GREENING TRANSPORT: IS CARBON PRICING SUFFICIENT?
WEBINAR BY PR. ACHIM I. CZERNY
His lecture on « Greening Transport: Is Carbon Pricing Enough? » shed light on how airlines’ competitive strategies can reduce incentives to invest in green technologies, sometimes leading to unexpected consequences for market structure and the environmental performance of the sector.
We extend our sincere thanks to our speaker for the quality of his presentation, as well as to Marc Ivaldi, Emeritus Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, whose comments and insights enriched the discussion.
Please find the replay below.
BIO
Achim I. Czerny is a Full Professor at the Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Previously he was employed as a post-doc at the VU University of Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics, and Assistant Professor of Regulatory Economics at the WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. He studied Economics at TU Berlin and holds a doctoral degree in Economics from TU Berlin.
He is the Vice President of the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA), a member of the Executive Committee of the European Aviation Conference Institute (EACI), Executive Committee member of the Air Transportation Research Association (ATRS), and Chairman of the German Aviation Research Society (GARS). He is in the editorial boards of Economics of Transportation, Italian Economic Journal, Journal of Shipping and Trade, Research in Transportation Economics, Journal of the Air Transport Research Society.
BIO
Marc Ivaldi is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), at CESIfo and at the Institute for Sustainable Aviation (ISA).
He has served as President of the French Association of Transport Economics (AFET), as President of the International Transport Economics Association (ITEA), and as a member of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the Directorate General for Competition.
He is an expert in the use of empirical and quantitative methods for competition and regulation policy and has advised firms as well as competition and regulatory authorities on a wide range of issues in competition economics. Much of his work has been devoted to the analysis of network and transport service industries including rail, air, urban transport, energy, telecommunications, banking, and information technologies. He holds a PhD in Economics of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and a PhD in Economics of the Université des Sciences Sociales of Toulouse.