Environmental and development economics, Applied econometrics
Luisito Bertinelli is Associate Professor in economics at the University of Luxembourg since 2003. He graduated in International Economic Relations (Sciences Po Paris, 1999) and got a PhD in Economics (Université catholique de Louvain, 2003).
His present research focuses around environmental and development issues. He has made a number of contributions, notably on the impact of climate factors on economic development. Part of his recent work revolves around the use of satellite based data to understand social and economic phenomena.
His work has been published in a number of renowned journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, among others.