IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award
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The IAERE Young Environmental Economist Award is given to the best paper presented by a young economist at the Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (IAERE).
With this Award the Association aims to reward new ideas addressing key environmental and resource economic issues at the national, European and global scale. Both theoretical and empirical papers will be considered without any restriction of topics.
Eligible candidates should be less than 33 years of age and no more than five years past a PhD defence, should they have a PhD. Presenters indicate their intention to submit their candidacy to the Award during the Conference paper submission process. Only full papers submissions are considered: submitters of extended abstracts are not eligible for this award. Priority will be given to paper written by single author or multiple authors complying with the age requirement.
There is a monetary reward of € 1.000,00 for the presenter of the winning paper.
The Selection Committee comprises the Conference Programme Committee and the IAERE Council, and is co-chaired by the IAERE President and the chair of the Conference Programme Committee.
AWARDEE 2026
Sofia Badini
IIASA - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria)
"Adaptation to droughts in Brazil, 1990-2020"
Fabio Cevenini
University of Trento (Italy)
"The impact of climate change on fisheries"
AWARDEE 2025
Jacopo Lunghi
CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (Italy)
"A Spreading Malaise: Manure Management, Air Pollution, and Health Outcomes in Italy"
Motivation: the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature on the interrelation between air pollution and health diseases. Jacopo focuses on frontier econometrics to isolate the critical role of particulate matter in agricultural activities with interesting policy suggestions
Antonia Pacelli
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and INRAE (France)
"Being a New Entrant or an Incumbent Matters. Emissions Abatement and the EU ETS"
Motivation: the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature on the mechanisms behind the EU carbon market. Antonia focuses rigorously on the design of alternative incentive measures to support firms in introducing cleaner production technologies.
AWARDEE 2024
Ilenia Gaia Romani
University of Brescia (Italy)
"Understanding the future of critical raw materials for the energy transition: SVAR models for the U.S. market"
Motivation: the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature on the future scenarios for critical raw materials. Ilenia focuses rigorously on forecasting methods to formulate policy indications to feed the transition debate
Marco Tedeschi
Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
"Idiosyncratic and systematic spillovers through the renewable energy financial systems"
Motivation: the paper is a valuable contribution to the literature on energy markets and price mechanisms. Marco focuses on the cointegration approach as a tool to address the role of financial markets in driving energy price trends offering a valuable guidance for portfolio optimization.
AWARDEE 2023
Francesco Scotti
Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, Politecnico di Milano and Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics
"Demand pull and technology push environmentalinnovation: a policy mix analysis on EU ETS and EU Cohesion Policy"
Motivation: The paper proposes an original analysis on the interplay between technology-push and demand-pull policies and it discusses the way through which such policy mix has directed technological change towards environmental goals.
Marco Quatrosi
University of Palermo and SEEDS - Sustainability Environmental Economics and Dynamics Studies
"Using random forests to predict subjective well-being in OECD regions"
Motivation: the paper unveils, by means of an original statistical methodology, the multiple causalities between well-being and different drivers, including the role of linkages in the social network individuals are exposed to. A significant policy advice arises for setting the rules of better targeted social welfare-oriented actions.
AWARDEE 2022
Lea Crepin
Paris-Saclay University (Paris-Saclay Applied Economics) and Climate Economics Chair (France)
"Do forest conservation policies undermine the soybean sector in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from the blacklisting of municipalities
Maurizio Malpede
University of Verona (Italy)
"The Dark Side of Batteries: Child Labor and Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"
AWARDEE 2022 - IAERE 10th Anniversary Young Scholars' Awards
Federica Cappelli (Roma Tre University, IT)
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.
Phuong Ho (Centre for Applied Research at Norwegian School of Economics, NO)
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.
Alessandro Spiganti (Ca’ Foscari University and CMCC)
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
AWARDEE 2021
Maria Maria Alsina-Pujols
University of Zurich - Department of Economics (Switzerland)
"Climate refugees and carbon pricing "
Marica Valente
Berlin School of Economics, Humboldt University, and DIW Berlin (Germany)
"Heterogeneous effects of waste pricing policies "
AWARDEE 2020
Isabel Hovdahl
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
“Temperature variation and mortality”
Giulia Chersoni
University of Turin (Italy)
“An agent-based model of retrofit diffusion: a behavioral economic approach”
AWARDEE 2019
Tomas Badura
Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE), University of East Anglia, UK
"A new approach to capturing the spatial dimensions of value within choice experiments "
Elisabetta Cornago
OECD, France
"Evaluating the impact of urban road pricing on the use of green transport modes: The case of Milan "
AWARDEE 2018
UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, UK
"Global Economic and Food Security Impacts of Demand-driven Water Scarcity"
AWARDEE 2017
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
"Impact of Climate Change on Malaria: A Quantile Regression Analysis"
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Joint Research Centre, European Commission
"Demand-pull and environmental innovations: estimating the effects of innovative public procurement"
AWARDEE 2016
Grantham Research Institute and LSE Cities, London School of Economics
"Pork Barrel as a Signaling Tool: The Case of US Environmental Policy"