About me
I am an environmental economist. My main research interests are climate change and sustainable development. I work as Professor of Environmental Economics at the newly founded Center for Critical Computational Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. I am also a Wuebben Foundation Fellow and a Research Affiliate of the CESifo Research Network.
My work has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals (e.g. Nature Climate Change) and economics field journals (e.g. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management). My research seeks to contribute to public debate and to better policies and involves collaborations with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and other national and international organisations.
Prior to my current appointment, I worked at the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University and at the Climate School at Columbia University. I hold a PhD in Environmental Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, where my PhD thesis won the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award by the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Selected current work:
- Climate shift uncertainty and economic damages (with Romain Fillon and Gernot Wagner). (New working paper: PDF)
- Global inequalities in weather forecasts (with Jeffrey Shrader). (Updated working paper: PDF)
- Some Like It Cold: The Persistent Cost of Higher Temperatures in European Economic Sectors (with Ben Groom and Sefi Roth). PDF
Selected publications:
- Global variation in the preferred temperature for recreational outdoor activity. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024. PDF
- Seasonal temperature variability and economic cycles. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2024. PDF.
- Temperature variability and long-run economic development. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023. PDF
- Global benefits of the international diffusion of carbon pricing policies (with Adil Mohommad and Gregor Schwerhoff). Nature Climate Change, 2023. PDF
- Policy sequencing towards carbon pricing among the world’s largest emitters (with Adil Mohommad and Gregor Schwerhoff). Nature Climate Change, 2022. PDF