Publications in peer-reviewed journals

Paying Banks to Go Green: The Sustainability-Tiered Reserve Remuneration Mechanism (with Markus Leippold), International Journal of Central Banking (forthcoming)

Using AI to Assess the Decision-Usefulness of Corporates’ Nature-related Disclosures (with Ario Vaghefi et al.), Environmental Research Communication (2025)

Nature scenario plausibility: A dynamic Bayesian network approach (with Skand Goel), Ecological Economics (2025)

Automated fact-checking of climate claims with large language models (with Markus Leippold et al.), npj Climate Action (2025)

Using AI to assess corporate climate transition disclosures (with Tobias Schimanski et al.), Environmental Research Communication (2025)

The cost of maladapted capital: Stock returns, physical risk and adaptation (with Skand Goel), The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing (2024)

Integrating artificial intelligence with expert knowledge in global environmental assessments: opportunities, challenges and the way ahead (with Veruska Muccione et al.), Regional Environmental Change (2024)

Economic and financial consequences of water risks: The case of hydropower (with Skand Goel and Adrian von Jagow), Ecological Economics (2024)

ChatClimate: Grounding conversational AI in climate science (with Saeid Vaghefi et al.), Communications Earth & Environment (2023)

Understand what you measure: Where climate transition risk metrics converge and why they diverge (with Julia Anna Bingler and Pierre Monnin), Finance Research Letters (2022)

Taming the green swan: A criteria-based analysis to improve the understanding of climate-related financial risk assessment tools (with Julia Anna Bingler), Climate Policy (2022)

Economic impacts of decarbonizing the Swiss passenger transport sector (with Vanessa Angst, Markus Maibach, Martin Peter, Noe Reidt, Renger van Nieuwkoop), Zeitschrift für Umweltpolitik & Umweltrecht (2022)

Other publications

Exploring the interactions between nature loss drivers, vulnerabilities and economic impacts (with Elena Almeida and Jelica Rastoka), CETEX Discussion Paper (2025)

CHATREPORT: Democratizing Sustainability Disclosure Analysis through LLM-based Tools (with Jingwei Ni et al.), Proceedings of EMNLP 2023: System Demonstrations (2023)

Net zero transition plans: Red flag indicators to assess inconsistencies and greenwashing (with Julia Anna Bingler, Tobias Schimanski and Desiree Fixler), WWF (2023)

Building blocks for central banks to develop nature scenarios (with Elena Almeida and Nepomuk Dunz), INSPIRE Central Banking Toolbox  (2023)

Climate Financial Risks: Assessing Convergence, Exploring Diversity (with Julia Anna Bingler and Pierre Monnin), CEP Discussion Note (2020)

Working papers

Simplifying Nature Away? Ex-Ante Evidence on the EFRAG ESRS Cuts from Three Years of European Nature Disclosures (with Saeid Vaghefi, Maud Abdelli, Jochen Krimphoff and Markus Leippold), Available at SSRN

Land-Use Input Choice Changes Policy and Ecosystem-Service Estimates: A Framework for Assessing this Sensitivity, Demonstrated in Brazil (with Justin Johnson), Environmental Research Letters, under review

Modelling the Interplay between Land Conversion, Water Stress and the Macrofinancial System (with Yannis Dafermos, Adrian von Jagow and Maria Nikolaidi), DEFINE Working Paper

Systemic Risk from Nature Loss and Climate Change (with Justin Johnson, Erwin Corong et al.), PNAS, revise and resubmit

Projecting global changes in land use and ecosystem services using SEALS (Spatial Economic Allocation Landscape Simulator) version 2.0 (with Justin Johnson, Sumil Thakrar and Patrick von Jeetze), Geoscientific Model Development, in review

An Initial Estimate of Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) by Country (with Stephen Polasky et al.), Working Paper (Natural Capital Alliance)

Grounding Corporate Environmental Claims in Satellite Evidence with Large Language Models (with Saeid Vaghefi, Christian Huggel and Markus Leippold), Available at SSRN

Linking Socio-Economic Dynamics across Regional Scales to Assess Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks of Land Cover Change (with Theresa Goebel, Marco Ferro, Justin Johnson, Wolfgang Britz and Jan Börner), Available at SSRN

Policy Shocks and Algorithmic Infrastructure Dependence (with Markus Leippold and Saeid Vaghefi), Available at SSRN

Nature and Climate Risk in Asset Prices (with Skand Goel and Markus Leippold), Available at SSRN

The Social Cost of Greenwashing (with Markus Leippold and Ario Vaghefi), Available at SSRN

The CO2 content of the TLTRO III scheme and its greening (with Maria Sole Pagliari and Jens van ‘t Klooster), DNB Working Paper No. 23/792

Exploring Nature: Datasets and Models for Analyzing Nature-Related Disclosures (with Tobias Schimanski, Glen Gostlow, Jingwei Ni, Tingyu Yu and Markus Leippold), Available at SSRN

Enhancing Large Language Models with Climate Resources (with Mathias Kraus et al.), Available at SSRN

Environmental Risk and Central-Bank Targeted Refinancing Operations (with Sebastian Guo, Andrew McConnell and Boyan Yanovski), Available at SSRN

CAROs: Climate risk-adjusted refinancing operations (with Florian Böser), ETHZ Working Paper No. 21/354. GRASFI Best Novel Methods Paper Prize.

Emission-Based Interest Rates and the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy (with Florian Böser), ETHZ Working Paper No. 20/337

Transport Policies in a Two-Sided Market (with Noe Reidt), Available at SSRN

Energy Transition, Technological Spillovers and Elasticity of Substitution, Available at SSRN

Professional service

Refereeing for Management Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Ecological Economics, Water Resources Research, Climate Policy, Finance Research Letters.