AWARDS
The Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE) is now proud to state the IAERE10 Tour has just concluded obtaining great achievements and deep appreciation by all the participants. A big thank goes to all the organizers and presenters of the IAERE10 Tour Events for accepting to be part of the IAERE effort to sow the seeds of environmental and resource economics in Italy and beyond. The tour ended by announcing the winners of the IAERE Tenth Anniversary Young Scholars Awards: Phuong Ho, Elena Cappelli and Alessandro Spiganti.
Phuong Ho
Centre for Applied Research at Norwegian School of Economics, NO
Paper: The Costs and Environmental Justice Concerns of NIMBY in Solid Waste Disposal
Motivation: the paper studies the economic and environmental costs of NIMBY laws using, in an original and thorough way, inter-counties flows of solid waste disposal in US. It provides interesting evidence on aggregate but also on distributional aspects of such laws when implemented.
Federica Cappelli
Roma Tre University, IT
Paper: The trap of climate change-induced “natural” disasters and inequality
Motivation: the paper unveils, using bidirectional lenses, the climate-change induced natural disasters, inequality and vulnerability nexus using a panel of 149 countries. The empirical analysis is thorough and it depicts the presence of a vicious cycle that keeps some countries stuck in a disasters-inequality trap.
Alessandro Spiganti
Ca’ Foscari University and CMCC
Paper: The Carbon Bubble: Climate Policy in a Fire-Sale Model of Deleveraging
Motivation: the paper theoretically discusses the macroeconomic implications of the Carbon Bubble, and thoroughly outlines its short-medium term risks. Additionally, it provides clear policy implications on how policies can mitigate the risks of occurrence of a Carbon Bubble, making climate policies more credible