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Fanny Henriet, Directrice de recherche CNRS à Aix-Marseille School of Economics

Séminaire

On January 9, 2025

Jeudi 9 janvier 2025, nous accueillons Fanny Henriet, Directrice de recherche CNRS à Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). Ses recherches portent sur l'économie environnementale, l'économie des ressources naturelles et la transition énergétique.

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Titre de sa présentation : Social identity and carbon taxes, article co-écrit avec Emeline Bezin, CREM, CNRS.

Résumé : We explore the idea that citizens' preferences for carbon taxes reflect not only their material self-interest but also concerns for certain social groups to which they feel part of, in line with recent empirical findings. We apply the social identity theory to a simple model of votes for a carbon tax (redistributed through uniform lump-sum transfers) and incorporate heterogeneity in carbon consumption technology, which gives rise to a new social category to which individuals can naturally identify. We show that identification along carbon consumption technologies explains opposition to the carbon tax from individuals who privately benefit from the policy. We determine the social identity equilibrium which imposes that voting choices and identification patterns are consistent with each others and show that a rise in the international price of energy may lead to both a citizens backlash against carbon taxes and the emergence of a new social identity movement based on carbon consumption technology. This result holds when inequalities between groups are strong.


Le séminaire a lieu à 13h30, en salle 227.

Date

On January 9, 2025

Localisation

Complément lieu

Salle 227

Submitted on January 5, 2025

Updated on January 7, 2025