Introduction
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen.
My main areas of research are economic growth and environmental economics. On this website, you can find my publications and the latest versions of my working papers. Constructive criticism is most welcome.
Working Papers
"Agriculture, Land Use, and Optimal Second-Best Environmental and Climate Policy with Greenhouse Gas Leakage" (with Anders P. Gotfredsen, Peter Birch Sørensen, Francesco Clora, and Wusheng Yu)
"Is Recycling Wasted? Circular Economy and the Material Rebound Effect" (with Thor D. Noe and Rasmus Berg) [Submitted]
Publications
Energy, Climate, and the Macro Economy:
Energy Efficiency Dynamics and Climate Policy (with Gregory Casey and Yang Gao) [Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2026)]
Some Macroeconomic Evidence on Substitution Between Clean and Dirty Energy (with Gregory Casey and Yang Gao) [AEA Papers and Proceedings (2026)]
The Environment and Directed Technical Change:
Directed Technical Change and Economic Growth Effects of Environmental Policy [Energy Economics (2025)]
Directed Technical Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Population Growth [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023)]
Economic Growth:
Testing R&D-Based Endogenous Growth Models [Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2023)]
Energy Security and Climate Policy:
Climate Policy in the Shadow of National Security [Economics Letters (2023)]
Carbon Leakage:
Optimal Unilateral Climate Policy with Carbon Leakage at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin (with Peter Birch Sørensen) [The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2025)]
Carbon Leakage in a Small Open Economy: The Importance of International Climate Policies (with Ulrik Beck and Louis Stewart) [Energy Economics (2023)]
Optimal Carbon Taxation in EU Frontrunner Countries: Coordinating with the EU ETS and Addressing Leakage (with Peter Birch Sørensen) [Climate Policy (2022)]
Optimal Energy Taxes and Subsidies under a Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy: Addressing Carbon Leakage (with Peter Birch Sørensen) [Energy Economics (2022)]
EU ETS:
Endogenizing the Cap in a Cap-and-Trade System: Assessing the Agreement on EU ETS Phase 4 (with Ulrik R. Beck) [Environmental and Resource Economics (2020)]
A Coordination Failure between EU Climate Policies Exemplified by the North Sea Energy Island (with Marc S. Jacobsen) [Climate Policy (2024)]
PhD Dissertation
R&D-Based Economic Growth, Directed Technical Change, and Environmental Policy