Simone Borghesi is Director of the Florence School of Regulation – Climate (FSR Climate), part-time professor at the EUI and Professor of Environmental Economics at the Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Siena, Italy.
He is Secretary General of the Policy Outreach Committee of EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists). He is also member of CEPR-RPN (Center for Economic Policy and Research – Research and Policy Network), member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center on Regulation and Markets of Brookings Institution and Co-director of the research group R4S (Regulation for Sustainability) at the University of Siena. He has been President of IAERE (Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) in the period 2018-19.
He received a M.Sc. in Economics at University College London (1996) and a Ph.D. in Economics at the European University Institute (2001).
He has been member and/or coordinator of several national and international projects and among the leading authors of the report “Pathways to deep decarbonization in Italy” (SDSN United Nations and IDDRI, Paris, 2015).
He has published three books and over 80 articles in edited volumes and peer-reviewed international journals, including Ecological Economics, Energy Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Research Policy, Scandinavian Journal of Economics. His work deals mainly with globalization and sustainability of development, economic growth and environmental degradation, emissions trading and climate change.
Among his latest publications:
– “Climate and Energy Policies After COVID‐19”, (2020), with Delbeke J. (EUI), Glachant J.M. (EUI), Pototschnig A. (EUI), Ranci P. (EUI), Environmental and Resource Economics, 76:501–503, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00493-2
“Satisfied or Reimbursed: An Innovative Index-Based Mechanism for the Environmental Protection of a Tourist Region”, Sustainability, 12 (21), 8762, https://doi.org/10.3390/su12218762
– “Getting married (and divorced): A critical review of the literature on (de)linking Emissions Trading Schemes”, con Zhu T. (The Economic and Social Research Institute, Ireland), Strategic Behavior and the Environment, Vol. 8(3), 219-267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/102.00000095
– “Increasing the ambition of the EU Nationally Determined Contribution: lessons from a survey of experts and students”, (2020), with Alloisio I. (EUI), Nicolli F. (Università di 4 Ferrara), Economia Politica, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40888-020- 00193-6
– “Outward Foreign Direct Investments Patterns of Italian Firms in the EU ETS”, (2020), with Franco C. (University of Pisa) and Marin G. (University of Urbino), The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 122 (1), 219-256, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12323
– “Emission permits, innovation and sanction in an evolutionary game”, (2020), with Antoci A. (Università di Sassari), Iannucci G. (Università di Firenze) and Russu P. (Università di Sassari), Economia Politica, 37, 525–546, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40888-020-00179-4
– “Don’t feed the bears! Environmental defensive expenditures and species-typical behavior in an optimal growth model”, (2019), with Antoci A. (University of Sassari) and Russu P. (University of Sassari), Macroeconomic Dynamics, forthcoming, DOI: 10.1017/S1365100519000397
– “With or without U(K): a pre-Brexit network analysis of the EU ETS”, (2019), with A. Flori (Polytechnic of Milan), PLOS ONE, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221587, pp.1-17
“Enriching the Italian Genuine Saving with water and soil depletion: National trends and regional differences”, (2019), with Blasi P. (University of Siena), Di Matteo M. (University of Siena), Ferrini S. (University of Siena), Rocchi B. (University of Florence), Ecological Indicators, 107, 105573
– “Land use and pollution in a two-sector evolutionary model”, (2019), with Antoci A. (University of Sassari), Iannucci G. (University of Florence), Ticci E. (University of Siena), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 50, 114-125.