Publications

Balancing Energy Security Priorities: Portfolio Optimization Approach to Oil Imports

Taylor & Francis Online

The notion of energy security in most interpretations includes the physical supply and price affordability components, making financial risks a crucial part of energy security strategies. Mainstream analysis has focussed on the notion of the physical supply. This paper introduces…

Philipp Galkin, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

The Role of Monetary Policy in Worldwide Solidarity in the Face of Covid-19

T20

The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented symmetric shock worldwide. The main challenge is promptly addressing the reduction in incomes and jobs in order to reduce the short-term losses and to compensate for missing income and growth in the future.…

Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna, Amedeo Argentiero, Paolo Polinori, Maria Chiara D’Errico, Mirko Abbritti, Silvia Micheli, Mustafa Yagci

Estimating the Household Consumption Function in Saudi Arabia: An Error Correction Approach

Taylor & Francis Online

We estimate a micro-founded life-cycle consumption model for Saudi Arabia over the period 1970–2017 using error correction model procedures. Dynamic adjustments are significant, and both income and wealth are found to have significant effects, with a long-run marginal propensity to…

Goblan Al Gahtani, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna, Axel Pierru

Balancing Energy Security Priorities: A Portfolio Optimization Approach to Oil Imports

Philipp Galkin, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna

The idea of energy security emerged after the energy crises of the 1970s. It has evolved from the initial paradigm of assuring sufficient energy supplies to include a price affordability perspective and, eventually, many other energy-related issues, such as infrastructure,…

Galkin, Philipp

Bollino, Carlo Andrea

Bigerna, Simona

Estimating the Household Consumption Function in Saudi Arabia

Goblan Al Gahtani, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna, Axel Pierru

This research is part of a joint project between the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) and the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC). This paper estimates a micro-based life cycle consumption model for Saudi Arabia over the period…

Goblan Al Gahtani

Bollino, Carlo Andrea

Bigerna, Simona

Pierru, Axel

A Comparison of Alternative Programs for Climate Policies

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

This research paper compares the relative welfare impact of different options for allocating the financing burden of climate change mitigation policies. Focusing on efficient ways to finance policies aimed at climate change mitigation, not only at direct carbon reduction, could…

Atalla, Tarek

Bigerna, Simona

Bollino, Carlo Andrea

Estimating the learning curve of solar PV balance–of–system for over 20 countries: Implications and policy recommendations

Journal of Cleaner Production

Solar photovoltaic systems installed on homes and commercial building rooftops are deemed central for a low-carbon future. As capital costs of photovoltaics continue to fall, its role towards making buildings more sustainable and environmentally-friendly will continue to grow. Capital costs…

Amro Elshurafa, Shahad Albardi, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Energy demand elasticities and weather worldwide

Economia Politica

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate a model of aggregate residential and commercial energy demand elasticities, taking into account capital stock and climatic effects. We model a theoretically founded non-linear energy demand system, the generalized almost ideal,…

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Analyzing renewable energy and climate conditions effects on societal welfare worldwide

The Energy Journal

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Rolando Fuentes

Residential Energy demand elasticities and weather worldwide

The Energy Journal

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Comparing renewable energy policies in E.U.15, U.S. and China: A Bayesian DSGE model

Energy Journal

The promotion of renewable energy sources (RES) by governments is one way of helping countries to meet their energy needs while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper, we examine the role of energy policy in RES promotion, based on…

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna

The Economics of Solar PV Energy

HAEE Energy Conference

Amro Elshurafa, Shahad Albardi, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Simona Bigerna

Revealed and stated preferences for CO2 emissions reduction: the missing link

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Analyzing the effects of renewable energy and climate conditions on consumer welfare

Energy Journal

This paper aims to measure the impact of the gradual adoption of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) on the welfare of consumers. To this end, we construct a theoretically founded measure of the true cost of living (TCL) and the equivalence…

Tarek Atalla, Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino, Rolando Fuentes

Renewable energy scenarios for costs reductions in the European Union

Renewable Energy

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Revealed and stated preferences for CO2 emissions reduction: the missing link

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Market Power and Transmission Congestion in the Italian Electricity Market

The Energy Journal

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Renewable energy and market power in the Italian electricity market, Special Issue: “High Shares of Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Market Reform”

The Energy Journal

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Optimal Price Design in the Wholesale Electricity Market, Special Issue: “High Shares of Renewable Energy Sources and Electric Market Reform”

The Energy Journal

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino

Renewables diffusion and contagion effect in the Italian regional electricity markets: assessments and policy implications

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Simona Bigerna, Carlo Andrea Bollino