Alessandro Tavoni
Alessandro’s research spans several topics in environmental economics, primarily related to the drivers of cooperation in the (climate) commons. This is tackled through a combination of non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory models, as well as laboratory experiments, surveys and simulations, in an effort to shed light on the potential solutions to environmental dilemmas.
Background
Alessandro holds a PhD in Economics from Universita’ Ca’ Foscari di Venezia (2011). He is also an Associate Researcher at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), as well as a member of the Levin Lab at Princeton University and an International Fellow of the Sogang Experimental Economics Laboratory in Korea.
Research interests
- Game theory;
- International environmental agreements;
- Experimental economics;
- Coupled social-ecological systems.
Research articles
- Climate negotiators’ and scientists’ assessments of the climate negotiations
9 May 2017. Astrid Dannenberg, Sonja Zitzelsberger, Alessandro Tavoni - A bargaining experiment on heterogeneity and side dealsin climate negotiations
5 May 2017. Greer Gosnell, Alessandro Tavoni - Long-term scenarios: Energy pathways in the UK
6 Mar 2017. Alessandro Tavoni - Luring others into climate action: coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects
17 Feb 2017. Valentina Bosetti, Melanie Heugues, Alessandro Tavoni - Using adaptation insurance to incentivize climate-change mitigation
10 Feb 2017. Alessandro Tavoni - Resilience in the global food system
9 Feb 2017. Alessandro Tavoni - How green are green economists?
7 Dec 2016. Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni - How green are green economists?
30 Nov 2016. Stefano Carattini, Alessandro Tavoni - Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements
25 Sep 2016. Carmen Marchiori, Simon Dietz, Alessandro Tavoni - Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks
14 Sep 2016. Alessandro Tavoni - Past and present biophysical redundancy of countries as a buffer to changes in food supply
17 May 2016. Alessandro Tavoni - Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons
6 Jan 2016. Alessandro Tavoni - Network Economics and the Environment: Insights and Perspectives
8 Sep 2015. Alessandro Tavoni - Managing the climate commons at the nexus of ecology, behaviour and economics
26 Nov 2014. Alessandro Tavoni, Simon Levin - Evolutionary escape from the climate dilemma: Comment on “Climate change governance, cooperation and self-organization” by Pacheco, Vasconcelos and Santos
30 Jun 2014. Alessandro Tavoni - Climate engineering reconsidered
30 Jun 2014. Antony Millner, Alessandro Tavoni - On the provision of public goods with probabilistic and ambiguous thresholds
6 May 2014. Alessandro Tavoni - Regime shifts in a social-ecological system
21 Jul 2013. Alessandro Tavoni - Game theory: Building up cooperation
14 Jul 2013. Alessandro Tavoni - Coordinating to protect the global climate
20 Feb 2013. Alessandro Tavoni - The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
20 Apr 2012. Alessandro Tavoni - Climate Change Policies: global challenges and future prospects (edited by Cerdá, Labandeira )
20 Mar 2012. Alessandro Tavoni - Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change in a public goods game
19 Jul 2011. Alessandro Tavoni
Working papers
- Observing the unobservable: a field experiment on early adopters of a climate-friendly behavior
16 Jul 2021 - Monitoring and punishment networks in a common-pool resource dilemma: experimental evidence
31 Jan 2018 - Cooperation in the climate commons
18 Jan 2017 - A bargaining experiment on heterogeneity and side deals in climate negotiations
15 Aug 2016 - How green are economists?
28 Jul 2016 - Tipping points and loss aversion in international environmental agreements
20 May 2016 - Tipping and reference points in climate change games
20 May 2016 - Delegation and public pressure in a threshold public goods game: theory and experimental evidence
20 Mar 2015 - Luring others into climate action: Coalition formation games with threshold and spillover effects
13 Jan 2015 - Robustness of norm-driven cooperation in the commons to environmental variability
1 Jan 2014 - Network economics and the environment: insights and perspectives
1 Jan 2014 - Regime shifts in a social-ecological system
1 Jan 2013 - Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements
1 Aug 2012 - Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
1 Nov 2011 - The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management
1 Jan 2011 - Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change
1 Jan 2011
- UK emissions should be ‘net-zero’ by 2070 at the latest, study says (on www.carbonbrief.org)
10 Mar 2017 - Climate engineering offers little hope of mitigation (on phys.org)
4 Jul 2014 - Climate pact may depend on side deals by poor nations (on www.scidev.net)
29 May 2014 - México y el cambio climático (on www.hispantv.com)
14 Aug 2013 - Why do we see unilateral action on climate change?
5 Dec 2012