ARC Project on Sustainability (2009-2014)

Forthcoming Events

This project ended in September 2014. See past events

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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Team

• Academics
  • Raouf Boucekkine (2009-2013) leader
  • David de la Croix (2009-2014) leader, porte-parole
  • Axel Gosseries (2009-2014) leader
  • Fabio Mariani (2009-2014) prof.
  • Luca Pensieroso (2012-2014) prof.
  • Carmen Camacho (2012-2014) maitre de recherche CNRS
• 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)
  • Inigo Gonzalez post doc ARC (2013)
• Ph.D students
  • Emeline Bezin (2011-) Cotutelle with INRA Rennes
  • Bastien Chabé Ferret (2009-) ECON teaching assistant. Thesis defended April 2013.
  • Paula Gobbi, ECON teaching assistant (2009-2010), ARC fellowship (2010-). Thesis defended April 2013.
  • Lucia Granelli, ECON teaching assistant (2012-)
  • Paolo Melindi Ghidi, fellowship Univ Bologna (2009-2010), ARC fellowship (2010-2012). Thesis defended February 2012.
  • Tim Meijers (2011-) ARC fellowship
  • Fabien Ngendakuriyo (2009-2011) PAI fellowship. Thesis defended June 2011.
  • Thierry Ngosso (2011-) AUF fellowship
  • Paolo Piacquadio (2009-). ARC fellowship (2009-2012). Thesis defended December 2012.
  • Robert Stelter (2011-2014) Cotutelle with Universisty of Rostock
  • Olivier Sterck (2009-2013) ARC fellowship. Thesis defended April 2013.
• Visiting students
  • Alexandre Berthe (Rennes, Agro-Campus) (2009-2010)
  • Cédric Rio (Université de Poitiers, Philosophy) (2010-2011)
• 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

Thesis Defenses

Fabien Ngendakuriyo, Essays on Development Economics: Institutions and Technology Adoption

Paolo Melindi Ghidi, The Dynamics of Inequality, Minorities and School Choice

Paolo Piacquadio, Essays on Intergenerational Justice

Paula Gobbi, Parenthood Decisions and the Transformation of the Family Structure

Olivier Sterck, Essays in Development Economics: Conflict Resolution Mechanisms and Epidemics

Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Three Essays on the Fertility of Minority Groups

Emeline Bezin, Dynamique des préférences et impact sur les équilibres économiques (co-tutelle with Rennes)

Past Events

October 5, 2010, 12h15, Launching Lunch.

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 (IRES): "Cross-Race Differences in Fertility in the US"

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

IRES research seminar by Stephania Marcassa on March 1

Macro lunch seminar, March 27, Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University): "Economics of polygamy"

IRES research seminar by Nippe Lagerlof, on April 26

Macro lunch seminar, May 8, Emeline Bezin (INRA): "The evolution of environmental concern and the dynamics of pollution"

Workshop on sustainability and population change, May 21 and 22, 2012
Program here
Pictures here

Macro lunch seminar, September 25, David de la Croix: "The mean lifetime of famous people from Hammurabi to Einstein"

IRS research seminar by Gilles Saint Paul on October 18

IRS research seminar by Michelle Rendall on November 15

IRS research seminar by Alessia Russo on December 13

Macro lunch seminar by Paula Gobbi on February 12, 2013: Childcare and commitment within households

Macro lunch seminar by Robert Stelter on February 26, 2013: Over-aging: are present human populations too old?

Special seminar, March 11, 2013 - Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University) - "Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission"

Macro lunch seminar, Mathias Doepke (Northwestern University) on March 12: Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

IRES Research Seminar - March 14, 2013 - Alexander Ludwig (University of Cologne) "A Life-Cycle Model with Ambiguous Survival Beliefs"

Macro lunch seminar, Hamzeh Arabzadeh Jamali (Paris School of Economics) Dutch Disease, Technology-Enhancing Public Investment in Dynamic Framework with Politico-Economic Equilibrium"

ARC-Sustainability Workshop: Procreative Responsibility and Population Size - April 25-26, 2013. salle du Sénat académique, Halles Universitaires, Place de l'Université, 1.

ARC Workshop on Financial and Political Short-termism May 14th 2013 - 14-16h. Salle Vivès, Chaire Hoover (D-305, Place Montesiqueu 3, Louvain-la-Neuve).

ARC-Sustainability Workshop: Developing Countries and Duties towards Future, 20-21 June 2013

IRS research seminar by Lars Lonstrup on November 28, 2013

Macro Lunch Seminar, December 17th : Bastien Chabé-Ferret (PSE), "A decomposition of the black-white fertility rate in the US"

IRS research seminar by Hippolyte d'Albis on February 13, 2014

IRS research seminar by John Knowles on February 20, 2014

Macro lunch by Nico Voigtlaender on April 1, 2014

IRS research seminar by Romain Wacziarg on May 8, 2014

ARC-Sustainability Workshop on Short Termism 24-25 May 2014 program

8th Louvain Symposium in Economic Dynamics Sustainability, Institutions and Development September 18-19-2014. program

Macro lunch seminar by Faustine Perrin (Strasbourg), Sept 23, 2014

Journal articles by subject (updated October 2014)

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.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, Lamentation in the face of historical necessity, Arguing about justice: Essays For P. Van Parijs, A. Gosseries and Y. Vanderborght, eds., Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2011.
• Gosseries Axel, Qu’est-ce que le suffisantisme?, Philosophiques, 38(2), 465-492, 2011.
• Gosseries Axel, Segall on sufficiency, opting out and historical responsibility, Ethical Perspectives, 19(2), 287-295, 2012.
• Gosseries Axel, Generations, in C. McKinnon (ed.), Issues in Political Theory (2d edition), Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 301-322, 2012.
• Gosseries Axel, A Justiça Intergeracional e a Metáfora do Refúgio de Montanha, Philosophica (Lisbon), 38, pp. 121-141, 2012.
• Gosseries, Axel, Equality and Non-discrimination in Hiring, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 9 (1) : 3-7, 2012.
• Gosseries, Axel, Nations et générations, in R. Chung & J.-B. Jeangène Vilmer (eds.), Ethique des relations internationales. Problématiques contemporaines, Paris: PUF, 2013. 
• Gosseries, Axel and Eyal, Nir, Obamacare and Conscientious Objection. Some Introductory Thoughts, Ethical Perspectives, 20(1): 109-17, 2013.
• Gosseries, Axel and Colla, Anne-France, Discrimination par l’âge et droit transitoire. Réflexions à partir de Commission/Hongrie (C-286/12), Journal des tribunaux du travail, 43 (1149) : 69-81, 2013.
• Piacquiadio Paolo, Intergenerational Egalitarianism, Journal of Economic Theory, 153, 117-127, 2014.
• Gosseries, Axel, What makes age discrimination special? A philosophical look at the ECJ case law, Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy, 43(1): 59-80, 2014.
• Piacquadio, Paolo and Thanguy Isaac, Equity and Efficiency in an Overlapping Generation Model, Social Choice and Welfare, forthcoming.

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.
• Boucekkine Raouf, Giorgio Fabbri and Patrick Pintus, On the optimal control of a linear neutral differential equation arising in economics, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, 33(5), 511-530, 2012.
• Boucekkine Raouf, N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko, On the optimal control of the vintage capital growth model with endogenous labor supply, Mathematical Economics Letters, 1(1), 2013.
• Acocella, Nicola, Di Bartolomeo, Givanni, Hallett, Andrew Hughes and Piacquadio, Paolo G., Annoucements as an equilibrium selection device, Oxford Economic Papers, 66, 325-347, 2014.

Optimal population size

• Mariani Fabio, Agustin Perez-Barahona and Natacha Raffin, Life expectancy and the environment, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34 (4), 798-815, 2010.
• De la Croix, David, Pierre Pestieau and Grégory Ponthière, How Powerful is Demography? The Serendipity Theorem Revisited, Journal of Population Economics, 25, 899-922, 2012.
• Baudin Thomas, The Optimal Trade-Off Between Quality and Quantity With Uncertain Child Survival, Mathematical Population Studies, 19(2), pp 94-113, 2012.
• Boucekkine Raouf, Fausto Gozzi and Giorgio Fabbri, Revisiting the optimal population size problem under endogenous growth: minimal utility level and finite lives, Asia-Pacific, Journal of Accounting and Economics (special issue edited by Kazuo Nishimura), 18(3),2011.
• Boucekkine Raouf and Giorgio Fabbri, Assessing Parfit's repugnant conclusion within a canonical endogenous growth set-up, Journal of Population Economics 26, 751-767, 2013.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, Smuggled into Existence: Non-Identity, Procreation and Non-Consequentialism, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 16 (3), 589-604.

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.
• De la Croix, David, and Frederic Docquier, Do Brain Drain and Poverty Result from Coordination Failures? , Journal of Economic Growth, 17, 1-26, 2012.
• Melindi Ghidi Paolo, A Model of Ideological Transmission with Endogenous Paternalism, International Journal of Economic Theory, 8(4), 381-403, 2012.
• Piacquadio Paolo, N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo and A. Hughes-Hallett, Conflicts and coordination among groups, in The theory of economic policy in a strategic context, N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2012.
• Piacquadio Paolo, N. Acocella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett, Announcements as a coordination mechanism, in The theory of economic policy in a strategic context, N. Accella, G. di Bartolomeo, and A. Hughes-Hallett; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2012.
• Vasilakis Chrysovalantis, The social economic impact of AIDS: Accounting for intergenerational transmission, productivity and fertility, Economic Modelling, 29(2), 369-381, 2012.
• De la Croix David and Omar Licandro, The child is father of the man - implications for the demographic transition, The Economic Journal, 123, 236-261, 2013.
• De la Croix David, O. Pierrard, and H. Sneessens, Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter, Journal of Economics Dynamics and Control, 37, 104-124, 2013.
• Chabé-Ferret, Bastien and Paolo Melindi Ghidi, Fertility Differentials and Uncertainty: An Economic Theory of the Minority Status Hypothesis, Journal of Population Economics, 26(3), 963-982, 2013.
• Gobbi, Paula, A model of voluntary childlessness, Journal of Population Economics, 26(3), 963-982, 2013.
• Boucekine, Raouf and Ruiz-Tamarit, Ramon, Growth vs level effect of population change on economic development: An inspection into human-capital-related mechanisms , Journal of Mathematical Economics, 49, 312-334,2013.
• Camacho, Carmen, Saglam, Cagri and Turan, Agah, Strategic interaction and dynamics under endogenous time preference, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 49 (4), 291-301, 2013.
• Baudin, Thomas, Religion and Fertility : The French Connection, Demographic Research, forthcoming.
• Boucekkine Raouf and N. Bonneuil, Viable Ramsey economies, Canadian Journal of Economics, 47(2), 422-441, 2014.
• Boucekine, Raouf, Camacho, Carmen and Fabbri, Giorgio, Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model, Journal of Economic Theory, 148(6), 2719-2736, 2013.
• de la Croix, David, F. Docquier and M. Schiff, Brain Drain and Economic Performance in Small Islands Developing States. In: Andrés Artal-Tur, Giovanni Peri, and Francisco Requena-Silvente (eds): The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration flows. Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market, Chapter 6. Springer, 2014.
• Pensieroso Luca and Alessandro Sommacal, Economic Development and the Family Structure: from the Pater Familias to the Nuclear Family, European Economic Review, 71, 80-100, 2014.

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.
• Baudin, Thomas, Family Policies: What Does The Standard Endogenous Fertility Model Tell Us? Journal of Public Economic Theory, 13(4), 555-593, 2011.
• De la Croix David and Hippolyte d'Albis, Missing Daughters, Missing Brides?, Economics Letters 116, 358-360, 2012.
• De la Croix David and Axel Gosseries, The Natalist Bias of Pollution Control, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63, 271-287, 2012.
• Rio, Cédric, Agir au niveau européen", Alternatives Economiques Poche n° 056, septembre 2012, p. 149 – 151.
• Meijers Tim, Le Bourgmestre et la Limitations des Naissances, Revue Nouvelle (march); 4, 82-88, April 2013.
• Meijers Tim, Book-review of: Ageing Populations in Post Industrial Democracies (Tepe and Vanhuysse, eds.), in Review of Political Studies, 12 (1); in press, 2013.
• Meijers Tim, Book-review of: World Population Policies (John May), in Review of Political Studies, 13 (1); in press, 2014.
• Mariani Fabio, The political economy of naturalization, Canadian Journal of Economics, 46 (2), 656-688, 2013.
• Compte rendu de colloque : Les inégalités et la crise en Europe, Politiques sociales et familiales, n°111, p. 77-81, 2013.
• Pensieroso, Luca and Ertan Ozguzer, Gul, An Analysis of Turkey's Accession to the European Union, Canadian Journal of Economics, 46(4), 1380-1405, 2013.
• Olivier Sterck, Why Only One Individual Tests for HIV/AIDS among Sub-Saharan African Couples?, Forum for Health Economics and Policy. 16(1), 219-257, 2013.
• Olivier Sterck, HIV/AIDS and Fatalism: Should Prevention Campaigns Disclose the Transmission Rate of HIV?, Journal of African Economies, 23(1), 53-104, 2014.
• De la Croix, David and Paula Gobbi, L’expansion de l’éducation en Afrique annonce-t-elle sa transition démographique?, Dounia, 7, 33-50, 2014.
• Gosseries, Axel, Nations, Generations and Climate Justice, Global Policy, 5(1), 96-102, 2014.
• Gosseries, Axel (23 authors), Making fair choices on the path to universal health coverage, Final report of the WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage Geneva: World Health Organization, 84 p., 2014
• De la Croix, David and Frederic Docquier, An Incentive Mechanism to Break the Low-skill Immigration Deadlock, Review of Economic Dynamics, forthcoming.

Short-termism

• González-Ricoy, Iñigo, Participation, Deliberation, and Constitutional Rigidity, Ratio Juris. An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, 27(4), 538-544, 2014.
• González-Ricoy, Iñigo, The Republican Case for Workplace Democracy, Social Theory & Practice, 40(2), 232-254, 2014.
• González-Ricoy, Iñigo, Review of S. Tierney, Constitutional Referendums, Political Studies Review, 11(3), 403, 2013.
• González-Ricoy, Iñigo, Review of M. Schwartzberg, Political Studies Review, 13(2), 2015
• González-Ricoy, Iñigo, Firms, States, and Democracy, Law, Ethics & Philosophy, forthcoming

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, 47, 186-199, 2011.
• 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, 32, 29-46, 2011.
• 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, Giorgio Fabbri and Fausto Gozzi, Maintenance and investment: complements or substitutes? A reappraisal, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 34(12), 2420-2439, 2010.
• Boucekkine Raouf, Natali Hritonenko and Yuri Yatsenko, Scarcity, regulation and endogenous technical progress, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 47(2), 186-199, 2012.
• Boucekkine Raouf and Patrick Pintus, History's a curse: leapfrogging, growth breaks and growth reversals under international borrowing without commitment, Journal of Economic Growth, 17(1), 27-47, 2012.
• Boucekkine Raouf, T. Azomahou and P. Nguyen Van, Vintage capital and the diffusion of clean technologies, International Journal of Economic Theory 8, 277-300, 2012.
• Boucekkine Raouf, A. Pommeret and F. Prieur, Technological vs ecological switch and the environmental Kuznets curve, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95, 252-260, 2013.
• Boucekkine Raouf, N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko, Optimal Investment in Heterogeneous Capital and Technology Under Restricted Natural Resource, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 163(1), 310-331, 2014.
• Boucekkine Raouf, N. Hritonenko and Y. Yatsenko, Health, Work Intensity, and Technological Innovations, Journal of Biological Systems, 22(2), 219-233, 2014.

Sustainable institutions

• Vrousalis Nicholas, Against the Will Theory of Rights, Res Publica, 16, 415-423, 2010.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, G.A. Cohen Vision of Socialism, Journal of Ethics, 14, 185-216, 2010.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, Libertarian Socialism: A Better reconciliation between self-ownership and equality, Social Theory and Practice, 37, 211-226,2011.
• 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.
• De la Croix, David, Olivier Pierrard and Henri R. Sneessens, Aging and pensions in general equilibrium: labor market imperfections matter, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 37, 104-124.
• Mariani, Fabio, The economic value of virtue, Journal of Economic Growth, 17(4), 323-356.
• Glasius, Marlies and Tim Meijers, Constructions of legitimacy, the charles taylor trial, the international journal of transitional justice, 6(2), 2012.
• Gonzalez, Iñigo, Depoliticisng the Polls: Voting Abstention and Moral Disagreement, Politics, 32, 46-51, 2012
• Ngosso, Thierry, Trois raisons de s’opposer aux fonds vautours, Revue Dounia, n5, pp. 22-35, 2012.
• Ngosso Ngosso, Thierry, Book review : Freedom of Association (Frankel, Miller, Paul, eds.), Ethical perspectives, 19 (2), 353-357, 2012.
• Ngosso Ngosso, Thierry, Compte–rendu : L’influence de l’odeur des croissants chauds sur la bonté humaine et d’autres questions de philosophie morale expérimentale (Ogien), Revue philosophique de Louvain, 110 (4), 782-785, 2012.
• Glasius, Marlies and Tim Meijers, Theatre of Justice or Political Trial: the case of Radovan Karadzic, Human Rights Quarterly, 35 (2); in press, 2013.
• Boucekkine Raouf, A. Pommeret and F. Prieur, On the timing and optimality of capital controls: Public expenditures, debt dynamics and welfare, International Journal of Economic Theory, 9 (1), 101-112, 2013.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, Exploitation, Vulnerability, and Social Domination, Philosophy and Public Affairs,41, 131-157, 2013.
• Meijers, Tim, Glasius, Marlies, Expression of Justice or Political Trial?: Discursive Battles in the Karadžić Case , Human Rights Quarterly, 35 (3), 720-752, 2013.
• Ngendakuriyo, Fabien, Institutional quality and growth, Journal of Public Economic Theory, 15(1), 2013.
• Ngendakuriyo, Fabien and Zaccour, Georges, Economics Letters 120, 149-154, 2013.
• Vrousalis Nicholas, G. A. Cohen on Exploitation, Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 13, 151-164, 2014.
• Piacquadio Paolo, N. Acocella, G. Di Bartolomeo and A. Hughes-Hallett, Announcement Wars as an Equilibrium Selection Device, Oxford Economic Papers, forthcoming.
• De la Croix David and Clara Delavallade, Why Corrupt Governments May Receive More Foreign Aid, Oxford Economic Papers, 66, 51-66, 2014.
• Gonzalez, Iñigo, Review of S. Tierney, Constitutional Referendums, Political Studies Review, forthcoming.
• Boucekkine, Raouf, Prieur, Fabien and Puzon Klarizze, The Dynamics of Lobbying Under Uncertainty: On Political Liberalization in Arab Countries, Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance, 16, 69-87, 2014.

Unpublished working papers

Noel Bonneuil and Raouf Boucekkine Optimal Transition To Renewable Energy With Threshold Of Irreversible Pollution

2013028 Raouf Boucekkine, Blanca Martinez and José Ramon Ruiz-tamarit Optimal Sustainable Policies Under Pollution Ceiling: The Demographic Side

2013020 Tom Dedeurwaerdere and Paolo Melindi Ghidi Voluntary Pooled Public Knowledge Goods and Coalition Formation

2013019 Gobbi, Paula Eugenia, Childcare and Commitment Within Households

2013012 Chabé-ferret, Bastien, The Importance Of Fertility Norms: New Evidence From France

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