Selected previous work on assessing distributional impacts of climate & energy, and modelling household heterogeneity

• F. Landis, G. Fredriksson, and S. Rausch (2021). Between- and within-country distributional impacts from harmonizing carbon prices in the EU. Energy Economics, 105585. Working paper version is available here.

• F. Landis, S. Rausch, M. Kosch, C. Böhringer (2019). Efficient and Equitable Policy Design: Taxing Energy Use or Promoting Energy Savings? The Energy Journal, 40(1), 73-104.

• J. Abrell, S. Rausch, and G. Schwarz (2018). How Robust is the Uniform Emissions Pricing Rule to Social Equity Concerns?. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92, 783-814. Working paper version is available here.

• S. Rausch and G. Schwarz (2016), Household Heterogeneity, Aggregation, and Distributional Impacts of Environmental Taxes, Journal of Public Economics, 38, 43-57. Online appendix is available here (PDF, 852 KB). Working paper version is available here.

• S. Rausch and M. Mowers (2014). Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Clean and Renewable Energy Standards for Electricity, Resource and Energy Economics, 36(3), 556-585. (Working paper version is available here.

• S. Rausch, G. E.Metcalf, and J. M. Reilly (2011). Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households, Energy Economics, 33, S20-S33. Also published as NBER Working Paper No. 17087.

• S. Rausch, G. E. Metcalf, J. M. Reilly, and S. Paltsev (2010). Distributional Implications of Alternative U.S. Greenhouse Gas Control Measures, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Symposium, 10(2).

  • Also published as NBER Working Paper No. 16053.

  • Republished in Distributional Aspects of Energy and Climate Policy, edited by Mark Cohen, Don Fullerton, and Robert Topel. Edward Elgar Publishers, 2013.

Ongoing work

• Assessment of direct and indirect carbon pricing measures in non-ETS sectors using a multi-country macroeocnomic model which integrates a comprehensive micro-simulation model at the household level based on newly available data from Eurostat on household expenditure and income. This new quantitative framework will enable analyzing the efficiency and equity tradeoffs of EU energy & climate policy, taking into account across and within-country heterogeneity.

• Assessment of the intergenerational impacts of China's new emissions trading program for various socio-economic groups using a novel framework which integrates an overlapping generations model of the Chinese economy with micro-household survey data.