Research

• Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power (with R. Germeshausen and S. Heim). August 2021
• Can Social Comparisons and Moral Appeals Increase Public Transport Ridership and Decrease Car Use? (with Johannes Gessner and Wolfgang Habla). CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 451. July 2023.
• Urban Air Quality and Sick Leaves: Evidence From Social Security Data (with Felix Holub and Laura Hospido). New version: August 2021.
• The Effect of Climate Policy on Productivity and Cost Pass-Through in the German Manufacturing Sector (with Beat Hintermann, Maja Zarkovic and Corrado Di Maria). December 2020.
• Carbon Footprints of European Manufacturing Jobs: Stylized Facts and Implications for Climate Policy (with D. Kassem, A. Gerster, J. Jaraite, M. Klemetsen, M. Laukkanen, J. Leisner, R. Martin, J. Munch, M. Muûls, A. Nielsen, L. de Preux, K. Rosendahl and S. Schusser). December 2020.

More downloads on SSRN.

• Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? Firm-Level Evidence from the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme. Colmer, J., M. Muûls, R. Martin, and U.J. Wagner (2023).  Conditionally accepted at Review of Economic Studies
• Response of the Ozone-related Health Burden in Europe to Changes in Local Anthropogenic Emissions of Ozone Precursors. Gu, Y., D.K. Henze, M.O. Nawaz, and U.J. Wagner (2023). Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0167
• Management Practices and Climate Policy in China. S.K. Yong, U.J. Wagner, P. Shen, L. de Preux, M. Muûls, R. Martin, and J. Cao (2023).  Conditionally accepted at Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Sources of PM2.5-Associated Health Risks in Europe and Corresponding Emission-Induced Changes During 2005–2015. Gu, Y., D.K. Henze, M.O. Nawaz, H. Cao, and U.J. Wagner (2023). GeoHealth, 7 (3).
• Strategic Uncertainty, Indeterminacy, and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements. Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, with D. Narita. [WP download]
• Estimating Strategic Models of International Treaty Formation. Review of Economic Studies, 2016.  
• The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on Regulated Firms: What is the Evidence after Ten Years? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2016, with R. Martin and M. Muûls. [WP download]
• The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata. Journal of Public Economics, 2014, with R. Martin and L. de Preux.
• On the Empirical Content of Carbon Leakage Criteria in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Ecological Economics, 2014, with R. Martin, M. Muûls and L. de Preux.
• Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. American Economic Review, 2014, with R. Martin, M. Muûls and L. de Preux.
• The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata. Martin, R., L.B. de Preux, and U.J. Wagner (2014). Journal of Public Economics, 117:1–14.
• Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organizational Structure and Energy Efficiency.  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2012, with R. Martin, M. Muûls and L. de Preux. 
• Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-level Data. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2011, with K. Rehdanz and S. Petrick.
• Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009, with C. Timmins. [WP download]
• The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good? Another Look at CFC Emissions and the Montreal Protocol. Oxford Economic Papers, 2009. [WP download]
• The Design of Stable International Environmental Agreements: Economic Theory and Political Economy. Journal of Economic Surveys, 2001. [WP download]

• Trading Behavior in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. In: Gronwald, M. and Hintermann, B. (eds.), Emissions Trading Systems as a Policy Instrument: Evaluation and Prospects, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2015, mit Ralf Martin und Mirabelle Muûls. [WP download]
• Interactions between Selected Energy Use and Production Characteristics of German Manufacturing Plants. In: Moshfegh, B. (ed.), World Renewable Energy Congress – Sweden, 8–13 May, 2011: 867–874. Linköping, Sweden, 2011, with Sebastian Petrick and Katrin Rehdanz. [download]

• ERC Consolidator Grant
  “Health, Labor and Environmental Regulation in Post-industrial Europe (HEAL)”
  Duration: August 2020-July 2025
  Postdoc: Yixuan Gu
• SFB Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability – EPoS”
  Project B07: Policies for Sustainability, Evaluating Environmental Performance and Regulation of Enterprises in Europe
  Duration: January 2018 – December 2025.
  Postdocs: Dana Kassem,
  Former Postdoc: Harim Kim

• SFB 884 “Political Economy of Reforms”
  Project B 10: Empirical analysis of the economics of lobbying in European policy reforms
  Duration: January 2018 – June 2022.
  Postdoc: Dimitri Szerman
  Former postdoc: Wolfgang Habla
• Federal Minstry of Education and Research “Economics of Climate Change”
  Collaborative Project: The Economics of International Climate Policy COMPLIANCE
  Duration: September 2018 – February 2022
  Postdoc: Vincenzo Mollisi
• Federal Minstry of Education and Research “Economics of Climate Change”
  Collaborative Project: Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data – TRACE
  Duration: January 2019 – June 2022
  Current postdoc: Robert Germeshausen, Kinga Tchorzewska
  Former postdocs: Andreas Gerster, Stephen Jarvis