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IAERE organized its fourth conference in Bologna in February 2016. New exciting conferences are already planned for 2017 and 2018 respectively at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and at the University of Turin. The Bologna event further consolidated the association and confirmed the relevant share of involved young scholars working in Italy and abroad. The two keynote speakers provided valuable insights that covered a wide area of issues, comprising many realms such as environmental economics and management, but also ecological economics and political economy of environmental policy. The presence of Mathieu Glachant was also aimed at interacting with other European associations, the new FAERE in that case, which is among the key goals of our Italian association.
The conference was also rich of policy oriented insights and attention to current environmental policy developments in Italy and Europe. In order to further invest in policy oriented analysis, IAERE is placing, among its key objectives, strong interactions with the Ministry of Environment, Land and Sea, with ISPRA (the Italian environmental protection institute) and with ENEA; many more are planned to be involved, along various directions, in the near future. The involvement of private firms and industries is also increasingly relevant to IAERE. Future events will try to intensify IAERE networking with Italian and European scientific associations and Governmental bodies at all levels of governance.
Massimiliano Mazzanti
IAERE President
The Fourth Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists was hosted by the Department of Economics, University of Bologna (11-12 February, 2016), with the financial support of Hera SpA and Automobili Lamborghini SpA. It has been confirmed as a good meeting occasion for Italian and foreign environmental economists with heterogeneous interests.
The final program included 59 presentations over 12 parallel sessions and for the first time a plenary policy session with a discussion on the Environmental Bill (“Collegato ambientale”) connected to the stability law 2014 recently approved as “Measures for green economy and resource efficiency”. The policy session was chaired by Aldo Ravazzi Douvan and included contributions of Carlo Carraro, Edoardo Croci, Alberto Majocchi and Massimiliano Mazzanti.
Two keynote speeches, held by Jeroen van den Bergh and Matthew Glachant on the rebound effect and the economics of corporate sustainability successfully attracted a large number of scholars. This year Conference has also launched the IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award, a recognition that was given to the best paper presented by a young economist. The winner was Helia Costa, from the LSE Cities and the Grantham Research Institute, with the paper “Pork Barrel as a Signaling Tool: The Case of US Environmental Policy”.
The Conference ended with a visit to the Basilica of Santo Stefano - sometimes called “le Sette Chiese”, the seven Churches - which for more than a thousand years has been known as the ‘sancta Jerusalem Bononiensis’, Bologna’s holy Jerusalem, located in one of the most beautiful Bologna’s piazze.
The IAERE Conference is becoming a recognized Italian forum for high quality discussion, with a large number of young researchers attending the meeting; this is a good base for the future of our Association. See you next year in Rome!
Anna Montini
Chair of IAERE/2016 Organising Committee
University of Bologna
The Fifth IAERE Annual Conference will be held at the Department of Economics and Finance, University of Rome "Tor Vergata" 16-17 February 2017, in collaboration with CEIS Research Centre.
The 2016 IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award was awarded to
Hélia COSTA, from the Grantham Research Institute and LSE Cities, London School of Economics.
Her paper "Pork Barrel as a Signaling Tool: The Case of US Environmental Policy" uses an interesting theoretical approach integrated with an excellent empirical analysis, based on a yearly US dataset 1970-2000, with important implications for the theoretical literature on politically driven policy distorsion, as well as for governance discussions around mechanisms aimed at preventing inefficient behaviour. The empirical findings of the paper show that the environmental expenditures in the US are influenced by electorate preferences elicitation and prone to distortions to get electoral advantage, via signaling mechanisms. The paper has a political economy perspective with some interactions with political sciences.
The Award was announced at the Fourth IAERE Annual Conference hosted by the Department of Economics of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna on February 11-12, 2016.
IAERE will organise an informal meeting during the upcoming EAERE Annual Conference, taking place in Zurich on June 22nd-25th, 2016.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 22nd, from 15.00 to 16.00, in the conference venue.
This is intended to present IAERE future events, already planned and in fieri, and share ideas on how to improve the service to our members. All interested scholars are very welcome to join and provide hints on how to further extend and enhance IAERE activities.
IAERE and the Italian Economic Association (Società Italiana degli Economisti – SIE) are jointly organizing a session on “Low carbon economic dynamics and technological pathways” at the 57th Annual Conference of the Italian Economic Association, to be held in Milan (University “L. Bocconi”) on October 20th-22nd, 2016.
Manuscripts, including abstract of no more than 200 words, key words and JEL classification, should be submitted here.
Each submitter can send one paper. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2016. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent to corresponding authors within July 10, 2016.
Further information and the full text of the call for papers are available at the conference website.
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