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I am a PhD candidate at Toulouse School of Economics. My main research fields are Empirical Industrial Organization and Structural Econometrics. My secondary interests are Environmental Economics and Competition Policy.
I am on the job market in 2020-2021 and will be available for virtual interviews at the EEA and ASSA meetings.
You can access my job market paper here and my CV here.
You can contact me at kevin.remmy.001@gmail.com.
PhD in Economics, 2021 (Expected)
Toulouse School of Economics
M.Sc in Economics, 2016
Toulouse School of Economics
Bachelor in Economics and Management, 2014
University of Luxembourg
This paper shows how subsidy design affects market outcomes in multi-product oligopolies when firms can adjust prices and product attributes. I show this in the electric vehicle (EV) market that is characterized by subsidies and falling input prices. Using novel data from Germany, I estimate an equilibrium model of demand and supply of new cars. On the supply side, firms respond to subsidies by adjusting their electric vehicles' price and driving range. I find that the marginal cost of providing range decreased by 33% from 2012 to 2018. This decrease led to more expensive EVs with a higher range and a higher markup. Conversely, a subsidy introduced in Germany led to cheaper EVs with a lower range and a lower markup. Finally, I compare different subsidy schemes and find that policymakers face a trade-off between maximizing diffusion, minimizing CO2 emissions, and distributional aspects.