Papers published in 2024/25
Bretschger, Lucas (2025): Nature and the Ultimate Resource: Sustainability with Poor Input Substitution, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Bretschger, Lucas and Anastasios Xepapadeas (2025): The Great Divide: Environmental Migration as a Response to Climate Change and Policy in North and South, Environmental and Resource Economics.
Bretschger, Lucas and Elise Grieg (2024): Carbon Taxes, CO2 Emissions, and the Economy: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK, Energy Policy.
Bretschger, Lucas and Evgenij Komarov (2024): All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health, Environmental and Resource Economics.
Bretschger, Lucas (2024): Green Road is Open: Economic Pathway with a Carbon Price Escalator, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Bretschger, Lucas and Ara Jo (2024): Complementarity between labor and energy: A firm-level analysis, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
Brausmann, Alexandra and Lucas Bretschger (2024): Escaping Damocles' Sword: Endogenous Climate Shocks in a Growing Economy, Environmental and Resource Economics.
Bretschger, Lucas (2024): Energy Transition and Climate Change Abatement: A Macroeconomic Analysis, Resource and Energy Economics.
Bretschger, Lucas, Evgenij Komarov, Matthias Leuthard (2023): Overcoming the Carbon Trap: Climate Policy and Technology Tipping, Economics Working Paper Series 23/386, ETH Zurich.
Bretschger, Lucas and Matthias Leuthard (2024): The importance of tipping points for sustainable development, Economics Working Paper Series 24/392, ETH Zurich.
Papers under Review
Bretschger, Lucas (2025): Climate change mitigation in the competition for political majorities: The effects of policy tipping.
Bretschger, Lucas, Evgenij Komarov, and Matthias Leuthard (2024): Overcoming the Carbon Trap: Climate Policy and Technology Tipping (R&R).
Bretschger, Lucas, Matthias Leuthard, and Alena Miftakhova (2024): Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements (R&R).
Bretschger, Lucas (2025): Decarbonization with Heterogeneous Knowledge Creation and Technology Tipping.
Ongoing Project
Brausmann, Alexandra, Lucas Bretschger and Aleksey Minabutdinov (2024): Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters.