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Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni is director of the new research center based in Milan RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment. He is also associate professor at the Department of Management, Politecnico di Milano.
In 2014-15 he has been a fellow at the the Center for the Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University, and from 2008 to 2010 he was post doctoral research associate at Princeton University. His research is about energy and climate change economics, and specifically the modeling and evaluation of international climate mitigation policies. He is also interested in the interplay between energy, climate and environmental policies. Massimo has published extensively in the peer reviewed literature, including work that was featured in “Time” magazine’s list of “The 50 Best Inventions of 2009”. He is a lead author for the 5th assessment report of the IPCC, the co-director of the annual International Energy Workshop and deputy editor for the journal Climatic Change.
In his limited free time (3 kids!) he loves to do ski mountaineering and be in the wild.
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Post Published by Massimo Tavoni
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Long term, cross-country effects of buildings insulation policies
Implementing building codes are an effective policy instrument to reduce buildings energy [...]
Sep
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Calibrating agent based models to real data affects the timing and speed of the energy transition
Abstract The building sector has a high potential to reduce energy consumption. Achieving this [...]
Sep
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The role of the discount rate for emission pathways and negative emissions
Abstract The importance of the discount rate in cost-benefit analysis of long term problems, [...]
Sep
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Behavioral assumptions in global energy models need unpacking
Energy demand reduction is critical to comply to the Paris Agreement climate policy ambition, [...]
Jul
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That’s all folks!
COBHAM is now over but updating regularly this website has been the constant effort of our team [...]
Jun
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Final insights from our research
We just held our final conference in Brussels: download the presentation with the key results [...]
May
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It’s So Hot in Here: Information Avoidance, Moral Wiggle Room, and High Air Conditioning Usage
Environmental policies based on information provision are widespread, but have often proven [...]
May
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How Long Does It Last -and Why? A Field Experiment on Information Provision and Energy Efficiency in China
We study the short and long-term eects of information provision on ecient lighting through an [...]
May
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Functional Data Analysis of high-frequency load curves reveals drivers of residential electricity consumption
Smart energy meters generate real time, high frequency data which can foster demand management [...]
May
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Peer and Social Interaction Effects on the Adoption of Improved Cookstoves: Experimental Evidence from Mali
Using a randomized experiment, we assess the impact of a training session where information on [...]
May
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Urgency and engagement: a field experiment of the impact of message content on consumption awareness
We study how to foster engagement in the energy sector, a market where signals about [...]
May
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Nudges: complements or substitutes of traditional energy policy instruments?
Though nudges are gaining attention as complements to traditional policies, evidence of the [...]
May
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY SYMPOSIUM
Together with the EC funded projects CONSEED and PENNY, we will hold our final conference in [...]
Jan
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Nudges to affect environmental behaviors
In this article, we analyse how combining different behavioural interventions may affect the [...]
Oct
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Nordhaus and Romer, to me
The two Nobel laureates have actually been fundamental for my research since I started working [...]
Oct
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Country-Level Social Cost of Carbon
I have participated to a novel international study - published in NCC - indicating that actual [...]
Jul
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How many can we be?
I am afraid I have no single, or simple, answer. There are only different futures, with [...]
Feb
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Negotiators’ responses to climate model forecasts
Check out our freshly published article on Nature Climate Change which reveals an effective [...]
Jul
27
New grant won by our researchers
In collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Lahore School of Economics, we just won [...]
Jun
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Cobham workshop on field experiments in Venice
Next 29th June 2016 from 3 to 6.30 PM, COBHAM is co-organizing a workshop in Venice on "Field [...]
Sep
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Behavioral public policy is here
President Obama has issued yesterday a new Executive Order named "Behavioral Science Insights [...]
Mar
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The good news: in 2014 global greenhouse gas emissions apparently remained the same as in the [...]