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 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.
Workshop Venue
1130, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, suite 1400
Montréal, QC H3A 2M8
Registration
As seats are limited, registration is mandatory.
Speakers
Élise Critoph (Concordia University)
Misperceived Outcomes and Biased Beliefs in Conflict
Abstract: We model a repeated contest in which players are subject to cognitive biases. Players with incomplete information about relative fighting ability engage re-peatedly in conflict and update beliefs according to subjective interpretationsof conflict outcomes. Cognitive biases distort players’ interpretations of out-comes and lead to biased beliefs. We propose two non-standard higher-order belief structures and characterize the equilibrium for specific identity-dependent, belief-dependent, and history-dependent cognitive biases.
Alexandre Pavlov (Université de Montréal)
Optimal Carbon Tax with Dynamic Skill Heterogeneity
