Alessandro Tavoni

About

Alessandro Tavoni is Professor at the Economics department at Università di Bologna. Prior to that, he was Associate Professor at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He investigates the drivers of cooperative behaviour in the global commons (such as coordinated investment in climate stabilisation). This is tackled through a combination of non-cooperative and evolutionary game theory models, as well as laboratory experiments, surveys and simulations, in an effort to shed light on the potential solutions to environmental dilemmas.

Alessandro is the PI of "GREEN TIPPING", a 5-year ERC Consolidator grant that investigates the effectiveness of "Social Tipping Interventions" to scale up climate cooperation using game theory as well as lab, online and field experiments.

Employment

• Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna Docenti di ruolo di IIa fascia
  2021 - Present
• Università di Bologna
  2019 - Present
• Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna Ricercatori a tempo determinato
  2018 - 2021
• Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna Collaboratori
  2017 - 2018
• Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna Personale esterno ed autonomi
  2017 - 2017
• London School of Economics and Political Science
  2010 - Present

Education

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Projects & Funding

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Publications (61)

• A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy
  2026 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf400
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• Food choice with increased visibility – A field experiment at an environmental economics conference
  2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108816
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• The private solution trap in collective action problems across 34 nations
  2026 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2504632123
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• Cross-System Externalities in Linked Commons: Theory and Laboratory Evidence 
  2026 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7063958
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• An empirical socio-economic indicator of country-level food security
  Environmental Research Letters 2026 DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ae8bc0
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• Representation, Peer Pressure and Punishment in a Public Goods Game
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/s10640-025-00970-6
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• Social Tipping Points
  Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles A Language for Our Common Future 2025 DOI: 10.4324/9781003584056-35
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• A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability
  Science 2024 DOI: 10.1126/science.ado2615
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• From niches to norms: the promise of social tipping interventions to scale climate action
  2024 DOI: 10.1038/s44168-024-00131-3
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• Strategic dimensions of solar geoengineering: economic theory and experiments
  2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2024.102271
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