Luca Taschini
Associate Professor / Reader in Carbon Finance at Edinburgh Business School
Senior Dahrendorf Research Fellow at The London School of Economics and Political Science
Schools
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Edinburgh Business School
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Biography
Edinburgh Business School
Luca is Reader at the University of Edinburgh Business School and an Associate Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics where he is a member of the Sustainable Finance and the Policy Design and Evaluation research programmes. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Zurich.
Luca has published research on a wide range of issues and works with international organisations, governments and businesses on topics of shared interest, such as carbon pricing, sustainable finance and investments.
Luca is a CESifo Research Network Fellow and he was previously a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, U.S.A. and Visiting Scholar at the Research Center for Sustainability Science at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
Research Taxonomy
- Carbon markets and low carbon investment
- Empirical asset pricing
- Finance & investment
- Financial decision-making
- Industrial organization
- Mathematical finance
- Optimization
- Stochastic modelling
Research Interests
Luca works at the intersection of industrial organisation, environmental economics and finance. He has been applying his research to real-life policies. His research has been supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the European Research Council, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation and the Environmental Defence Fund.
Research Area
- Accounting and Finance
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Awards
Dahrendorf Research Fellowship
Experience Keywords
Carbon markets; Energy Economics; Environmental economics; Industrial organization
Research Summary
Luca Taschini is an economist, working at the intersection of environmental economics, energy markets, and industrial organization. His current research investigates how market-based environmental regulation - and emissions trading schemes in particular - are working in theory and in practice. In particular, he is studying the functioning of price containment mechanisms, participation restrictions, the linkage of markets and the investigation of policy controls able to promote technology adoption.
Luca is one of the work-package leader of the FP7 Entracte project (2012-2015) and is currently coordinating the research on the EU ETS reform where he is investigating options for structural measures to improve the European Union Emissions Trading System. Preliminary results are already influencing the policy discussion in Europe and in China where Luca is consulting local authorities.
He is also the Chair of the Dahrendorf Working Group on the "economics and climate change". This working group aims at identifying a feasible climate policy mix to achieve long-term greenhouse gas reduction targets in Europe. The project is focusing on price-based (carbon taxes, subsidies, feed-in-tariffs) and quantity-based (renewable standards, emission permits) instruments and their interaction with additional policy instruments.
Research Countries
Australia; Brazil; Chile; China; Europe; South Africa; US
Videos
Interactions with other policies and the Market Stability Reserve | Luca Taschini
Annual Climate Conference 2019 | Luca Taschini interview
Luca Taschini: "A largo plazo, las energías renovables reducirán el coste de la electricidad"
Luca Taschini on the Dahrendorf Symposium 2013
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