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Ulrich J. Wagner

Curriculum Vitae

Current Employment:

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, September 2008-

Affiliations:

Research Associate, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, June 2007-
Research Affiliate,
Kiel Institute for the World Economy, January 2010-

Previous Employment:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Earth Institute at Columbia University, 2006-08

Education:

Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, 2006
Diplom, Economics, University of Kiel, 2001
Vordiplom, Economics, University of Hamburg, 1998

Publications:

Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organizational Structure and Energy Efficiency (with Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muűls and Laure de Preux),  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management vol. 63(2): 208-223, March 2012.

Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-level Data (with Sebastian Petrick and Katrin Rehdanz), Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik vol. 231(3): 379-414, 2011.

Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, (with Christopher Timmins), Environmental and Resource Economics vol. 43(2): 231-256, June 2009.

The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good? Another Look at CFC Emissions and the Montreal Protocol, Oxford Economic Papers  vol. 61: 183-196, January 2009.

The Design of Stable International Environmental Agreements: Economic Theory and Political Economy, Journal of Economic Surveys vol. 15(3): 377-411, July 2001.
Reprinted as Chapter 5 of Current Issues in Environmental Economics, Nick Hanley and Colin J. Roberts (eds.), Blackwell Publishing, 2002.

Papers:

Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme  (with Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muűls and Laure de Preux), March 2012.

The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata, (with Ralf Martin and Laure de Preux), NBER Working Paper 17443, September 2011. 

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

Strategic Complementarity in a Dynamic Game of Timing: The Case of the Montreal Protocol, July 2011. Revise & resubmit to Review of Economic Studies

Interactions between Selected Energy Use and Production Characteristics of German Manufacturing Plants, (with Sebastian Petrick and Katrin Rehdanz), February 2011.

Carbon markets, carbon prices and innovation: Evidence from Interviews with Managers (with Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muűls)draft. January 2011. 

Still time to reclaim the European Union Emissions Trading System for the European tax payer (joint with Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muűls), CEP Policy Brief 10. May 2010.

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

The Impacts of Cap-and-Trade on Industry: Evidence from the European Carbon Market and German Manufacturing Plants (with Sebastian Petrick and Katrin Rehdanz), in progress.

Looking beyond Kyoto: Opportunities for Transformation, (with Ernesto Zedillo), mimeo. Yale University, 2006.

Research Grants:

ESRC grant #ES/J006742/1, "A Firm-level evaluation of the European Union Emissions Trading System" (with Antoine Dechezlepretre, Ralf Martin and Mirabelle Muűls), 2012-13

Spanish Ministry for Science and Education grant #SEJ2007-62908 "Contrastes de Especificación de Modelos Econométricos" (PI: Miguel Ángel Delgado González), 2007-2012


ESRC grant #RES-000-22-2711, "The Effects of the Climate Change Levy and Climate Change Agreements on Businesses in the United Kingdom: Evidence from Microdata" (with Ralf Martin), 2007-08


Fellowships, Honors, and Awards:

Juan de la Cierva Fellowship, Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, 2009-
Earth Institute Fellowship, Columbia University, 2006-08
Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Fellowship, Resources for the Future, 2005-06
John F. Enders Fund Award, Yale University, 2005
Leitner Award in International and Comparative Political Economy, Yale University, 2005
European Recovery Program Fellowship, German Ministry of Economics and Labor 2003-05
Doctoral Fellowship, Yale University, 2001-06
Economics departmental award, Yale University, 2001-05
Godin Guitars Scholarship, Berklee College of Music, Summer 2004
Holsteiner Studienpreis for academic merit (university wide), University of Kiel, 2001
Erich Schneider Award for highest GPA in graduating class, University of Kiel, 2001
Erich Schneider Award for best Diplom thesis, University of Kiel, 2000
German National Academic Foundation fellowship 1996-2001, 2003-2005
ERASMUS scholarship by the European Union for studies in Paris, 1998

Teaching Experience:

Instructor (at Carlos III):
Mercados y Medio Ambiente, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Markets and the Environment, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
Economía Industrial (Undergradate Industrial Organization), Spring 2009, Spring 2010
Coordinator, environmental economics (BA economics core curriculum), 2010-

Teaching Fellow (all Yale University):

Economics of Natural Resource Management (Masters), Professor Sheila Olmstead, Spring 2005
Economics of Natural Resources (undergraduate/PhD), Professor Robert Mendelsohn, Fall 2003
Certificate, Fundamentals of Teaching in the Social Sciences, September 2004

Other Professional Experience:

Co-Editor:    
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2010-

Consultant:     
HM Government, Department of Energy and Climate Change, 2012
Organisation for Economic 
Co-operation and Development, Environment Directorate, 2008-09
The World Bank, Mexico Air Quality Management Team, 2002-03

The World Bank, Latin America and Caribbean Environment Department, Summer 2002
Research Assistant:
Professor Ernesto Zedillo, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 2004-2006
Professor Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School, 2004-2005
Professor Gernot Klepper, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 1998-2001
Other:
Rurtalwerkstätten gGmbH Düren. Conscientious objector to military service 1995-1996

Conference Presentations:

AERE Summer Conference, Seattle, June 9-10, 2011
Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum, Exeter, April 13-15, 2011
NBER Summer Institute Environmental and Energy Economics, July 29-30, 2010
 
SURED 2010 conference, Ascona, June 7-10, 2010.
AERNA fourth conference, Gran Canaria, June 2-5, 2010
Carbon Pricing and Investment Response Roundtable, CPI/DIW Berlin, February 5, 2010
ASSA meetings, AERE sessions, Atlanta, January 2010
Workshop on Political Economy and the Environment, CORE/UCL, October 2009
Workshop on Globalization and the Environment, Kiel Institute, September 2009
EAERE Annual Conference, VU Amsterdam, June 24-27, 2009
NBER Summer Institute Energy and Environmental Economics (research sketch), July 21, 2008
North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, June 21-24, 2007, Duke University, NC Coalition for Rainforest Nations, Economic Seminar, January 15, 2007, Columbia GSB
NBER Summer Institute Public Policy and the Environment (research sketch), July 28, 2005

NAREA/CAES annual meetings, Halifax, June 20-23, 2004

AERNA first conference, Vigo, June 18-19, 2004
NBER Summer Institute Public Policy and the Environment (research sketch), July 28, 2003
 

Invited Presentations:

2012: World Bank, RWTH Aachen
2011
: Kiel Institute for the World Economy
2010: CCHS/CSIC, Paris School of Economics, Carlos III de Madrid
2009
: CEMFI, Toulouse School of Economics
2008: Alicante, 
Berkeley (ARE), Carlos III de Madrid, Colby, Columbia Earth Institute, FEDEA, IESE Business School, New York University (Wagner School), OECD
2007: Columbia, Yale
pre 2007: CEMFI (2004), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (2004), Yale (2003-06)

Referee Service:

American Economic Review, American Political Science Review, B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, British Journal of Political Science, China Economic Review, Ecological Economics, Economic Inquiry, Environmental and Resource Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, Global Environmental Change, Human Development Report, International Economic Review, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Policy, Oxford Economic Papers, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, University of Chicago Press

Language Skills: 

German (native), fluent in English and Spanish, French (proficient), Portuguese (basic)

Citizenship:

Germany

Other:

Electric & acoustic guitar
Soccer, cycling

April 2012