GCP URCM Seminar Series: Regional Approach to Climate Change Issues: Two Cases in Asia-Pacific

Urban and Regional Carbon Management (URCM) and the Global Carbon Project

Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal, Executive Director, Global Carbon Project – Tsukuba International Office

Is the regulation of the transport sector always detrimental to consumers?

Prof. Jacques-François Thisse, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

The aim of this seminar is to qualify the claim that regulating a competitive transport sector is always detrimental to consumers. We show indeed that, although transport deregulation is beneficial to consumers as long as the location of economic activity is fixed, this is no longer true when, in the long run, firms and workers are freely mobile.

Discussion: Long-term implications of transport sector policy and the associated land use change.

Dr. Yoshiki Yamagata, Special Senior Researcher, Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies

Prof. Jacques-Francois Thisse is a noted industrial economist and economic geographer from Universite Catholique de Louvain of Belgium.

Shobhakar Dhakal