Luca Taschini is an Associate Professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zurich, is an alumnus of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change (MIT), and is a visiting scholar at the Research Center for Sustainability Science, Ritsumeikan University in Japan. His interests are Permit market design, price manipulation, and participation restrictions; System linking and networking; Investment decisions under uncertainty; Energy economics; Real options, and Experimental markets for emission permits.