Simone Borghesi

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Simone Borghesi is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Borghesi has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 23 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and 16 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Simone Borghesi's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (54 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (25 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (21 papers). Simone Borghesi is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (54 papers), Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (25 papers) and Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (21 papers). Simone Borghesi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Denmark and United Kingdom. Simone Borghesi's co-authors include Massimiliano Mazzanti, Giulio Cainelli, Alessandro Vercelli, Angelo Antoci, Dario Caro, Davide Antonioli, Simone Bastianoni, Federico Maria Pulselli, Paolo Russu and Andrea Flori and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Cleaner Production and Research Policy.

In The Last Decade

Simone Borghesi

85 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Linking emission trading to environmental innovation: Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry

2014 448 citations Simone Borghesi, Giulio Cainelli et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Borghesi Italy	20	1.1k	404	371	367	315	91	1.6k
Stewart Elgie Canada	7	1.1k 0.9×	259 0.6×	497 1.3×	214 0.6×	459 1.5×	15	1.5k
Qinglong Shao China	21	1.7k 1.5×	598 1.5×	287 0.8×	595 1.6×	174 0.6×	45	2.3k
Junming Zhu China	20	607 0.5×	224 0.6×	233 0.6×	299 0.8×	342 1.1×	51	1.4k
Misato Sato United Kingdom	17	1.4k 1.2×	615 1.5×	192 0.5×	524 1.4×	246 0.8×	46	1.7k
Thanh Quang Ngo Vietnam	22	1.4k 1.2×	588 1.5×	336 0.9×	157 0.4×	281 0.9×	70	1.9k
Najid Ahmad China	20	1.9k 1.6×	999 2.5×	310 0.8×	500 1.4×	223 0.7×	67	2.4k
Roberto Zoboli Italy	23	1.0k 0.9×	160 0.4×	567 1.5×	279 0.8×	596 1.9×	72	1.9k
Till Requate Germany	24	1.6k 1.4×	580 1.4×	226 0.6×	177 0.5×	254 0.8×	81	2.1k
Muhammad Nasir Malik Pakistan	14	1.7k 1.5×	817 2.0×	167 0.5×	595 1.6×	131 0.4×	32	2.1k
Weng Wai Choong Malaysia	16	670 0.6×	360 0.9×	282 0.8×	351 1.0×	102 0.3×	53	1.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Borghesi

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20 of 20 papers shown

Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2025). Brown Price and Green Firms: An ETS Price Floor for a Clean Transition?. Environmental and Resource Economics. 88(11). 2907–2936. 1 indexed citations

Guastella, Gianni, et al.. (2024). “Carbon” boards and transition risk: Explicit and implicit exposure implications for total stock returns and dividends payouts. Energy Economics. 137. 107779–107779. 4 indexed citations

Antoci, Angelo, et al.. (2023). Five shades of green: Heterogeneous environmental attitudes in an evolutionary game model. Journal of Evolutionary Economics. 33(4). 1345–1363. 2 indexed citations

Verde, Stefano F. & Simone Borghesi. (2022). The International Dimension of the EU Emissions Trading System: Bringing the Pieces Together. Environmental and Resource Economics. 83(1). 23–46. 19 indexed citations

Antoci, Angelo, Simone Borghesi, Marcello Galeotti, & Paolo Russu. (2022). Maladaptation to environmental degradation and the interplay between negative and positive externalities. European Economic Review. 143. 104023–104023. 4 indexed citations

Verde, Stefano F., et al.. (2021). The EU ETS and its companion policies: any insight for China's ETS?. Environment and Development Economics. 26(3). 302–320. 29 indexed citations

Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2020). Getting Married (and Divorced): A Critical Review of the Literature on (De)linking Emissions Trading Schemes. Discovery Research Portal (University of Dundee). 8(3). 219–267. 1 indexed citations

Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2020). Increasing the ambition of the EU Nationally Determined Contribution: lessons from a survey of experts and students. Economia Politica. 39(2). 517–542.

Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2019). Climate Change in the MENA Region: Environmental Risks, Socioeconomic Effects and Policy Challenges for the Future. 289–292. 11 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone & Andrea Flori. (2019). With or without U(K): A pre-Brexit network analysis of the EU ETS. PLoS ONE. 14(9). e0221587–e0221587. 8 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2018). The Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investments in Land and Pollution Accumulation. Environmental and Resource Economics. 72(1). 135–154. 7 indexed citations

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Flori, Andrea & Simone Borghesi. (2016). EU ETS Facets in the Net: How Account Types Influence the Structure of the System. Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha). 1 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone, et al.. (2016). The European Emission Trading System and Its Followers: Comparative Analysis and Linking Perspectives. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 14 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone, Giulio Cainelli, & Massimiliano Mazzanti. (2012). European Emission Trading Scheme and Environmental Innovation: an Empirical Analysis Using CIS data for Italy. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 71(1). 71–97. 11 indexed citations

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Antoci, Angelo, et al.. (2012). ETS and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 1 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone. (2011). The European emission trading scheme and \nrenewable energy policies: credible targets for \nincredible results?. Use Siena air (University of Siena). 23 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone & Alessandro Vercelli. (2010). Greenhouse gas emissions and the energy system: decomposition analysis and the environmental Kuznets curve. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 1 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone & Alessandro Vercelli. (2010). HAPPINESS AND HEALTH: TWO PARADOXES. Journal of Economic Surveys. 26(2). 203–233. 37 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone. (2008). Il sistema dei permessi negoziabili per la gestione dell’acqua : un'analisi dei principali casi di studio. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 116(2). 137–158. 1 indexed citations

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Borghesi, Simone & Alessandro Vercelli. (2008). Global sustainability : social and environmental conditions. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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