Dr Lucia Sbragia, BA, PhD

Contact Dr Lucia Sbragia (email at lucia.sbragia@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Lucia's research interests include applications of game theoretical concepts and nonlinear dynamic modelling to study environmental and natural resources issues. In particular, her research concerns the sustainability of the commercial exploitation of the fishery and the stability of international environmental agreements to reduce pollution emissions.

Lucia teaches Business Competition and Natural Resource Management.

Mini Biography

Lucia's research interests include applications of game theoretical concepts and nonlinear dynamic modelling to study environmental and natural resources issues. In particular, her research concerns the sustainability of the commercial exploitation of the fishery and the stability of international environmental agreements to reduce pollution emissions.

Research Groups

Business School

• Economics & Finance Department
• Environmental and Energy Economics

Research Interests

• Natural Resource Economics (Fishery and Pollution)
• Static and Dynamic Games (Non-Cooperative Games)

Publications

Chapter in book

• Lamantia, F., Radi, D. & Sbragia, L. (2016). Dynamic Modeling in Renewable Resource Exploitation. In Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems, Tools and Applications for Economic Modelling: Lectures Given at the COST Training School on New Economic Complex Geography at Urbino, Italy, 17-19 September 2015. Bischi, Gian Italo, Panchuk, Anastasiia & Radi, Davide Springer. 257-289.

Journal Article

• Breton, Michele & Sbragia, Lucia (2020). Intra-brand competition in a differentiated oligopoly. Journal of Economics 132(1): 1-40.
• Breton, M & Sbragia, L. (2019). The Impact of Adaptation on the Stability of International Environmental Agreements. Environmental and Resource Economics 74(2): 697-725.
• Breton, M. & Sbragia, L. (2017). Adaptation to Climate Change: Commitment and Timing Issues. Environmental and Resource Economics 68(4): 975-995.
• Breton, M. & Sbragia, L. (2011). Learning under Partial Cooperation and Uncertainty. Cahiers du GERAD G-2001-46.
• Breton, M., Sbragia, L. & Zaccour, G. (2010). A Dynamic Model for international environmental agreements. Environmental and Resource Economics 45(1): 25-48.
• Bahn, O., Breton, M., Sbragia, L. & Zaccour, G. (2009). Stability of international environmental agreements: an illustration with asymmetrical countries. International Transactions in Operational Research 16(3): 307-324.
• Bischi, G.I., Lamantia, F. & Sbragia, L. (2009). Strategic interaction and imitation dynamics in patch differentiated exploitation of fisheries. Ecological Complexity 6(3): 353-362.
• Chiarella C., Dieci R., Gardini L. & Sbragia L. (2008). A model of financial market dynamics with heterogeneous beliefs and state-dependent confidence. Computational Economics 32(1/2): 55-72.
• Bischi, G. I., Sbragia, L. & Szidarovszky, F. (2008). Learning the Demand Function in a Repeated Cournot Oligopoly Game. International Journal of Systems Science 39(4): 403-419.
• Bischi, G.I., Naimzada, A.K. & Sbragia, L. (2007). Oligopoly Games with Local Monopolistic Approximation. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 62(3): 371-388.
• Lamantia, F. & Sbragia, L. (2006). A dynamic model of patch differentiated of fisheries. Pure Mathematics and Applications 16(4): 411-427.
• Naimzada, A.K. & Sbragia, L. (2006). Oligopoly Games with nonlinear demand and cost functions: Two bounded rational adjustment processes. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 29(3): 707-722.

Working Paper

• Breton, M. & Sbragia, L. (2017). The impact of adaptation on the stability of international environmental agreements. G-2017-66.
• Breton, M. & Sbragia, L. (2016). Adaptation to climate change: Commitment and timing issues. Les Cahiers du GERAD G-2016-04.