Niko Jaakkola. Economist.
I am an economist working on questions involving the environment and/or natural resources, and an associate professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Bologna. I am a member of the CESifo network and an external research associate of OxCarre.
Research interests.
Economics of climate change, natural resources (particularly fossil fuels), development of green technologies, sustainable economic growth, environmental politics. I mostly work on applied theory, typically dynamic problems, especially dynamic and differential games. I also occasionally end up thinking about e.g. dynamic industrial organisation or dynamic game theory.
Publications.
Stranded Assets: Research Gaps and Implications for Climate Policy (with Angelika von Dulong, Alexander Gard-Murray, Achim Hagen and Suphi Sen). Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 17(1): 161-169.
Nondogmatic Climate Policy (with Antony Millner), 2022, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 9, 807-841.
Finders, Keepers? (with Daniel Spiro and Arthur van Benthem), 2019, Journal of Public Economics 169, 17-33.
Carbon taxation, OPEC and the end of oil, 2019, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 94, 101-117. Edited from OxCarre WP 99, "Putting OPEC out of business" (Old WP version here.).
Non-cooperative and cooperative climate policies with anticipated breakthrough technology (with Rick van der Ploeg), 2019, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 97, 42-66.
What Policies Address Both the Coronavirus Crisis and the Climate Crisis? (with Gustav Engström, Johan Gars, Therese Lindahl, Daniel Spiro and Arthur van Benthem), 2020, Environmental and Resource Economics 76, 789-810. CESifo working paper version here.
Working papers.
Differential games of public investment (with Florian Wagener). CESifo Working paper 10585 UPDATED June 2024 (and now incorporating material from our previous CESifo WP 8246: "(All) Symmetric equilibria in differential games with public goods").
Endogenous climate policy, systemic risk and asset stranding (with Achim Hagen, Angelika Vogt). Manuscript to come soon.
In progress.
Tacit collusion in dynamic capacity investment.
The social cost of flood insurance subsidies.
The intergenerational politics of clean and dirty energy.
Endogenous alertness in stopping games.
CV.
The current version of my CV is here.
Other.
I sometimes tweet (on economics, but also other things).
Contact.
Email: niko.jaakkola "at" unibo.it // Tel: +358 (0)44 240 9718.