Finance Seminar with Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School

On Friday, September 20, 2024, Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School, will be giving a seminar on the paper: Do Subsidies to Green Technical Change Reduce Carbon Emissions? Evidence from French Manufacturing Firms.

Friday, September 20, 2024 - 11:00 to 12:15

The Department of Finance is proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Laurent Bach, ESSEC Business School.

Laurent Bach will present: Do Subsidies to Green Technical Change Reduce Carbon Emissions? Evidence from French Manufacturing Firms.

Abstract:
We study a one-billion-euro investment subsidy program aimed at fostering biomassbased energy adoption in manufacturing. Leveraging rich data on eleven cohorts of subsidized
projects, we show that subsidies cause clean investment to increase, fossil fuel consumption to decrease and biomass consumption to increase. Yearly plant-level CO2 emissions
decrease by 31 %, while activity remains unchanged. Because some beneficiaries are part of the EUETS, aggregate gains from the program are lower; overall, an abated ton of CO2 costs
between 22 and 66 euros. Many selected projects are eventually abandoned, which can partly be explained by energy price shocks.

Location:
Solbjerg Plads 3
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: SPs03

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