MAURIZIO MALPEDE
Three Essays on Technological Progress, Natural Resources and Economic Growth
(University of Milano-Bicocca)
Maurizio Malpede (Bicocca University, Milan), whose empirical article “The Dark Side of Batteries: Education, Fertility and Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo” at the crossroads of environmental economics and development economics, deals with a very original subject and is very well conducted.
PAUL NEETZOW
The economics of power system transitions: Modeling pathways and policies for storage, grids and renewables
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Paul Neetzow (Humboldt‐Universität, Berlin) who presented a very interesting paper of applied theory with an illustration on the German case,entitled ” Renewable energy policies in federal government systems”; this paper is submitted to Energy Economics and the other two papers of his thesis have already been published.
LUTZ SAGER
Inequality, Consumer Choice, and the Environment
(The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Lutz Sager (LSE), who presents a very interesting and original paper, combining a theoretical approach and econometric esƟmations, on the degree of regressivity of carbon pricing policies within and across countries, taking into account trade effects, “The Global Consumer Incidence of Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Trade”.
