Midday sessions turned to policy-level applications of BCA, spanning intergenerational discounting, electric vehicle diffusion, and the capitalization of energy efficiency in housing markets. Further papers addressed urban recovery in Ukraine, innovative predictive approaches, multilateral development bank practice in water and sanitation, and the role of BCA in higher education and institutional development.
Parallel Session on Climate, Environment & Energy: Policy Solutions and Spatial Diffusion, chaired by Marco Percoco (Università Bocconi), explored how policy design and spatial patterns shape environmental outcomes. Monika Foltyn-Zarychta and Rafał Buła (University of Economics in Katowice) investigated individual discount rates for intergenerational trade-offs, while Marco Percoco analysed fiscally regressive subsidies and the spatial diffusion of electric vehicles in French cities, and Kryštof Veřtát (Charles University) examined how energy efficiency is capitalised into housing values using spatial econometric modelling.
Under the theme Climate, Environment & Energy: Energy Efficiency, Daniel Herrera (Mines Paris – PSL) chaired Parallel Session 22, which addressed Europe’s energy transition through ICT, housing markets and energy-market design. Konstantinos Varsos (Athens University of Economics and Business) presented the EXIGENCE approach to incentives for carbon-aware ICT services, Marcin Jałbrzykowski (University of Warsaw) discussed the European energy market from an institutional perspective, and Daniel Herrera analysed the effect of phasing out energy-inefficient dwellings on housing demand using a sorting model framework.
Parallel Session 21, Advances in BCA Methods: BCA and Socio-Economic Development, chaired by Daria Kuznetsova (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), highlighted how BCA informs reconstruction and development policy. Daria Kuznetsova and Sviatlana Engerstam (KTH) presented on the use of BCA for urban development in Ukraine’s recovery, Ioannis Stampoulidis (AUEB) introduced innovative methods to improve predictability in BCA, Omran A. H. Musa (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) reviewed the use and quality of BCA in water and sanitation projects across three multilateral development banks, and Lusani Mulaudzi (University of Cape Town) evaluated an academic development programme at a South African university, underscoring BCA’s role in guiding socio-economic progress.
