This workshop is intended for researchers and doctoral students in economics who are interested in resource and environmental economics. The webinar is 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).
This workshop on natural resource and environmental economics will host Louis Hotte, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa, and Siwar Khelifa, post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
→ This event will be in English.
- Louis Hotte (University of Ottawa)
Natural Resources, Trade, and Financial Market Development: Theory and Evi-dence
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.
- Siwar Khelifa, post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Neuchâtel
The Hidden Value of Urban Green Spaces: Evidence of Health Benefits from Quebec’s Lockdown
Abstract to be published soon
