UEH Events

• 27 Mar
• 2025

CELG SClimate change, Quality of Government, and Migration

The College of Economics, Law and Government would like to respectfully invite lecturers/ researchers to come and share your experiences at the CELG seminar:

Topic: Climate change, Quality of Government, and Migration

Presenter: Prof. Federico Revelli, University of Torino, Italy

Time: 11 AM, Thursday, March 27, 2025

Location: B1-1203, UEH Campus B, 279 Nguyen Tri Phuong, District 10

We study the impact of climate change on migration by developing a real options model that rigorously formalizes the trade-off between migrating early and procrastinating to learn more about the government’s implementation of an adaptation policy that can effectively moderate the consequences of climate change. The model delivers an unambiguous guide to estimation of the impact of climate change on the occurrence of natural disasters and of the latter on migration decisions within a structural empirical model where the distinct mediation roles of the option value of waiting components (migration cost, home income, quality of government) are specified in a principled way. Evidence from panel data on international bilateral migration flows supports the main predictions of the theory and points to the key mediating role of government.

About presenter:

Federico Revelli holds a PhD in Economics from University College London (1998) and is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Torino, Italy, where he acted as Head of the Department of Economics and Statistics from 2015 to 2021. He sits in the Editorial Board of International Tax and Public Finance and Economia Politica: The Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, and he is member of the International Institute of Public Finance and fellow of the CESifo Research Network, Munich (Germany). His research interests are in multilevel governance, decentralization, cultural and environmental policy, and adaptation to climate change. He has published in several journals including the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, and recently published a book on Empirical Fiscal Federalism for Cambridge University Press.

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