Links between growth and market structure; combining theory and microeconometric analysis; contracts, including contracts in natural resources

Interactions of environment, development and security concerns in international affairs, special emphasis on the role of science and technology

Institutional development; role of beliefs in economic organization; capitalism and poor countries

Social history, economic development, and environmental change; environmental history of the Adriatic and of the Alps; the history of the oil industry

International finance, monetary policy, regional blocs, trade, commodities, climate change policy, and international environmental issues

Issues of growth, macroeconomicstability, international finance, and the social dimensions ofdevelopment

Biodiversity and sustainable development; science and technology policy

How governments protect (or fail to protect) property rights, and how private actors can defend their property rights against predatory governments or in the fact of political instability.  Teaching includes a course on the politics and economics of the energy business.

Chemistry of the atmosphere and oceans, including interactions with the biosphere; evolution of planetary atmospheres; global carbon cycle

Consequences of population on natural resources development; conflict resolution in international river basins; impact of global change on water resources; development of indices of environmental quality and sustainable development

Economic aspects of climate change

International energy issues; regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, air pollution and hazardous wastes; strategy and deregulation in airlines, railroads, telecommunications; financial services