ARC Project on Sustainability (2009-2014)

Forthcoming Events

IRES research seminar by Stephania Marcassa on March 1

Macro lunch seminar, March 27, Shoshana Grossbard

IRES research seminar by Nippe Lagerlof, on April 26

Workshop on sustainability and population change, May 21 and 22, 2012

Summary

Five year interdisciplinary project on issues of sustainability starting October 1 2009. Topics to be investigated include specific issues relevant to intergenerational justice, sustainability criteria and Pontryagin optimality, optimal population size, population composition and dynamics, population policy, the problem of short-termism, the choice by firms of sustainable technology.

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Full project: file

Team

• Academics
  • Raouf Boucekkine (2009-2014) leader
  • David de la Croix (2009-2014) leader, porte-parole
  • Axel Gosseries (2009-2014) leader
  • Fabio Mariani (2009-2014) prof.
• Post Docs and junior faculty
  • Thomas Baudin (2009-2014) post doc Lhoist (2009-2011) and visiting from Lille 3 (2011-2014)
  • Nicholas Vrousalis (2009-2011) post doc ARC (2009-2011) and visiting from KULeuven (2011-2014)
• Ph.D students
  • Bastien Chabé Ferret (2009-) ECON teaching assistant
  • Paula Gobbi, ECON teaching assistant (2009-2010), ARC fellowship (2010-)
  • Paolo Melindi Ghidi, fellowship Univ Bologna (2009-2010), ARC fellowship (2010-)
  • Fabien Ngendakuriyo (2009-2011) PAI fellowship. Thesis defended June 2011.
  • Thierry Ngosso (2011-) AUF fellowship
  • Paolo Piacquadio (2009-) ARC fellowship
  • Livio Simeone (2011-)
  • Olivier Sterk (2009-) ARC fellowship
  • Tim Meijers (2011-) ARC fellowship
• Visiting students
  • Alexandre Berthe (Rennes, Agro-Campus) (2009-2010)
  • Cédric Rio (Université de Poitiers, Philosophy) (2010-2011)
  • Robert Stelter (Universisty of Rostock, Demography) (2010-2011)
  • Emeline Bezin (2011-) Visiting student, INRA Rennes
• Administrative support
  • Thérèse Davio (Hoover Chair) (2009-2014)
  • Claudine Stage (IRES)(2009-2014)
  • Paul Olbrechts (IRES)(2009-2011)
  • Séverine Dinjar (IRES)(2011-2014)
• Other participants
  • Stéphane Bouché (2009-) Ulysse teaching assitant
  • Martin Nève (2010-) teaching assistant university Saint Louis (Brussels)
  • Pierre Pecher (2009 -) ECON teaching assistant

Escher's waterfall

Past Events

October 5, 12h15, Launching Lunch. Please register with Claudine Stage.

October 8, 12h50, Thomas Baudin, Family Policies: What Does The Standard Endogenous Fertility Model Tell Us?, IRES Research Seminar

October 8, 14h00, Axel Gosseries, Demographic Choices and Climatic Justice, Environmental Economics Seminar, CORE, room b-101 (or b-135 when specified).

October 20, 12h50, David de la Croix, An integrated model of brain drain and economic development, Macroeconomics Lunch Seminar, IRES, room d-350.

October 21, Paolo Piacquadio, Egalitarianism in Dynamic Models: An Impossibility Result, IAP day in Leuven (10h-17h30)

October 26, 12h30, Paolo Piacquadio, Intergenerational Egalitarianism and Growth, lunch seminar welfare economics, CORE.

November 12, 12h45, Matteo Cervellati, Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of The Demographic Transition

November 19, 12h45, Alessandro Sommacal (University of Verona) Interregional transmission of skills during childhood and optimal fiscal policy, IRES Research Seminar.

January 29
André Masson will present in English the main insights from his new French book: Des liens et des transferts entre générations
9h30 part 1, 10h15 Coffee Break, 10h30 part 2, 11h15 Debate, 11h45 Bonus presentation by Nicholas Vrousalis, 12h30 Lunch

February 25, 12h45, A. Schoonbroodt (Southampton), IRES Research seminar.

March 16-19, Workshop on Overlapping Generations: Population and Environment Dynamics, Vielsalm. Call for papers. New: Program Pictures

Social Choice and Welfare Economics, 29 March, Thomas Baudin on "Optimal Tradeoff Between Quality and Quantity With Uncertain Child Survival"

March 29, 2010 16h, Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, (Technische Universität Wien), Externalities in a life-cycle model with endogenous survival

May 18, Macro Lunch Seminar Thomas Baudin on "DINKS, DEWKS and CO."

May 20, ARC Sustainability Workshop, Program, Pictures

June 10, Environmental Economics Seminar, Thomas Baudin on "Optimal Extraction Paths Under Endogenous Demographics"

June 16, internal workshop - Work-in-Progress Speed Presentations, Pictures
Paula Gobbi 14h00, Alexandre Berthe 14h20, Thomas Baudin 14h40, paolo piacquadio 15h00
Pierre Pecher 15h40,Nicholas Vrousalis 16h00, Paolo Melindi Ghidi 16h20, David de la Croix 16h40

June 22, evaluation meeting

ARC Lunchbag seminar (in French)
Oct 8 2010, 12h45-13h50, Salle Vives
Pierre-Yves Bonin, Professeur à l'UQTR, Picture

Oct 13 2010, One afternoon ARC Workshop on the Non-identity Problem by Melinda Roberts (College of New Jersey), 14h-16h Socrate 23

Nov 9,2010, Macro Lunch Seminar Olivier Sterck on "Political Economy of Geoengineering: How To Avoid A "Cold War" "

December 7 2010, Paula Gobbi on "A model of voluntary childlessness", Midi de la Recherche, Centre de recherche en démographie et société, 12h45, Lecl 190

December 14 2010, Macro Lunch Seminar David de la Croix and Axel Gosseries on "The Natalist Bias of Pollution Control"

December 16, 12h45, C. Zimmermann (Connecticut), IRES Research Seminar.

February 10, 12h45, M. Tertilt (Stanford and Mannheim), An Equilibrium Model of the African HIV/AIDS Epidemic, IRES Research seminar.

24-25 March 2011, worskhop on "Puzzles of Intergenerational Justice" organized by Nicholas Vrousalis Web page

19-20 May 2011, Conference on sustainable growth Program

May 24 (2pm)- May 27 (9am) 2011, Overlapping Generations Days, Vielsalm (Belgium). Participants: Bertrand Wigniolle, David de la Croix, Omar Licandro, Alice Schoonbroodt, Alexander Ludwig, Matteo Cervellati, Holger Strulik, Andreas Schäfer, Andreas Irmen, Hélène Latzer, Thomas Seegmuller, Grégory Ponthière Tim Buyse, Renaat Van de Kerckhove, Fabian Kindermann, Natacha Raffin, Victor Hiller, Thomas Baudin, Karine Constant, Burcu Afyonoglu, Davin Marion, Paula Gobbi Javier Olivera, Joël Machado, Robert Stelter, Paolo Piacquadio, Hippolyte d'Albis, Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa Pictures

June 2011. Defense of Fabien Ngendakuriyo's thesis

Speed presentations: June 28, 2011. 200pm: Olivier Sterck, 245pm: Nicholas Vrousalis, 330pm: David de la Croix and Fabio Mariani, 415pm Paolo Piacquadio.

Macro lunch seminar, September 21th, 2011: Olivier Sterk, Sustainability of the peace process in Burundi : who benefits from the demobilization program?

Macro lunch seminar, October 11th, 2011: Paolo Melindi Ghidi, Income Inequality, School Choice and the Endogenous Gentrification of U.S. Cities

Macro lunch seminar, November 8th, 2011: Fabio Mariani, From Polygamy to Serial Monogamy: a Unified Theory of Marriage Institutions

IRES Research Seminar, November 17, 2011, Nico Voigtlaender, UCLA, How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction

IRES Research Seminar, November 24, 2011, Rodriguo Soares, PUC Rio

Christmas meeting of Belgian economists, December 23, 2011, David de la Croix, DINKS, DEWKS and Co, Marriage, Fertility and Childlessness in the US

Macro lunch seminar January 10, 2012: Bastien Chabet-Ferret

Oded Galor's visit from Jan 24 to 27, and plenary lecture at the doctoral worskhop. (on the 27)

Paolo Melindi Ghidi's thesis defense, January 31, 15h

Oded Galor's visit from Jan 31 to Feb 2, with IRES research seminar on Feb 2

Workshop on optimal population, Feb 9, 2012
14h - 15h Paper 1: Paolo (discussant: Livio)
15h - 16h Paper 2: Gustaf (discussant: David)
16h-17h Paper 3: Tim (discussant: Fabio)
more. Pictures here

IRES Research seminar on Feb 23 by Frédéric Gaspart(UCL, ECRU) on Choosing the subscribers: Endogenous fertility and education with ascending altruism

Journal articles by subject

Intergenerational justice

• Acocella Nicola, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Paolo G. Piacquadio, Conflict of interests, (implicit) coalitions and Nash policy games, Economics Letters, 105(3), 303-305, 2009.
• Gosseries Axel, On Future Generations' Future Rights in Goodin R. and J. Fishkin, eds. Population and Political Theory Philosophy, Politics and Society Series, 8 Chichester: Wiley and Sons pp. 104-134, 2010
• Gosseries Axel, Our intergenerational obligations, Intergenerational Justice Review (D.), 10 (1), 26-28, 2010.
• Gosseries Axel, Une métaphore de la justice intergénérationnelle Regards croisés sur l'économie, 7, 193-202, 2010.

Sustainability criteria and Pontryagin optimality

• De la Croix, David and Grégory Ponthière, On the Golden Rule of Capital Accumulation under Endogenous Longevity, Mathematical Social Sciences, 59, 227-238, 2010

Optimal population size

• De la Croix, David, Pierre Pestieau and Grégory Ponthière, How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited,Journal of Population Economics, forthcoming.
• Mariani Fabio, A. Perez-Barahona and N. Raffin, Life expectancy and the environment, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34 (4), 798-815, 2010.
• Baudin Thomas, Family Policies: What Does the Standard Endogenous Fertility Model Tell Us?, Journal of Public Economic Theory, forthcoming
• Baudin Thomas, The Optimal Trade-Off Between Quality and Quantity With Uncertain Child Survival, Mathematical Population Studies, forthcoming

Population composition and dynamics

• Boucekkine, Raouf, Rodolphe Desbordes and Hélène Latzer, How do epidemics induce behavioral changes?, Journal of Economic Growth, 14(3), 233-264, 2009
• Baudin, Thomas, A Role for Cultural Transmission in Fertility Transitions, Macroeconomic Dynamics, (4), 454-481, 2010
• Boucekkine, Raouf and Jean-Pierre Laffargue, On the distributional consequences of epidemics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34, 231-245, 2010

Population policy

• De la Croix, David and Marie Vander Donckt, Would Empowering Women Initiate the Demographic Transition in Least-Developed Countries?, Journal of Human Capital, 4, 85-129, 2010

Short-termism

Sustainable technology

• Boucekkine Raouf, N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko, On explosive dynamics in R&D-based models of endogenous growth, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications 71, 693-700, 2009.
• Boucekkine Raouf, N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko, Scarcity, regulation and endogenous technical progress, Journal of Mathematical Economics, forthcoming.
• Boucekkine Raouf, Fernando del Rio and Blanca Martinez, Technological progress, obsolescence and depreciation, Oxford Economic Papers 61, 440-466, 2009.
• Boucekkine, Raouf, J. Krawczyk and T. Vallée, Environmental quality versus economic performance: a dynamic game approach, Optimal Control, Applications and Methods, forthcoming.
• Boucekkine, Raouf, Blanca Martinez and Cagri Saglam, Capital maintenance as a key development tool, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 57, 547-567, 2010.
• Boucekkine Raouf, G. Fabbri and F. Gozzi, Maintenance and investment: complements or substitutes? A reappraisal, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 2420-2439, 2010.

Sustainable institutions

• Vrousalis Nicholas, Against the Will Theory of Rights, Res Publica, 16, 415-423, 2010.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, A Better reconciliation between self-ownership and equality, Social Theory and Practice, forthcoming.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, G.A. Cohen Vision of Socialism, Journal of Ethics, 14, 185-216, 2010.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, Libertarian Socialism, Social Theory and Practice, 37, 2011.
• De la Croix David and Clara Delavallade, Democracy, Rule of Law, Corruption Incentives and Growth, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13, 155-187, 2011.
• De la Croix David and Michel Lubrano, The Tradeoff Between Growth and Redistribution: ELIE in an Overlapping Generations Model, in Macrojustice : A pluridisciplinary evaluation of Kolm's theory, C. Gamel and M. Lubrano eds, Springer, 307-339, 2011.

"L'Homme et la Machine", Georges Rohner