ETH - Chair of Economics

MacKenzie, I.A., and Ohndorf, M. (2012). Cap-and-trade, taxes, and distributional conflict. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63 (1), 51-65.

MacKenzie, I. A. (2011). Tradable permit allocations and sequential choice. Resource and Energy Economics, 33 (1), 268-278.

Hanley, N. and MacKenzie, I. A. (2010). The effects of rent seeking over tradable pollution permits, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Topics , 10 (1), Article 56.

MacKenzie, I., Hanley, N. and Kornienko, T. (2009). Using contests to allocate pollution rights, Energy Policy, 37 (7), 2798-2806.

MacKenzie, I., Hanley, N. and Kornienko, T. (2008). "The Optimal Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits: A Relative Performance Approach ", Environmental and Resource Economics, 39 (3), 265-282.

Recent working papers

MacKenzie, I.A., Ohndorf, M. (2012). Restricted Coasean bargaining. CER-ETH working paper, 12/156.
MacKenzie, I.A., Ohndorf, M. Palmer, C. (2010). Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring ‘permanence’ in carbon sequestration. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics , Working Paper No. 27
MacKenzie, I.A., Ohndorf, M., (2011). Optimal monitoring of credit-based emissions trading under asymmetric information , CER-ETH working paper, 11/152.
Fell, H., MacKenzie, I.A. and Pizer, W. A., (2008),`Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities', Resources for the Future Discussion paper 08-32 , Washington D.C.

Work in progress and additional working papers

"On the Sequential Choice of Tradable Permit Allocations" CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 08/83

"The effects of rent seeking over tradable pollution permits" (with N. Hanley). CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/112

"Controlling externalities in the presence of rent seeking" CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/111

"Life's a breach! Ensuring 'Permanence' in Forest Carbon Sinks under Incomplete Contract Enforcement " (With M. Ohndorf and C. Palmer) CER-ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 09/113

"Contract breach with risk aversion" (With M. Ohndorf and C. Palmer)

"The choice of environmental policy instruments under industry lobbying"

Coaseian bargaining under contestable property rights (with M. Ohndorf)

3. Teaching Experience

2008-	Lecturer, ETH Zürich, Postgraduate level (The economics of climate change)
2007	Lecturer, University of Stirling, Enivonmental Economics Honours (Senior Undergraduate)
2006	Occasional lecturer, University of Stirling, Quantitative Methods in Economics (Undergraduate)
2004-2007	Teaching assistant, University of Stirling

4. Education

2004-2007	Ph.D. in Economics, University of Stirling, UK Thesis title: "On the Initial Allocation of Pollution Permits" (Supervision: N. Hanley and T. Kornienko. Examining Committee 18th September 2007: Prof. David Bell (University of Stirling) and Prof. Matti Liski (University of Helsinki)). Awarded without corrections
2003 - 2004	M.Sc. in Economics, University of Edinburgh, UK Dissertation title: "Efficiency Difficulties in a Tradable Pollution Permit Market: The Prospects for the European Carbon Dioxide Trading Scheme" (Supervision: N. Hanley)
1999-2003	M.A. (Soc Sci) Hons, in Economics and Pure Mathematics, (1st Class), University of Glasgow, UK.

5. Conference and Seminar Presentations

Department of Economics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2011.

20th Silvaplana Political Economy Workshop, Silvaplana, Switzerland, 2011.

University of Otago, New Zealand, 2011.

Workshop on Emissions Trading Schemes, Energy Center, University of Auckland, Auckland, New
Zealand, 2011.

University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2011.

Public Policy Seminar (Public lecture), Motu, Wellington, New Zealand, 2011

University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2011.

19th Silvaplana Poltical Economy workshop, Sivplana, Switzerland, 2010

4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Montréal, Canada, 2010.

Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington D.C., USA, 2010.

University of Edinburgh, UK, 2010.

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009

Association of Public Economic Theory (APET), Galway, Ireland, 2009.

Scottish Economic Society 2009, Perth, UK

European Public Choice Society, Athens, Greece, 2009

Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (SURED), Ascona, Switzerland, 2008.

University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany, 2008.

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007.

Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SYME), "Lobbying Activity in a Tradeable Permit Market", Hamburg, Germany (2007).

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Bremen, Germany, 2005.

Frontiers in Environmental Economics Workshop, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK, 2005.

6. Referee Work

Energy Policy
Environment and Development Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics
European Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Public Economics
Public Choice
Resource and Energy Economics

7. Experience

2007-present	Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Environmental and Resource Economics Group, Center for Economic Research at ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zürich, Switzerland
2007	Summer Internship, Global Climate Change Mechanisms, Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington DC (with Billy Pizer)
2007	Technical Consultant, Frontline consultants, DEFRA Consultation paper "Establishing a code of Best Practice for the Provision of Offsetting to Consumers-Analysis of Consultation Responses".

2004-2007	Research Studentship awarded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. (PTA-030-2004-00560)
2003-2004	Cairncross Memorial Studentship, awarded by the University of Glasgow, UK
2003	Thomas Wilson memorial prize, awarded by the University of Glasgow, UK

9. Teaching

The Economics of Climate Change (351-0577-00L)
Public Choice (351-1006-00L)
Lecture slides for both courses

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