Luis Gautier

PhD in Economics, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Associate Professor

Research interests:

• Environmental economics
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Development economics

Selected publications:

• (2024) “The design of environmental policy for the olive oil sector in the presence of eco-friendly firms” Economic Analysis and Policy.
• (2024) “The Design of Emission Taxes in Markets with New Firm Acquisitions” Environmental & Resource Economics (with Fikru, M.)
• (2023)”Consumption and Production of Cleaner Energy by Prosumers” Energy Economics (with Fikru, M.)
• (2021) “Electric Utility Mergers in the Presence of Distributed Renewable Energy” Energy Economics (with Fikru, M.)
• (2020) “Are big mergers welfare-enhancing” Energy Economics (with Fikru, M.)
• (2019) “Green Alliances and the role of taxation” Environmental & Resource Economics (with Stathopoulou, E.)
• (2017) “Emission taxes and product differentiation in the presence of foreign firms’’ Journal of Public Economic Theory.
• (2017) “Environmental taxation and mergers in oligopoly markets with product differentiation’’ Journal of Economics (with Fikru, M.).
• (2016) “Mergers in Cournot Markets with Environmental Externality and Product Differentiation’’ Resource and Energy Economics (with Fikru, M.)

Teaching:

• Environmental Economics (in English). Graduate
• Economic Analysis I (in English). Undergraduate
• Microeconomics (in English). Undergraduate
• Introduction to Economics. Undergraduate