Simone D'Alessandro

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at University of Pisa

This study examines policy responses to labor-saving technologies, focusing on employment and income inequality. Using the EUROGREEN model, we assess three scenarios: basic income, job guarantee, and working time reduction. The job guarantee scheme effectively reduces unemployment but raises the fiscal deficit, while working time reduction improves...

In this study, we measure personal normative beliefs, empirical expectations, and normative expectations in a multilevel public goods game, where two local public goods are nested in a global one. We use these measures as indexes of subjective personal and social norms to pursue a twofold objective. On the one hand, we aim to understand whether and...

The effectiveness of statutory minimum wages in reducing income inequality and alleviating working poverty is widely recognized in labour market policy discussions. Less attention has been paid to the potential of salary caps to further reduce wage disparities by targeting the top of the income distribution. In this paper, we simulate the introduct...

In questo contributo utilizziamo il modello di macrosimulazione dinamico EUROGREEN (D’Alessandro et al., 2020; Distefano, D’Alessandro, 2023) per analizzare la trasmissione degli shock dei prezzi dell’energia e dei margini di profitto, nonché l’impatto macroeconomico e distributivo dell’introduzione di una politica di indicizzazione dei salari. Nel...

Several studies argue that the latest advancements in technology could result in a continuous decrease in the employment level, the labour share of income and higher inequalities. This paper investigates policy responses to the rise of labour-saving technologies and their potential negative effects on employment and inequality. Using EUROGREEN (an...

This paper departs from the hypothesis that policies targeting time poverty have the potential to reduce the gender income gap through the redistribution of time use between women and men. To this purpose, we compare two policy mixes and assess the synergies between working time reduction and two universal income schemes: a basic income and care in...

This study investigates the effectiveness of international environmental agreements (IEAs) and how it might be affected by the development of pro-environmental behaviour among households and firms. We propose a new framework based on a two-nested-game approach composed by: (1) a one-shot game with two asymmetric countries that negotiate the interna...

This paper shows that personal norms have a prominent role in explaining pro-social contribution in an online public good game. This finding suggests that the role of social norms might be loosened when subjects are distanced and interaction occurs online and in complete anonymity. Moreover, we found no statistically significant difference between...

The renewable energy policy paradox states that the combination of liberalized markets with low marginal cost and intermittent technologies tends to reduce electricity prices and, hence, the profitability of new investments in wind and solar energy, thus rendering price-incentive policies less effective or more costly. Most simulation models are no...

This paper investigates to what extent green growth is able to promote social equity and which social policies can complement environmental policies to achieve social prosperity and sustainability. We develop a dynamic macrosimulation model to explore the social and structural effects of the Italian national energy and climate plan. We show that gr...

This contribution shows that a relevant curtailment of carbon emissions results from productivity-led working time reduction, i.e. increases in labour productivity converted into less working time. However, the interaction between working time reduction and GDP can constrain the achievement of emission reductions. To explore these interactions, we...

Climate change and increasing income inequality have emerged as twin threats to contemporary standards of living, peace and democracy. These two problems are usually tackled separately in the policy agenda. A new breed of radical proposals have been advanced to manage a fair low-carbon transition. In this spirit, we develop a dynamic macrosimulatio...

In this paper, we contribute to the debate regarding the relationship between lobbying and environmental regulation by explicitly taking into account the role of market competition. We analyse how the number of firms affects both the effectiveness of lobbying in fighting environmental regulation and the individual incentive for firms to switch to g...

We present an incentivized laboratory experiment where a random sample of individuals playing a series of stag hunt games are forced to make their choices under time constraints, while the rest of the players have no time limits to decide. We find that individuals under the time pressure treatment are more likely to play stag (vs. hare) than indivi...

This article investigates the potential impact of sustainable energy action plans (SEAPs) on local development through a two-step methodology involving participatory planning and quantitative analysis. The first phase relies on a participatory system mapping (PSM) approach and generates a causal structure at the basis of the urban model. In the sec...

An Evolutionary approach to International Environmental Agreements SEEDS is an interuniversity research centre. It develops research and higher education projects in the fields of ecological and environmental economics, with a special focus on the role of policy and innovation. Main fields of action are environmental policy, economics of innovation...

This thesis investigates presumptive effects of the political participation on the economic growth through social capital accumulation. Following the introduction, we discuss previous developments and discussions for social capital and political participation within the economic theory in the second chapter. In the third chapter, by using an endoge...

This paper provides a macroeconomic framework to evaluate the social and economic consequences generated by a shift of investment to low-carbon options. We introduce into a standard growth framework a modified Lotka–Volterra model for wage and employment determination to address both the long-run dynamics of the economic system in terms of carbon e...

This paper analyzes different policies that may promote the transition to sustainability, with a particular focus on the energy sector. We present a dynamic simulation model where three different strategies for sustainability are identified: reduction in GHG emissions, improvements in energy efficiency and the development of the renewable energy se...

This paper shows that under weather variability the transformation from a rural to an incomplete market economy can increase the vulnerability of peasants to famine. This can occur even if improvements in technology have raised agricultural productivity and made production less responsive to weather variability. Indeed, negative environmental shock...

In this paper we apply a model of early industrialization to the case of New Zealand and Uruguay in 1870–1940. We show how differences in agricultural institutions may have produced different development paths in two countries which were similar under many respects. While in New Zealand the active role of the Crown in regulating the land market fac...

In this paper we contribute to the debate on the relationship between growth and well-being by studying an endogenous growth model where we allow for externalities in consumption, leisure, and production. We analyze three regimes: a decentralized economy where each household makes isolated choices without considering their external effects, a plann...

This paper focuses on growth feasibility in an era of increasing scarcity of fossil fuels. A stylised dynamic model illustrates the implications of investing in smooth technological progress in the field of renewable energy. Positive rates of GDP growth sustained by fossil fuels entail, on the one hand, more income available for R&D in renewable en...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the link between CSR growth and income distribution. We present a general equilibrium model where social responsibility enters both firms' and consumers' decisions. The model admits the existence of multiple equilibria, each of them characterized by a different diffusion of CSR. We study the conditions un...

Pasinetti's [Pasinetti, L.L., 1960. A mathematical formulation of the Ricardian system. Review of Economic Studies 27, 78-98] model formalizing Ricardian growth theory and one of the simplest models developed within the 'new' growth theory [Rebelo, S., 1991. Long run policy analysis and long run growth. Journal of Political Economy 99, 500-521] are...

In this paper we analyse how the distribution of land property rights affects industrial takeoff and aggregate income through its impact on effective demand. We apply a modified version of the model provided in Murphy et al. (1989, QJE) which allows us to analyse the role of land distribution when it is independent of the distribution of firm owner...

This paper explores the way the man?nature relationship and the related environmental problems have been dealt along with the history of the economic thought. We discuss a number of different theoretical frameworks (classical, Marxian and neoclassical economics, Georgescu-Roegen's approach and ecological economics) and organise the discussion aroun...

This paper analyses how the distribution of agricultural product between landlords and peasants affects both industrial takeoff and aggregate income through the de-mand side. Using a model that builds on Murphy et al. (1989), we find that the relationship between peasants' share of agricultural product and aggregate income is either non-monotonic o...

This paper studies the long-term dynamic interaction between the exploitation of natural resources and population growth. Brander and Taylor [Brander, J.A. and Taylor, M.S. (1998) “The Simple, Economics of Easter Island: a Ricardo–Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use”. American Economic Review, 88 (1) 119–138.] started a sequence of papers which...

This paper analyses how the distribution of land property rights aects industrial takeo and aggregate income through the demand side. We study a stylized economy composed of two sectors, agriculture and manu- facturing. The former produces a single subsistence good while the latter is constituted of a continuum of markets producing distinct commodi...

This paper investigates how the distribution of land property rights affects industrial take-off and aggregate income through the demand side. We study a stylized two sectors economy where the manufacturing sector is assumed to be constituted by a continuum of small markets producing distinct commodities. Following Murphy et al. (1989) we model ind...

This paper focuses on growth feasibility in an era of increasing scarcity of fossil fuels. Our model suggests that high GDP growth makes the economic and environmental sustainability window very narrow. Policy should therefore target low growth rates, stimulate investment in alternative energy sources and discourage consumption growth. Economic gro...

The History of Easter Island Civilization attracted several authors after Brander and Taylor (1998). Most of these studies are simple variations of a standard Ricardian model of growth, in particular we show that these kind of models have the same structure of Pasinetti (1960) except for the fact that they add a renewable natural resource to the tr...

Understanding the relations between economics and ecology is a field which attracted increasing interest in the last decades. Brander and Taylor (1998) started a sequence of papers which try to deduce from historical and archeo-logical studies the main linkages between the two disciplines. Drawing on the same approach, this paper considers the econ...

From 1876 to 1879 and from 1896 to 1902 due to absence of monsoons, India ex- perienced the two worst famines of all times. Karl Polanyi explained the millions of casualties with the introduction of market prices by British colonial institutions, in areas where traditional agricultural societies had kept significant stocks in rainy seasons in order...