Applied Environmental and Energy Economics Lab

02.07.2026 - NEW PUBLICATION!

Congratulations to Marco Tomasi and Carlo Fezzi for their publication!

Marco's PhD thesis 2nd chapter, published on Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, studies how consumers' welfare is affected by taxes and labels targeted at reducing carbon emissions from food consumption.

The link to the article is here.

UNITRENTOMAG press coverage is here (in Italian).

22.05.2026 - THE ECONOMICS FESTIVAL

Carlo Fezzi gave a presentation at the prestigius Trento Economics Festival. The talk took place at the Trento Science Museum (MUSE) and the topic was: "Natural Capital: how can we measure the value of biodiversity?".

The video of the talk, in Italian, is available online after registerting here.

12.02.2026 - IAERE CONFERENCE

The A3EL team had a full representation at the Annual IAERE conference in Trento, with oral presentations given by Carlo Fezzi, Nan Zhan, Marco Tomasi, Fabio Cevenini, Alessandro De Palma and Mattia Galante.

Congratulations to Fabio, who was awarded the IEARE young ecnomist award, i.e. the prize for the best paper presented by an economist under 33 years, for his presentation titled: The impact of climate change on fisheries. 

More information on the conference programme are here.

20.09.2025 - SUMMER SCHOOL PRESENTATION

Fabio Cevenini and Carlo Fezzi presented a one-day class on "Environmental Valuation for Coastal prortection" at the Summer School on Bridging Ecology and Economics: Valuation and Restoration of Animal Forests, funded by the MAF-WORLD COST Action.

More information are here.

18.09.2025 - NEW PUBLICATION!

Congratulations to Fabio Cevenini, Alice Bartolini and Carlo Fezzi for their publication.

Their article on Marine Policy proposes a novel estimation method to estimate the number of recreational fishers and their fishing efforts in large and heterogenous regions and countries.

The link to the article is here.

03.06.2025 - NEW PUBLICATION!

Congratulations to Marco Tomasi for his first publication!!

Marco's PhD thesis 1st chapter, published on Journal of Environmental Management, studies how firms’ cost of borrowing is affected by their environmental performance, at different levels of climate policy stringency. Bravo Marco!

The link to the article is here.

20.09.2024 - THEMATIC CONFERENCE SESSION ON THE BLUE ECONOMY

Carlo Fezzi and Silvia Ferrini (University of East Anglia, UK) organized a thematic session on the blue economy at the the Society of Benefit and Cost Analysis (SBCA) 2024 European Conference in Warsaw, Poland. 

This session showcased the work done as part of the Horizon Europe project MARBEFES, with presentations by A3EL members Alice Bartolini and Nan Zhang, among the other speakers. For more information click the link here.

02.09.2024 - NEW PUBLICATION!

Congratulations to Alice Bartolini for her first "first Author" publication!!

Alice's work, published on One Ecosystem, develops a methodological approach to connect biophysical and economic information for ecosystem accounting supply and use tables, with an application to Poseidonia Oceanica in Italy. Great job Alice! 

The link to the article is here.

21.07.2023 - WELCOME NAN!

Nan Zhang has joined our team to work on the Horizon Europe project MARBEFES! Nan has a PhD in Applied Economics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, her research interests are environmental valuation and experimental economics. Welcome Nan!

29.11.2022 - NEW PUBLICATION!

Congratulations to Fabio Cevenini for his first "first Author" publication!!

Fabio's work, published on Marine Policy, combines information from sea bass stock assessment, individual catch data and welfare estimates from a recent choice experiment in order to inform regulatory scenarios for the recreational fishing in the northern sea. Well done Fabio!

You can find the article here.

21.11.2022 - WE ARE HIRING!

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Applied Environmental Economics. This post is part of the Horizon funded, MARBEFES project, which brings together more than 100 leading experts including economists, statisticians, marine biologists, ecologists and geographers.

The primary task of the post holder will be the development and the application of modelling approaches to estimate the economic value of marine biodiversity and related ecosystem services and natural capital.

This post will be supervised by Carlo Fezzi is initially funded for 2 years, but can be renewed further. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!

Apply here (deadline 29th November 2022).