FRANCESCO VONA   

Welcome!

I am Full Professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Milan and Director of the program 'Labour in the low-carbon transition'  of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM).

I am also Research Fellow at the OFCE Sciences-Po, Visiting Research Fellow at the LSE Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and co-Editor of the journal Environmental and Resource Economics.

Current research interests: labor market and innovation impacts of climate and environmental policies; the economics of the just energy transition; political economy of the energy transition; measuring green production, jobs and skills; trade and the environment; labour market impacts of structural transformations; STEM labour markets; intergenerational inequality.

New: Popp, D., Vona, F., Gregoire-Zawilski, M., Marin, G., 2024. ‘The Next Wave of Energy Innovation: Which Technologies? Which Skills?,’ Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, symposium “Climate Change and Energy Transitions”, volume 18 (1), 45-65.  

New: Bontandini, F. and Vona, F. 2023. 'Anatomy of Green Specialization: evidence from EU production data, 1995-2015,' Environmental and Resource Economics, volume 85, 707–740. 

New: Saussay, A., Sato, M., Vona, F., O'Kane, L., 2022. Who's fit for the low-carbon transition? Emerging skills and wage gaps in job ad data. FEEM working paper.

New:  Vona, F., 2023. ‘Managing the Distributional Effects of Climate Policies: A Narrow Path to a Just Transition,’ Ecological Economics 205, 107689. This article is a reduced and radically revised version of the OECD working paper: ‘Managing the Distributional Effects of Environmental and Climate Policies: the narrow path to a triple dividend.'

New: Dussaux, D., Vona, F., Dechezlepretre A., 2022. ‘Imported Carbon Emissions: firm-level evidence,’ Canadian Journal of Economics 56(2), 593-621.