Alexander Lipka

Research Interest

Environmental (macro)economics | Climate change economics | Macroeconomic modeling of environmental issues

Dissertation topic: Essays in Environmental Macroeconomics

Work in progress 

• Distributional Effects of Carbon Pricing: A DSGE Analysis of Environmental Policy Revenue Redistribution

In this paper, we compare different revenue recycling schemes for carbon pricing policy and assess macroeconomic and distributional impacts. We use environmental DSGE model with two representative households to explore how carbon pricing and revenue redistribution influence  high- and low-income households inequality.

• Environmental Taxation and the Shadow Economy: A DSGE Analysis of the Double Dividend Hypothesis

• Does Environmental Policy Drive Informality? Evidence from Cross-Country Dynamics

Teaching experience  

2024 - present: Masaryk University, Brno 

• • (Bachelor level): Introduction to Econometrics, Statistics for Economists

Conferences

Czech National Bank Research Connect Conference 2026 Prague (received the best paper in the poster session award)

• Poster:  Equity and Efficiency under Carbon Pricing: A DSGE Analysis of Carbon Revenue Redistribution  

27th Annual Conference Environmental Economics, Policy and International Relations 2025 Prague

• Presented paper: Distributional Effects of Carbon Pricing: A DSGE Analysis of Environmental Policy Revenue Redistribution

Summer schools

Climate Change:  Impacts, risk, and adaptation policies  2026 Paris School of Economics

Economics of Climate Change 2025 Tinbergen Institute Amsterdam

Contact 

Email: alex.lipka@mail.muni.cz

Bluesky: @alexlipka 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8157-7888