Description du projet
Comment les politiques façonnent les choix écologiques
Les responsables des politiques environnementales se doivent toujours de mettre en balance les avantages de la durabilité et ses coûts. Pour les consommateurs, les choix et les comportements se fondent avant tout sur les bénéfices que leur procurent ces politiques. Dans ce contexte, le projet DEEP, financé par l’UE, étudiera les causes de l’adaptation variable aux nouvelles politiques environnementales, telles que les subventions aux énergies renouvelables et l’électrification des transports. DEEP entend ainsi mettre en lumière la manière dont les politiques environnementales façonnent les choix, avec des conséquences sur l’efficacité de celles-ci et l’évolution des disparités entre les ménages et les entreprises. Pour être efficace, il convient d’élaborer des modèles innovants et exceptionnellement ambitieux de décisions qui influencent les résultats dans le temps. Les résultats de ces travaux nous permettront de mieux comprendre comment les inégalités se développent en fonction des choix politiques et en interaction avec les disparités préexistantes.
Objectif
"A key goal of environmental policy is to ensure sustainable choices and investment. For the individual, revising choices and behavior might be necessary to avoid costs or obtain benefits introduced by policies. Though a growing literature has investigated how different environmental policies produce winners and losers through differences in costs and benefits between individuals, less is known about the causes of varying adaption to new policies. In the context of environmental policy, there are no studies of how the ""hand of the past"" determines the ability to adapt through choices that are not easily reversed, such as location, and exposure to wealth effects from revaluation through existing endowments at the individual or firm level. The goal of DEEP is to provide new knowledge of how existing differences interact with environmental policies in shaping choices, with consequences for policy effectiveness and the evolution of disparities among households and firms. The key to achieve this is the construction of novel and exceptionally ambitious models of decisions that affect outcomes over time, combined with data of unparalleled detail on choices, outcomes, income and assets of individuals, households and firms in settings featuring rich and highly relevant policy interventions. The results will contribute both to our understanding of how inequality develops under policy choices in interaction with preexisting disparities, and our understanding of the trade-offs between equity and effectiveness when designing policies. The project will center on two strategically important areas: 1) electrification of transportation, where existing vehicle, location and wealth of households influence policy impact, with implications for wealth and welfare over time; and 2) renewable energy subsidies, where existing capacities of firms influence policy impact on investments and capacity decisions, with implications for the evolution of market structure and market power."
Champ scientifique
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Thème(s)
Régime de financement
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institution d’accueil
N-5045 Bergen
Norvège