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Examples from recent & ongoing work
Working papers and selected work in progress
Climate Policies to Decarbonize the Global Steel Sector (with V. Karplus and E. Park)
Network Equilibrium and Low-Carbon Global Aviation (with A. Straubinger)
"Pricing Carbon in a Multi-Sector Economy with Social Discounting" (with O. Kalsbach)
"From Local to Global: The Welfare Effects of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Externalities" (with T. Kalmey and J. Schneider)
"Fragmented and Overlapping Carbon Marktes in Europe." (with J. Abrell)
"The Structure of Carbon Pricing When Capital is Taxed." (with O. Kalsbach)
"Distributional and Efficiency Impacts of Supranational Carbon Budget Allocations in the EU" (with G. Fredriksson and F. Landis).
"Unemployment and welfare from climate policy" (with J. Abrell and G. Fredriksson).
"Does Higher Energy Efficiency Lower Economy-Wide Energy Use?" (with H. Schwerin). This is an improved version of the paper which was previously circulated under the title "Long-Run Energy Use and the Efficiency Paradox". Media coverage in The Economist.
In the past years, my research has been focusing on the following topics...
Evaluation & design of energy and climate policies
Environmental taxes (carbon pricing, pollution taxes) and emissions trading systems
Instrument choice & policy design (market-based policies, sectoral & technology policies, command-and-control instruments)
Distributional impacts of climate & energy policy
Interactions between environmental and fiscal policies
De-carbonization of electricity markets and the economics of renewable energy support
Carbon leakage
Co-benefits of climate policies
...developing and applying quantitative methods from (1) computational & empirical economics and (2) applied economic theory:
Dynamic and static economic equilibrium models (partial and general equilibrium models, growth models, OLG models)
Mathematical programming methods
Energy optimization and energy market models
Modelling energy supply & demand in economy-wide and partial equilibrium models (integrating "top-down" economic and technology-rich "bottom-up" energy models, decomposition methods)
Machine learning, causal inference, and policy evaluation
Modelling household heterogeneity and micro-simulation models