Research

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• • Optimal Discounts in Green Public Procurement (joint with Gyula Seres), Economics Letters, Volume 238, May 2024, 111705

  • Green premia are a challenge and an opportunity for climate policy design (joint with Till Köveker, Mats Kröger, Oliver Lösch, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein and Xi Sun), Nature Climate Change, 13, pages 592–595, 2023

  • Too good to be true? Time-inconsistent renewable energy policies (joint with Nils May), Energy Economics, Volume 112, August 2022, 106102 

  • A Green COVID-19 Recovery of the EU Basic Materials Sector: Identifying Potentials, Barriers and Policy Solutions (joint with Timo Gerres, Karsten Neuhoff, Frederik Lettow, Heleen de Coninck, Balázs Felsmann , Eugénie Joltreau, Gauri Khandekar, Pedro Linares, Jörn Richstein, Aleksander Śniegocki, Jan Stede, Tomas Wyns, Cornelis Zandt & Lars Zetterberg ), Climate Policy, Volume 21, Issue 10, 2021, Pages 1328-1346 (top 10 Climate Policy Papers published in 2021 by download) [Non-technical summary here]

  • The Role of Budget Constraints in Sequential Elimination Tournaments (joint with Malin Arve), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 123, 2021, Pages 1059-1087

  • Political corruption in the execution of public contracts, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 179, November 2020, Pages 116-140 [Non-technical summary here]

  • Decentralization and public procurement performance: new evidence from Italy, Economic Inquiry, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 856-880

WORKING PAPERS

• • Public procurement as an innovation policy: where do we stand? (joint with Leonardo Giuffrida and Giancarlo Spagnolo), CEPR Discussion Paper N. 17873, 2023 [Last version here]  (submitted)

  •  Common Ownership Unpacked (joint with Kostas Papadopoulous and Dimitrios Xefteris), UB Economics Working Paper No. 448, 2023 [Last version here] 

  • Time-consistent carbon pricing: the role of carbon contracts for differences (joint with Karsten Neuhoff), DIW Berlin Discussion Paper N. 1859, 2020 [Last version here]

WORK IN PROGRESS

• • The greener, the better? Evidence from goverment contractors  (joint with Leonardo Giuffrida and Ambrogio Dalo')

  • Product design under green regulation (joint with Goonj Mohan)

  • Delegation of complex green procurement (joint with Alessandro De Chiara and Ester Manna)

  • Procurement in times of emergency

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• • Determinants and Effectiveness of Green Public Procurement Adoption, chapter in “Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics”, ed. Klaus F. Zimmermann, Springer Nature, 2022

  • Neuhoff, K., Chiappinelli, O., Kröger, M., Lettow, F., Richstein, F., Schütze, F., Stede, J., and X. Sun (2021), Green Deal for Industry: A Clear Policy Framework Is More Important Than Funding, DIW Weekly Report 10/2021, pages 73-82 (German version here)

  • Kröger, M., Xi, S., Chiappinelli, O., Clemens, M., May, N., Neuhoff, K. and J. Richstein (2020), A Green New Deal after Corona: What We Can Learn from the Financial Crisis, DIW Focus 4/2020 (German version here)

  • Chiappinelli, O., Gruner, F. and G. Weber (2019), Green Public Procurement: Climate Provisions in Public Tenders Can Help Reduce German Carbon Emissions, DIW Weekly Report 51/52/2019, pages 433-441 (German version here)

  • Neuhoff, K. and O. Chiappinelli (2018), Klimafreundliche Herstellung und Nutzung von Grundstoffen: Bündel von Politikmaßnahmen notwendig, DIW Wochenbericht 26/2018, pages 575-583

  • Chiappinelli, O. and V. Zipperer (2017), Using Public Procurement as a Decarbonisation Policy: A Look at Germany, DIW Weekly Report 49/2017, pages 523-532 (German version here)