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Introduction
My research fields concern environmental economics, in particular biodiversity and forests, and experimental and behavioral economics. I am interested in the determinants of collective action and cooperation in environmental dilemas and the design of instruments to promote prosocial behaviors.
I received my PhD in Economics in 2012 from Supagro Montpellier (France) where I joined the research unit LAMETA (Theoretical and Applied Economics Research Unit of Montpellier).
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One of the greatest challenges of water management in watersheds arises from the asymmetry in water appropriation: people upstream always have first access to water supplies and their decisions affect downstream users. Payments for watershed services (PWS) aim to incentivize water provision upstream by directly paying upstream land users for the wa...
Agriculture is one of the economic sectors most exposed to exogenous risks such as climate hazards and price volatility on agricultural markets. Agricultural policies targeting the adoption of environment-friendly but potentially risk-increasing practices cannot ignore this challenge. Farmers have indeed to decide if they take the foreground risk a...
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Deforestation is a key driver of climate change. The program on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is one of the major attempts to tackle climate change mitigation in developing countries. The program intends to provide result-based incentives to countries that reduce deforestation. We model various fu...
This study investigates the behavioural economic underpinnings of current policy approaches to integrate environmental objectives into the Common Agricultural Policy. We conduct an economic lab-in-the-field experiment with farmers in Germany. We analyse the impact of the following policy design features on farmers' decisions to adopt sustainable ag...
We test the effectiveness of a compensation mechanism, adapted from Varian (Am Econ Rev 84(5):1278-1293, 1994). When a negative externality is produced the mechanism allows agents suffering from it to compensate those who reduce its production, by way of transfers implemented via a two-stage design. We investigate various factors that might affect...
We test the effectiveness of a compensation mechanism, adapted from Var-ian (Am Econ Rev 84(5):1278-1293, 1994). When a negative externality is produced the mechanism allows agents suffering from it to compensate those who reduce its production, by way of transfers implemented via a two-stage design. We investigate various factors that might affect...
The international community recently agreed on a mechanism called REDD+ to reduce deforestation in tropical countries. However the mechanism, by its very nature, has no reason to induce a Pareto optimal reduction of deforestation. The aim of this article is to propose an alternative class of mechanisms for negative externalities that implements Par...
Bioprospection is, largely, meant to help reducing deforestation and, the other way around, stopping deforestation enhances the prospects of bioprospection. The need for a global agreement to the problem of tropical deforestation has led to the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) scheme, which proposes that developed countr...
The need to find a global agreement to limit deforestation has led to the REDD scheme which proposes that developed countries pay developing countries for CO2 emissions saved through avoided deforestation and degradation. This chapter describes the issues at stake and demonstrates with a stylized transfer scheme which describes the negotiation betw...