Research

Fields of interest:

            Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
           Climate Change Policy
           Industrial Organization
           Public Finance

Projects (organized by topic and data source)

I. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE POLICY

Ia) Management Survey Data

We conducted telephone interviews with almost 800 managers of manufacturing firms in 6 European countries to learn about their management practices, especially regarding energy efficiency and climate policy.

Video showing interviewers at work

Media coverage: Handelsblatt, La Libre, New York Times, Platts, Vox, ZEIT

Research papers:

Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
American Economic Review, vol. 104 no. 8 (2014): 2482-2508.
- Featured in Science (2014) Vol. 344 No. 6180 (Editor's Choice)
- Winner of the Erik Kempe Award 2015
With Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Laure de Preux.

On the Empirical Content of Carbon Leakage Criteria in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Ecological Economics, vol. 105(2014): 78-88.
With Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure de Preux.

The two papers listed above supersede NBER Working Paper No. 19097

Trading Behavior in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
To appear in CESifo conference volume. This version: March 2014.
With Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muûls.

Carbon markets, carbon prices and innovation: Evidence from Interviews with Managers (with Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muûls), January 2013. (New draft available soon).

Climate Change Policy and Business in Europe: Evidence from interviewing managers (joint with Barry Anderson, Jörg Leib, Ralf Martin , Marty McGuigan, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure de Preux), CEP Occasional Paper No. 27, March 2011.

Paper based on earlier interview wave with managers of ~200 British manufacturing firms:

Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organizational Structure and Energy Efficiency (joint with Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Laure de Preux), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (abstract)
Working paper

Ib) Administrative Firm Data

The Impact of Carbon Trading on Industry: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms (joint with Sebastian Petrick), March 2014.

Also available as Kiel Working Paper No. 1912
Media coverage: SZ, FAZ, n-tv

The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata (joint with Ralf Martin and Laure de Preux), Journal of Public Economics, vol. 117(2014): 1-14. (abstract)

Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-Level Data (joint with Sebastian Petrick and Katrin Rehdanz), Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik Vol. 231 No. 3 (2011), pp. 379-414. (abstract)

Ic) Other Papers

The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on Regulated Firms: What is the Evidence after Nine Years? (joint with Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muûls), November 2014.

Conditionally accepted at Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
Supersedes our 2012 report for the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change entitled "An Evidence Review of the EU Emissions Trading System".

Política sobre el cambio climático y sector manufacturero: La experiencia de "comercio de carbono". Economía Industrial núm. 393 (2014): 33-40.

Climate Policy and Innovation: Evidence from Patent Applications (joint with Ralf Martin), September 2009.

II. INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

IIa) International Environmental Agreements

new Estimating Strategic Models of International Treaty Formation, May 2015. (abstract)
Accepted at Review of Economics Studies

Expectation-Driven Climate Treaties with Breakthrough Technologies (joint with Daiju Narita), Kiel Working Paper 1732, September 2011. (abstract)

The Design of Stable International Environmental Agreements: Economic Theory and Political Economy, Journal of Economics Surveys Vol. 15 No. 3 (2001), pp. 377-411. (abstract)

Reprinted as chapter 5 of Current Issues in Environmental Economics by Nick Hanley and Colin J. Roberts (eds.) 2002, Blackwell Publishing: Oxford

The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good? Another Look at CFC emissions and the Montreal Protocol, Oxford Economic Papers Vol 61 (2009), pp. 183-196. (abstract)

Looking Beyond Kyoto: Opportunities for Transformation (joint with Ernesto Zedillo), October 2006.

IIb) Pollution havens

Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (joint with Christopher Timmins), Environmental and Resource Economics Vol. 43 No. 2 (2009), pp. 231-256. (abstract)

Reprinted as chapter 16 of Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment by Brian R. Copeland (ed.) 2014, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham.

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