Christian Gollier is an Economist (Born in Bruxelles, Belgium). He is the Executive Director of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), which he founded with Jean Tirole in 2007. Christian Gollier has published more than a hundred articles in international scientific journals. In addition to his activities as an internationally recognized researcher on Economics of uncertainty and Environmental Economics, Professor Gollier has rich experience in teaching throughout the world. In 2019, he published "Le climat après la fin du mois", published by PUF, which received several awards. He participated in the drafting of the 4th and 5th GIEC reports. He also regularly publishes articles in the written press.
Sessions in which Christian Gollier participates
Wednesday 26 May, 2021
Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:25 AM
9:29 AM EDT -
9:30 AM EDT |
1 minute
9:30 AM
9:30 AM EDT -
10:45 AM EDT |
1 hour 15 minutes
In order to win the world war against climate change, one will have to incentivize billions of people andentreprises to implement a myriad of micro- and macro-actions to reduce global emissions. The problem is that these stakeholders will bear 100% of the cost, and basically 0% of the benefits, which will mostlygoes to future generations. This so-called externality and free-rider problems have only one solution which is unanimously supported by economists. They propose to implement the pollut...