Lucas Bretschger

Welcome to my personal webpage!

New Papers 

• Cold War on a Warming Planet: Climate Policy in a Divided World 

• Decarbonization with Heterogeneous Knowledge Creation and Technology Tipping

2026 Presentations 

February: ifo Institute; April: Tilburg Univ, EENR conference Orléans; May: MCEE conference Mannheim; 

June: SURED conference Ascona, Ulvön conference Umea; July: WCERE conference Lisbon.

VoxEU column Economic Pathways, A New Approach to Climate Policy

Book Draft Economics of Sustainable Development, CER-ETH Press

Interview about the Future of Environmental and Resource Economics

En mémoire de Roger Guesnerie (1943 - 2026), Jéco 2016

Recent Research 

• Climate change mitigation in the competition for political majorities: The effects of policy tipping, Revue Economique, forthcoming

• Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements, Environmental and Resource Economics.

• Nature and the Ultimate Resource: Sustainability with Poor Input Substitution, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 

• The Great Divide: Environmental Migration as a Response to Climate Change and Policy in North and South, Environmental and Resource Economics

• Carbon Taxes, CO2 Emissions, and the Economy: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK, Energy Policy

• All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health, Environmental and Resource Economics

• Green Road is Open: Economic Pathway with a Carbon Price Escalator, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Complementarity between labor and energy: A firm-level analysis, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

• Escaping Damocles’ Sword: Endogenous Climate Shocks in a Growing Economy, Environmental and Resource Economics

• Energy Transition and Climate Change Abatement: A Macroeconomic Analysis, Resource and Energy Economics

• Effective Policy Design for a Sustainable Economy, European Economic Review

• Optimal Carbon Policies in a Dynamic Heterogenous World, European Economic Review

The Principle of Sustainability - a Matter of Course? Read an Essay here.

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