Economie et finance parcours energie finance- carbone

-Economie de l'énergie et de l'environnement (en anglais)

Description du contenu de l'enseignement :
- Economie de l'énergie et de l'environnement - Transmission de connaissances fondamentales en économie de l'énergie et de l'environnement The class will provide students with an overview of key concepts in both environmental economics and energy economics. It should enable students to apply these concepts to basic policy analysis.

1. Externalities, Fixed Costs and Information (Private, public goods, club goods and externalities, informational complexity, transaction costs and the Coase theorem)

2. The Optimal Internalisation of Externalities (The Pigouvian approach, instruments for internalisation (taxes, standards, emission trading etc.), efficiency considerations of different internalisation measures, the distributional impacts of different measures)

3. Dimensions of Social Cost (Categories of social costs, risk, uncertainty and real option value)

4. The Measurement of Externalities (Measuring abatement cost, methods to measure social costs I + II)

5. Special Topics: Distribution and Energy Efficiency (Compensating vs. equivalent variation: the impact of distribution on social costs; Energy efficiency and the rebound effect)

6. Electricity Markets I + II (Sustainable development in the energy sector, the functioning of electricity markets and price formation, working with screening curves, the investment challenge according to Joskow, capacity remuneration mechanisms (CRMs), storage and demand response)

7. The Full Costs of Low Carbon Electricity Systems (Projected costs of generating low carbon electricity, full costs and system costs of different generation technologies

8. The Interaction of Carbon and Electricity Markets (Carbon prices and electricity prices: theories of price formation in the carbon market, causality between CO2 prices and different energy variables, rents of electricity producers due to carbon pricing: grandfathering vs. auctioning)