Policy Work

My professional career as an economist within the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration for more than four years informs my academic research. While at OECD, I designed and led research projects on energy and carbon taxes, and emissions trading systems, in close exchange with national policy makers. I also try to make my current research more accessible, for example via policy briefs.

The following are examples of policy papers and book chapters that I published:

The UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund Greenhouse Gas Removal Demonstrators (GGR-D) Programme:  An overview of key research insights and cross-cutting lessons, with Westbury, P., Bateman, I., Beerling, D., Bellamy, R., Brophy, A., Butnar, I., Donnison, I., Evans, C., Gilbert, A., House, J., Galeigh, N.S., Smith, S.M., Snape, C., Thornton, J., Van Looy, M. and Wagle, A. (2025).  Link to publication.  

Policy Evaluation and Selection to Accelerate Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployment, with S. Feng, J. Stemmler, S. Fankhauser and S. Smith),  CO2RE Policy Briefing, May 2025. Link to publication.

Delivering Greenhouse Gas Removal for the UK: Priorities for the Government, with Westbury, P., Bellamy, R., Butnar, I., Cox, E.,  Fankhauser, S., Gilbert, A., Hepburn, C., House, J., Lynch, J.,  Martirosian, N., Mouchos, E., Rodway-Dyer, S., Smith, S., Waller, L. and Workman, M., CO2RE Policy Briefing, July 2024. Link to publication. 

Tax Policy Reforms 2018: OECD and Selected Partner Economies, with S. Perret, Salins, V., Buydens, S., Kennedy, S., T. Hanappi, OECD Publishing, Paris. Link to publication.

Taxing Energy Use 2018 – Companion to the Taxing Energy Use Database, with K. Van Dender, OECD Publishing, Paris. Link to publication. 

OECD Tax Policy Reviews: Costa Rica 2017, with B. Brys, Perret, S., T. Hanappi, OECD Publishing, Paris. Link to publication.

The environmental tax and subsidy reform in Mexico, with K. Van Dender, OECD Taxation Working Papers, No. 31, OECD Publishing, Paris, Juli 2017. Link to publication.

Energy taxation and carbon pricing in the European Union and beyond, with K. Van Dender, L. Dressler, F. Flues, M. Harding, Revue internationale de droit fiscal, 3, 2016, 301-309.

Effective Carbon Rates: Pricing CO2 through Taxes and Emissions Trading Systems, with L. Dressler, F. Flues, M. Harding, Van Dender, K., OECD Series on Carbon Pricing and Energy Taxation, OECD Publishing, Paris. Link to publication. 

Taxing Energy Use 2015 – OECD and Selected Partner Economies, with M. Harding, K. Van Dender, OECD Publishing, Paris, Mai 2015. Link to publication.

Impacts of Carbon Prices on Indicators of Competitiveness, OECD Environment Working Papers, No. 87, OECD Publishing, Paris. Link to publication.