Lucia Sbragia

Dr. Lucia Sbragia

Lecturer in Economics

Department of Economics and Finance
Durham University
23/26 Old Elvet
Durham DH1 3HY, UK

Telephone Office: +44 (0)191 334 6357
Fax Number: +44 (0)191 334 6341
E-mail: [email protected]

Short CV

In 2001 I graduated in Business Economics, summa cum laude, at the University of Urbino (Italy). In 2005 I received my Ph.D. in Economics at the Catholic University of Milan (Italy). The title of my dissertation is “Common pool natural resource management under bounded rationality: a dynamical analysis”. From 2004 to 2006 I was research fellow at the University of Urbino (Italy) to work on the project “Multi-Agents Dynamical Models in Economic and Finance”, funded by the Italian Minister of the University and Research. From 2006 to 2008 I was postdoctoral research fellow at HEC Montreal (QC, Canada) where I worked under the direction of Michèle Breton and Georges Zaccour. The focus of my research was on environmental issues and, in particular, on international environmental agreements aimed at reducing pollution emissions.

I am currently lecturer in Economics at the Economics Department of Durham University (UK).

Research Interests

My main research interests are in the applications of game theoretical concepts to study environmental and natural resources issues. I am particularly interested in the sustainable management of fisheries and pollution emissions.

My current research activity focuses on international environmental agreements aimed at reducing pollution emissions. In my study I weaken some assumptions common in the standard literature, I include some aspects of real international environmental agreements, and I propose some possible solutions to the low cooperation problem. My leading investigating question is about the size and stability of countries participation to these kinds of agreements.