MONASTEROLO Irene, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance
Research Interest
Climate change impact on the growth-finance-inequality nexus
Indicators of financial portfolios’ exposure to carbon stranded assets
Climate stress test of the financial system and macro-financial networks
Alignment of development banks’ flows to the 1.5 degrees target and the Sustainable Development Goals
Stock-Flow Consistent Agent Based and System Dynamics models
Distributive effects of green monetary policies and green sovereign bonds
Climate change adaptation through the food-water-energy nexus
Role of quality of governance on EU funds absorption and citizens’ perception
Current Projects
"Perception and Evaluation of Regional and Cohesion policies by Europeans and Identification with the Values of Europe” (PERCEIVE), H2020-REFLECTIVE-3-2015. Project coordinator: University of Bologna (IT). http://www.perceiveproject.eu/
“United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)-European Commission (EC) initiative “Building capacities for increased public investment in integrated climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: 2012 – 2015: final program evaluation”.
“Green bonds: the missing link between finance and sustainability”. Collaborative international research project.
Recent Publications
Battiston S., Mandel A, Monasterolo I., Schuetze F. & G. Visentin (2016). A Climate stress-test of the EU financial system. Nature Climate Change, forthcoming.
Howarth C., Monasterolo I. (2016). Understanding barriers to decision making in the energy-food-water nexus: The added value of interdisciplinary approaches. Environmental Science & Policy Journal, Volume 61, July 2016, Pages 53–60.
Monasterolo, I., Pasqualino, R., Janetos, A.C. and Jones, A. (2016). Sustainable and Inclusive Food Systems through the Lenses of a Complex System Thinking Approach - A Bibliometric Review. Agriculture, 6(3), p.44.
Monasterolo, I., Raberto, M. (2016). No Contest: Green versus Brown Subsidies under TTIP trade agreement. In Issues in Brief, The Pardee Center Series, Sept. 2016.
Pasqualino R., Jones AW., Monasterolo I., Phillips A. (2015). Understanding Global Systems Today—A Calibration of the World3-03 Model between 1995 and 2012. Sustainability. 2015; 7(8):9864-9889.