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Dr Caterina Gennaioli

Caterina

Associate Professor of Environmental Economics

Email: c.gennaioli@qmul.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7882 5555
Room Number: Room 2.35, Francis Bancroft Building, Mile End Campus
Office Hours: By appointment

Profile

Roles:

Biography:

Prof. Caterina Gennaioli is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics at Queen Mary University and Co-Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research. She has broad interdisciplinary interests in complex phenomena, mostly related to the environment and climate change. Her research acknowledges the interplay between environmental economics, development and political economy, with distinctive work on imperative issues like climate policy, deforestation, informal waste dumping and conflict. Her recent work revolves around three main themes: i) climate policy evaluation, with a defining focus on its unintended effects, e.g. corruption, carbon leakage, ii) determinants of climate policy adoption at the domestic and international level, and iii) political economy analysis of environmental issues in developing countries.  

Caterina holds an MSc in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University. Before joining Queen Mary, she worked for five years as a Research Officer at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Grantham Research Institute). She joined Queen Mary in 2016 and served as Director of the Centre for Globalisation Research from 2017 to 2025.

Website: www.caterinagennaioli.com

You can find Caterina's CV here

Teaching

Caterina is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and teaches two main postgraduate courses:

  • Workshops on Causal Inference (PhD)

 

 

 

Research

Research Interests:

Caterina is:

  • Associate Dean for Research 
  • Member of the Centre for Globalisation Research 

Her work is based on topics at the intersection between political economy, environment, and development economics. She is generally interested in studying how political institutions influence environmental outcomes. Her research revolves around three main themes: 

  • Climate policy evaluation (eg. impact on firms decisions and political economy outcomes, such as corruption);
  • Determinants of climate policy adoption at the domestic and international level (i.e. international environmental agreements);
  • Environmental issues in developing countries (eg deforestation, illegal waste dumping).

Publications

Journal articles

Working Papers

  • Gennaioli, C., Kameshwara, K., and Lovo, S., 2024. The political economy of environmental regulation: evidence from sand mining in India.

Book Chapters

  • Clare, A., Fankhauser, S. and Gennaioli, C. 2017. The national and international drivers of climate change legislation. In: Averchenkova, Alina, Sam Fankhauser, and Michal Nachmany, eds. Trends in Climate Change Legislation. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.
  • Gennaioli, C., Martin, R., Muuls, M. 2013. Using micro data to examine causal effects of climate policy. In: Handbook on Energy and Climate Change (Roger Fouquet [ed.]), Edwards Elgar Publications. 

Old Working Papers

"Go Divisive or Not? How Political Campaigns Affect Turnout" (CESifo Working Paper No. 3298, Dec.2010).

"Diversity and Media Capture"

 

Supervision

Caterina welcomes applications from prospective PhD students interested in drivers and impacts of climate policy adoption, political economy aspects of environmental regulation, and environmental issues in developing countries.

Current PhD Students

Former Co-Supervised PhD Students

  • Jianjian Gao, - 'International environmental cooperation and climate change laws diffusion: A network analysis.' (School of Data Science, University of Virginia)
  • Abdullah Ijaz, - 'Exploring Links Between Multidimensional Development Indicators and Entrepreneurial Activity In Pakistan.' (School of Business, Operations, and Strategy, Greenwich Business School)

Public Engagement

Caterina has organised a series of public engagement activities at the Centre for Globalisation Research and the IHSS-Climate Emergency Working Group, including:

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