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SEMINAR: Amaya de Ayala Bilbao (University of the Basque Country) – “Consumers’ decision-making in energy efficiency: energy-efficient appliance purchases and energy-saving behaviour of Spanish households”

April 18, 2024 – 14.30h – Seminar Room 2 ERE

SEMINAR: Julien Daubanes (Technical University of Denmark) – “Do Markets Price the Sensitivity of Economic Oil Reserves?”

April 4, 2024 – 14.30h – Seminar Room 2 ERE

2024/01: Issue brief: Making jobs out of the energy transition: Evidence from the French energy efficiency obligations scheme

Vast amounts are being invested in the energy transition worldwide, with optimistic expectations of economic growth and green job creation. Yet, we crucially lack ex-post validations of the multiplier effects widely used to quantify new green jobs. Focusing on the French Energy Efficiency Obligations scheme, this paper provides the first ex-post estimate of the employment effect of a large energy-retrofit investment program. We exploit a discontinuity in the provision of subsidies and use a novel synthetic control method on disaggregated data to estimate regional-level employment effects. We estimate that the scheme created 1.4 jobs per million euros invested.

XII INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC SYMPOSIUM – «Accelerating the net-zero economy transformation: new challenges for sustainability»

February 6, 2024 – Aula Magna Edif. Històric UB

SEMINAR: Mauricio Perez-Alaniz (University of Limerick) – “Climate action response plans in firms: Understanding the types and characteristics of firms planning for a more sustainable future”

March 14, 2024 – 14.30h – Seminar Room 2 ERE

SEMINAR: Cristina Peñasco (Banque de France) – “Strategic competition and donor interests: An econometric approximation to the market for the allocation of climate development aid for renewable energy projects”

February 8, 2024 – 14.30h – Room 1037