Katrin Schmelz (Santa Fe Institute)

Date: November 15, 2024

Title: Sustainable policies for a sustainable environment: Evidence on pitfalls and opportunities in climate policy design

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Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University)

Date: December 06, 2024

Title: Resource Extraction and Waste taxes in Competitive Equilibrium

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Knut Einar Rosendahl (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)

Date: December 13, 2024

Title: Measures against carbon leakage – combining output-based allocation with consumption taxes

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David Klenert (European Commission)

Date: January 17, 2025

Time: 10:15 - 11:45 (CEST)

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Piero Basaglia (Bordeaux School of Economics)

Date: February 07, 2025

Venue: Room information will follow via mailing list

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Past Events

Daniel Nachtigall (OECD)

Date: July 12, 2024

Title: The OECD Climate Actions and Policies Measurement Framework: A Climate Policy Database for Empirical Research

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Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: June 14, 2024

Title: Water Quality, Policy Diffusion Effects, and Farmers’ Behavior

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Gabrielle du Marais (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, London School of Economics)

Date: June 07, 2024

Title: Ready for a Progressive Carbon Tax? Footprint Definition, Support, and Ethical Motives

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Sebastian Schwenen (TU Munich) and Cloé LeCoq (Université Paris 2 Panthéon)

Date: May 24, 2024

Title 1: Regulation of Nuclear Safety in the US: How Regulatory Design Shapes Safety

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Ludovica Gazze (University of Warwick)

Date: May 03, 2024

Title: How Large Are Methane Emissions From the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry and Why Are They There?

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Claudia Gentile (University of Zurich)

Date: February 02, 2024

Title: Relying on Intermittency: Clean Energy, Storage, and Innovation in a Macro Climate Model

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Stefan Hinkelmann (Stockholm University)

Date: January 26, 2024

Title: (Be-)Coming Clean: A Model of the U.S. Energy Transition

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Sefi Roth (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Date: January 19, 2024

Title: Making the Invisible Visible: The Impact of Real-Time Feedback on Indoor Air Pollution

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Ulrike Kornek (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

Date: January 12, 2024

Title: Efficiency and redistribution in sharing the burden of climate change mitigation

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Johanna Isman (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: December 15, 2023

Title: Auditor leniency and participation in voluntary forest certification

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Basak Bayramoglu (INRAE)

Date: November 17, 2023

Title: Are international climate aid really climate-related? Extent and determinants of donor countries miscoding of climate projects

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Jean-François Jacques (Université Gustave Eiffel)

Date: November 10, 2023

Title: Nutrition and Climate Policies in the European Union: Friends or Enemies?

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Mark Andor (RWI Essen)

Date: July 07, 2023

Title: (TBC)

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Charles Palmer (London School of Economics)

Date: June 23, 2023

Title: Forest Co-Management and Poverty-Environment Traps

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Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: June 16, 2023

Title: The Animal Welfare Levy

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Bruno Lanz (University of Neuchâtel)

Date: June 09, 2023

Title: Carbon Abatement Under Financial Incentives and Moral Suasion: A Real-Effort Experiment

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Chloé Le Coq (University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas) & Sebastian Schwenen (TU Munich) & William Nuttall (Open University & University of Cambridge (EPRG))

Date: June 02, 2023

Title: Outages and Governance in the US Nuclear Sector, Techno-Economic Perspectives on Nuclear Fusion

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Eva Tène (European University Institute, Florence)

Date: May 12, 2023

Title: The EU Nitrate Directive Improved Nitrogen Use Efficiency, Water Quality, and Biodiversity; The Impact of Organic Farming on Productivity and Biodiversity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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Subal Kumbhakar (Binghamton University, New York)

Date: February 24, 2023

Title: Modelling Environmental and Economic Efficiency: An Econometric Approach

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Karine Nyborg (University of Oslo)

Date: February 10, 2023

Title: Moral Motivation as a Driver of Polarization

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Nico Pestel (Maastricht University)

Date: January 27, 2023

Title: The Political Fallout of Pollution

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Matthew J. Kotchen (Yale University)

Date: January 13, 2023

Title: Taxing Externalities: Revenue vs. Welfare Gains with an Application to U.S. Carbon Taxes

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Ryan Rafaty & Stefania Innocenti (University of Oxford)

Date: November 11, 2022

Title:
The Political Economy of the EU Emissions Trading System (Ryan Rafaty)

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Inge van den Bijgaart (Utrecht University)

Date: October 28, 2022

Title: Screening Green Innovation through Carbon Pricing

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Stephan Kroll (Colorado State University)

Date: July 15, 2022

Title: Climate Change Mitigation, Solar Geoengineering, and Moral Hazard: Insights from Economic Experiments

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Thomas Douenne (UV Amsterdam)

Date: July 08, 2022

Title: Optimal fiscal policy in a second-best climate economy model with heterogeneous agents

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Marion Leroutier (Stockholm School of Economics)

Date: June 24, 2022

Title: The Cost of Air Pollution for Workers and Firms: Evidence from Sickness Leave Episodes

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Anne-Sophie Crépin (Beijer Institute Stockholm)

Date: June 17, 2022

Title: Cascading regime shifts in pollution recipients and resource-producing ecosystems

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Jerome Dumortier (Indiana University/Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

Date: June 10, 2022

Title: Relationship between U.S. Vehicle Fleet Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Agricultural Markets

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Mireille Chirouleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics)

Date: May 20, 2022

Title: Radical Activism and Self-regulation: An Optimal Campaign Mechanism

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Gregor Semieniuk (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Date: May 06, 2022

Title: The impact of changing GDP accounting conventions on evidence for decoupling

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Stephan Sommer (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen Office)

Date: February 18, 2022

Title: A longitudinal analysis of the support for carbon taxes

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Georg Meran (Technical University Berlin)

Date: February 04, 2022

Title: Is Green Growth possible and even desirable in a Spaceship Economy?

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Romain Espinosa (Université de Rennes)

Date: January 21, 2022

Title: Animals and Social Welfare

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Simon Dietz (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Date: December 10, 2021

Title: Growth and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Long Run

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Nils aus dem Moore (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Berlin Office)

Date: November 26, 2021

Title: Driving Innovation? Carbon Tax Effects in the Swedish Transport Sector

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Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics)

Date: January 24, 2020

Title: Equilibrium Effects of Competition on Solar Photovoltaic Demand and Pricing

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Nicolas Taconet (CIRED, Paris)

Date: December 05, 2019

Title: Intragenerational inequalities and optimal climate policy: Revisiting Schelling’s conjecture

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Nils Ohlendorf (MCC Berlin)

Date: November 29, 2019

Title: Impact of an EU ETS floor price on low-carbon investments - Results of a survey of German energy companies

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Amedeo Piolatti (Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE))

Date: November 15, 2019

Title: tba

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Marc Frick (University of Heidelberg)

Date: December 07, 2018

Title: Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy

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Inge van den Bijgaart (University of Gothenburg)

Date: November 22, 2018

Title: The Cost of the Status Quo: Exploration or Innovation in the Face of Scarcity

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Suphi Sen (ifo Institute, Munich)

Date: November 16, 2018

Title: Climate Policy and Resource Extraction with Variable Markups and Imperfect Substitutes (co-authored with Malik Curuk)

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Steven A. Gabriel (University of Maryland)

Date: October 26, 2018

Title: A Dynamic Programming Approach to Optimal Residential Demand Response Scheduling in Near Real-Time: Application for Electricity Retailers in ERCOT Power Markets

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Hans-Peter Weikard (Wageningen University)

Date: October 23, 2018

Title: Public Goods and Common Pool Resources: Is there Support for Conservationists?

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Nicolas Koch / Luke Haywood (MCC Berlin)

Date: July 20, 2018

Title: Employment and Fossil Fuels

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Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (University of Pittsburg)

Date: June 22, 2018

Title: The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development

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Jan Steckel (MCC Berlin) & Colin Vance (RWI Essen)

Date: June 15, 2018

Title:

  • The Political Economy of Climate Policy: A Theoretical Framework
  • Rockets and Feathers in Germany’s Gasoline Market: The Effect of Increased Market Transparency

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Jan Abrell (ETH Zürich)

Date: June 01, 2018

Title: The Economics of Renewable Energy Support / Impacts of the UK Carbon Price Floor: A Machine Learning Approach

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Meredith Fowlie (University of California at Berkeley)

Date: May 30, 2018

Title: Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets (co-authored with Mar Reguant)

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Klaus Eisenack (HU Berlin)

Date: April 23, 2018

Title: Inaugural lecture: Are there new archetypes of environmental cooperation?

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Dirk Arne Heyen (Öko-Institut)

Date: April 20, 2018

Title: Das Konzept der Exnovation (als Pendant zu Innovation) und Beispielprozesse wie der Kohleausstieg aus einer politikwissenschaftlichen Perspektive

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Olivier Massol (IFP Paris)

Date: February 09, 2018

Title: Application of parity bounds models in energy markets

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Beat Hintermann (University of Basel)

Date: February 02, 2018

Title: Dynamic (Environmental) policy choices in the presence of social norms

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Mohammad Reza Farzanegan (Marburg University, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS))

Date: December 15, 2017

Title: Oil rents, public spending, and the resource curse in the Middle East: Empirical evidence

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Pauline Givord (INSEE, Paris)

Date: December 08, 2017

Title: How do fuel taxes impact new car purchases? An evaluation using French consumer-level data

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Andreas Gerster (RWI Essen)

Date: December 01, 2017

Title: Can disaggregated consumption feedback trigger energy conservation? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial

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Darryl Biggar (Australian Energy Regulator, Melbourne)

Date: November 23, 2017

Title: “Incentive regulation” in times of climate change: Market design, market monitoring, and regulation of energy networks

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Internal R-SERC-E Seminar for PhD Candidates

Date: October 27, 2017

Title: Environmental Econometrics

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Georg Meran (TU Berlin)

Date: July 21, 2017

Title: Pipes, Taps, and Vendors: Managing and Regulating the Unconnected Water Market

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Mirabelle Muûls (Imperial College London)

Date: July 14, 2017

Title: International Outsourcing and Innovation in Clean Technologies

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Prof. Buchholz (Universität Regensburg)

Date: July 07, 2017

Title: Advantageous Leadership in Global Climate Policy: The Case of an Endogenous Abatement Technology

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Matthias Kalkuhl (MCC Berlin and Universität Potsdam)

Date: June 23, 2017

Title: Carbon Price Uncertainty, Expectations, and Stranded Assets

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Claudia Kemfert (DIW Berlin and Hertie School)

Date: June 16, 2017

Title: Scenarios for European Electricity in 2050

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Thorsten Uppmann (Universität Bielefeld)

Date: June 02, 2017

Title: A Spatial Model of Optimal Resource Extraction

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Simon Dietz (LSE and Grantham Institute)

Date: May 18, 2017

Title: Feeding the World, Leaving the Land: A Macroeconomic Approach to Malthusian Problems

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Simon Dietz (LSE and Grantham Institute)

Date: May 16, 2017

Title: The Endowment Effect and Environmental Discounting

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Christian Breyer (Lappeenranta University of Technology)

Date: May 12, 2017

Title: Energy System Modeling with Hourly Resolution: Methodological Aspects and Applications

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Rainald Borck (Universität Potsdam)

Date: May 05, 2017

Title: Pollution and City Size

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Gregor Pfeifer (University of Hohenheim) & Stefan Klössner (Saarland University)

Date: February 13, 2017

Title: Using the Multivariate Synthetic Control Approach to Evaluate Cash for Clunkers: Stabilizing the Car Market, Hurting the Environment

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Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University)

Date: December 09, 2016

Title: General Equilibrium Impacts Of a Federal Clean Energy Standard

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Klaus Eisenack (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Date: December 02, 2016

Title: Adapting long-lived infrastructure to uncertain and transient change

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Valerie Karplus (MIT)

Date: November 30, 2016

Title: Management and energy efficiency in a Chinese manufacturing cluster

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Michael Jakob (MCC Berlin)

Date: November 18, 2016

Title: Political Economy Constraints to Carbon Pricing – The Case of Ecuador

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Till Requate (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

Date: November 11, 2016

Title: The nexus between technology improvement and technology adoption

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Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)

Date: October 21, 2016

Title: Political Economy of Dynamic Resource Wars

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Sjak Smulders (Tilburg University)

Date: July 08, 2016

Title: Topic tba

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Christian von Hirschhausen (Technische Universität Berlin)

Date: July 01, 2016

Title: Nuclear Power in the 21st Century – Old Questions and Some New Insights

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Nils aus dem Moore (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI))

Date: June 24, 2016

Title: The elusive quest for carbon leakage: Multinational corporations and the EU-ETS

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Axel Ockenfels (Universität Köln)

Date: June 17, 2016

Title: (topic tba)

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Joëlle Noailly (Graduate School Genf, Head of Research - Centre for International Environmental Studies, Schweiz)

Date: June 10, 2016

Title: tba

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Luca Taschini (London School of Economics)

Date: May 27, 2016

Title: The European Union Emissions Trading System and the Market Stability Reserve: Optimal Dynamic Supply Adjustment

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Ralf Martin (Imperial College London)

Date: April 29, 2016

Title: Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies

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Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK) & Ulrike Kornek (MCC Berlin)

Date: February 12, 2016

Title: The Strategic Dimension of Financing Global Public Goods

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Matthias Kalkuhl (Universität Potsdam and MCC Berlin)

Date: January 29, 2016

Title: Forest Conservation Policies, Land Taxes and Structural Change: Insights from a Multi-Sector Growth Model

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Ulrike Kornek (MCC Berlin)

Date: January 15, 2016

Title: Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation: Consequences and Incentives

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Timo Goeschl (Universität Heidelberg)

Date: December 18, 2015

Title: Group Size and the (In)Efficiency of Pure Public Good Provision

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Jan Abrell (ETH Zürich)

Date: December 11, 2015

Title: Combining Price and Quantity Controls Under Partitioned Environmental Regulation

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Aleksandar Zaklan (DIW Berlin)

Date: December 04, 2015

Title: Free Allocation and the Endowment Effect in Cap-and-Trade Systems: Evidence from the European Electricity Sector

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Mark Schopf (Universität Paderborn)

Date: November 20, 2015

Title: Lobbying over Exhaustible-Resource Extraction

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Jeremy Eckhause (RAND Corporation)

Date: July 10, 2015

Title: Optimizing Technological Progress and Incentives for Early Adoption of CCS

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Lydia Blaschtschak (Technische Universität Berlin)

Date: July 03, 2015

Title: Environmental Policy Targeting the Energy Production Sector: A Case for a New Policy

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Georg Meran (Technische Universität Berlin) & Reimund Schwarze (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ)

Date: June 26, 2015

Title: A Theory of Optimal Green Defaults

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Michael Grubb (Imperial College London)

Date: June 12, 2015

Title: On the Confluence of Macroeconomic and Climate Policies: EU ETS Reform as an Instrument of European Fiscal and Investment Strategy

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Gerard van der Meijden (VU University Amsterdam)

Date: May 29, 2015

Title: Fossil Lock-In: The Role of Expectations

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Ulrich Wagner (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Date: May 22, 2015

Title: The Impact of the EU ETS on Pollution Emissions and Economic Performance

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Alfred Endres (Fernuniversität in Hagen)

Date: May 15, 2015

Title: On the Transfer of Advanced Abatement Technology under Transferable Discharge Permits

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Philip Richter (DIW Berlin) & Lydia Blaschtschak (Technische Universität Berlin)

Date: January 23, 2015

Title:

  • Firm Behaviour, Trade, and the Environment (Philip Richter)
  • Green vs. General Energy Subsidy (Lydia Blaschtschak)

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Ronnie Schöb (Freie Universität Berlin)

Date: January 09, 2015

Title: Climate Change and Psychological Adaptation: A Behavioral Environmental Economics Approach

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Mark Andor (RWI, Essen)

Date: December 05, 2014

Title: Eliciting the Willingness to Pay for Electricity from Renewables, Nuclear, and Conventional Energies – Results from a Large Field Study in Germany

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Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Date: November 28, 2014

Title: Climate Policies: The Role of Technology Versus Economic Instruments

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Andreas Lange (Universität Hamburg)

Date: November 21, 2014

Title: Cooperation on Environmental Goods: Infinite Play, Uncertain Damages, and Learning

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Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)

Date: November 07, 2014

Title: Local Natural Resource Curse?

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Wolfgang Buchholz (Universität Regensburg)

Date: July 11, 2014

Title: Equity as a Prerequisite for Successful International Cooperation on Climate Protection

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Karl Zimmermann (TU Berlin) & Hendrik Ritter (Universität Magdeburg)

Date: July 04, 2014

Title: Time Consistency Aspects of Non-cooperative Carbon Taxation with n Countries

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Wolfgang Habla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Date: July 03, 2014

Title: Non-renewable Resource Extraction and Interjurisdictional Competition Across Space and Time

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Rolf Golombek (Ragnar Frisch Centre, Oslo)

Date: June 27, 2014

Title: Phasing Out Nuclear Power in Germany - Climate Policy and Energy Market Integration in Europe

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Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics)

Date: June 20, 2014

Title: The Economics of Density: Evidence From The Berlin Wall

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Georg Meran (Technische Universität Berlin)

Date: June 13, 2014

Title: Increasing Block Tariffs - An Interpretation in Terms of Social Preferences

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Geoffrey Heal (Columbia Business School)

Date: June 12, 2014

Title: Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations

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Matthieu Glachant (Director of CERNA, MINES ParisTech)

Date: May 16, 2014

Title: Assessing the Additionality of the Clean Development Mechanism: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from India

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Rolf Wüstenhagen (University of St. Gallen)

Date: May 09, 2014

Title: The Price of Policy Risk

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Hendrik Ritter (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg) & Karl Zimmermann (TU Berlin)

Date: January 31, 2014

Title:

  • Subsidizing Green Energy: Bad or Worse? (Hendrik Ritter)
  • Environmental Effects of Capital Income Taxation: A New Double Dividend? (Karl Zimmermann)

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Lucas Bretschger (Center of Economic Research at ETH, Schweiz)

Date: January 24, 2014

Title: Optimum Growth and Carbon Policies with Lags in the Climate System

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Sauleh Siddiqui (Johns Hopkins University)

Date: January 17, 2014

Title: Incomplete Dynamic GHG Mitigation Policies: Taxes vs. Cap-and-Trade

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Philipp Richter (DIW Berlin)

Date: January 10, 2014

Title: Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for a Coal Export Tax?

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Christoph Böhringer (Universität Oldenburg)

Date: December 13, 2013

Title: The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs

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Frank Jotzo (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University)

Date: December 04, 2013

Title: Global Prospects for Emissions Pricing

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Ruud Egging (NTNU Trondheim)

Date: November 29, 2013

Title: Instruments of Climate and Energy Policy in a Multi-Fuel Market Equilibrium Model

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Philipp M. Richter (DIW Berlin)

Date: July 12, 2013

Title: Trade and the Environment: the Role of Firm Heterogeneity

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Lydia Blaschtschak & Karl Zimmermann (Technische Universität Berlin)

Date: June 28, 2013

Title:

  • Unilateral Environmental Policy and Heterogenous Firms (Lydia Blaschtschak)
  • On the Externalities of Carbon Taxation (Karl Zimmermann)

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Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)

Date: June 21, 2013

Title: Resource-rich countries and the Dutch disease

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Christoph Böhringer (Universität Oldenburg)

Date: June 14, 2013

Title: The Role of Border Carbon Adjustment in Unilateral Climate Policy

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Rainald Borck (University of Potsdam)

Date: June 07, 2013

Title: Green cities? Urbanization, trade, and the environment

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Thomas Eichner (Fernuniversität Hagen)

Date: May 31, 2013

Title: Trade policy and self-enforcing environmental agreements

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John Roemer (Yale University)

Date: May 30, 2013

Title: Kantian equilibrium: A new approach to cooperation

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Gregor Schwerhoff (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

Date: May 17, 2013

Title: Macroeconomic stock accounting

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Matti Liski (Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki)

Date: May 03, 2013

Title: No news is good news in climate change?

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