Martino Pelli is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Alberta,
where he works with Prof. Ujjayant Chakravorty. He obtained a Ph.D. in Economics at the
University of Lausanne in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Jean Imbs. Martino
completed the Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Student at the Study Centre Gerzensee
in 2007. In his doctoral dissertation he works on environmental issues related to global
warming, renewable resources, energy and trade as well as on the relationship between oil
and the macroeconomy from an empirical perspective. During the summer of 2008 he was a
Ph.D. intern at the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research and he spent the academic
year 2009-2010 as a Visiting Ph.D. student at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona,
Spain) thanks to a scholarship of the Swiss National Research Foundation.

Macro

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Oil Shocks and the Great Moderation: Different Sources, Different Effects (2011)

The oil shocks experienced in the 1970s were fundamentally different from those of the 2000s....

 

Energy-Environmental

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The Elasticity of Substitution between Clean and Dirty Inputs in the Production of Electricity (2011)

I obtain a calibrated estimate of the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty inputs...

 

Trade-Environmental

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The Creative Destruction of Hurricanes (with Jeanne Tschopp) (2012)

This paper investigates whether hurricanes trigger the alignment of a country’s manufacturing exports to its...