The winners of the 14th Giorgio Rota Best Paper Award for Young Researchers are:
Clara Berestycki, with the paper “The Gravity of Wildfire Smoke: Avoidance Costs Revealed by Mobility Data”.
Thomas Bézy, with the paper “Flood Insurance Affordability Beyond Subsidies: A Welfare Analysis of Public Reinsurance”.
The winning papers will be presented at the Award Ceremony on 25 November 2026, at 2:30 p.m. in Turin, at Collegio Carlo Alberto. [Programme]
Keynote speaker: Prof. Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Victoria University of Wellington, and Professor of Applied Economics at the Gran Sasso Science Institute.
