Romain Fillon
Université Paris-Saclay (CIRED & Paris-Saclay Applied Economics)
Climate Uncertainties
For his dissertation “Climate Uncertainties” where he delves into some of the most pressing challenges in climate economics, particularly the uncertainties surrounding climate change. His work combines theoretical and applied approaches, addressing both methodological issues and real-world policy implications. In just three years, Romain has authored or co-authored four research papers, with him taking the lead as the first or solo author on each. His first paper has been published in a top field journal (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management). His second project reflects his initiative and independence, as it resulted from a collaboration he began with researchers from Princeton’s High Meadows Environmental Institute and Columbia Business School during his Fulbright-funded stay in the United States.
Filippo Pavanello
ifo Institute and LMU Munich
Essays on economics of adaptation to climate change
His dissertation entitled “Essays on economics of adaptation to climate change” is an important contribution to better understanding the critical nexus of climate adaptation, household technology choices, and mortality outcomes in the context of rising temperatures and energy demand in India. With his thesis, Filippo put forward some methodological innovation in the field of climate change economics and the economics of adaptation. His works makes the case for a stronger integration of adjacent, but still distinct fields of economics, namely development economics and climate change economics.
Rik Rozendaal
Leiden University
On the economic effects of climate policies
For his dissertation entitled “On the economic effects of climate policies”, where he analyses innovation in the car market, how energy price shocks (and climate policy) might affect labor income, and the reason why market leaders in various sectors still invest relatively little in clean technologies, while the smaller firms seem to drive the energy transition. He demonstrates creativity (creating a great measure of environmental stringency in his JAERE publication), curiousity (eager to solve first-order questions related to practical regulation, but also to complex modeling), and courage (moving from empirics to complex dynamic modeling).
