Courses Taught
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Topics in Energy and Climate Policy (taught with Massimo Filippini)
Graduate course
Spring 2022, 2023 and 2024, ETH Zürich
Description: This block-course offers students the possibility to deepen their knowledge on energy and climate policy issues by presenting and discussing some scientific papers that analyse the economic aspects of energy and climate policy instruments.
After taking this course, students will be able to:
• Engage in, participate and learn from discussion on the design, implementation and effectiveness of energy and climate policy instruments.
• Read, present and discuss scientific papers that analyse issues in energy and climate policy critically.
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Energy Economics and Policy (taught with Massimo Filippini)
Graduate course
Spring 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, ETH Zürich
Description: An introduction to energy economics and policy that covers the following topics: energy demand, investment in energy efficiency, investment in renewables, energy markets, market failures and behavioral anomalies, market-based and non-market based energy and climate policy instruments in industrialized and developing countries.
The students will develop an understanding of economic principles and tools necessary to analyze energy issues and to understand energy and climate policy instruments. Emphasis will be put on empirical analysis of energy demand and supply, market failures, behavioral anomalies, energy and climate policy instruments in industrialized and developing countries, and investments in renewables and in energy-efficient technologies.
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Applied Econometrics in Environmental and Energy Economics (taught with Davide Cerruti)
Graduate course
Fall 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, ETH Zürich
Description: The course introduces students to the most common empirical methods for the analysis of issues in environmental, energy, and resource economics. The course includes computer laboratory sessions, and covers the following broad topics: demand models, discrete choice models, empirical methods in policy evaluation, field- and quasi-experiments.
At the end of the course, the students will be able to: understand the most common empirical methodologies used in environmental, energy, and resource economics; understand the problems the methodologies learnt in class aim to address; appreciate the importance of causal inference in empirical economics; read and understand the research papers in the literature; apply the empirical methods learnt in class using the software R.