Chloé Le Coq is Professor of Economics at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (CRED), Research Fellow at the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economics, and Associate Researcher at the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG), University of Cambridge. She also serves as President of the French Association for Energy Economics. Her research focuses on energy economics, with particular interests in electricity markets, market design, regulation, competition, and energy security. Her recent work includes empirical analyses of nuclear safety, technology-mix competition, electricity interconnections, and the economics of the energy transition. She regularly contributes to European energy policy discussions through reports and expert exchanges with policymakers, including at the European Commission.
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Recent and Upcoming Talk
ELECPOR II Annual Conf. Keynote, Lisbon (Oct.2026) DIW Berlin (Sept. 2026), IAEE-Munich (Sept.2026), NAERE 2026 Stockholm (June 2026) BSE-Bordeaux (March 2026) .
Research program
“Unpacking climate change beliefs: how labor market, media narratives, and personal traits shape our views,” with J. Andersson, P. Campa, E.Paltseva, M. Perrotta Berlin (Nov. 2023).
Recent work
Regulation, compliance, proximity:
evidence from nuclear safety
with M. Amore and S. Schwenen.
CEPR 19022, 2025
Regulating a sustainable power sector: insights from the European Market Design
with E. Lazarczyk. Cambridge Handbook on Networks, Platforms, and Utilities, 2025, McGaughey, Ricks, and Sitaraman (Eds.)
Cartels as shock absorbers:
collusion dynamics in times
of macroeconomic instability
with T. Forsbacka and C. Marvão, 2025.
Work in progress
- Renewable energy and nuclear power outages, with A. Johannsen and S. Schwenen
- From shadow to light in developing countries: leveraging the informal electricity market, with B. Crettez and M. Layoun
- Too green to be connected? The moral hazard of the EU Environmental Policy, with E. Paltseva.
- Market transparency through a common data platform: evidence from Nord Pool, with E. Lazarczyk.
- Designing renewable energy auctions: emerging trends in Europe, with O. Rebenaque and F. Roques.
- Unravelling B-Corp (De)Certification: from green to social concerns, with F. Domenec
Recent policy work
- U.S. Sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil: Pressure on Moscow, Strains on Europe with Marian Perotta, FREE Policy Brief, 2025
- Energy security at a cost: the ripple effects of the Baltics’ Desynchronization from the BRELL Network, with E. Lawzarczyk, FREE Policy Brief, 2025.
- Investing in electricity generation for a sustainable energy transition, with T. Tangerås and P. Holmberg, SNS Economic Policy Council Report, 2025.
- Breaking the link: costs and benefits of shutting down Europe’s last gas pipeline from Russia. FREE Policy Brief, 2025.
- The EU gas purchasing mechanism: a game-changer or a storm in a teacup? with E. Paltseva, FREE Policy Brief, 2023.
- Power coming from Russia and Baltic Sea region’s energy security, with E. Lawzarczyk, Energiforsk report, 2023.