Current Papers

Working Papers

• Bretschger, Lucas, Evgenij Komarov, Markus Leuthard (2023): Overcoming the Carbon Trap: Climate Policy and Technology Tipping, Economics Working Paper Series 23/386, ETH Zurich.

• Bretschger,Lucas and Evgenij Komarov (2023): All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health, Economics Working Paper Series 23/384, ETH Zurich.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Elise Grieg (2019): Exiting the fossil world: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK, Economics Working Paper Series 19/332, ETH Zurich.

Papers published in 2024

• 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

Papers under Review

• Bretschger, Lucas, Evgenij Komarov, and Matthias Leuthard (2024): Overcoming the Carbon Trap: Climate Policy and Technology Tipping.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Evgenij Komarov (2024): All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health (resubmitted).

• Bretschger, Lucas, Matthias Leuthard, and Alena Miftakhova (2024): Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Anastasios Xepapadeas (2024): The Great Divide: Environmental Migration as a Response to Climate Change and Policy in North and South (R&R).

• Bretschger, Lucas and Elise Grieg (2024): Carbon Taxes, CO2 Emissions, and the Economy: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK.

• Bretschger, Lucas (2024): Nature and the Ultimate Resource: Sustainability with Poor Input Substitution.

Ongoing projects

• Brausmann, Alexandra, Lucas Bretschger and Aleksey Minabutdinov (2024): Misfortunes Never Come Singly: Managing the Risk of Chain Disasters