Personal statement
Gioele is a lecturer in economics. He has joined the Department in January 2019 having previously worked as a research associate for the Fraser of Allander Institute and the Centre for Energy Policy at the University of Strathclyde.
Gioele is an economic modeller focussed on the application of Computable General Equilibrium for the analysis of economic policies. Gioele is interested in regional economics and economics of energy and climate change. He has focussed on issues related to the economic consequences of energy efficiency and their ramifications in different parts of the economy. Currently, he is also interested in water utilisation and policies. From a regional perspective, he focusses on regional and international trade of regions and on the economic consequences of regional environmental policies.
Expertise
Has expertise in:
Economic modelling, with a primary focus on Computable General Equilibrium
Energy and environmental economic modelling
Regional trade modelling
Qualifications
2013 MSc in Applied Economics, University of Strathclyde, awarded with distinction
2017 PhD in Economics, University of Strathclyde, awarded with no corrections, Supervisors Professor Karen Turner, Professor Peter McGregor, External Pablo Arocena, Universidad de Navarra. Thesis title "Evaluating the impact of pro environment policies: the case of energy efficiency in the UK and Scotland"
Teaching
Gioele leads teaching on Economic Appraisal and Modelling in the MSc in Applied Economics, Energy Industries and Markets in the MSc in Economics & Policy of Energy and Climate Change and contributes to Economic Policy for the Scottish Graduate Programme in Economics. In addition, he leads a class on Economic Modelling for the Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied Economics.
Research interests
Gioele is interested in regional economics and economics of energy and climate change. He has focussed on issues related to the economic consequences of energy efficiency and their ramifications in different parts of the economy. Currently, he is also interested in water utilisation and policies. From a regional perspective, he focusses on regional and international trade of regions and on the economic consequences of regional environmental policies.
Professional activities
- Resilience of the Scottish economy to COVID-19 related changes in tourism demand
- Speaker
- 22/8/2022
- Launch of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy
- Participant
- 11/5/2022
- Impact and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic on the Scottish tourism industry: a computable general equilibrium analysis
- Contributor
- 9/5/2022
- Fraser of Allander - Tourism Modelling workshop
- Speaker
- 19/1/2022
- Impact and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic on the Scottish tourism industry: a computable general equilibrium analysis
- Contributor
- 27/8/2021
- Is greater regional fiscal autonomy always desirable?
- Speaker
- 10/8/2019
More professional activities
Projects
- The sectoral economic impacts of COVID-19 on the tourism economy: a regional analysis focussed on Scotland
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Connolly, Kevin (Researcher) Maurya, Aditya (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
- SGSSS Partnership Agreement | Duparc-Portier, Geoffroy
- Dickson, Alexander (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Duparc-Portier, Geoffroy (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023
- The macroeconomic impact of Fraunhofer
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Roy, Graeme (Co-investigator)
- 04-Jan-2020 - 25-Jan-2021
- Feasibility Study on Trade Modelling for Scotland
- Roy, Graeme (Principal Investigator) Black, James (Co-investigator) Borbely, Daniel (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Wooton, Ian (Co-investigator)
- 28-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2019
- Modelling the Distribution of Costs from Network Upgrades for Electric Vehicles (EVs)
- Turner, Karen (Principal Investigator) Alabi, Oluwafisayo Titilope (Co-investigator) Calvillo Munoz, Christian (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Co-investigator) Katris, Antonios (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2019
- ClimateXChange 2017/19 PDRF Economics
- Allan, Grant (Principal Investigator) McGregor, Peter (Co-investigator) Turner, Karen (Co-investigator) Figus, Gioele (Researcher)
- 10-Jan-2017 - 09-Jan-2019
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