New research projects
- APPLICATE - Assessing Public Policy effectiveness in minimising Local Impacts with Climate-related AdapTation Expenditures (PRIN 2022, PI)
- RE-ADJUST - REgional Assessment of Distributive impacts of a JUst and Sustainable Transition (PRIN-PNRR 2022, head of UNIURB Unit)
- Local sources of vulnerability to climate change and armed conflicts in East Africa (with Federica Cappelli, Valeria Costantini, Mariagrazia D'Angeli and Elena Paglialunga), 2024, Journal of Environmental Management, 355:120403.
- The effects of foreign entry on local innovation by entry mode (with Giacomo Damioli), 2024, Research Policy, 53(3):104957.
- The environmental-financial performance nexus of EU ETS firms: A quantile regression approach (with Andrea Flori and Simone Borghesi), 2024, Energy Economics, 131:107328.
- The Next Wave of Energy Innovation: Which Technologies? Which Skills? (with David Popp, Francesco Vona and Myriam Grégoire-Zawilski), 2024, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 18(1):45-65.
GPE 2017 - Lectures
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Further suggested readings:
- When did globalisation start? The Economist, Sept 23rd 2013
- Maddison A (2001) The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. OECD Development Centre Studies
- O’Rourke, K. H., and Williamson, J. G. (2002) When did globalisation begin? European Review of Economic History, 6(1), 23-50 - also available here
- Poll: Americans increasingly view global economy as a negative for U.S. The Washington Post, Jan 28th 2011
- President Xi Jinping: Don’t Blame Economic Globalization for the World’s Problems, World Economic Forum, Jan 17th 2017
- World Economic Forum says capitalism needs urgent change, The Washington Post, Jan 11th 2017
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Week 4
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Further suggested readings:
- World Trade Report 2010, Chapter C, paragraph 5 (page 91): "The natural resource curse"
- The Economist "What Dutch disease is, and why it's bad", Nov 5th 2014
- The New Yorker "Venezuela's "Resource Curse" will outlive Hugo Chavez", Mar 6th 2013
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From magazines and newspapers:
- Locals deride 'kitsch' Starbucks-sponsored palm trees planted in Milan's cathedral square, The Telegraph, February 16th, 2017
- How activism forced Nike to change its ethical game, The Guardian, July 6th, 2012
- Global Competitiveness Report, World Economic Forum
Week 8
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- Revision before the mid-term exam
- Entry modes
Week 9
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- Topic's assigment
Week 10
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- Technology, Demand and FDIs (Prof. Antonello Zanfei)
Week 11
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- Effects of globalization - Economic growth
- Effects of globalization - Offshoring, wages, skills and migration
- Effects of globalization - FDI linkages and spillovers
Week 12
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- Topics for the final exam
Week 13
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- Role-playing game
- Globalization and the environment
- Antweiler W, Copeland BR, Taylor MS (2001) Is Free Trade Good for the Environment? American Economic Review, 91(4):877-908
- Copeland BR, Taylor MS (2004) Trade, Growth and the Environment. Journal of Economic Literature, 42:7-71
- Cherniwchan J, Copeland BR, Taylor MS (2016) Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results. NBER Working Paper No. 22636
