Research fellow
Alessandro joined the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment in October 2010. He is currently investigating the role of fairness motives in sustaining cooperative behavior in the global commons (eg coping with climate change). This is tackled through a combination of evolutionary game theory models, experiments and simulations, in an effort to shed light on how inequity concerns affect environmental management.
Background
Alessandro holds a PhD in Economics from Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice and has been a member of the Levin Lab at Princeton University, as well as a researcher at FEEM and ZEW.
He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Grantham Research Institute.
Research programmes
Co-topic lead for 'Climate change governance|'
Research interests
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Game theory;
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The evolution of norms and other-regarding preferences;
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International environmental agreements;
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Experimental economics.
Research articles
2012
Tavoni, A., Schluter, M., and Levin, S. April 2012. The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management. Journal of Theoretical Biology, v.299, pp.152-161. External link to full article|
2011
Dannenberg, A., Löschel, A., Paolacci, G., Reif, C., and Tavoni, A. Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game. Working paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of article|
Tavoni, A., et al. July 2011. Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change in a public goods game. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., v.108, pp.11825–11829. Download PDF of article| (Also see commentary, in response to paper, from Scott Barrett: 'Avoiding disastrous climate change is possible but not inevitable'. Download PDF of commentary|)
Tavoni, A., Dannenberg, A., Kallis, G., and Löschel, A. January 2011. Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change. Working paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of paper|
Tavoni, A., Schlüter, M., and Levin, S. January 2011. The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management. Working paper, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, UK. Download PDF of paper|
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