• Prof. Dr. Ralph Winkler

• Schanzeneckstrasse 1
• 3012 Bern
• Switzerland
• Phone: +41 31 684 45 08
• Email: ralph.winkler@unibe.ch

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Published Work

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Strategic delegation in the formation of modest international environmental agreements (with S. Spycher)
  European Economic Review, 141: 103963, 2022.
• Long-term climate treaties with a refunding club (with H. Gersbach and N. Hummel )
  Environmental and Resource Economics, 80: 511–552, 2021.
• Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime (with M. T. Schneider)
  Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123: 1339–1384, 2021.
• Domestic pressure and international climate cooperation (with A. Tavoni) [Preprint]
  Annual Review of Resource Economics, 13: 225–243, 2021.
• Sharing a river with downstream externalities (with S. Steinmann)
  GAMES, 10: 23, 2019.
• Strategic delegation and international permit markets:Why linking may fail (with W. Habla) [Preprint]
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 92: 244–250, 2018
• Analysing the effectiveness of international environmental policies: The case of the Kyoto Protocol (with C. Almer) [Preprint]
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 82: 125–151, 2017
• Political influence on non-cooperative international climate policy (with W. Habla) [Preprint]
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66: 219–234, 2013
• Trading-off generations: equity, discounting and climate change (with M. T. Schneider and C. P. Traeger) [Preprint]
  European Economic Review, 56: 1621–1644, 2012
• Global refunding and climate change (with H. Gersbach) [Preprint]
  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36: 1775–1795, 2012
• A note on the optimal control of stocks accumulating with a delay [Preprint]
  Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15: 565–578, 2011
• International emission permits markets with refunding (with H. Gersbach) [Preprint]
  European Economic Review, 55: 759–773, 2011
• Distorted time preferences and time-to-build in the transition to a low-carbon energy industry (with C. Heinzel) [Preprint]
  Environmental and Resource Economics, 49: 217–241, 2011
• Why do ICDPs fail? The relationship between agriculture, hunting and ecotourism in wildlife conservation [Preprint]
  Resource and Energy Economics, 33: 55–78, 2011
• Wasted waste: an evolutionary perspective on industrial by-products (with J. Kronenberg) [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 68: 3026–3033, 2009
• Now or never. Environmental protection under hyperbolic discounting
  Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 3: 2009-12, 2009
• Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy (with S. Baumgärtner and F. Jöst) [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 68: 1226–1238, 2009
• Optimal compliance with emission constraints. Dynamic characteristics and the choice of technique [Preprint]
  Environmental and Resource Economics, 39: 411–432, 2008
• Numerical solution of optimal control problems with constant control delays (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, S. Sager, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder) [Preprint]
  Computational Economics, 31: 181–206, 2008
• Introduction to the special issue complexity and ecological economics (with K. Farrell)
  Ecological Complexity, 3: 265–274, 2006
• Heterogeneity and time: from neo-Austrian capital theory to ecological economics (with M. Faber)
  American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 65: 803–825, 2006
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 59: 82–93, 2006
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 2: implications of unpredictable novel change [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 59: 95–105, 2006
• Does 'better' discounting lead to 'worse' outcomes in long-run decisions? The dilemma of hyperbolic discounting [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 57: 573–582, 2006
• Structural change with joint production of consumption and environmental pollution: A neo-Austrian approach [Preprint]
  Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 16:111–135, 2005
• Preisambivalenz von Altpapier. Eine ökonomische Konsequenz der deutschen Abfallgesetzgebung 1985–2000 (with S. Baumgärtner)
  Zeitschrift für angewandte Umweltforschung – Journal of Environmental Research, 15/16: 239–255, 2003/4
• Markets, technology and environmental regulation: Price ambivalence of waste paper in Germany (with S. Baumgärtner) [Preprint]
  Ecological Economics, 47: 183–195, 2003
• COMBO-FISH: specific labeling of nondenatured chromatin targets by computer-selected DNA oligonucleotide probe combinations (with M. Hausmann, G. Hildenbrand, J. Finsterle, A. Weisel, A. Rapp, S. Janz and C. Cremer)
  Biotechniques, 35: 564–577, 2003
• Labelling quality and chromosome morphology after low temperature FISH analysed by scanning far-field and near-field optical microscopy (with Perner, A. Rapp, M. Durm, C. Cremer, K.-O. Greulich and M. Hausmann)
  Journal of Microscopy, 209: 22–33, 2003

Guest editor of peer-reviewed journals

• Special Issue: Complexity and Ecological Economics (with K. Farrell)
  Ecological Complexity 3(4), 2006

Articels in books and volumes

• Energy consumption of buildings: Direct impacts of a warming climate and rebound effects (with C. Almer, C. Bader, C. Gonseth, J. Laurent-Lucchetti, P. Thalmann and M. Vielle)
  In: CH2014-Impacts: Toward Quantitative Scenarios of Climate Change Impacts in Switzerland Winkler. OCCR, FOEN, MeteoSwiss, C2SM, Agroscope, and ProClim, Bern, 2014
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach
  In C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008
• Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 2: implications of unpredictable novel change
  In C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008
• Structural change under joint production
  In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006
• Waste paper: price ambivalence (with S. Baumgärtner)
  In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2006
• Time lags in capital accumulation (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
  In D. Ahr, R. Fahrion, M. Oswald, and G. Reinelt (Eds.). Operations Research Proceedings 2003. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004

Books

• Zeitverzögerte Dynamik von Kapital- und Schadstoffbeständen. Eine östereichische Perspektive. Metropolis-verlag, Marburg, 2003.

Current Research

Current working papers and manuscripts

• On the relationship between adaptation and mitigation
  CESifo Working Paper Series No. 10371, April 2023
• A Market mechanism for sustainable and efficient resource use under uncertainty (with M. Quaas)
  CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6524, July 2017
• The intricacy of adapting to climate change: Flood protection as a local public goods game (with A. Bondarev, B. Hintermann and F. Krysiak)
  CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6382, March 2017

Work in progress

• Meet me at the threshold. Asymmetric preferences in a threshold public goods game (with S. Spycher)
• Rational consumer choice? The case of household food waste (with G. Sipos)
• Incentives for technology investments in international climate policy (with A. Kulakovskaya)
• The optimal design of climate policy in the presence of capital tax competition (with W. Habla and O. Schenker)
• On the macroeconomics of the quality and quantity of life (with M. T. Schneider)
• Provision of imperfectly substitutable public goods in a federalist state (with A. Bondarev, B. Hintermann and F. Krysiak)
• Strategic delegation in a standard public good game (with A. Tavoni)
• On the optimal design of international environmental agreements (with C. P. Traeger)

Unpublished working papers and manuscripts

• Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol (with C. Almer)
  Working Paper No. 10-14, Department of Economics, University of Bern, November 2010
• Optimal control of pollutants with delayed stock accumulation
  Working Paper No. 08/91, CER-ETH, ETH Zürich, July 2008
• On the transition from instantaneous to time-lagged capital accumulation. The case of Leontief-type production functions (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
  Discussion Paper No. 05-30, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, April 2005
• Intertemporal efficiency and equity under hyperbolic preferences. Ex ante versus ex post procrastination
  Discussion Paper No. 402, Department of Economics, University of Heidelberg, January 2004
• Price ambivalence on the German waste paper market. Stylized facts and a dynamic model (with S. Baumgärtner)
  Manuscript, University of Heidelberg, April 2002