Romano Tarsia

Romano is a PhD candidate in Environmental Economics at LSE’s Department of Geography and Environment, specialising on climate economics with a focus on climate econometrics. Specifically, he is interested in estimating the economic impacts of climate change using microeconometric techniques and large datasets. He also collaborates on team projects that integrate these climate damage estimates into comprehensive general equilibrium macroeconomic models.

Background

Romano holds a BSc in Economics and Business from the University of Bari, an MSc in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) from Bocconi University and a MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change from LSE.

He was a trainee at the European Central Bank in the Directorate General Economics, later he worked as a research assistant at the Baffi Centre at Bocconi University. He was an Academic Fellow at Bocconi University, in the Department of Economics for the courses Monetary Economics, International Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Scenarios. He was also a graduate teaching assistant at the Polytechnic of Milan for the course International Markets and European Institutions.

At LSE, he is a graduate teaching assistant for the courses Applied Quantitative Methods (GY428), Applied Environmental Economics (GY222) and the Summer School course Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development (EC240). He is funded by the LSE PhD Studentship.

Research interests

• Climate Economics
• Climate Econometrics
• Climate Damage Estimation
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Distributional Impacts of Climate Change
• Applied Econometrics
• Applied Machine Learning