Valeria Costantini is a Full Professor of Economic Policy at University Roma Tre. She is the President and a Council Member of IAERE, the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She specializes in climate change economics, sustainable energy transitions, and environmental policy. Her research focuses on technological innovation, green strategies, and the socioeconomic impacts of climate change, with significant international collaborative projects.  

Lectures:

Her lectures will explore the challenges of transitioning to sustainable development, examining climate change's intersection with socioeconomic factors, migration, and inequality, and evaluate policy responses ranging from international agreements to the EU's green energy initiatives and carbon adjustment mechanisms. 

Syllabus and Reading list available here: syllabus

Stefan Ambec is INRAE Research Professor at Toulouse School of Economics where he leads the TSE Energy and Climate Center. He is Editor-in-Chief for Resource and Energy Economics.

 His research focuses on the impacts of environmental policies: about their efficiency, fairness properties, their effect on firms’ strategies, on the welfare of citizens, and their behavior. 

Lectures:

Fighting climate change requires to replace fossil energy sources with renewables for electricity generation, transport and manufacturing. The class will introduce students to the research frontier on the design of public policies and electricity markets for the transition to a low carbon economy.

Reading List:

Ambec and Crampes (2019) Decarbonizing electricity generation with intermittent sources of energy, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 6(6): 919-948.

Ambec and Crampes (2021) Real-time electricity pricing to balance green energy intermittency, Energy Economics, 2021.

Ambec and Yang (2024) Climate policy with electricity trade, Resource and Energy Economics, 2024.

Cahana, Fabra, Reguant and Wang (2023) The distribution impact of real-time pricing, working paper 

Fowlie et al. (2021) Default Effects and Follow-on Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program Review of Economic Studies 

Reguant (2019) The Efficiency and Sectorial Distributional Implications of Large-Scale Renewable Policies, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics.