Energy and Climate Economics
The Energy and Climate Economics area is organized by Maximilian Auffhammer of the University of California, Berkeley. Its goal is to promote cutting-edge research on economic issues related to natural resources, energy markets, climate change and climate policy. Studying and addressing climate change is an issue that combines theoretical and empirical research across subfields in environmental and resource economics. Our interests span a wide range of topics including the design of climate policies and climate agreements, the promotion of renewable energy, the functioning of fossil fuel markets, and natural resource management. Policy intervention in markets is often motivated by climate, air pollution and natural resource scarcity concerns. An important aim of research in this area is to improve our understanding of the implications and unintended consequences of various policies, both for policies that have climate change as their primary concern and policies with other primary objectives.
“Market failures have led to the climate crisis and unprecedented degradation of natural resources. Addressing these challenges - while improving welfare across the planet - is at the heart of environmental and resource economics.”
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer, Area Director Energy and Climate Economics
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Area Director
Maximilian Auffhammer is the George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development at the University of California Berkeley. He received his B.S. in environmental science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1996, a M.S. in environmental and resource economics at the same institution in 1998 and a Ph.D. in economics from UC San Diego in 2003. He joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2003. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics and applied econometrics with a focus on the economic impacts of climate change and air pollution. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Humboldt Fellow, and a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). His research has appeared in The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Economic Journal, the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, The Energy Journal and other academic journals. Professor Auffhammer is the recipient of the 2017 Cheit Teaching Award in the Haas School of Business, the 2009 Campus Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2007 Cozzarelli Prize awarded by the National Academies of Sciences, and the 2007 Sarlo Distinguished Mentoring Award. He has been actively involved in environmental policy advising at the state and national level. He has also been a dedicated Bayern Munich fan since 1978.
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Area Members
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversität Paderborn
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CESifo Research Network FellowToulouse School of Economics
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Copenhagen
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network Affiliateifo Institut
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Oslo
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversidad de Navarra
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Oxford
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateETH Zürich
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CESifo Research Network FellowColumbia University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversidad Torcuato Di Tella
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CESifo Research Network FellowMcGill University
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CESifo Research Network FellowHelmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowElectric Power Research Institute
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CESifo Research Network FellowEttore Bocconi
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CESifo Research Network FellowETH Zurich
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateNorwegian University of Science and Technology
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Regensburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowClimate Policy Initiative
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CESifo Research Network FellowThe London School of Economics and Political Science
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CESifo Research Network FellowCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowMcGill University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateGeorgetown University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateGeorgia State University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateWilliams College
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CESifo Research Network FellowTufts University
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CESifo Research Network FellowÉcole d'Économie de Paris
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Vienna
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Virginia
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversitat Pompeu Fabra
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Gothenburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Maryland
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CESifo Research Network FellowDTU – Technical University of Denmark
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Kaiserslautern-Landau
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of East Anglia
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CESifo Research Network FellowLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Nottingham
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Hamburg
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateThe London School of Economics and Political Science
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CESifo Research Network FellowKU Leuven
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CESifo Research Network FellowStatistics Norway
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CESifo Research Network FellowPhilipps-Universität Marburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowVU University Amsterdam
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateArizona State University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of California, San Diego
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateOslo Metropolitan University
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CESifo Research Network FellowTilburg University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversität Mannheim
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateYale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
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CESifo Research Network FellowToulouse School of Economics
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CESifo Research Network FellowRagnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
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CESifo Research Network FellowStatistics Norway
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CESifo Research Network FellowToulouse School of Economics
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CESifo Research Network FellowXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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CESifo Research Network FellowCollège de France
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of St.Gallen
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CESifo Research Network FellowStatistics Norway
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CESifo Research Network FellowStanford University
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CESifo Research Network FellowStockholm University
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CESifo Research Network FellowColumbia Business School
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Basel
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Oslo
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Oslo
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CESifo Research Network FellowStatistics Norway
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CESifo Research Network AffiliatePrinceton University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateColorado State University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversità di Bologna
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CESifo Research Network FellowMercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Miami
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CESifo Research Network FellowFederal Reserve Bank of Dallas
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CESifo Research Network FellowStanford University
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CESifo Research Network FellowColorado State University
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CESifo Research Network FellowRagnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateDeakin University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Hamburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowColorado School of Mines
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CESifo Research Network FellowAalto University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Guelph
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CESifo Research Network FellowRice University
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CESifo Research Network FellowRWTH Aachen University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversität Bochum
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversité Montpellier 1
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CESifo Research Network FellowFrench National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
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CESifo Research Network Affiliateifo Institut
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Wyoming
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CESifo Research Network FellowGeorgia Institute of Technology
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Neuchâtel
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of British Columbia
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUppsala Universitet
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Miami
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Waterloo
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Copenhagen
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CESifo Research Network FellowCambridge University
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CESifo Research Network FellowVictoria University of Wellington
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CESifo Research Network FellowNHH Norwegian School of Economics
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateBrock University
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CESifo Research Network FellowÉcole d'Économie de Paris
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CESifo Research Network FellowInternational Monetary Fund (IMF)
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Siegen
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversität St. Gallen
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CESifo Research Network Fellowifo Institut
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateMIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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CESifo Research Network FellowEcole Polytechnique-CNRS
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CESifo Research Network FellowSyracuse University
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CESifo Research Network FellowKU Leuven
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Bern
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Davis
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Rostock
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CESifo Research Network FellowNorthwestern University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Mannheim
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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CESifo Research Network FellowVienna University of Economics and Business
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateTechnische Universität Dresden
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CESifo Research Network FellowNorwegian University of Life Sciences
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateCornell University
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
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CESifo Research Network FellowTechnische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateGeorgetown University
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CESifo Research Network FellowKobe University
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CESifo Research Network FellowFernUniversität Hagen
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateEnergy Brainpool GmbH & Co. KG
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CESifo Research Network FellowÉcole d'Économie de Paris
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateWageningen University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversitat de Barcelona
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Auckland
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateThe London School of Economics and Political Science
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CESifo Research Network FellowTilburg University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUppsala Universitet
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Oxford
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateETH Zurich
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Gothenburg
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateStatistics Norway
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Bern
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CESifo Research Network FellowLondon School of Economics and Political Science
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Calgary
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of California, San Diego
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Sussex
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Oslo
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversité catholique de Louvain
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CESifo Research Network FellowThe University of Manchester
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CESifo Research Network FellowCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversité Paris-Dauphine
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CESifo Research Network FellowBoston University
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CESifo Research Network FellowTilburg University and PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Institute
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversiteit van Amsterdam
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network FellowColumbia University
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CESifo Research Network Affiliateifo Institut
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of California, Berkeley
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CESifo Research Network AffiliatePotsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
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CESifo Research Network FellowUniversity of Bern
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CESifo Research Network FellowVU University Amsterdam
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CESifo Research Network FellowSimon Fraser University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateAllianz SE
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CESifo Research Network FellowTilburg University
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CESifo Research Network FellowYale University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUniversity of Pennsylvania
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateUtrecht University
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CESifo Research Network AffiliateVU University Amsterdam
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CESifo Research Network FellowOxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre)
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CESifo Research Network FellowPBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
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CESifo Research Network Affiliateifo Institute
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Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award
The Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award, aimed at encouraging talented young scholars, is awarded to the best paper presented by a young author at each of the CESifo Area conferences. Accepted candidates are invited to attend the Area Conference to which they have been nominated and present their paper. An award committee will judge the papers (and presentations) and select a winner. Nominations will be considered for candidates who are either close to completion of the PhD, or who have completed their PhD in the previous five years. The same limit applies to co-authors in the case of papers with multiple authors. The criteria for the award are scientific originality, policy relevance and quality of exposition. The winning paper will appear in the CESifo Working Paper Series.
Year Distinguished Affiliate(s) Title of the paper 2024 Clàudia Serra-Sala Blowing in the Wind: Revenue Windfalls and Local Responses from Wind Farm Development Sebastian Tebbe Peer Effects in Electric Car Adoption: Evidence from Sweden 2023 Sugandha Srivastav Bringing Early-Stage Technologies to Market: Evidence from Utility-Scale Solar and Feed-in-Tariffs Gregor Singer Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency? 2022 Frikk Nesje Cross-Dynastic Intergenerational Altruism Katherine R. H. Wagner Technology Lock-In and Optimal Carbon Pricing 2021 Jonathan Colmer The Grandkids Aren't Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure Bruno Conte Climate Change and Migration: The Case of Africa 2020 Dana Kassem Does Electrification Cause Industrial Development? Grid Expansion and Firm Turnover in Indonesia 2019 Paige Weber Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the Electricity Sector 2018 Stephie Fried Seawalls and Stilts: A Quantitative Macro Study of Climate Adaptation 2017 Raphael Calel Adopt or Innovate? Deeper Lessons from the European Carbon Market 2016 Maria Elisa Belfiori Carbon Trading, Carbon Taxes and Social Discounting 2015 Katinka Kristine Holtsmark The dynamics of linking permit markets 2014 Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio Fair Intergenerational Utilitarianism: Risk, its Resolution over Time, and Discounting 2013 Antony Millner On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks 2012 Halvor Briseid Storrøsten Prices vs. Quantities: Technology Choice, Uncertainty and Welfare 2012 Janina C. Ketterer The Impact of Wind Power Generation on the Electricity Price in Germany 2010 Christian P. Traeger Intertemporal Risk Aversion, Stationarity and Discounting
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Conferences
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2018
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2019
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2020
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2021
CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2022
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Intermediaire
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Affiliated ifo Center