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Research Interests

International environmental policy

Publications:

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.
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
Global refunding and climate change (with H. Gersbach) [Preprint]
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36: 1775–1795, 2012
International emission permits markets with refunding (with H. Gersbach) [Preprint]
European Economic Review, 55: 759–773, 2011

Working Papers:

On the relationship between adaptation and mitigation
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 10371, April 2023
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
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

Technological and structural change in the mitigation of climate change

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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
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
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
Structural change under joint production
In S. Baumgärtner, M. Faber and J. Schiller: Joint Production and Responsibility in Ecological Economics. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 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

Discounting in long-run decisions

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Natural resource management and development

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Why do ICDPs fail? The relationship between agriculture, hunting and ecotourism in wildlife conservation [Preprint]
Resource and Energy Economics, 33: 55–78, 2011
Valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Part 1: an integrated dynamic approach [Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 59: 82–93, 2006 (Reprinted 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 [Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 59: 95–105, 2006 (Reprinted in: C. Perrings (Editor): Ecological Economics. Volume III: Ecosystem Services. Sage, Los Angeles, 2008)

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Endogenous lifetime and growth

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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime (with M. T. Schneider)
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 123: 1339–1384, 2021.

Time-to-build and growth

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A note on the optimal control of stocks accumulating with a delay [Preprint]
Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15: 565–578, 2011
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
Time lags in capital accumulation (with U. Brandt-Pollmann, S. Sager, U. Moslener and J. Schlöder)
In D. Ahr, R. Fahrion, M. Oswald, and G. Reinelt (Eds.). Operations Research Proceedings 2003. Springer, Heidelberg, 2004

Working Papers:

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

Waste management and regulation

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Wasted waste: an evolutionary perspective on industrial by-products (with J. Kronenberg) [Preprint]
Ecological Economics, 68: 3026–3033, 2009
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
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

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