Research

Publications in Refereed Journals (Google Scholar site)

• Self-signaling in voting (with Lydia Mechtenberg, Nicolas Treich, Jean-Robert Tyran and Stephanie Wang), Journal of Public Economics, 231, 105070 , 2024.

• Free riding in climate protests (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert and Henrike Schwickert), Nature Climate Change, 13(11), 1197–1202, 2023.

• The Market Stability Reserve in the EU Emissions Trading System: A Critical Review (with Simone Borghesi, Michael Pahle, Simon Quemin and Maximilian Willner), Annual Review of Resource Economics, 15, 131-152, 2023.

• The Role of Autonomy and Reactance for Nudging - Experimentally Comparing Defaults to Recommendations and Mandates (with Hendrik Bruns), Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 106, 102047, 2023.

• 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, 3sat

• 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.

• Closing the Implementation Gap: Obstacles in Reaching Net-Zero Pledges in the EU and Germany (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert, Felix Schenuit, Martin Wickel and Cathrin Zengerling), Politics and Governance, 10(3), 213-225, 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.

• Meating Conflict: Toward a Model of Ambivalence-Motivated Meat Reduction (with Shiva Pauer, Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Matthew B. Ruby and Frenk van Harreveld), Foods, 11(7), 921, 2022.

• Beyond Control – Policy Incoherence of the EU ETS (with Maximilian Willner), Politics and Governance, 10(1), 256-264, 2022.

• Point at, nudge, or push private provisions of a public good? (with Hendrik Bruns), Economic Inquiry, 59(3), 996-1007, 2021.

• Energy Efficiency Promotion Backfires Under Cap-and-Trade (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert), Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 62, 101189 , 2020.

• Reply to: EU ETS and the waterbed effect, Nature Climate Change, 9(10), 736, 2019.

• Rushing the impatient: Allowance reserves and the time profile of low-carbon investments (with Maximilian Willner), Environmental and Resource Economics, 74(2), 845-863, 2019

• New EU ETS Phase 4 rules temporarily puncture waterbed, Nature Climate Change, 8(4), 262-264, 2018.

  • Author Correction: New EU ETS Phase 4 rules temporarily puncture waterbed. Nature Climate Change, 9(4), 340, 2019. 

• EU-ETS Phase IV: Allowance prices, design choices and the market stability reserve (with Maximilian Willner), Climate Policy, 17(7), 936-946, 2017.

• 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.

• Banning incandescent light bulbs in the shadow of the EU Emission Trading System (with Thomas Pioch), Climate Policy, 17(5), 678-686, 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).

• The warden attitude: an investigation of the value of interaction with everyday wildlife (with Michael Brock and Robert Sugden), Environmental and Resource Economics, 67(1), 127–155, 2017.

• 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).

• Motivation crowding in real consumption decisions: Who is messing with my groceries? (with Luca Panzone and Tim Swanson), Economic Inquiry, 52(2), 592-607, 2014.

• The value of urban green space in Britain: a methodological framework for spatially referenced benefit transfer (with Barnaby Andrews, Andreas Kontoleon and Ian Bateman), Environmental and Resource Economics, Special Issue: Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, 57(2), 251-272, 2014.

• Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services (with Bateman, I.J., Harwood, A. R., Abson, D., Andrews, B., Crowe, A., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Haines-Young, R., Hulme, M., Kontoleon, A., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Paterson, J., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G. and Termansen, M.), Environmental and Resource Economics, Special Issue: Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, 57(2), 273-297, 2014.

• The benefits of spatially differentiated regulation: The response to acid rain by United States' states prior to the Acid Rain Program (with Olena Talavera), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 96(1), 108-123, 2014.

• Ecosystem Services: Response (with Bateman, I.J., Harwood, A. R., Mace, G. M., Watson, R. T., Abson, D., Andrews, B., Binner, A., Crowe, A., Day, B. H., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Hadley, D., Haines-Young, R., Hulme, M., Kontoleon, A., Lovett, A. A., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Paterson, J., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G., van Soest, D. and Termansen, M.), Science 342(6157), 421-422, 2013.

• Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom (with Bateman, I.J., Harwood, A. R., Mace, G. M., Watson, R. T., Abson, D., Andrews, B., Binner, A., Crowe, A., Day, B. H., Dugdale, S., Fezzi, C., Foden, J., Hadley, D., Haines-Young, R., Hulme, M., Kontoleon, A., Lovett, A. A., Munday, P., Pascual, U., Paterson, J., Sen, A., Siriwardena, G., van Soest, D. and Termansen, M.), Science 341(6141), 45-50, 2013.

• Does more stringent environmental regulation induce or reduce technology adoption?: When the rate of technology adoption is inverted U-shaped (with Till Requate), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 64(3), 456-467, 2012 (working paper version).

• Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment (with Timo Goeschl), Environmental and Resource Economics 52(2), 195-212, 2012.

• Technology Diffusion with Market Power in the Upstream Industry, Environmental and Resource Economics 46(4), 403-428, 2010.

• How Delegation Improves Commitment, Economics Letters 106(2), 137-139, 2010.

• On Backstops and Boomerangs: Environmental R&D under Technological Uncertainty (with Timo Goeschl), Energy Economics 31(5), 800-809, 2009.

• Wasting Innovation – Barriers to Entry and European Regulation on Waste Electronic Equipment (with Dario Mock), European Journal of Law and Economics 26(1), 1-10, 2008.

• The merits of new pollutants and how to get them when patents are granted, Environmental and Resource Economics 40(3), 313-327, 2008. 

• Innovation without magic bullets: Stock pollution and R&D sequences (with Timo Goeschl), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 54(2), 146-161, 2007.

Policy Reports

• An Upgrade for the EU ETS: Making Art. 29a and 30h fit for effective price containment (with Maximilian Willner), CEN Policy Brief, April 2022.

• Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2021 (with Stammer, Detlef; Anita Engels; Jochem Marotzke; Eduardo Gresse; Christopher Hedemann; Jan Petzold (eds.) )

• Den EU-Emissionshandel zukunftsfähig gestalten: Ein verbesserter Stabilitätsmechanismus für verlässlicheren Klimaschutz (mit Maximilian Willner & Michael Pahle), Ariadne Analyse, April 2021.

• EU ETS stability mechanism needs new design (with Michael Pahle, Fabian Pause, Simon Quemin, Hannah Scheuing and Maximilian Willner), CEN Policy Brief, February 2021 [FSR Talk on the paper and discussion with Jos Delbeke on YouTube]

• Wegmarken für das EU-Klimaziel 2030: Versteckte Risiken und Chancen der Szenarien der EU-Kommission für den Pfad zur Klimaneutralität (mit Michèle Knodt, Michael Pahle, Nils aus dem Moore, Ottmar Edenhofer, Ulrich Fahl, Benjamin Görlach, Mirjam Kosch, Fabian Pause, Sabine Schlacke et al.), Ariadne-Kurzdossier, Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK), Dez. 2020

• The Flexcap – An Innovative CO2 Pricing for Germany (with Christian Traeger, Karen Pittel, Till Requate und Alex Schmitt), ifo DICE Report 18 (1), 42-48, 2020

• Das Flexcap – eine innovative CO2-Bepreisung für Deutschland (mit Christian Traeger, Karen Pittel, Till Requate und Alex Schmitt), ifo Schnelldienst, 72 Nr. 18, 2019

I am a lead author on three chapters and one supporting paper of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment.

• Chapter 10: Urban

• Chapter 22: Economic Values from Ecosystems

• Chapter 26: Valuing Changes in Ecosystem Services: Scenario Analysis

• Urban greenspace amenity

Some media coverage: Nature, Science, The Economist, BBC News (TV), BBC News (online), BBC Radio 4 Today, Financial Times, Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph

Working Papers

• The Impact of Information Provision on Revealed-Preference Support for Climate Policies (with Daniela Flörchinger, Johannes Jarke-Neuert and Manuel Frondel), April 2024

• Complexity and Learning Effects in Voluntary Climate Action: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert, Daniela Flörchinger and Manuel Frondel), April 2023

• Carbon Market Design and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, August 2022 (R&R Journal of Environmental Economics and Management)

• Overlapping climate policies, (with Robert Ritz and Arthur van Benthem), preevious version circulated as NBER Working Paper 25643, R&R Economic Journal

• Arbitrage in cost-based redispatch: Evidence from Germany (with Philip Schnaars), August 2021, R&R Energy Economics

• Understanding Sector Coupling: The General Equilibrium Emissions Effects of Electro-Technology and Renewables Deployment (with Johannes Jarke-Neuert), February 2019

• For 'better' or 'worse': a direct approach to elicit preference rankings from life-satisfaction data (with Sonja Köke), WiSo-HH Working Paper Series, No. 43, August 2017 [A presentation at the Workshop 'Fundamental Issues in the Measurement of Subjective Well-Being' of the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge on 5th February 2021 can be viewed here.]

• Price Discrimination Based on Downstream Regulation: Evidence from the Market for SO2 Scrubbers, CCP Working Paper 10-9

Work in Progress

• Does discourse breed an appetite for COVID-19 vaccination? An online experiment on group dynamics, arguments and narratives (with Juliane Koch and Lydia Mechtenberg)

• The impact of COVID-19 and anticipation of the 'Fit-for-55' package on prices and cap adjustments in the EU ETS (with Michael Tanner and Moritz Werner)

Miscellaneous

• Reform und Erweiterung des EU-Emissionshandels, Audit Committee Quaterly, I/2023, 70-72.

• 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

• Wie die Marktstabilitätsreserve den Emissionshandel destabilisiert, Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima, 30.04.2021

• Reform of the EU ETS: does the Market Stability Reserve need a new design?, FSR Talk (in discussion with Jos Delbeke), 07.04.2021

• The EU ETS needs a new autopilot: a proposed reform for the MSR, LIFE DICET Blog, 19.03.2021

• Die zweite Halbzeit der Energiewende braucht neue Spielregeln,  Erneuerbare Energien Hamburg Blog, 21.01.2021

• Zwei auf einen Streich:  COVID-19 und die Transformation zur CO2-Netto-Null, politische ökologie, 163, 28-33, Dezember 2020

• When power saving harms the climate (with Jarke-Neuert, Johannes), Sustainable Future Policy Lab: Analyses, 2020-003. 

• Schildbürgerstreich Kohleausstieg: Teuer und mit ungewisser Klimawirkung, Tagesspiegel Background Energie & Klima, 12.03.2020 

• Zu Fuß gehen ist besser, Interview zu E-Scootern, taz, 03.08.2019

• Fürs Klima: Fliegen verbieten?, Live-Experte (ab 17:30min) bei: stern.de DISKUTHEK, 18.07.2019

• Komplexes System: Verzicht ist nicht die Lösung, Kolumne, Tagesspiegel Causa, 15. Juni 2019

• Klimagerecht, Gastkommentar, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 14. Juni 2019

• Die Reform des EU-Emissionshandels hat auch Nachteile, Editorial, Deutsches Klima Konsortium, April 2018

• Reform des Emissionshandels ist kontraproduktiv, Editorial, Deutsches Klima Konsortium, November 2016

• Marktstabilitätsreserve gefährdet Investitionsanreize und Preisstabilität (with Maximilian Willner), TradeNews Emissions, September 2015

• Is individual action on emissions really futile under the EU ETS?, Carbon Brief, February 2013

• Testing for the best instrument to generate sustainable food consumption (with Luca Panzone, Timothy Swanson and Denise Leung), International Journal on Food System Dynamics 2(3), 2011

• Bonfire of the Quangos: Restoring Accountability or Returning to Opportunism?, Competition Policy Blog, ESRC Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia, November 2010.

• Need efficiency - and much more! A response to Richard Wolff, Post-Autistic Economics Review, issue 17, article 7, December 2002.

Refereeing