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List of suggested topics for thesis

for RESD students

List of suggested topics

Elettra Agliardi

§ Financial Derivatives and climate change

§ Evolutions of institutions and ambiguity in the context of climate change

§  Climate finance 

§ Green bonds​

§  Facilitating transition: real option valuation for green growth, energy and technology transition.

Thanasis Stengos

§  Empirical approaches to the effect of emissions on growth

§  The Environmental Kuznets Curve: different methods of estimation analysis

§ Empirical investigation of the trade off between clean and conventional energy sources in affecting growth.

Rainer Andergassen

§  Economic growth and sustainability

§  Technological change and innovation incentives: green vs dirty technologies

§  Natural disasters and risk management

Anastasios Xepapadeas

§  Cost Benefit Analysis in General Infrastructure, or Renewable Energy using the EU Guidelines.

§  Climate Change Impacts on Output Growth and/or Total Factor Productivity.

§  Spatial Aspects in the Management of Resources and the Environment.

§ Coalition Formation and International Agreements under Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation, Geoengineering, and Solar Radiation Management.

§ The UN Sustainable Development Goals in the Context of Sustainability Measurement through Genuine Savings or Comprehensive Wealth

Konstantinos Chalvatzis

§ Regulating Energy Innovation: Comparative policies for energy storage and smart grid technologies in EU countries (particular focus on the UK, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Greece) 

§ The EU single energy market and the role of the EU policies in enabling innovation in the energy sector (focus on energy storage and smart-grid technologies)

§ From energy consumer to energy prosumer: transforming the EU citizens

Melania D’Angelosante

§  The EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS)

§  Waste (management) as a resource

§  The environmental liability directive

Roberto Dieci

§  Agent-Based models for resource economics and management

§  Dynamic models in agricultural and resource economics

§  Mathematical modeling of emission markets

§ Mathematical modeling of agricultural price fluctuations

§ Mathematical models of tipping points and application to environmental economics and policy

Luca Fanelli

§ The econometrics of climate change (review level)

§ Shocks identification in applied macroeconomics (intermediate/advanced level)

§ The identification and measurement of oil shocks (advanced level).

Anna Montini

§  The economic cost of environmental impacts on human health

§  Appraisal of total economic value of environmental goods (specific case study to be defined)

§  Cost-benefit analysis of new municipal solid waste collection methods (or other case study to be detailed)

Roberto Patuelli

§  Regional social capital and environmental concerns

§  Balancing transport accessibility and the environment

§  The double dividend hypothesis in developing countries

Corrado Benassi

§  Income polarization and political polarization

§  Income distribution and the working of markets

§  Income distribution and macroeconomic performance

§  Foundations of inequality and poverty measurement; measurement theory

§  Optimal population and sustainability

§  Mixed oligopolies and welfare

§  Ethical foundations of welfare theories 

Alessandro Tavoni

§ Media coverage, public awareness and climate tweets (Empirical)

§  Identifying drivers of cooperation in the laboratory (Experimental Economics)

§  Identifying drivers of cooperation in the field (Experimental Economics)

§  Eliciting climate change views with surveys (Empirical)

§  The political economy of international environmental agreements (IEA): the interplay between domenstic politics and IEA in coalition formation models (Game Theory)

§  Evolution of cooperation and common pool resource management (Game Theory)

Maria Gabrielli Baldarelli

§ Eco-justice and gambling: the role of accountability

§ Women, accounting and SDG

§ Social, environmental Accounting and poverty

§ Social , environmental and sustainable Accounting and accountability in Economy of communion entities 

Federica Farneti

§ Social Reports/sustainability reports of Italian provincial governments (international organisations): A Longitudinal Analysis.
§ Insights on non-financial disclosure in major corporations and reflections on SMEs, before and after the directive 95/2014: the path towards greater transparency?
§ Integrated reporting: Losing legitimacy when reporting talk is not supported by actions.
§ Social and environmental auditing