Claire Gavard, PhD, joined ZEW’s Research Department “Environmental and Climate Economics” in October 2015. Her research focuses on the economic analysis of the European climate policy. As the cornerstone of it is the Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), much of her work so far has been on this instrument and its companion policies for renewable energy and energy efficiency. In particular, she has studied the mechanisms for international cooperation in emissions trading discussed or established in the framework of the international negotiations of the United Nations Framework Conventions on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Claire Gavard holds a PhD in economics from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Paris School of Economics, a master’s degree in innovation management from École Polytechnique and a Master of Science in physics and chemistryfrom École Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles. She conducted part of her doctoral research at the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with Électricité de France, and within the Climate Policy Research Unit of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Before joining ZEW, she gained experience in policy institutions and research centres. She worked at the Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) of the European Commission (first in the unit in charge of the EU ETS, then in the Strategy and Economic Assessment Unit), and at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei under a contract with the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change. In parallel with her research activities, she coordinated advisory activities for the EU negotiators to help them prepare the Paris Agreement, as well as analyses of the impact of the 2030 climate and energy framework on the competitiveness of the European industry. She taught at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and also had field experience in India and Brazil.
Selected Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Gavard, Claire, Sebastian Voigt and Aurélien Genty (2022), Using emissions trading schemes to reduce heterogeneous distortionary taxes: The case of recycling carbon auction revenues to support renewable energy, Energy Policy 168, 113-133. Download
Gavard, Claire and Djamel Kirat (2018), Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances, Energy Economics V. 76, pp. 504-18. Download
Gavard, Claire, Niven Winchester and Sergey Paltsev (2016), Limited Trading of Emissions Permits as a Climate Cooperation Mechanism? US-China and EU-China Examples, Energy Economics. Download
Gavard, Claire (2016), Carbon Price and Wind Power Support in Denmark, Energy Policy. Download
Gavard, Claire, Niven Winchester, Henry Jacoby and Sergey Paltsev (2011), What to Expect from Sectoral Trading, a US-China Example, Climate Change Economics. Download
Discussion and Working Papers
Chlond, Bettina, Claire Gavard and Lisa Jeuck (2021), Supporting Residential Energy Conservation Under Constrained Public Budget: Cost-Effectiveness and Redistribution Analysis of Public Financial Schemes in France, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-056, Mannheim. Download
Gavard, Claire and Niklas Schoch (2021), Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-014, Mannheim. Download
Gavard, Claire and Djamel Kirat (2020), Short-Term Impacts of Carbon Offsetting on Emissions Trading Schemes: Empirical Insights from the EU Experience, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-058, Mannheim. Download
Gavard, Claire, Sebastian Voigt and Aurélien Genty (2018), Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the Case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to Support Renewable Energy, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-058, Mannheim. Download
Gavard, Claire and Djamel Kirat (2017), Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-054, Mannheim. Download
Gavard, Claire (2015), Carbon Price and Wind Power in Denmark, FEEM nota di lavoro 2015.004, Milan. Download
Gavard, Claire and Djamel Kirat (2015), Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances, FEEM nota di lavoro 2015.003, Milan. Download
Gavard, Claire, Niven Winchester and Sergey Paltsev (2013), Limited Sectoral Trading between the EU-ETS and China, MIT JPSPGC Report No. 249, Cambridge. Download
Gavard, Claire (2012), Carbon Price as Renewable Energy Support? Empirical Analysis on Wind Power in Denmark, EUI RSCAS 2012/19, Florence. Download
Gavard, Claire, Niven Winchester, Henry Jacoby and Sergey Paltsev (2011), What to Expect from Sectoral Trading, a US-China Example, MIT JPSPGC Report 193, Cambridge. Download
Gavard, Claire, Niven Winchester, Henry Jacoby and Sergey Paltsev (2011), Sectoral Trading between the EU-ETS and Emerging Countries, MIT JPSPGC Report 193, Appendix A, Cambridge. Download
Expertises
Gavard, Claire and Sebastian Voigt (2017), EU Competitiveness and the 2030 Framework - An Industry Perspective, EU Commission, DG GROW and Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Brussels. Download
Gavard, Claire and Sebastian Voigt (2016), EU Competitiveness and the 2030 Framework - An Industry Perspective, EU Commission, DG GROW and Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), Brussels.
Projects
Current Projects
- Project Duration 01.12.2018 - 30.11.2022Incentives, Fairness and Compliance in International Environmental Agreements
Finished Projects
- Project Duration 01.04.2019 - 31.03.2021The Local Economic Impacts of Wind Power Deployment in Denmark
- Project Duration 01.11.2018 - 30.04.2022Climate Impact Chains in a Globalized World: A Challenge for Germany
- Project Duration 01.09.2018 - 31.05.2022The Economics of Climate Policy Compliance: Monitoring, Reporting, Verification & Enforcement
- Project Duration 01.12.2016 - 30.11.2017EU competitiveness and the 2030 framework – An industry perspective (Part II)
- Project Duration 01.11.2016 - 29.02.2020Research Network for the Development of New Methods in Energy System Modelling (4NEMO)
- Project Duration 27.05.2015 - 30.11.2016EU Competitiveness and the 2030 Framework – An Industry Perspective
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Organisation of Academic Conferences and Workshops
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Bettina Chlond,
Claire Gavard,
Mid-Term Workshop for the COMPLIANCE - BMBF Project,
ZEW, Mannheim, Germany, 2020 -
Dr. Carlo Gallier,
Claire Gavard,
Mid-Term Workshop for the InFairCom - BMBF project,
ZEW, Mannheim, Germany, 2020 -
Dr. Carlo Gallier,
Claire Gavard,
Kick-off Workshop for the InFairCom - BMBF project,
ZEW, Mannheim, Germany, 2019
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Bettina Chlond,
Claire Gavard,
Mid-Term Workshop for the COMPLIANCE - BMBF Project,
Lectures
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2021:
International Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?,
AFSE Annual Congress 2021,
Lille (digital), Frankreich
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2021:
Lessons from the EU Effort Sharing Decision for Supranational Cooperation on Emissions: What has been the Impact on Firms?,
ZEW Econometrics Seminar,
Mannheim (digital), Deutschland -
2021:
Supporting Residential Energy Conservation Under Constrained Public Budget: Cost-effectiveness and Redistribution Analysis of Public Financial Schemes in France,
26 th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Berlin (digital), Deutschland
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2021:
International Climate Finance and Emissions Reductions: What do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?,
2021 International Energy Workshop,
Freiburg (digital), Deutschland
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2020:
Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?,
7th FAERE Annual Conference,
Grenoble (digital, Frankreich
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2020:
Local economic impacts of wind power deployment in Denmark,
FSR Climate Annual Conference 2020,
EUI Florence (digital), Italien
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2020:
Local economic impacts of wind power deployment in Denmark,
ZEW Econometrics Seminar,
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2020:
Compliance under the Effort Sharing Decision in the European Union,
Mid-Term Workshop of the COMPLIANCE BMBF Project,
ZEW Mannheim (digital), Deutschland -
2020:
Climate finance and emission reductions: what do the last twenty years tell us?,
Mid-Term Workshop for InFairCom BMBF Projekt,
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2020:
Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?,
25th EAERE Annual Conference,
digital, Deutschland
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2020:
Public financial support schemes to residential energy efficiency improvement in France: What pays off?,
ZEW Econometrics Seminar,
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2019:
Impact of International Carbon Credits on the Price Volatility and Return in the European Emissions Trading Scheme,
6th FAERE annual conference,
Rennes, Frankreich
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2019:
Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to support Renewable Energy,
AEA-ASSA 2019 meeting,
Atlanta, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
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2019:
How could Article 6.4 mechanism affect regular carbon markets? Analysis of the short-term interactions between the European Emissions Trading Scheme and international carbon credits,
ZEW Environmental and Resource Economics Lunch,
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2019:
Impact of International Carbon Credits on the Returns and Volatilities in Regular Emissions Trading Schemes,
8th Mannheim Energy conference,
ZEW, Mannheim, Deutschland
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2019:
Impact of International Carbon Credits on the Returns and Volatilities in Regular Emissions Trading Schemes,
7th International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues (ISEFI-2019),
Paris, Frankreich
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2019:
Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to support Renewable Energy,
Twelfth Conference on the Economics of Energy and Climate,
Toulouse School of Economics, Toulouse, Frankreich
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2019:
Impact of International Carbon Credits on the Returns and Volatilities in Regular Emissions Trading Schemes,
EAERE 2019,
Manchester, Vereinigtes Königreich
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2018:
Using emissions trading schemes to reduce heterogeneous distortionary taxes: the case of recycling carbon auction revenues to support renewable energy,
FSR Climate Annual Conference 2018,
EUI Florence, Italien
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2018:
Political acceptability of emissions trading schemes and interactions with distortionary taxes: the case of carbon revenues recycling to support renewable energy in the presence of an electricity levy and associated exemption rules,
5th FAERE Annual Conference,
Aix-en-Provence, France, Frankreich
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2018:
Using carbon revenues to support renewable energy: how this can reduce the benefit of exemption rules for energy-intensive sectors,
ZEW Environmental and Resource Economics Lunch Seminar,
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2018:
Using carbon revenues to support renewable energy: how this can reduce the benefit of exemption rules for energy-intensive sectors,
Seventh Mannheim Energy Conference,
ZEW, Mannheim, Deutschland
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2018:
Using Carbon Revenues to Support Renewable Energy: how this can Reduce the Benefit of Electricity Levy Exemptions for Energy-Intensive Sectors,
41st IAEE International Conference,
University of Groningen, Niederlande
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2018:
Using Emissions Trading Schemes to Reduce Heterogeneous Distortionary Taxes: the case of Recycling Carbon Auction Revenues to support Renewable Energy,
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Gothenburg, Königreich Schweden
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2017:
EU competitiveness and the 2030 framework – Impact of recycling carbon auctions revenues to support renewable energy,
Workshop, Informal Workshop on Modeling,
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2017:
Flexibility in the market for International carbon credits and price dynamics difference with European allowances,
FSR Climate Annual Conference 2017,
EUI Florence, Italien
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2017:
Flexibility in the market for International carbon credits and price dynamics difference with European allowances,
ZEW Environmental and Resource Economics Lunch Seminar,
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2016:
Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances,
Fourth International Symposium on Energy and Finance Issues,
Paris, Frankreich
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2016:
Limited Trading of Emissions Permits as a Climate Cooperation Mechanism? US-China and EU-China Examples,
FZU-ZEW Environmental Economics Monthly Brownbag,
Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland
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2016:
Carbon Price and Wind Power in Denmark,
ZEW Environmental and Resource Economics Lunch Seminar,
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2015:
Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances,
EAERE 2016,
Helsinki, Finnland
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2015:
Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances,
FZU-ZEW Environmental Economics Monthly Brownbag,
Universität Heidelberg, Deutschland
more information
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2021:
International Climate Finance and Emission Reductions: What Do the Last Twenty Years Tell Us?,
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