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Contact

Email xavier@uvigo.gal

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Positions held in scientific societies
Founding Member and Secretary of the Spanish Association for Energy Economics (2004-2010), Spanish chapter of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE).
Positions held on scientific committees of other entities
Member of the Policy Outreach Committee de la European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE) (since 2018). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Elcano Royal Institute (since 2022)
Journal editorial committees
Ad hoc associate editor (special issues) of Energy Journal (2008), Energy Economics (2010-2018), Resource and Energy Economics (2023) and SERIEs (2021).
Recognitions obtained
Extraordinary Doctorate Prize of the University of Vigo (1999)Medal for the research career in the field of economics and social sciences awarded by the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences in its first edition (2019) Prize of the Asociación Hispanoportuguesa de Economía Ambiental y de los Recursos Naturales (AERNA) for the best publication in its academic field (2018/2019); Alexandre Pedrós Prize for the best article published in HPE/Review of Public Economics (2021)

Xavier Labandeira Villot

Permanent Researchers
Academic and professional trajectory

Master’s degree in environmental and Natural Resource Economics from University College London (1994) and European PhD from the Universidade de Vigo (1998). Professor in the Department of Applied Economics since 2009 and member of the REDE research group at the Universidade de Vigo, where he has taught public and environmental economics and coordinated the (official) Master in Sustainable Development Management between 2008 and 2014. Director of Economics for Energy since 2010, a research centre participated by universities and companies that seeks to create and transmit rigorous knowledge to the different agents of Spanish society on energy issues. He is a research affiliate of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at MIT. Between 2014 and 2017 he was director of the Florence School of Regulation-Climate at the European University Institute (Florence), a centre specialising in the economic analysis of EU climate policies. He was part of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for the preparation of the Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports (completed in 2014 and 2022) respectively as lead author and review editor. He held the Chair on Economics of Climate Change at the Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) between 2007 and 2009. He participated in the Committee of Experts for the preparation of the White Paper on the Reform of the Spanish Tax System, presented in March 2022.

Research topics and main scientific contributions
Research activity at the frontier between climate, public, environmental and energy economics.
Most relevant directed projects

Evaluation of Policies for Energy Transition’ (RTI2018-093692-B-100), funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Knowledge Generation Projects). September 2023-December 2026 (Principal Investigator).

Innovation, Investment, Infrastructure and sector Integration: Transformative policies for a Climate-neutral European Union (4I-TRACTION)’, funded by H2020 European Commission. June 2021-May 2024 (Project Manager at the University of Vigo)

‘Transport and policies for the energy transition to a low-carbon economy in Spain’ (RTI2018-093692-B-100), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (R&D Projects Societal Challenges). January 2019-September 2022 (Principal Investigator).

Supporting the Implementation and Development of the EUETS’ (LIFE15 GIC/IT/000051), funded by the European Commission through its LIFE programme. September 2016-May 2018 (Project Manager at EUI).

‘Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe’ (ID730403), funded by the European Commission through its H2020 programme. December 2016-November 2020 (Principal Investigator of the EUI team).

Reference to main publications

1. ‘Major Reforms in Electricity Pricing: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment’ Economic Journal, Vol. 132 (2022), págs. 1517-1541 (con Labeaga, J.M. y Teixidó, J.); 2. ‘Transport Taxes and Decarbonization in Spain: Distributional Impacts and Compensation’ HPE/Review of Public Economics, 236 (2021), págs. 101-136 (con Gago, A., Labeaga, J.M. y López-Otero, X.) 3. ‘Energy Taxation, Subsidy Removal and Poverty in Mexico’ Environment and Development Economics, Vol. 26 (2021), págs. 239-260 (con Labeaga, J.M. y López-Otero, X.); 4. ‘Exploring Energy Use in Retail Stores: A Field Experiment’ Energy Economics, Vol. 84 (2019), 104570 (con Loureiro, M.); 5. ‘Free Allocation Rules in the EU Emissions Trading System: What does the Empirical Literature Show?’ Climate Policy, Vol. 19 (2019), págs. 439-452 (con Verde, S., Teixidó, J. y Marcantonini, C.); 6. ‘A Meta-analysis on the Price Elasticity of Energy Demand’, Energy Policy, 102 (2017), págs. 549-568 (con Labeaga, J.M. y López-Otero, X.); 7. ‘Pro-environmental Households and Energy Efficiency in Spain’, Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 62 (2016), págs. 367-393 (con Ramos, A. y Löschel, A.); 8. ‘The Price of Energy Efficiency in the Spanish Car Market’, Transport Policy, 36, págs. 272-282 (2014); 9. ‘Energy Efficiency: Economics and Policy’, Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 24 (2010), págs. 573-592 (con Linares, P.); 10. ‘A Residential Energy Demand System for Spain’, Energy Journal, Vol. 27 (2006), págs. 87-112 (con Labeaga, J.M. y Rodríguez, M.)

Transfer activities

The guarantor dedicates a considerable part of its time to socially disseminate its research findings and to promote knowledge transfer in the field of energy and environmental economics by organising events, giving seminars, participating in debates, media, etc. More information at: https://labandeira.eu/es/dissemination.php

Other merits of interest

Six-year research periods: 5; Six-year transfer periods: 1; Five-year teaching periods: 6; H-index (Scopus): 20