Examples from recent & ongoing work

Working papers and selected work in progress 

• Climate Policies for Global Aviation (with A. Straubinger)

• The Welfare Effects of Explicit and Implicit Subsidies on Fossil Fuels (with T. Kalmey and J. Schneider)

• How Cost-Effective Were Subsidies for Solar Energy in Germany? (with J. von Ditfurth)

• Market Structure, Innovation, and Climate Policy (with H. Neumeier and O. Schenker)

• Designing Emissions Trading under Spatial Externalities (with M. Körnig and O. Schenker)

• The Welfare Effects of Border Carbon Measures for Steel Industry Decarbonization (with V. Karplus and E. Park)

• Distributional Effects of EU Carbon Pricing 

• Innovation Dividends from Carbon Revenues (with O. Schenker)

• Fragmented and Overlapping Carbon Marktes in Europe (with J. Abrell)

• Unemployment and welfare from climate policy (with J. Abrell and G. Fredriksson).

• Does Higher Energy Efficiency Lower Economy-Wide Energy Use? (with H. Schwerin). This is an improved version of the paper which was previously circulated under the title "Long-Run Energy Use and the Efficiency Paradox". Media coverage in The Economist.

In the past years, my research has been focusing on the following topics...

Evaluation & design of energy and climate policies  

Environmental taxes (carbon pricing, pollution taxes) and emissions trading systems

Instrument choice & policy design (market-based policies, sectoral & technology policies, command-and-control instruments)

Distributional impacts of climate & energy policy

Interactions between environmental and fiscal policies

De-carbonization of electricity markets and the economics of renewable energy support

Carbon leakage

Co-benefits of climate policies

...developing and applying quantitative methods from (1) computational & empirical economics and (2) applied economic theory: 

Dynamic and static economic equilibrium models (partial and general equilibrium models, growth models, OLG models)

Mathematical programming methods

Energy optimization and energy market models

Modelling energy supply & demand in economy-wide and partial equilibrium models (integrating "top-down" economic and technology-rich "bottom-up" energy models, decomposition methods)

Machine learning, causal inference, and policy evaluation

Modelling household heterogeneity and micro-simulation models