Upcoming Events
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
Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University)
Date: December 06, 2024
Title: Resource Extraction and Waste taxes in Competitive Equilibrium
Knut Einar Rosendahl (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
Date: December 13, 2024
Title: Measures against carbon leakage – combining output-based allocation with consumption taxes
David Klenert (European Commission)
Date: January 17, 2025
Time: 10:15 - 11:45 (CEST)
Piero Basaglia (Bordeaux School of Economics)
Date: February 07, 2025
Venue: Room information will follow via mailing list
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
Sylvain Chabé-Ferret (Toulouse School of Economics)
Date: June 14, 2024
Title: Water Quality, Policy Diffusion Effects, and Farmers’ Behavior
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
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
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?
Claudia Gentile (University of Zurich)
Date: February 02, 2024
Title: Relying on Intermittency: Clean Energy, Storage, and Innovation in a Macro Climate Model
Stefan Hinkelmann (Stockholm University)
Date: January 26, 2024
Title: (Be-)Coming Clean: A Model of the U.S. Energy Transition
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
Ulrike Kornek (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Date: January 12, 2024
Title: Efficiency and redistribution in sharing the burden of climate change mitigation
Johanna Isman (Toulouse School of Economics)
Date: December 15, 2023
Title: Auditor leniency and participation in voluntary forest certification
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
Jean-François Jacques (Université Gustave Eiffel)
Date: November 10, 2023
Title: Nutrition and Climate Policies in the European Union: Friends or Enemies?
Mark Andor (RWI Essen)
Date: July 07, 2023
Title: (TBC)
Charles Palmer (London School of Economics)
Date: June 23, 2023
Title: Forest Co-Management and Poverty-Environment Traps
Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics)
Date: June 16, 2023
Title: The Animal Welfare Levy
Bruno Lanz (University of Neuchâtel)
Date: June 09, 2023
Title: Carbon Abatement Under Financial Incentives and Moral Suasion: A Real-Effort Experiment
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
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
Subal Kumbhakar (Binghamton University, New York)
Date: February 24, 2023
Title: Modelling Environmental and Economic Efficiency: An Econometric Approach
Karine Nyborg (University of Oslo)
Date: February 10, 2023
Title: Moral Motivation as a Driver of Polarization
Nico Pestel (Maastricht University)
Date: January 27, 2023
Title: The Political Fallout of Pollution
Matthew J. Kotchen (Yale University)
Date: January 13, 2023
Title: Taxing Externalities: Revenue vs. Welfare Gains with an Application to U.S. Carbon Taxes
Ryan Rafaty & Stefania Innocenti (University of Oxford)
Date: November 11, 2022
Title:
The Political Economy of the EU Emissions Trading System (Ryan Rafaty)
Inge van den Bijgaart (Utrecht University)
Date: October 28, 2022
Title: Screening Green Innovation through Carbon Pricing
Stephan Kroll (Colorado State University)
Date: July 15, 2022
Title: Climate Change Mitigation, Solar Geoengineering, and Moral Hazard: Insights from Economic Experiments
Thomas Douenne (UV Amsterdam)
Date: July 08, 2022
Title: Optimal fiscal policy in a second-best climate economy model with heterogeneous agents
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
Anne-Sophie Crépin (Beijer Institute Stockholm)
Date: June 17, 2022
Title: Cascading regime shifts in pollution recipients and resource-producing ecosystems
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
Mireille Chirouleu-Assouline (Paris School of Economics)
Date: May 20, 2022
Title: Radical Activism and Self-regulation: An Optimal Campaign Mechanism
Gregor Semieniuk (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Date: May 06, 2022
Title: The impact of changing GDP accounting conventions on evidence for decoupling
Stephan Sommer (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, Essen Office)
Date: February 18, 2022
Title: A longitudinal analysis of the support for carbon taxes
Georg Meran (Technical University Berlin)
Date: February 04, 2022
Title: Is Green Growth possible and even desirable in a Spaceship Economy?
Romain Espinosa (Université de Rennes)
Date: January 21, 2022
Title: Animals and Social Welfare
Simon Dietz (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Date: December 10, 2021
Title: Growth and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Long Run
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
Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics)
Date: January 24, 2020
Title: Equilibrium Effects of Competition on Solar Photovoltaic Demand and Pricing
Nicolas Taconet (CIRED, Paris)
Date: December 05, 2019
Title: Intragenerational inequalities and optimal climate policy: Revisiting Schelling’s conjecture
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
Amedeo Piolatti (Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (BGSE))
Date: November 15, 2019
Title: tba
Marc Frick (University of Heidelberg)
Date: December 07, 2018
Title: Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy
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
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)
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
Hans-Peter Weikard (Wageningen University)
Date: October 23, 2018
Title: Public Goods and Common Pool Resources: Is there Support for Conservationists?
Nicolas Koch / Luke Haywood (MCC Berlin)
Date: July 20, 2018
Title: Employment and Fossil Fuels
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran (University of Pittsburg)
Date: June 22, 2018
Title: The Shale Dilemma: A Global Perspective on Fracking and Shale Development
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
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
Meredith Fowlie (University of California at Berkeley)
Date: May 30, 2018
Title: Mitigating Emissions Leakage in Incomplete Carbon Markets (co-authored with Mar Reguant)
Klaus Eisenack (HU Berlin)
Date: April 23, 2018
Title: Inaugural lecture: Are there new archetypes of environmental cooperation?
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
Olivier Massol (IFP Paris)
Date: February 09, 2018
Title: Application of parity bounds models in energy markets
Beat Hintermann (University of Basel)
Date: February 02, 2018
Title: Dynamic (Environmental) policy choices in the presence of social norms
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
Pauline Givord (INSEE, Paris)
Date: December 08, 2017
Title: How do fuel taxes impact new car purchases? An evaluation using French consumer-level data
Andreas Gerster (RWI Essen)
Date: December 01, 2017
Title: Can disaggregated consumption feedback trigger energy conservation? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
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
Internal R-SERC-E Seminar for PhD Candidates
Date: October 27, 2017
Title: Environmental Econometrics
Georg Meran (TU Berlin)
Date: July 21, 2017
Title: Pipes, Taps, and Vendors: Managing and Regulating the Unconnected Water Market
Mirabelle Muûls (Imperial College London)
Date: July 14, 2017
Title: International Outsourcing and Innovation in Clean Technologies
Prof. Buchholz (Universität Regensburg)
Date: July 07, 2017
Title: Advantageous Leadership in Global Climate Policy: The Case of an Endogenous Abatement Technology
Matthias Kalkuhl (MCC Berlin and Universität Potsdam)
Date: June 23, 2017
Title: Carbon Price Uncertainty, Expectations, and Stranded Assets
Claudia Kemfert (DIW Berlin and Hertie School)
Date: June 16, 2017
Title: Scenarios for European Electricity in 2050
Thorsten Uppmann (Universität Bielefeld)
Date: June 02, 2017
Title: A Spatial Model of Optimal Resource Extraction
Simon Dietz (LSE and Grantham Institute)
Date: May 18, 2017
Title: Feeding the World, Leaving the Land: A Macroeconomic Approach to Malthusian Problems
Simon Dietz (LSE and Grantham Institute)
Date: May 16, 2017
Title: The Endowment Effect and Environmental Discounting
Christian Breyer (Lappeenranta University of Technology)
Date: May 12, 2017
Title: Energy System Modeling with Hourly Resolution: Methodological Aspects and Applications
Rainald Borck (Universität Potsdam)
Date: May 05, 2017
Title: Pollution and City Size
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
Lawrence Goulder (Stanford University)
Date: December 09, 2016
Title: General Equilibrium Impacts Of a Federal Clean Energy Standard
Klaus Eisenack (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Date: December 02, 2016
Title: Adapting long-lived infrastructure to uncertain and transient change
Valerie Karplus (MIT)
Date: November 30, 2016
Title: Management and energy efficiency in a Chinese manufacturing cluster
Michael Jakob (MCC Berlin)
Date: November 18, 2016
Title: Political Economy Constraints to Carbon Pricing – The Case of Ecuador
Till Requate (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Date: November 11, 2016
Title: The nexus between technology improvement and technology adoption
Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)
Date: October 21, 2016
Title: Political Economy of Dynamic Resource Wars
Sjak Smulders (Tilburg University)
Date: July 08, 2016
Title: Topic tba
Christian von Hirschhausen (Technische Universität Berlin)
Date: July 01, 2016
Title: Nuclear Power in the 21st Century – Old Questions and Some New Insights
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
Axel Ockenfels (Universität Köln)
Date: June 17, 2016
Title: (topic tba)
Joëlle Noailly (Graduate School Genf, Head of Research - Centre for International Environmental Studies, Schweiz)
Date: June 10, 2016
Title: tba
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
Ralf Martin (Imperial College London)
Date: April 29, 2016
Title: Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies
Ottmar Edenhofer (PIK) & Ulrike Kornek (MCC Berlin)
Date: February 12, 2016
Title: The Strategic Dimension of Financing Global Public Goods
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
Ulrike Kornek (MCC Berlin)
Date: January 15, 2016
Title: Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation: Consequences and Incentives
Timo Goeschl (Universität Heidelberg)
Date: December 18, 2015
Title: Group Size and the (In)Efficiency of Pure Public Good Provision
Jan Abrell (ETH Zürich)
Date: December 11, 2015
Title: Combining Price and Quantity Controls Under Partitioned Environmental Regulation
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
Mark Schopf (Universität Paderborn)
Date: November 20, 2015
Title: Lobbying over Exhaustible-Resource Extraction
Jeremy Eckhause (RAND Corporation)
Date: July 10, 2015
Title: Optimizing Technological Progress and Incentives for Early Adoption of CCS
Lydia Blaschtschak (Technische Universität Berlin)
Date: July 03, 2015
Title: Environmental Policy Targeting the Energy Production Sector: A Case for a New Policy
Georg Meran (Technische Universität Berlin) & Reimund Schwarze (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung UFZ)
Date: June 26, 2015
Title: A Theory of Optimal Green Defaults
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
Gerard van der Meijden (VU University Amsterdam)
Date: May 29, 2015
Title: Fossil Lock-In: The Role of Expectations
Ulrich Wagner (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Date: May 22, 2015
Title: The Impact of the EU ETS on Pollution Emissions and Economic Performance
Alfred Endres (Fernuniversität in Hagen)
Date: May 15, 2015
Title: On the Transfer of Advanced Abatement Technology under Transferable Discharge Permits
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)
Ronnie Schöb (Freie Universität Berlin)
Date: January 09, 2015
Title: Climate Change and Psychological Adaptation: A Behavioral Environmental Economics Approach
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
Thomas Sterner (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Date: November 28, 2014
Title: Climate Policies: The Role of Technology Versus Economic Instruments
Andreas Lange (Universität Hamburg)
Date: November 21, 2014
Title: Cooperation on Environmental Goods: Infinite Play, Uncertain Damages, and Learning
Ragnar Torvik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Date: November 07, 2014
Title: Local Natural Resource Curse?
Wolfgang Buchholz (Universität Regensburg)
Date: July 11, 2014
Title: Equity as a Prerequisite for Successful International Cooperation on Climate Protection
Karl Zimmermann (TU Berlin) & Hendrik Ritter (Universität Magdeburg)
Date: July 04, 2014
Title: Time Consistency Aspects of Non-cooperative Carbon Taxation with n Countries
Wolfgang Habla (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Date: July 03, 2014
Title: Non-renewable Resource Extraction and Interjurisdictional Competition Across Space and Time
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
Gabriel Ahlfeldt (London School of Economics)
Date: June 20, 2014
Title: The Economics of Density: Evidence From The Berlin Wall
Georg Meran (Technische Universität Berlin)
Date: June 13, 2014
Title: Increasing Block Tariffs - An Interpretation in Terms of Social Preferences
Geoffrey Heal (Columbia Business School)
Date: June 12, 2014
Title: Feeling the Heat: Temperature, Physiology & the Wealth of Nations
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
Rolf Wüstenhagen (University of St. Gallen)
Date: May 09, 2014
Title: The Price of Policy Risk
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)
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
Sauleh Siddiqui (Johns Hopkins University)
Date: January 17, 2014
Title: Incomplete Dynamic GHG Mitigation Policies: Taxes vs. Cap-and-Trade
Philipp Richter (DIW Berlin)
Date: January 10, 2014
Title: Market Power Rents and Climate Change Mitigation: A Rationale for a Coal Export Tax?
Christoph Böhringer (Universität Oldenburg)
Date: December 13, 2013
Title: The Strategic Value of Carbon Tariffs
Frank Jotzo (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University)
Date: December 04, 2013
Title: Global Prospects for Emissions Pricing
Ruud Egging (NTNU Trondheim)
Date: November 29, 2013
Title: Instruments of Climate and Energy Policy in a Multi-Fuel Market Equilibrium Model
Philipp M. Richter (DIW Berlin)
Date: July 12, 2013
Title: Trade and the Environment: the Role of Firm Heterogeneity
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)
Rick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford)
Date: June 21, 2013
Title: Resource-rich countries and the Dutch disease
Christoph Böhringer (Universität Oldenburg)
Date: June 14, 2013
Title: The Role of Border Carbon Adjustment in Unilateral Climate Policy
Rainald Borck (University of Potsdam)
Date: June 07, 2013
Title: Green cities? Urbanization, trade, and the environment
Thomas Eichner (Fernuniversität Hagen)
Date: May 31, 2013
Title: Trade policy and self-enforcing environmental agreements
John Roemer (Yale University)
Date: May 30, 2013
Title: Kantian equilibrium: A new approach to cooperation
Gregor Schwerhoff (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
Date: May 17, 2013
Title: Macroeconomic stock accounting
Matti Liski (Aalto University School of Economics, Helsinki)
Date: May 03, 2013
Title: No news is good news in climate change?