The Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Workshop is supported by the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en analyse des organisations (CIRANO), the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), the Réseau de recherche en économie circulaire du Québec (RRECQ) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ).
This workshop is intended for researchers and doctoral students in economics who are interested in resource and environmental economics. The types of topics that may be dealt with, at an advanced level, are the economic theory of sustainable growth, green accounting, production constraints in natural resource exploitation, the irreversibility of environmental investment decisions, measures of biodiversity and their implications, the optimal order of extraction of natural resources, intertemporal depletion of spatially distributed non-renewable resources, property rights and natural resource exploitation, applications of differential games to natural resources and environmental economics, international environmental agreements, circular economy, climate policy and other related topics.
The workshop will be led by a team of researchers composed of Geir B. Asheim (Oslo University), Hassan Benchekroun (McGill University), Sophie Bernard (Polytechnique Montréal), Etienne Billette de Villemeur (Université de Lille, UQAM), Robert Cairns (McGill University), Justin Leroux (HEC Montréal), and Charles Séguin (UQAM).
* Information on previous workshops can be found here.
PROGRAM
16 January 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (in person : CIRANO)
Moustapha Thiam (UQAM), Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and the Effectiveness of Pesticide Reduction Policies: Accounting for Adaptation
Rémy Molinié (HEC Montréal), State Energy Use is (Mostly) a Policy Choice: Prices, Efficiency, and the Energy Demand Frontier
30 January 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (in person : CIRANO)
Élise Critoph (Concordia University), Misperceived Outcomes and Biased Beliefs in Conflict
Alexandre Pavlov (Université de Montréal), Optimal Carbon Tax with Dynamic Skill Heterogeneity
13 February 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (online)
Renaud Coulomb (École des Mines Paris – PSL University), The Welfare Economics of Oil Exploration (with France d’Agrain and Fanny Henriet)
Coline Metta-Versmessen (Lille Économie Management – LEM, Université de Lille), Carbon Price is in the House: Short-Run Effects of the EU-ETS2
27 February 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (in person : CIRANO)
Nicolas Pinsonneault (HÉC Montréal), Political Turnover and the Design of Carbon Contracts for Difference
Noémie Vert Martin (Université de Montréal), Carbon Taxes and Inequalities: The Case of Transport in the US
13 March 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (online)
Agnes Tomini (Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)), Optimal Groundwater Management with Ecosystem Feedbacks: A Labor Value Approach
Arnaud Goussebaïle (École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC, CIRED), Political Social Cost of Carbon with Overlapping Generations
27 March 2026, 9:20 to 11:40 (in person : CIRANO)
Raphaël Jananji (Université de Montréal), Optimal Correction of Environmental Stochastic Externalities
Philippe Kabore (UQAR), Illegal Toxic Waste Dumping and Long-Term Human Capital Outcomes: Evidence from the Probo Koala Disaster in Côte d’Ivoire
10 April 2026, 9:00 to 14:00 (in person : CIRANO)
Full Day CIREQ-CIRANO-RRECQ Interdisciplinary Workshop on Food and Agriculture
CIRANO, 1130, rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal
→ PROGRAM
→ REGISTER HERE
This interdisciplinary day will close the Workshops on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
PROGRAMME
