Pollution, Climate & Growth

The question of how pollution and economic growth are linked is of critical importance. A sustainable growth path can be reached only if environmental degradation can eventually be decoupled from economic growth. The empirical and theoretical research in the field Pollution & Growth deals with the conditions for and the underlying mechanisms of the aimed decoupling.

Recent Publications & Working Papers

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

• MacKenzie, Ian A., Ohndorf, M. and C. Palmer (2012): Enforcement-proof contracts with moral hazard in precaution: ensuring `permanence' in carbon sequestration, Oxford Economic Papers, 64 (2), 350-374.

• Fell, H., MacKenzie, Ian A. and W. A. Pizer (2012): Prices versus quantities versus bankable quantities , NBER Working Paper Series, W17878.

• MacKenzie, Ian A. and M. Ohndorf (2012): Restricted Coasean bargaining, Economics Working Paper Series 12/156, ETH Zurich.

• Bretschger, Lucas and Simone Valente (2011): Climate Change and Uneven Development, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113 (4): 825-845.

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

• MacKenzie, Ian A. and M. Ohndorf (2011): Optimal monitoring of credit-based emissions trading under asymmetric information, Economics Working Paper Series 11/152, ETH Zurich.

• Ordás Criado, C., Valente, Simone and T. Stengos (2011): Growth and Pollution Convergence: Theory and Evidence, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, 62 (2): 199-214.

• Smulders, S., Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli (2011): Economic Growth and the Diffusion of Clean Technologies: Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves, Environmental and Resource Economics, 49 (1): 79-99.

• Daubanes, Julien, Grimaud, A. (2010): Taxation of a Polluting Non-renewable Resource in the Heterogeneous World, Environmental and Resource Economics, 47 (4), 567-588.

• Hanley, N. and Ian A. MacKenzie (2010): The Effects of Rent Seeking over Tradable Pollution Permits , The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Topics , 10 (1), Article 56.

• Pittel, Karen and C. Clemens (2010): Labor Supply and Growth Effects of Environmental Policy under Technological Risk, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 15 (1), 31-59.

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

• Daubanes Julien, (2008): Fossil Fuels Supplied by Oligopolies: On Optimal Taxation and Rent Capture, Economics Bulletin, 17 (13), 1-11.

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

• Pittel, Karen and D. Rübbelke (2008): Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits: A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change, Ecological Economics 68, 210-220.

Older publications can be found on the websites of the respective authors.

Involved Researchers

Lucas Bretschger, Julien Daubanes, Ian MacKenzie, Max Meulemann, Alexandra Vinogradova, Therese Werner.