Prof. em. Dr. Lucas Bretschger
Prof. em. Dr. Lucas Bretschger
Professor Emeritus at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
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Swiss and French Citizen.
Updates at external pagePersonal webpagecall_made
Book Draft: Economics of Sustainable Development, CER-ETH Press, Zurich 2023, external pageFREE VIEW AND DOWNLOADcall_made
Book on Greening Economy, Graying Society, CER-ETH Press, Zurich 2018. DownloadFREE DOWNLOAD. (PDF, 1.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom external pageBook Presentation(1st Edition).call_made Order a free hard copy via email to . Chinese version: Peking University Press.
Keynote lectures:
- SURED conference, Ascona, Switzerland, June 2024
- Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, June 2022, A Toxa, Spain, external pageVideocall_made
- Mannheim Conference on Energy and the Environment, June 2022, Mannheim Germany
- Conference Environmental Economics: a Focus on Natural Resources, September 2020, Orléans France.
- Annual Conference 2019 of external pageEAERE in Manchester.call_made DownloadLecture slides. (PDF, 4.2 MB)vertical_align_bottom external pageVideocall_made
- Annual Conference 2019 of external pageEAAERE in Beijingcall_made. external pagePicturecall_made
Conferences: Tenth anniversary SURED conference 2022, Fourth and Fifth EAERE-ETH Winterschool 2023
external pageInterviewcall_made with Lucas Bretschger on research, policy, and the future of resource economics.
2. Other Positions and Honors
- 1983-1984 Financial Analyst at Zürcher Kantonalbank
- 1985-1994 Research Fellow at University of Zurich
- 1990-1991 Visiting Fellow at Princeton University
- 1994-1998 Visiting Professor at the Universities of Konstanz, La Paz, and Greifswald
- 1999-2002 Full Professor at the University of Greifswald, Chair of Economics: Growth and Trade
- 2002- Title of Professor at the University of Zurich
- 2005-2007 Head of the co-founded Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (MTEC) at ETH Zurich
- 2008- Associated Chair at the Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE)
- 2009- External Research Associate at OxCarre, University of Oxford, UK
- 2009-2019 Member of the Swiss Delegation at the UNFCCC Climate Change Conferences COP 15 (Copenhagen), COP 17 (Durban), COP 20 (Lima), COP 21 (Paris), COP 23 (Bonn) and COP 25 (Madrid).
- 2010-2012 Head of the German Board of Environmental and Resource Economics (AURÖ)
- 2011-2014, 2019- Managing Director of CER-ETH, Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
- 2014-2019 Member of the Council of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
- 2015- Full Member of SATW - Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences
- 2016-2017 Member of the Managing Editorial Board of Environmental and Resource Economics
- 2016-2017 President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
- 2019 EAERE Fellow Award
- 2021 Nomination for the Art of Leadership Award (ALEA) at ETH Zurich
- 2021 Golden Owl teaching award of ETH
3. Working Papers (Links)
- L. Bretschger, E. Komarov, M. Leuthard (2023): Overcoming the Carbon Trap: Climate Policy and Technology Tipping, Economics Working Paper Series 23/386, ETH Zurich.
- L. Bretschger, E. Komarov (2023): All Inclusive Climate Policy in a Growing Economy: The Role of Human Health, Economics Working Paper Series 23/384, ETH Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2022): external pageGreen Road is Open: Economic Pathway with a Carbon Price Escalatorcall_made, Economics Working Paper Series 22/375, ETH Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Ara Jo (2021): Complementarity between labor and energy: A firm-level analysis, Economics Working Paper Series 21/364, ETH Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Elise Grieg (2019): Exiting the fossil world: The effects of fuel taxation in the UK, Economics Working Paper Series 19/332, ETH Zurich.
4. Publications (links)
- Bretschger, Lucas and Ara Jo (2024): Complementarity between labor and energy: A firm-level analysis, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
- Brausmann, Alexandra and Lucas Bretschger (2024): Escaping Damocles’ Sword: Endogenous Climate Shocks in a Growing Economy, Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2024): external pageEnergy Transition and Climate Change Abatement: A Macroeconomic Analysiscall_made, Resource and Energy Economics, 76, 101423.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2023): external pageEffective Policy Design for a Sustainable Economycall_made, European Economic Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104462.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Matthias Leuthard (2023): external pageDie Bedeutung von Kipppunkten für eine nachhaltige Entwicklungcall_made, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, DOI: 10.1515/pwp-2022-0031.
- Borissov, Kirill and Lucas Bretschger (2022): external pageOptimal Carbon Policies in a Dynamic Heterogenous Worldcall_made, European Economic Review, 148, 104253.
- Borissov, Kirill, Lucas Bretschger, Aleksey Minabutdinov (2022): external pageThe capital tax paradox in a greening economycall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 19: 315–329.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Susanne Soretz (2022): external pageStranded Assets: How Policy Uncertainty affects Capital, Growth, and the Environmentcall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 83/2: 261-288.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2021): external pageGetting the Costs of Environmental Protection Right: Why Climate Policy is Inexpensive in the Endcall_made, Ecological Economics, 188, 107116, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107116.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2020): external pageMalthus in the Light of Climate Changecall_made, European Economic Review, 127, 103477, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103477.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Karen Pittel (2020): external pageTwenty Key Challenges in Environmental and Resource Economicscall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 77: 725–750.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Elise Grieg, Paul Welfens, Tian Xiong (2020): external pageCOVID-19 Infections and Fatalities Developments: Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries and Newly Industrialized Economiescall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 17: 801–847.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Alexandra Vinogradova (2019): external pageBest Policy Response to Environmental Shocks: Building a Stochastic Frameworkcall_made, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 97: 23-41.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Christos Karydas (2019): external pageEconomics of Climate Change: Introducing the Basic Climate Economic (BCE) Model,call_made Environment and Development Economics, 24(6): 560-582.
- Borissov, Kirill, Alexandra Brausmann and Lucas Bretschger (2019): external pageCarbon Pricing, Technology Transition, and Skill-Based Developmentcall_made, European Economic Review, 118: 252-269.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Aimilia Pattakou (2019): external pageAs Bad as it Gets: How Climate Damage Functions Affect Growth and the Social Cost of Carboncall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 72 (1): 5–26.
- Landis, Florian, Adriana Marcucci, Sebastian Rausch, Kannan Ramachandran, Lucas Bretschger (2019): external pageMulti-Model Comparison of Swiss Decarbonization Scenarioscall_made, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 155: 12.
- Brausmann, Alexandra and Lucas Bretschger (2018): external pageEconomic Development on a Finite Planet with Stochastic Soil Degradationcall_made, European Economic Review 108: 1-19.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2018): external pageProductivity Gaps and Tax Policies Under Asymmetric Tradecall_made, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 22 (6): 1391-1427.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2018): DownloadGreening Economy, Graying Society (PDF, 1.1 MB)vertical_align_bottom, Second Edition, CER-ETH Press, ETH Zurich, Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Christos Karydas (2018): external pageOptimum Growth and Carbon Policies with Lags in the Climate Systemcall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 70(4): 807-834.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Filippo Lechthaler (2018): external pageStock Performance and Economic Growth: Lessons from the Japanese Casecall_made, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 11(2): 195-217.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2018): external pageTaking time for the environment – on timing and the role of delays in environmental and resource economicscall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 70(4): 731-736.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Andreas Schaefer (2017): external pageDirty history versus clean expectations: Can energy policies provide momentum for growth?call_made European Economic Review, 99: 170-190.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Max Meulemann and Anna Stuenzi (2017): external pageClimate Policy Based on the Paris Agreementcall_made, Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Lin Zhang (2017): external pageCarbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of Chinacall_made, Resource and Energy Economics, 47: 1–19.
- Bommier, Antoine, Lucas Bretschger and Francois Le Grand (2017): external pageExistence of Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Economies of Scale and Inventoriescall_made, Economic Theory, 63(3), 687-721.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2017): external pageClimate Policy and Economic Growthcall_made, Resource and Energy Economics, 49: 1-15.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Filippo Lechthaler, Sebastian Rausch, and Lin Zhang (2017): external pageKnowledge Diffusion, Endogenous Growth, and the Costs of Global Climate Policycall_made, European Economic Review, 93: 47–72.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2017): external pageIs the Environment Compatible with Growth? Adopting an Integrated Frameworkcall_made, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 9: 185-207.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Alexandra Vinogradova (2017): external pageHuman Development at Risk: Economic Growth with Pollution-Induced Health Shockscall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 66/3: 481-495.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2017): external pageEquity and the Convergence of Nationally Determined Climate Policiescall_made, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 19/1: 1–14.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Lin Zhang (2017): external pageNuclear phase-out under stringent climate policies: A dynamic macroeconomic analysiscall_made, The Energy Journal, 38/1: 167-194.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Alexandra Vinogradova (2015): external pageEquitable and effective climate policy: Integrating less developed countries into a global climate agreementcall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 12/4: 437–467.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2015): DownloadGreening Economy, Graying Society (PDF, 983 KB)vertical_align_bottom, CER-ETH Press, ETH Zurich, Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2015): external pageEnergy Prices, Growth, and the Channels in Between: Theory and Evidence,call_made Resource and Energy Economics, 39: 29–52.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Nujin Suphaphiphat (2014): external pageEffective Climate Policies in a Dynamic North-South Modelcall_made, European Economic Review, 69: 59-77.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2014): external pageEnvironment and Development, Achievements and Challenges in Climate Economicscall_made, Environment and Development Economics, 19/3: 292-294. DownloadAuthor's copy (PDF, 333 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2014): external pageSustainability and climate change: From theory to pragmatic policycall_made, European Economic Review, 69: 1-3.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Alexandra Vinogradova (2014): DownloadDynamic Behavior of Oil Importers and Exporters under Uncertainty (PDF, 242 KB)vertical_align_bottom, in: Moser, Elke, Willi Semmler, Gernot Tragler, and Vladimir Veliov (Eds.): Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, Chapter 9: 195-214, Springer.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2013): external pageClimate Policy and Equity Principles: Fair Burden Sharing in a Dynamic Worldcall_made, Environment and Development Economics, 18: 517–536. DownloadAuthor's copy (PDF, 635 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Thomas M. Steger (2013): external pageGlobalization, the Volatility of Intermediate Goods Prices, and Economic Growthcall_made, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 17/2: 402-430.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2013): external pagePopulation Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity: Long-Run Development under Seemingly Unfavourable Conditionscall_made, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 115/3: 722–755.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2012): external pageChallenges for a Sustainable Resource Use: Uncertainty, Trade, and Climate Policiescall_made, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 64/3: 279-287.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Vivien Kappel and Therese Werner (2012): external pageMarket Concentration and the Likelihood of Financial Crisescall_made, Journal of Banking and Finance, 36/12: 3336–3345.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2012): external pageSustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources; How Resource Prices Affect Long-Term R&D-Investmentscall_made, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 36 (4): 536–549.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2012): external pageEndogenous Growth, Asymmetric Trade and Resource Dependencecall_made, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 64/3: 301-311.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Roger Ramer (2012): DownloadSectoral Growth Effects of Energy Policies in an Increasing-Varieties Model of the Swiss Economy (PDF, 752 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 148/2, 137-166.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): external pageClimate Change and Uneven Developmentcall_made , Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113 (4): 825-845.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Roger Ramer and Florentine Schwark (2011): external pageGrowth Effects of Carbon Policies: Applying a Fully Dynamic CGE model with Heterogeneous Capitalcall_made, Resource and Energy Economics, 33 (4): 963-980.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): external pageInternational Trade and Net Investment: Theory and Evidencecall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 8: 197-224.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2011): external pageTechnologies, Preferences, and Policies for a Sustainable Use of Natural Resourcescall_made, Resource and Energy Economics, 33 (4): 881-892.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2011): Sustainability Economics, Resource Efficiency, and the Green New Deal, in: Bleischwitz, Raimund; Welfens, Paul J.J.; Zhang, ZhongXiang (Eds.): external pageInternational Economics of Resource Efficiency, Eco-Innovation Policies for a Green Economycall_made , 1st Edition, Physica, Heidelberg: 3-18.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): external pageInternational Economics and Natural Resources: From Theory to Policycall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 8:115–120.
- Smulders, Sjak, Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli (2011): external pageEconomic Growth and the Diffusion of Clean Technologies: Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curvescall_made, Environmental and Resource Economics, 49 (1): 79-99. DownloadPublication award (PDF, 89 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Christa Brunnschweiler (2010): DownloadThe Swiss Approach to Sustainability. Challenges for environmental, energy, land use, and transport policies (PDF, 285 KB)vertical_align_bottom, in: Ernst Baltensperger, Dirk Niepelt, Boris Zürcher (Eds.), Wirtschaftspolitik nach der Krise, Study Center Gerzensee: 149-166.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2010): external pageSustainability Economics, Resource Efficiency, and the Green New Dealcall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 7: 187–202.
- Pittel, Karen and Lucas Bretschger (2010): external pageThe Implications of Heterogeneous Resource Intensities on Technical Change and Growthcall_made, Canadian Journal of Economics, 43 (4): 1173–1197.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2010): external pageTaxes, Mobile Capital, and Economic Dynamics in a Globalizing Worldcall_made, Journal of Macroeconomics, 32(3): 594-605.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Karen Pittel (2008): DownloadFrom Time Zero to Infinity: Transitional and Long-run Dynamics in Capital Resource Economies (PDF, 113 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Environment and Development Economics, 13: 673-689.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2007): external pageSustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamicscall_made, Springer, Dordrecht.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Sjak Smulders (2007): DownloadSustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (PDF, 235 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Environmental and Resource Economics, 36 (1): 1-13.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2005): external pageEconomics of Technological Change and the Natural Environment: How Effective are Innovations as a Remedy for Resource Scarcity?call_made, Ecological Economics, 54 (2-3): 148-163.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Karen Pittel (2005): external pageInnovative Investments, Natural Resources and Intergenerational Fairness: Are Pension Funds Good For Sustainable Development?call_made, Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 141 (3): 355-376.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Frank Hettich (2005): DownloadGlobalization and International Tax Competition: Empirical Evidence Based on Effective Tax Rates (PDF, 359 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Journal of Economic Integration, 20 (3): 530-542.
- Audretsch, David, Lucas Bretschger and Paul J.J. Welfens (2004): external pageEconomic Integration, Innovative Dynamics, and Growthcall_made, International Economics and Economic Policy, 1 (2-3): 111-117.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2004): external pageWachstumstheoriecall_made, Wolls Lehr- und Handbücher der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 3. Auflage, external pageOldenbourg Verlagcall_made, München.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Thomas M. Steger (2004): DownloadThe Dynamics of Economic Integration: Theory and Policy (PDF, 325 KB)vertical_align_bottom, International Economics and Economic Policy, 1 (2-3): 119-134.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2002): Wachstumstheoretische Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsintegration: Neuere Ansätze, external pageJahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistikcall_made, 222(1): 64-79.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Frank Hettich (2002): external pageGlobalisation, Capital Mobility and Tax Competition: Theory and Evidence for OECD Countriescall_made, European Journal of Political Economy, 18(4): 695-716.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2001): Internationaler Handel im Ostseeraum - sozioökonomische Hintergründe, In H. Heiss (Hrsg.): Brückenschlag zwischen den Rechtskulturen des Ostseeraums, Tübingen: external pageMohr Siebeckcall_made, 189 - 208.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2001): external pageLabor Supply, Migration and Long-Term Developmentcall_made, Open Economies Review, 12(1): 5-27.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2001): external pageOn the Predictability of Knowledge Formation: the Tortuous Link Between Regional Specialisation and Developmentcall_made, Journal of Economics, 73(3): 247-274.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Hannes Egli (2001): Sustainable Growth in Open Economies. In Günther Schulze / Heinrich Ursprung (eds.): external pageInternational Environmental Economics: A Survey of the Issuescall_made, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2000): external pageFormation et diffusion du savoir, globalisation et spécialisation régionalecall_made, Revue Région et Développement, 11: 53-82.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2000): DownloadKonvergenz der europäischen Regionen (PDF, 238 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Diskussionspapier 2/2000 der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1999):Dynamik der realwirtschaftlichen Integration am Beispiel der EU-Osterweiterung, external pageJahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistikcall_made, 218(3/4): 276-293
- Bretschger, Lucas (1999): Dynamische Partizipation am Weltmarkt durch Handel und steuerfinanzierte Forschungsförderung. In J.L. Arni / G. Ganguillet (Hrsg.): Festschrift für P. Bohley, Rüegger Verlag, Zürich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1999): Growth Theory and Sustainable Development, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. DownloadBook Review published by The Economic Journal (PDF, 24 KB)vertical_align_bottom.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1999): external pageKnowledge Diffusion and the Development of Regionscall_made, Annals of Regional Science, 33(3):251-268.
- Bretschger, Lucas / H. Schmidt (1999): external pageConverging on the Learning Curve: Theory and Application to German Regional Datacall_made, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv / Review of World Economics, 135(2): 261-279
- Bretschger, Lucas (1998): external pageHow to Substitute in Order to Sustain: Knowledge Driven Growth Under Environmental Restrictionscall_made, Environment and Development Economics, 3(4): 425-442
- Bretschger, Lucas (1998): external pageNachhaltige Entwicklung der Weltwirtschaft: Ein Nord/Süd-Ansatzcall_made, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 3: 369-390.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1998): external pageThe Sustainability Paradigm: A Macroeconomic Perspectivecall_made, Revue Région et Développement 7: 73-103
- Bretschger, Lucas (1997): Eine makroökonomische Synthese zur Dynamik der realwirtschaftlichen Integration, Forschungsbericht 9706 des Europa-Instituts an der Universität des Saarlandes.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1997): Integration und langfristige Wirtschaftsentwicklung, external pageOldenbourg Verlagcall_made, München.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1997): external pageInternational Trade, Knowledge Diffusion, and Growthcall_made, International Trade Journal, 11(3): 327-348
- Bretschger, Lucas (1995): Weltweite Investitionsnachfrage, internationale Kapitalströme und langfristiger Zinstrend, Zürcher Kantonalbank (Hrsg.), Zürich
- Bretschger, Lucas / Ph. Halbherr / A. Killias / C. Koellreuter / B. Meili / R. Peter (1995): Wirtschaftsstandort Zürich, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit heute und morgen; Regierungsrat des Kantons Zürich und Zürcher Kantonalbank (Hrsg.), Zürich
- Bretschger, Lucas (1993): external pageMigration und internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeitcall_made; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 3: 473-489
- Bretschger, Lucas / I. Buse / S. Mäder / H. Schelbert / R. Schleiniger (1993): Saubere Luft im Kanton Zürich, Leitlinie für eine effiziente Luftreinhaltepolitik, Zürcher Kantonalbank (Hrsg.), Zürich
- Bretschger, Lucas (1988): Anpassungsmodelle für die schweizerische Exportindustrie; Dynamische Marktentwicklungen im Exportsektor der Schweiz aus neokeynesianischer Sicht; Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung 16, Verlag Schellenberg, Winterthur.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1989): external pageEine neokeynesianische Analyse der schweizerischen Exportmärktecall_made; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 1: 67-87
- Bretschger, Lucas (1989): external pageRegimeabhängige Konjunkturdynamik in einer offenen Volkswirtschaft: das Beispiel der Schweizcall_made; Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik 3: 309-326
- Bretschger, Lucas (1989): Wettbewerbsstrategien und relative Einkommensentwicklung, eine Analyse auf aggregierter und desaggregierter Ebene für die Schweiz; Sonderbericht 180 der Konjunkturforschungsstelle an der ETH Zürich, Zurich
5. Policy and Pedagogical Contributions
- Bretschger, Lucas (2023): external pageCoal is the most powerful climate poisoncall_made, To Vima 29.1.2023
- Bretschger, Lucas (2022): external pageDas Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeitcall_made - eine Selbstverständlichkeit? Bergrede Witikon, 4.12.2022
- Bretschger, Lucas (2020): external pageWer nicht bereit ist, hat verlorencall_made,Tages Anzeiger, 15.3.2020
- Bretschger, Lucas, Thomas Vellacott, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer (2019): external pageDie Welt am Abgrundcall_made, Wenkenhofgespräche, 23.5.2019. external pageVideocall_made.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2018): external pageBaumeister der Klimapolitik: Sie kann zu einer Art Selbstläufer werdencall_made, Schweiz am Wochenende, 2. Dezember 2018.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2017): external pageHow to Master the Climate Labyrinthcall_made, Diplomatic Courier, May 24, 2017.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2015): external pageTo get a climate agreement, first set out principles for fair cost-sharingcall_made, The Economist, November.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2015): external pageClimate policy: Prices versus equitycall_made, VOX CEPR's Policy Portal.
- Bretschger, Lucas and Janick C. Mollet (2015): Prices vs. equity in international climate policy: A broad perspective, Economics Working Paper Series 15/211, ETH Zurich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2012): DownloadClimate Policy and Equity Principles: Fair Burden Sharing in a Dynamic World (PDF, 339 KB)vertical_align_bottom, CER-ETH Policy Brief Series 12/6.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2012): DownloadZu viele Ressourcen können auch ein Fluch sein (PDF, 127 KB)vertical_align_bottom, NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), 29. November 2012.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2012): DownloadEnergie und Ökonomie, Auswirkungen von politischen Massnahmen auf Wirtschaft und Energiezukunft (PDF, 412 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Tagungsband 12. Holzenergie-Symposium, ETH Zürich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2012): DownloadGrünes Wachstum: Die Armen dürfen nicht unsere Fehler machen (PDF, 200 KB)vertical_align_bottom, TA (Tages Anzeiger), Wissen, 15. Juni 2012.
- Andersson, Göran, Konstantinos Boulouchos und Lucas Bretschger (2011): DownloadEnergiezukunft Schweizvertical_align_bottom, ETH Zürich.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2011): external pageRostoffpreisentwicklung und Wirkungen auf das Potenzialwachstumcall_made, Die Volkswirtschaft, Juni 2011, Bern, p. 35.
- Bretschger, Lucas und Lisa Leinert (2010): external pagePreisentwicklung bei natürlichen Ressourcencall_made, Die Volkswirtschaft, November 2010, Bern, p. 4-7.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Roger Ramer and Florentine Schwark (2010): external pageImpact of Energy Conservation Policy Measures on Innovation, Investment and Long-term Development of the Swiss Economy; Results from the Computable Induced Technical Change and Energy (CITE) Modelcall_made, Final Report prepared for the Swiss Federal Office Of Energy, Bern.
- Bretschger, Lucas und Florentine Schwark (2010): external pageKlimapolitik und langfristige Wirtschaftsentwicklungcall_made, Published online at "Ökonomenstimme", July 2010.
- Bretschger, Lucas, Roger Ramer and Florentine Schwark (2010): DownloadHow rich is the 2000-Watt-society? (PDF, 1.5 MB)vertical_align_bottom, March 2010.
- Bretschger, Lucas et al. (2010): external pagePreisentwicklung bei natürlichen Ressourcen: Vergleich von Theorie und Empiriecall_made, Umwelt-Wissen, Nr. 1001. Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2009): Energie und Wohlstand, in: Energie, Rudolf von Rohr, P. et al. (Hrsg), vdf Hochschulverlag, Zürich, p. 127 - 142.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2009): DownloadEnergie et croissancevertical_align_bottom, Lettre de l'AFSE, Nr. 74, p. 15 - 18.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2008): DownloadRessourcenknappheit, Innovation und nachhaltige Entwicklung (PDF, 343 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Volkswirtschaft, 9/2008.
- Swiss Financial Center Watch (2007): DownloadThe Swiss Financial Centre as a Value-Added Systemvertical_align_bottom, Monitoring Report.
- Swiss Financial Center Watch (2007): external pagePortrait des Finanzplatzes Schweizcall_made, Schlussbericht 2007.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2005): DownloadDie Nachhaltigkeitsdebatte krankt an zu viel Beliebigkeit. Zentrale Erkenntnisse der Ökonomie zur langfristigen Entwicklung (PDF, 160 KB)vertical_align_bottom., NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Themen und Thesen der Wirtschaft, 30. April / 1. Mai 2005, p. 31.
- Bretschger, Lucas (2000): DownloadDie fiskalischen Folgen der Globalisierung; Differenzierte Wirkungen des Steuerwettbewerbs (PDF, 28 KB)vertical_align_bottom, NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), 9. November 2000, p. 27.
- Bretschger, Lucas / P. Klaus (1998): Werkplatz Stadt Zürich; Analysen, Hintergründe und Perspektiven für den Industriesektor, im Auftrag des Stadtpräsidiums der Stadt Zürich, Universität Zürich
- Bretschger, Lucas (1997): DownloadNeat - weniger wäre mehr (PDF, 16 KB)vertical_align_bottom, Tages-Anzeiger, 21. November 1997, p. 34.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1996): DownloadSind Nachhaltigkeit und wirtschaftliche Prosperität vereinbar? Substitution natürlicher Ressourcen durch Humankapital (PDF, 20 KB)vertical_align_bottom, NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), 29. Mai 1996, p. 25.
- Bretschger, Lucas (1993): Neue Wachstumstheorie, wf-Dokumentation 93/3 zur Wirtschaftskunde, Gesellschaft zur Förderung der schweizerischen Wirtschaft, Zürich
6. Editorial, Referee and Expert Work
Editor
- Editorial Board of International Economics and Economic Policy
- Guest Editor for Environmental and Resource Economics
- Guest Editor for International Economics and Economic Policy
- Guest Editor for Environment and Development Economics
- Guest Editor for Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
- Guest Editor for Resource and Energy Economics
- Guest Editor for European Economic Review
Referee
For all major field and most major general-interest journals
Expert
For many national and international funding bodies and agencies
7. Committees and Membership
- Member of the external pageSNFcall_made Eccellenza Evaluation Committee
- Member of the external pageCommittee MOPGA - Make Our Planet Great Againcall_made
- Member of the Council of the external pageEuropean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)call_made
- Vice-President of the Foundation Council of CCRS, external pageCenter for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainabilitycall_made at the University of Zurich, -2021
- Member of external pageCESifo Research Networkcall_made
- Member of external pageAusschuss für Aussenwirtschaftstheorie und -politikcall_made des Vereins für Socialpolitik
- Member of external pageAusschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomiecall_made des Vereins für Socialpolitik
- Member of the Scientific Board of Congressi Stefano Franscini (Monte Verità)
- Member of the Board of the Association of Federal Executives, Scientific and Senior Staff (VKB Zurich Section)
- Member of the Foundation Council and Executive Committee of the external pageSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)call_made 2007-2015
- Member of the external pageOcCCcall_made (Advisory Body on Climate Change of the Swiss government), 2006-2012
- Member of the Board of ESC (Energy Science Center), 2007-2011
- Visiting Professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonnne 2008
- President of the Programme Committee of CCRS, external pageCenter for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability at the University of Zurichcall_made, 2004-2008
- Member of the Management Committee of CCES, Competence Center Environment and Sustainability, 2006-2008
- Member of the Strategy Commission of AGS, Alliance for Global Sustainability, 2004-2008
8. Organized Conferences
- SURED 2022, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 2022.
- EAERE-ETH Winterschool 2022 on Resource Rich Economies, Monte Verità, January 2021
- SURED 2020, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, October 19-22, 2020.
- EAERE-ETH Winterschool 2020 on Spatial Environmental Economics, Monte Verità, January 26-31, 2020
- EAERE-ETH Winterschool 2019 on Energy Transition, Monte Verità, January 27-February 1, 2019
- SURED 2018, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 3-7, 2018.
- EAERE-ETH Winterschool 2018 on Dynamics and Uncertainty, Monte Verità, January 28-February 2, 2018.
- external pageEAERE 2016call_made, Annual Congress of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, June 22-15, 2016.
- SURED 2014, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 9-12, 2014.
- Ausschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie: Jahrestagung 2013 an der ETH Zürich.
- SURED 2012, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 4-7, 2012.
- SURED 2010, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 7-10, 2010.
- RESEC Winterschool, Ascona, January 26-30, 2010.
- Ausschuss für Aussenwirtschaftstheories und -politik: Jahrestagung 2009 an der ETH Zürich.
- SURED 2008, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 2-5, 2008.
- Workshop "Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomik" für NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, Zurich, February 26-27, 2007.
- SURED 2006, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, June 5-9, 2006.
- MTEC Symposium 2006, Inaugural Workshop for the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, November 3, 2006.
- Annual Conference 2005 of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics on Resource Economics, Technology, and Sustainable Development, Zurich, March 17-18, 2005.
- SURED 2004, Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics , June 6-10, 2004.
- Workshop "Economic Integration, Innovation Dynamics and Growth", Brussels, February 6-8, 2004.