of Shallow Lakes”, Environmental and Resource Economics 26: 603–624, 2003.
Kossioris G., Plexousakis M., Maler K.G., Zepapadeas A., De Zeeuw, A. “Feedback Nash Equilibria for Non-Linear Differential Games in Pollution Control”, mimeo.
2) Sandra AAMODT and Sam WANG, “Tighten Your Belt, Strengthen Your Mind”, New York Times, 2008.
