Jean-Charles Hourcade

Optimal control models and elicitation of attitudes towards climate damages (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ambrosi, Philippe, Hallegatte, Stéphane, Lecocq, Franck, Dumas, Patrice, Ha-Duong, Minh

This paper examines the consequences of various attitudes towards climate damages through a family of stochastic optimal control models (RESPONSE): cost-efficiency for a given temperature ceiling;...

Optimal control models and elicitation of attitudes towards climate damages (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ambrosi, Philippe, Hallegatte, Stéphane, Lecocq, Franck, Dumas, Patrice, Ha-Duong, Minh

This paper examines the consequences of various attitudes towards climate damages through a family of stochastic optimal control models (RESPONSE): cost-efficiency for a given temperature ceiling;...

The Economics of a Lost Deal : Kyoto - The Hague - Marrakesh (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric

This paper examines prospects for compromise between competing perspectives on four key climate change issues: costs, level of domestic action, nvironmental integrity, and developing world...

Marché international du carboneet double-dividende : antinomie ou synergie ? (2006)

Ghersi, Frédéric, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Le propos de cet article est de vérifier dans quelle mesure l'existence d'un marché international de permis d'émission de gaz à effet de serre (GES) influe-t'elle sur les possibilités nationales...

Marché international du carboneet double-dividende : antinomie ou synergie ? (2006)

Ghersi, Frédéric, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Le propos de cet article est de vérifier dans quelle mesure l'existence d'un marché international de permis d'émission de gaz à effet de serre (GES) influe-t'elle sur les possibilités nationales...

The Economics of a Lost Deal : Kyoto - The Hague - Marrakesh (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric

This paper examines prospects for compromise between competing perspectives on four key climate change issues: costs, level of domestic action, nvironmental integrity, and developing world...

Why economic growth dynamics matter inassessing climate change damages: illustrationon extreme events (2006)

Hallegatte, Stephane, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Extreme events are one of the main channels through which climate and socio- economic systems interact and it is likely that climate change will modify their probability distributions. The long-term...

Why economic growth dynamics matter inassessing climate change damages: illustrationon extreme events (2006)

Hallegatte, Stephane, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Extreme events are one of the main channels through which climate and socio- economic systems interact and it is likely that climate change will modify their probability distributions. The long-term...

The timing of biological carbon sequestration and carbon abatement in the energy sector under optimal strategies against climate risks (2006)

Gitz, Vincent, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ciais, Philippe

This paper addresses the timing of the use of biological carbon sequestration and its capacity to alleviate the carbon constraint on the energy sector. We constructed a stochastic optimal control...

The timing of biological carbon sequestration and carbon abatement in the energy sector under optimal strategies against climate risks (2006)

Gitz, Vincent, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ciais, Philippe

This paper addresses the timing of the use of biological carbon sequestration and its capacity to alleviate the carbon constraint on the energy sector. We constructed a stochastic optimal control...

Endogenous structural change and climate targets. (2006)

Crassous, Renaud, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Sassi, Olivier

This paper envisages endogenous technical change as resulting from the interplay between the economic growth engine, consumption, technology and localization patterns. We perform numerical...

Endogenous structural change and climate targets. (2006)

Crassous, Renaud, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Sassi, Olivier

This paper envisages endogenous technical change as resulting from the interplay between the economic growth engine, consumption, technology and localization patterns. We perform numerical...

Why economic growth dynamics matter inassessing climate change damages: illustrationon extreme events (2006)

Hallegatte, Stephane, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Extreme events are one of the main channels through which climate and socio-economic systems interact and it is likely that climate change will modify theirprobability distributions. The long-term...

The timing of biological carbon sequestration and carbon abatement in the energy sector under optimal strategies against climate risks (2006)

Gitz, Vincent, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ciais, Philippe

This paper addresses the timing of the use of biological carbon sequestration and its capacity to alleviate the carbon constraint on the energy sector. We constructed a stochastic optimal control...

Modelling long-run scenarios (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper intends to draw overall lessons from a long-term study on CO2 emission in France, a country with a rather low energy/GDP ration and in which transition to non-fossil based production of...

Modelling long-run scenarios (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper intends to draw overall lessons from a long-term study on CO2 emission in France, a country with a rather low energy/GDP ration and in which transition to non-fossil based production of...

Mitigation factors (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

The debate over the costs of GHG emission reduction has become more com-plex recently as disagreements over the existence of economic and environ-mental double dividents have been added to...

Mitigation factors (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

The debate over the costs of GHG emission reduction has become more com-plex recently as disagreements over the existence of economic and environ-mental double dividents have been added to...

Decision making under uncertainty and inertia constraints: sectoral implications of the when flexibility (2006)

Lecocq, Franck, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh

Current debates on climate mitigation emphasize the role of the inertia of the economic system. Our aim in this paper is to study more in depth how sectorally differentiated inertia impacts on...

Decision making under uncertainty and inertia constraints: sectoral implications of the when flexibility (2006)

Lecocq, Franck, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh

Current debates on climate mitigation emphasize the role of the inertia of the economic system. Our aim in this paper is to study more in depth how sectorally differentiated inertia impacts on...

L'économie des régimes climatiques : l'impossible coordination? (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Traiter aujourd'hui de l'économie des régimes climatiques peut être vu comme un exercice d'économie virtuelle tant la gestion de ce dossier sera affectée par l'évolution du contexte...

L'économie des régimes climatiques : l'impossible coordination? (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Traiter aujourd'hui de l'économie des régimes climatiques peut être vu comme un exercice d'économie virtuelle tant la gestion de ce dossier sera affectée par l'évolution du contexte...

Dans le labyrinthe de verre. La négociation sur l'effet de serre (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

En parcourant les étapes principales de la « négociation climat », on fait apparaître le jeu de miroirs qui se déroule entre Europe et États-Unis, dans un contexte historique caractérisé par...

Dans le labyrinthe de verre. La négociation sur l'effet de serre (2006)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

En parcourant les étapes principales de la « négociation climat », on fait apparaître le jeu de miroirs qui se déroule entre Europe et États-Unis, dans un contexte historique caractérisé par...

Madison and Climate Change Policy (2006)

Wiener, Jonathan B., Stewart, Rchard B., Hammitt, James K., Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Commentary on, D. G. Victor et al., A Madisonian Approach to Climate P, Science (Policy Forum), Sept. 16 2005, at 1820.

Madison and Climate Change Policy (2006)

Wiener, Jonathan B., Stewart, Rchard B., Hammitt, James K., Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Commentary on, D. G. Victor et al., A Madisonian Approach to Climate P, Science (Policy Forum), Sept. 16 2005, at 1820.

Endogenous structural change and climate targets. (2006)

Crassous, Renaud, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Sassi, Olivier

This paper envisages endogenous technical change as resulting from the interplay between the economic growth engine, consumption, technology and localization patterns. We perform numerical...

Madison and Climate Change Policy (2006)

Wiener, Jonathan B., Stewart, Rchard B., Hammitt, James K., Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Commentary on, D. G. Victor et al., A Madisonian Approach to Climate P, Science (Policy Forum), Sept. 16 2005, at 1820.

Quelques leçons à tirer de la vie et de la mort d'un bel impôt : la vignette (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Gusdorf, François

les économistes recommandent l'utilisation d'écotaxes destinées à internaliser les dommages environnementaux dus à la consommation, la production de certains biens ; ces écotaxes permettraient...

Business Cycles, Bifurcations and Chaos in a Neo-Classical Model with Investment Dynamics (2005)

Hallegatte, Stéphane, Ghil, Michael, Dumas, Patrice, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper is motivated by the rising interest in assessing the effect of disruptions in resources and environmental conditions on economic growth. Such an assessment requires, ultimately, the use of...

Quelques leçons à tirer de la vie et de la mort d'un bel impôt : la vignette (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Gusdorf, François

les économistes recommandent l'utilisation d'écotaxes destinées à internaliser les dommages environnementaux dus à la consommation, la production de certains biens ; ces écotaxes permettraient...

Business Cycles, Bifurcations and Chaos in a Neo-Classical Model with Investment Dynamics (2005)

Hallegatte, Stéphane, Ghil, Michael, Dumas, Patrice, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper is motivated by the rising interest in assessing the effect of disruptions in resources and environmental conditions on economic growth. Such an assessment requires, ultimately, the use of...

Quelques leçons à tirer de la vie et de la mort d'un bel impôt : la vignette (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Gusdorf, François

les économistes recommandent l'utilisation d'écotaxes destinées à internaliser les dommages environnementaux dus à la consommation, la production de certains biens ; ces écotaxes permettraient...

Business Cycles, Bifurcations and Chaos in a Neo-Classical Model with Investment Dynamics (2005)

Hallegatte, Stéphane, Ghil, Michael, Dumas, Patrice, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper is motivated by the rising interest in assessing the effect of disruptions in resources and environmental conditions on economic growth. Such an assessment requires, ultimately, the use of...

Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Mathy, Sandrine, Shukla, P. R.

Combating climate change cannot but be a cooperative venture amongst nations. Together with the problem posed by the withdrawal of the US from the Kyoto Protocol, the key challenge for winning the...

Les coûts des politiques climatiques en 2010 et au-delà : pour calmer les peurs d'un catastrophisme inversé (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Depuis l'été 2002, plusieurs essayistes et journalistes présentent le Protocole de Kyoto comme une aberration dangereuse. En particulier, réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre...

Les coûts des politiques climatiques en 2010 et au-delà : pour calmer les peurs d'un catastrophisme inversé (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Depuis l'été 2002, plusieurs essayistes et journalistes présentent le Protocole de Kyoto comme une aberration dangereuse. En particulier, réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre...

Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Mathy, Sandrine, Shukla, P. R.

Combating climate change cannot but be a cooperative venture amongst nations. Together with the problem posed by the withdrawal of the US from the Kyoto Protocol, the key challenge for winning the...

Les instruments économiques au service de l'environnement : une efficacité mal comprise (2005)

Boemare, Catherine, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

L'utilisation d'instruments économiques dans les politiques d'environnement est un fait récent. Ce n\'est qu'à partir des années quatre-vingt que certains gouvernements commencent à écouter la...

Les instruments économiques au service de l'environnement : une efficacité mal comprise (2005)

Boemare, Catherine, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

L'utilisation d'instruments économiques dans les politiques d'environnement est un fait récent. Ce n\'est qu'à partir des années quatre-vingt que certains gouvernements commencent à écouter la...

Cutting the Climate-Development Gordian Knot - Economic options in a politically constrained world (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Mathy, Sandrine, Shukla, P. R.

Combating climate change cannot but be a cooperative venture amongst nations. Together with the problem posed by the withdrawal of the US from the Kyoto Protocol, the key challenge for winning the...

INASUD project findings on integrated assessment of climate policies (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubler, Arnulf, Tol, Richard

This communication summarizes the main findings of INASUD, an Europeanwide research project on integrated assessment of climate policies. The project aimed at improving the framing of climate policy...

INASUD project findings on integrated assessment of climate policies (2005)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubler, Arnulf, Tol, Richard

This communication summarizes the main findings of INASUD, an Europeanwide research project on integrated assessment of climate policies. The project aimed at improving the framing of climate policy...

Dynamic consistency problems behind the Kyoto protocol (2005)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

This paper examines the economic rationale behind both the quantitative targets and the flexibility mechanisms adopted in the Kyoto Protocol. It synthesises some theoretical dimensions of the debate...

Dynamic consistency problems behind the Kyoto protocol (2005)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

This paper examines the economic rationale behind both the quantitative targets and the flexibility mechanisms adopted in the Kyoto Protocol. It synthesises some theoretical dimensions of the debate...

Les instruments économiques au service de l'environnement : une efficacité mal comprise (2005)

Boemare, Catherine, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

L'utilisation d'instruments économiques dans les politiques d'environnement est un fait récent. Ce n\'est qu'à partir des années quatre-vingt que certains gouvernements commencent à écouter la...

Influence of socioeconomic inertia and uncertainty on optimal CO2-emission abatement (2004)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubb, Michael, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [1], countries will negotiate in Kyoto this December an agreement to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Here we examine optimal CO2 policies,...

Influence of socioeconomic inertia and uncertainty on optimal CO2-emission abatement (2004)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubb, Michael, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [1], countries will negotiate in Kyoto this December an agreement to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Here we examine optimal CO2 policies,...

Policy framework and systems management of global climate change (2004)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Climate change is representative of a general class of environmental issues where decisions have to be taken under controversies. The policy framework for these kinds of decisions is defined by three...

Policy framework and systems management of global climate change (2004)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Climate change is representative of a general class of environmental issues where decisions have to be taken under controversies. The policy framework for these kinds of decisions is defined by three...

Equitable Provision of Long-Term Public GoodsThe role of Negotiation Mandates (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

We examine the international distribution of expenditures for the provision ofa global, long-term and uncertain public goods from the point of view of abenevolent planner. Even assuming a...

Le taux d'actualisation contre le principe de précaution ? Leçons à partir du cas des politiques climatiques (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

L'utilisation du calcul économique sur le très long terme fait l'objet de critiques quipeuvent aller jusqu'à un rejet pur et simple, en particulier en raison de la technique del'actualisation qui,...

Viable Responses to the equity-responsability dilemna : a consequentialist view. (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric, Criqui, Patrick

This paper aims at clarifying some conceptual flaws blurring the equity-efficiency debates involved in the setting of objectives of GHGs emissions control beyond 2012. To this end, it carries out...

Equitable Provision of Long-Term Public GoodsThe role of Negotiation Mandates (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

We examine the international distribution of expenditures for the provision ofa global, long-term and uncertain public goods from the point of view of abenevolent planner. Even assuming a...

Le taux d'actualisation contre le principe de précaution ? Leçons à partir du cas des politiques climatiques (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

L'utilisation du calcul économique sur le très long terme fait l'objet de critiques quipeuvent aller jusqu'à un rejet pur et simple, en particulier en raison de la technique del'actualisation qui,...

Viable Responses to the equity-responsability dilemna : a consequentialist view. (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric, Criqui, Patrick

This paper aims at clarifying some conceptual flaws blurring the equity-efficiency debates involved in the setting of objectives of GHGs emissions control beyond 2012. To this end, it carries out...

Equitable Provision of Long-Term Public GoodsThe role of Negotiation Mandates (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

We examine the international distribution of expenditures for the provision ofa global, long-term and uncertain public goods from the point of view of abenevolent planner. Even assuming a...

Le taux d'actualisation contre le principe de précaution ? Leçons à partir du cas des politiques climatiques (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

L'utilisation du calcul économique sur le très long terme fait l'objet de critiques quipeuvent aller jusqu'à un rejet pur et simple, en particulier en raison de la technique del'actualisation qui,...

Viable Responses to the equity-responsability dilemna : a consequentialist view. (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric, Criqui, Patrick

This paper aims at clarifying some conceptual flaws blurring the equity-efficiency debates involved in the setting of objectives of GHGs emissions control beyond 2012. To this end, it carries out...

L'économie des régimes climatiques : l'impossible coordination? (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Traiter aujourd'hui de l'économie des régimes climatiques peut être vu comme un exercice d'économie virtuelle tant la gestion de ce dossier sera affectée par l'évolution du contexte...

Les coûts des politiques climatiques en 2010 et au-delà : pour calmer les peurs d'un catastrophisme inversé (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Depuis l'été 2002, plusieurs essayistes et journalistes présentent le Protocole de Kyoto comme une aberration dangereuse. En particulier, réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre...

Optimal control models and elicitation of attitudes towards climate damages (2003)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ambrosi, Philippe, Hallegatte, Stéphane, Lecocq, Franck, Dumas, Patrice, Ha-Duong, Minh

This paper examines the consequences of various attitudes towards climate damages through a family of stochastic optimal control models (RESPONSE): cost-efficiency for a given temperature ceiling;...

Dans le labyrinthe de verre. La négociation sur l'effet de serre (2002)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

En parcourant les étapes principales de la « négociation climat », on fait apparaître le jeu de miroirs qui se déroule entre Europe et États-Unis, dans un contexte historique caractérisé par...

Policy framework and systems management of global climate change (2002)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Climate change is representative of a general class of environmental issues where decisions have to be taken under controversies. The policy framework for these kinds of decisions is defined by three...

The Economics of a Lost Deal : Kyoto - The Hague - Marrakesh (2002)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ghersi, Frédéric

This paper examines prospects for compromise between competing perspectives on four key climate change issues: costs, level of domestic action, nvironmental integrity, and developing world...

INASUD project findings on integrated assessment of climate policies (2001)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubler, Arnulf, Tol, Richard

This communication summarizes the main findings of INASUD, an Europeanwide research project on integrated assessment of climate policies. The projectaimed at improving the framing of climate policy...

Marché international du carboneet double-dividende : antinomie ou synergie ? (2001)

Ghersi, Frédéric, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Quirion, Philippe

Le propos de cet article est de vérifier dans quelle mesure l'existence d'un marché international de permis d'émission de gaz à effet de serre (GES) influe-t'elle sur les possibilités nationales...

Decision making under uncertainty and inertia constraints: sectoral implications of the when flexibility (1998)

Lecocq, Franck, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Ha-Duong, Minh

Current debates on climate mitigation emphasize the role of the inertia of the economic system. Our aim in this paper is to study more in depth how sectorally differentiated inertia impacts on...

Dynamic consistency problems behind the Kyoto protocol (1998)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Hourcade, Jean-Charles, Lecocq, Franck

This paper examines the economic rationale behind both the quantitative targets and the flexibility mechanisms adopted in the Kyoto Protocol. It synthesises some theoretical dimensions of the debate...

Influence of socioeconomic inertia and uncertainty on optimal CO2-emission abatement (1997)

Ha-Duong, Minh, Grubb, Michael, Hourcade, Jean-Charles

Following the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change [1], countries will negotiate in Kyoto this December an agreement to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Here we examine optimal CO2 policies,...

Mitigation factors (1996)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

The debate over the costs of GHG emission reduction has become more com-plex recently as disagreements over the existence of economic and environ-mental double dividents have been added to...

Modelling long-run scenarios (1993)

Hourcade, Jean-Charles

This paper intends to draw overall lessons from a long-term study on CO2 emission in France, a country with a rather low energy/GDP ration and in which transition to non-fossil based production of...

Les instruments économiques au service de l'environnement : une efficacité mal comprise

Catherine Boemare, Jean-Charles Hourcade

L'utilisation d'instruments économiques dans les politiques d'environnement est un fait récent. Ce n\'est qu'à partir des années quatre-vingt que certains gouvernements commencent à écouter la...

INASUD project findings on integrated assessment of climate policies

Jean-Charles Hourcade, Minh Ha-Duong, Arnulf Grubler, Richard Tol

This communication summarizes the main findings of INASUD, an Europeanwide research project on integrated assessment of climate policies. The projectaimed at improving the framing of climate policy...

The timing of biological carbon sequestration and carbon abatement in the energy sector under optimal strategies against climate risks

Vincent Gitz, Jean-Charles Hourcade, Philippe Ciais

This paper addresses the timing of the use of biological carbon sequestration and its capacity to alleviate the carbon constraint on the energy sector. We constructed a stochastic optimal control...

L'économie des régimes climatiques : l'impossible coordination?

Jean-Charles Hourcade

Traiter aujourd'hui de l'économie des régimes climatiques peut être vu comme un exercice d'économie virtuelle tant la gestion de ce dossier sera affectée par l'évolution du contexte...

Quelques leçons à tirer de la vie et de la mort d'un bel impôt : la vignette

Jean-Charles Hourcade, François Gusdorf

les économistes recommandent l'utilisation d'écotaxes destinées à internaliser les dommages environnementaux dus à la consommation, la production de certains biens ; ces écotaxes permettraient...

Business Cycles, Bifurcations and Chaos in a Neo-Classical Model with Investment Dynamics

Stéphane Hallegatte, Michael Ghil, Patrice Dumas, Jean-Charles Hourcade

This paper is motivated by the rising interest in assessing the effect of disruptions in resources and environmental conditions on economic growth. Such an assessment requires, ultimately, the use of...

Dans le labyrinthe de verre. La négociation sur l'effet de serre

Jean-Charles Hourcade

En parcourant les étapes principales de la « négociation climat », on fait apparaître le jeu de miroirs qui se déroule entre Europe et États-Unis, dans un contexte historique caractérisé par...

Mitigation factors

Jean-Charles Hourcade

The debate over the costs of GHG emission reduction has become more com-plex recently as disagreements over the existence of economic and environ-men