Prof. Dr. Grischa Perino
© Sebastian Engels Fotografie
Current Positions
Professor of Economics, Universität Hamburg
Director, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)
Principal Investigator and Co-Chair of 'Dynamics of Climate Governance: Norms, Contestation, and Policies', Cluster of Excellence 'Climate, Climate Change and Society (CliCCS)
Contact Details
Department of Socioeconomics
Universität Hamburg
Welckerstr. 8
20354 Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49 40 42838-8767
Recent Media Appearances
Germans back a meat tax to improve animal welfare, The Times, 16.02.2023
Mögliche „Fleischsteuer“: Für die Tiere ja, fürs Klima weniger, Tagesspiegel, 16.02.2023
We call on the European Parliament to stick with the Commission's vision for CO₂ emissions reduction (with various colleagues), Le Monde, 07.06.2022 (Euractiv version)
Is there a fatal flaw in the EU's emissions trading scheme? (with Max Willner), EU Observer, 12.01.2022
Börse statt Bäume, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 19.09.2021
Studie: Viele Menschen verstehen die CO2-Bepreisung nicht – aber dies lässt sich ändern, klimafakten.de, 19.07.2021
Besser als Berlin, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 07.05.2021
Wie die Marktstabilitätsreserve den Emissionshandel destabilisiert, Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima, 30.04.2021
The EU ETS needs a new autopilot: a proposed reform for the MSR, LIFE DICET Blog, 19.03.2021
Schildbürgerstreich Kohleausstieg: Teuer und mit ungewisser Klimawirkung, Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima, 12.03.2020
Klimaplan: Warum ein Experte gegen die Solar-Pflicht ist, Interview, Hamburger Abendblatt, 04.12.2019
Fürs Klima: Fliegen verbieten?, Live-Experte (ab 17:30min) bei stern.de DISKUTHEK, 18.07.2019
Klimagerecht, Gastkommentar, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 14.6.2019
Recent Working Papers
Carbon Market Design and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, August 2022
Overlapping climate policies, (with Robert Ritz and Arthur van Benthem), NBER Working Paper 25643, revised version July 2022
Pity the Pig Over Cushioning Climate Change - A Referendum Choice Experiment on Meat Taxation (with Henrike Schwickert), May 2022.
An Upgrade for the EU ETS: Making Art. 29a and 30h fit for effective price containment (with Maximilian Willner), CEN Policy Brief, April 2022.
Free-Riding for Future: Field Experimental Evidence of Strategic Substitutability in Climate Protest (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert and Henrike Schwickert), November 2021.
Arbitrage in cost-based redispatch: Evidence from Germany (with Philip Schnaars), August 2021
EU ETS stability mechanism needs new design (with Michael Pahle, Fabian Pause, Simon Quemin, Hannah Scheuing and Maximilian Willner), February 2021
Self-Signaling in Voting (with Lydia Mechtenberg, Nicolas Treich, Jean-Robert Tyran and Stephanie Wang), CEPR Discussion Paper DP15645, February 2022
The Role of Autonomy and Reactance for Nudging - Experimentally Comparing Defaults to Recommendations and Mandates (with Hendrik Bruns), August 2019
Understanding Sector Coupling: The General Equilibrium Emissions Effects of Electro-Technology and Renewables Deployment (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert), February 2019
Animal welfare is a stronger determinant of public support for meat taxation than climate change mitigation in Germany (with Henrike Schwickert), Nature Food, 4, 160–169, 2023 . Covered e.g. by: Science Media Center, The Times, Tagesspiegel, Stern, Focus, Greenpeace Magazin, Nordbayern, Deutschlandfunk Nova, Bayern 2
The European Union Emissions Trading System Market Stability Reserve: Does It Stabilize or Destabilize the Market? (with Maximilian Willner, Simon Quemin and Michael Pahle), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 16(2), 338-345, 2022.
Meaty arguments and fishy effects: Field experimental evidence on the impact of reasons to reduce meat consumption (with Claudia Schwirplies), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 114, 102667, 2022.
New EU ETS Phase 4 rules temporarily puncture waterbed, Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 262-264, 2018.
The Climate Policy Hold-Up: Green Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements (with Timo Goeschl), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 119(3), 709-732, 2017.
Do Renewable Energy Policies Reduce Carbon Emissions? On Caps and Inter-Industry Leakage (with Johannes Jarke), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 84, 102–124, 2017 (preprint).
Procrastinating Reform: The Impact of the Market Stability Reserve on the EU ETS (with Maximilian Willner), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 80, 37-52, 2016 (preprint).
Climate campaigns, cap-and-trade and carbon leakage: Why reducing your carbon footprint can harm the climate, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2(3), 469-495, 2015 (final version).
Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom (with Bateman, I.J., et al.), Science 341(6141), 45-50, 2013.