CESifo Research Network Fellow

Ottmar Edenhofer

Deputy-director and Chief Economist
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions
Postbox 601203, 14412, Potsdam, Germany

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Welfare Economics
  • Publicly Provided Goods
  • Mathematical Methods and Programming
  • Game Theory and Bargaining Theory
  • Taxation
  • Subsidies and Revenue

CESifo Working Papers

On the Governance of Carbon Dioxide Removal – A Public Economics Perspective

Ottmar Edenhofer, Max Franks, Matthias Kalkuhl, Artur Runge-Metzger
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10370

Pigou’s Advice and Sisyphus’ Warning: Carbon Pricing with Non-Permanent Carbon-Dioxide Removal

Matthias Kalkuhl, Max Franks, Friedemann Gruner, Kai Lessmann, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2022
CESifo Working Paper No. 10169

Asset Pricing and the Carbon Beta of Externalities

Ottmar Edenhofer, Kai Lessmann, Ibrahim Tahri
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9269

Optimal Carbon Taxation and Horizontal Equity: A Welfare-Theoretic Approach with Application to German Household Data

Martin C. Hänsel, Max Franks, Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 8931

Rules vs. Discretion in Cap-and-Trade Programs: Evidence from the EU Emission Trading System

Marina Friedrich, Sébastien Fries, Michael Pahle, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8637

Optimal Redistributive Wealth Taxation When Wealth Is More Than Just Capital

Max Franks, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8093

The social cost of carbon and inequality: when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices

Ulrike Kornek, David Klenert, Ottmar Edenhofer, Marc Fleurbaey
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7628

How to Deal with the Risks of Phasing out Coal in Germany through National Carbon Pricing

Sebastian Osorio, Robert C. Pietzcker, Michael Pahle, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7438

Steering the Climate System: An Extended Comment

Linus Mattauch, Richard Millar, Rick van der Ploeg, Armon Rezai, Anselm Schultes, Frank Venmans, Nico Bauer, Simon Dietz, Ottmar Edenhofer, Niall Farrell, Cameron Hepburn, Gunnar Luderer, Jacquelyn Pless, Fiona Spuler, Nicholas Stern FBA, Alexander Teytelboym
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7414

Feldstein Meets George: Land Rent Taxation and Socially Optimal Allocation in Economies with Environmental Externality

Nguyen Thang Dao, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 6937

Self-Enforcing Intergenerational Social Contract as a Source of Pareto Improvement and Pollution Mitigation

Thang Dao, Kerstin Burghaus, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5896

Knowing the Damages is not Enough: The General Equilibrium Impacts of Climate Change

Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5862

Climate Policy Enhances Efficiency: A Macroeconomic Portfolio Effect

Jan Siegmeier, Linus Mattauch, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5161

Infrastructure and Inequality: Insights from Incorporating Key Economic Facts about Household Heterogeneity

David Klenert, Linus Mattauch, Ottmar Edenhofer, Kai Lessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4972

The Globalization Paradox Revisited

Gregor Schwerhoff, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4878

On the Fiscal Strategies of Escaping Poverty-Environment Traps (and) Towards Sustainable Growth

Nguyen Than Dao, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4865

Public Investment when Capital is Back - Distributional Effects of Heterogeneous Saving Behavior

Linus Mattauch, Ottmar Edenhofer, David Klenert, Sophie Bénard
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4714

Is Capital Mobility Good for Public Good Provision?

Gregor Schwerhoff, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4420

Financing Public Capital through Land Rent Taxation: A Macroeconomic Henry George Theorem

Linus Mattauch, Jan Siegmeier, Ottmar Edenhofer, Felix Creutzig
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4280

Hypergeorgism: When is Rent Taxation as a Remedy for Insufficient Capital Accumulation Socially Optimal?

Ottmar Edenhofer, Linus Mattauch, Jan Siegmeier
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4144

The Role of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Policies for Climate Change Mitigation

Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer, Kai Lessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2012
CESifo Working Paper No. 3834

Learning or Lock-in: Optimal Technology Policies to Support Mitigation

Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer, Kai Lessmann
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3422

Prices vs. Quantities and the Intertemporal Dynamics of the Climate Rent

Matthias Kalkuhl, Ottmar Edenhofer
CESifo, Munich, 2010
CESifo Working Paper No. 3044