Humberto Llavador
Visiting Senior Fellow
While visiting the Grantham Research Institute, Humberto will continue his work on issues of global distributive justice in the presence of climate change and their effects on human welfare. Humberto intends to extend the analysis of a sustainabilitarian approach to contexts of uncertainty about the probability of a climate catastrophe, and analyze the bargaining problem for the allocation of the carbon budget.
Background
Humberto has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Davis, and is currently Associate Professor of economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and affiliate professor of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BarcelonaGSE). His research has focused on the economics of climate change, political economy, and welfare economics. He has held several visiting and teaching appointments at Yale University, and was a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton during the 2009-2010. In 2012 he received the Recognition Jaume Vicens-Vives from the Catalan Government for teaching quality and innovation. He has also acted as external consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP).
His research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Development Economics and Climatic Change, among others.
He has just published the book Sustainability for a Warming Planet (Harvard University Press, June 2015), jointly with John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre, where they present a sustainabilitarian approach to the normative economic analysis of climate change.
Research interests
- Redistributive and welfare implications of climate change.
- Sustainability and growth.
- Political Economy: elections, agenda setting and democratization.
- Welfare economics and distributive justice.
