Marion Dumas

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

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m.dumas1@lse.ac.uk

I am an environmental economist, with a strong interdisciplinary bent. I hold a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University, an MSc in Ecology from ETH Zurich and a BSc in Earth Sciences from MIT.

My research focuses on the economic and social transformations needed to decarbonise the economy.

A particular focus is on innovation and technological change. I study the determinants of firms’ innovation and investments in radically cleaner technologies and products. One goal of my research is to understand the impact of environmental policies, in particular innovation and industrial policies. Another is to understand these policies and their impact on firm behaviour in the broader institutional and growth context in which they play out, with the goal of improving the institutions that generate and implement policy and broadening our strategies to mitigate climate change. For example, I am interested in missing institutions whose absence cause coordination failures. Can we accelerate the transition by providing these institutions? Does inequality affect the diffusion of green products? Do digital technologies change the dynamics of the transition and if so, should public R&D for the digital transition be targeted at solving the environmental crisis?

I answer these questions using economic theory, as well as drawing on political economy and institutional theories. I use microeconomic methods (game theory, growth theory, econometrics, surveys), supplemented by methods from other disciplines (case studies, complex systems).

I supervise PhD and MSc students. I regularly advise companies, non-profit organisations and policy-makers.

news

Sep 16, 2023 LSE blog post on AI and the transition to clean technologies
Jan 23, 2023 Excited to announce the release of the report “Role of Ministries of Finance in driving and shaping the low carbon transition”, which I co-authored and advised.
Oct 24, 2022 Kickoff meeting of AdJUST in Milan!
Sep 1, 2022 New paper on AI and green innovation is out!

selected publications

  1. Taking the law to court: Citizen suits and the legislative process
    Marion Dumas
    American Journal of Political Science, 2017
  2. Systematic shifts in scaling behavior based on organizational strategy in universities
    Ryan C Taylor, Xiaofan Liang, Manfred D Laubichler, and 3 more authors
    PloS One, 2021
  3. Text as Data in Environmental Economics and Policy
    Eugenie Dugoua, Marion Dumas, and Joëlle Noailly
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2022
  4. Directed technological change and general purpose technologies: can AI accelerate clean energy innovation?
    Pia Andres, Eugenie Dugoua, and Marion Dumas
    2022
  5. Green product innovation in industrial networks: A theoretical model
    Eugenie Dugoua, and Marion Dumas
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021