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
Louis Hotte (Université d’Ottawa), Natural Resources, Trade, and Financial Market Development: Theory and Evidence
Abstract: Previous studies, both empirical and theoretical, suggest that the effects of financial market development on natural resource overuse can cut both ways, depending on a country’s quality of governance over its resources. In this paper, we propose a new trade model which suggests that trade is a crucial missing factor is these studies. Once trade is accounted for, new results emerge that change the perspective about how financial markets interact with governance to explain resource overuse. The empirical evidence appears to confirm the theoretical insight.
Biography: Louis Hotte is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa. He has published on issues of natural resource use, property rights and conflict; the political-economy of trade and the environment; and on the economics of crime and private protection. His work appeared in the Journal of Development Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, the Canadian Journal of Economics, Public Choice, Resource and Energy Economics, and Environmental and Resource Economics. Louis was invited to contribute a chapter for the Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics by Elsevier Science. He has been Associate Editor for the journal Environment and Development Economics at Cambridge University Press. He previously held a joint appointment at the Economics and Law Faculties of the University of Namur in Belgium, and has taught graduate students at the Université Catholique de Louvain, the Université d’Auvergne, the Université de Rouen, the Toulouse School of Economics, and the Université des Antilles.
Siwar Khelifa (chercheuse post-doctoral à l’Université de Neuchâtel), The Hidden Value of Urban Green Spaces: Evidence of Health Benefits from Quebec’s Lockdown
Biography:I am currently a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Lyon 2, France. In 2022, I worked as a research and teaching fellow at the Saint Etienne School of Economics, France, and in 2021, I was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada.
My research focuses on the impact of environmental threats on human capital, particularly in the areas of health and education. I study long-term effects of shocks experienced during pregnancy and early childhood.
I am also interested in migration, including how migration can serve as a coping strategy in response to climate variability, as well as issues related to forced migration.
