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Alessandro Tavoni

@atavoni.bsky.social
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Environmental & behavioral economist. I am the PI of the Green Tipping ERC Consolidator grant on using social tipping interventions to spur climate cooperation.

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Niko Jaakkola @nikoecon.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Great start to a working week for me & my coauthor Florian Wagener: our paper 'Markov-perfect equilibria in differential games -- with an application to climate policy' has been accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social! It's the first top-5 for either of us, so this is an important moment. 🥳🍾 1/11
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Andrea Titton @nofishlikeian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Find the program and the slides on our website: sites.google.com/view/beeg-bologna/workshops
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BEEG - Workshops
Behavioural Dimensions of Climate Change 2026
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Andrea Titton @nofishlikeian.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Last week, as the Bologna Environmental Economics Group 🐝, we hosted some amazing researchers for the "Behavioural Dimensions of Climate Change" workshop! During events like these, I realise how cool it is to work in academia. #EconSky
Picture of the participants to the workshop standing in front of the projector.
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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New paper out in PNAS from a collective effort of many labs, where we find that private solutions undermine the provision of public solutions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations | PNAS
Collective action problems emerge when individual incentives and group interests are misaligned, as in the case of climate change. Individuals invo...
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Alessandro Tavoni @atavoni.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
🚨Hey #EconJobMarket 🚨We are hiring 2 Post-Doctoral Researchers🚨 See full posting here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... 📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
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Giorgio Dini @giorgiodini.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy to share our latest pub on Ecological Econ. By means of a field exp at the @eaere.bsky.social 2022 Annual Conference, we show that increased visibility of one's food choices relatively affects their sustainability. Joint work with @atavoni.bsky.social, Astrid Dannenberg and Eva Weingärtner.
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Food choice with increased visibility – A field experiment at an environmental economics conference
Food choices and in particular meat consumption have major impacts on the local and global environment, which is why the topic is gaining attention in…
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Emanuele Campiglio @emacampiglio.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Please see below the Fall calendar of events of the Bologna Environmental Economics Group (BEEG). All events are open to everyone—looking forward to seeing you there!
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CESifo @cesifo.org · 06/08/2025
Buongiorno, @atavoni.bsky.social!⭐ We’re pleased to welcome Prof. Alessandro Tavoni to the network. He researches Environmental Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna. 🧐 Learn more about his research: sites.google.com/view/alessan... 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just published a breakdown of the global demographic shift today. There's no global shortage of young people. There are relatively few young white people. (Also, ramping up births still wouldn't solve Global North workforce shortages of next decades) timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/the-compos...
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The Composition of Humanity is Changing
The Global North is old. The Global South is (mostly) young. The implications are huge.
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In May's Environmental and Resource Economics: cooperation is key to managing many environmental problems. Hyoyoung Kim, Doruk İriş, Jinkwon Lee & Alessandro Tavoni examine how representative leadership affects cooperation and punishment. #EconSky @atavoni.bsky.social #EAERE
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Representation, Peer Pressure and Punishment in a Public Goods Game - Environmental and Resource Economics
In our repeated public goods experiment, randomly chosen representatives make decisions on contributions and punishment for both themselves and their team. Confirming previous findings, punishment…
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Alessandro Tavoni @atavoni.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Dystopia is closer than you think www.optimallyirrational.com/p/dystopia-i...
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Dystopia is closer than you think
We take our usual way of life too much for granted
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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Tariffs for oligarchs! www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/o...
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America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel | by Gabriel Zucman - Project Syndicate
Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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