Research

Journal & Book Contributions

Commitment vs. Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy, Florian Habermacher & Paul Lehmann, 2020, Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00414-3

Altruism, Religion and Self­-Enhancement in a Framework of Ad­Hoc Evolutionary Adaptation, in: Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype (Pierre Pantarotti (ed.), Springer), 2015 (Habermacher, F.). DOI: 10.1007/978­3­319­19932­0_12

Energy modeling post 1973, Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 2015 (John Feddersen, Florian Habermacher, Jan Imhof & Rick van der Ploeg). DOI: 10.1080/19390459.2015.1039238

Does a Future Rise in Carbon Taxes Harm the Climate? Climate Policy and Exhaustible Resources – The Green Paradox and Beyond (Karen Pittel, Rick van der Ploeg, Cees Withagen (eds.), M.I.T. Press), 2014 (Habermacher, F. & Kirchgässner, G.).

Das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen – vielleicht wünschenswert aber nicht bezahlbar [The Unconditional Basic Income – maybe desirable but not affordable], Wirtschaftsdienst, 2013, 93(9), 583­605 (Habermacher, F. & Kirchgässner, G.).

Is Carbon Leakage Really Low? A critical reconsideration of the leakage concept. Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, Volume XI – Carbon Pricing, Growth and the Environment (Larry Kreiser, Ana Yabar Sterling et al. (eds.), Edward Elgar), 2012 (Habermacher, F.).

Area of influence (AOI) sensitivity analysis: Application to Atlanta, Georgia. J. of Atmospheric Environment, 41(0), 5605­5617, 2007 (Napelenok, S., Habermacher, F., Akhtar, F., Hu, Y., & Russell, A. G).

Area of influence (AOI) development: Fast generation of receptor­oriented sensitivity fields for use in regional air quality modeling. J. of Environmental Science and Technology, 41(11), 3997­4003, 2007 (Habermacher, F., Napelenok, S., Akhtar, F., Hu, Y., & Russell, A. G.).

Popular Press

Die Energiewende braucht ein radikal neues Energiepreisdenken, energiezukunft Schweiz 2024, pp. 16-17. Published 4.12.2023 (UTK Media).

“AI Wellbeing” and the Ongoing Debate on Phenomenal Consciousness LessWrong Frontpage (17.8.2023)

«SunPJ in Alenia»: Metaphor and discussion asking whether routine interaction with human-like but insentient Ais will lead us to question our own moral relevance and lead to more egoistic behavior. Linkpost on LessWrong Frontpage (25.6.2022)

Kann Tabakwerbung ökonomisch sinnvoll sein? [Can tobacco publicity be economically sensible?], Ökonomenstimme (8.2.2022).

«Ohne Tabakwerbung finde ich meine wahre Lieblingsmarke nicht» [Without tobacco adds I cannot find my true favourite brand], Infosperber (4.2.2022).

Incentivizing Donations through Mutual Matching, Effective Altruism Forum (23.8.2021).

The Real Effect of Your Green Consumption Choices, Medium blog (14.12.2020).

Tierhaltung als öffentliches Gut. Weshalb Tierschutz auch ein liberales Anliegen ist [Animal Farming as Public Good – Why Animal Protection is also a Liberal Concern], Sentience Politics (3.9.2019).

Massentierhaltung – Tierwohl als öffentliches Gut [Factory farming – Animal welfare as public good], Ökonomenstimme (20.7.2018).

Massentierhaltung: Glückliche Tiere sind so wichtig wie saubere Luft [Factory Farming: Happy Animals are as important as Clean Air], NZZ am Sonntag (1.7.2018, p. 17).

No point pursuing coal over renewables – Investing in coal in the 2020s would lock India into the wrong technology for the foreseeable future, Mint – Hindustan Times Media (26.11.2017) (with Natasha Agarwal)

Interview contribution WirtschaftsWoche: Das bedingungslose Grundeionkommen ist unbezahlbar, 5.6.2016.

Les effets inconnus de la libération offerte par le RBI [The side effects of the liberation through the unconditional basic income], Le Temps (23.5.2016) (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Warum wir uns ein Grundeinkommen nicht leisten können [Why we cannot afford an unconditional basic income], Vorwärts Debatte Grundeinkommen – Utopie oder Zukunftskonzept? (18.4.2016).

Luxussteuern abschaffen und Mehrwertsteuersatz vereinheitlichen? [Abolish luxury taxes and impose uniform value-added taxes?], Ökonomenstimme (8.4.2015).

Interview Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen (unconditional basic income), Radio LoRa Zurich: Radiologisch, 27.4.2013.

Das garantierte Grundeinkommen: Eine (leider) nicht bezahlbare Idee [The Guaranteed Basic Income: An (unfortunately) not affordable Idea], Ökonomenstimme (15.4.2013) (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Steuerdaten: Wie die vermeintlichen Beschützer das Bankgeheimnis blossstellen [Tax Data: How the would-be protectors unmask the Bank Secrecy], forausblog (13.9.2012).

Die Schweiz und Deutschland im Steuerkrieg: Moral oder Interessen? [Switzerland and Germany in the Tax War: Morals or Interests?], Ökonomenstimme (6.8.2012) (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Sind Wertpapierhändler schlimmer als Psychopathen? [Are Financial Traders really worse than Psychopaths?] (2011). Ökonomenstimme (28.10.2011); revised version in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) (November 21, 2011, p. 25) (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Nutzen von Energiestrategien nicht mit Arbeitsplatzzahlen verwechseln [Not to mistake the benefit of Energy Strategies with Employment Numbers] (2011), appeared on Batz.ch(6.10.2011).

Hoffen auf eine auch politisch smarte Energiezukunft [Hope for an also politically smart future] (2011). swissfuture (Heft 2/11): Zukunft der Energie (12.9.2011).

Die kreative CO2-Buchhaltung der SBB [The creative CO2-accounting of the Swiss Federal Train company] (2011), Batz.ch (5.7.2011); revised version in Weltwoche (June 30, 2011, Nr. 26) (with Mark Schelker).

Working Papers

Commitment vs. Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy, CESifo Working Paper No. 6355, February 2017, Munich.

Das garantierte Grundeinkommen: Eine (leider) nicht bezahlbare Idee [The Guaranteed Basic Income: An (unfortunately) not financeable Idea], HSG Economics Working Paper No. 201607, April 2016, St. Gallen (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Externalities in Risky Resource Markets – Optimal Taxes, Leakage and Divestment, CESifo Working Paper No. 5865, April 2016, Munich.

Carbon Leakage: A Medium­ and Long­Term View, CESifo Working Paper No. 5216, February 2015, Munich.

Optimal Fuel­Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage (Current Update). HSG Economics Working Paper No. 1144, November 2011, St. Gallen.

The Law of Small Abatements: Prices over Quantities in Realistic Climate Policies, HSG Economics Working Paper No. 1118, May 2011, St. Gallen.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures, CESifo Working Paper No. 3404, March 2011, Munich: Ifo Institute for Economic Research (CESifo Group Munich) (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Preliminary Drafts (work in progress)

Altruism, Religion and Irrationality – Emergence of Cultural Cooperation Dominating Innate Altruism Under Intermittent Evolutionary Pressure, paper presented at 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, September 2014, Marseilles. Abstract. Presentation.

Carbon Divestment as a Rational Climate Protection Measure?, Draft for IAEE Conference, September 2014.

Consistent Tax on Non-Renewable Resources Revisited, January 2013.

No Green Fuel-Tax Paradox on Earth?, presented at IAEE 2012 PhD-Day, September 2012, Venice.

Admitted Uncertainty instead of Hidden Bias: The Case for Consequential Life Cycle Assessment, December 2012.

Asymmetric Tax Competition: Theoretical and Empirical Results, with Gebhard Kirchgässner; presented at IIPF 2012 Annual Meeting, August 2012, Dresden.

Presentations

2020

The Science of Consciousness Conference 2020, “Illusionism as Underappreciated Risk of AI? – Does AI Lure People to Illusionism and Undermine Altruism and Society?”, ONLINE / Livestream + On-Demand. Slides.

2019

The Science of Consciousness Conference 2019, “The Case for Very Strong Computationalism – Questioning the Quantitativeness of Consciousness”, Interlaken, Switzerland, 25-28.6.2019

2017

What Carbon Price is Needed to Mainstream New Low Carbon Power, Transport, and Heat?, Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium (wholeSEM) Annual Conference 2017, London.

Universal Basic Income and New Technology – Expert Panel Discussion, Centre for Digital Technology Management, 19.5.2017, Munich.

Applied Energy Market Research: Market Biases, Models – and an Above-Unity UK Carbon Leakage?, UC Berkeley RAEL Lunch seminar, 15.2.2017, UC Berkeley.

Aurora Energy Research Electricity System (AER-ES) Modelling, UC Berkeley SWITCH seminar, 13.2.2017, UC Berkeley.

2015

Externalities in a Risky Fuel Market, CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, 17.10.2015, CESifo, Munich.

2014

Carbon Divestment as Rational Climate Policy Measure?, Intl. Assoc. for Energy Econ. (IAEE) European Conference, 30.10.2014, Rome.

Carbon Divestment Policies to fight Global Climate Policies, 15th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET), 25.9.2014, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Altruism, Religion and Irrationality – Emergence of Cultural Cooperation Dominating Innate Altruism Under Intermittent Evolutionary Pressure. 18th Evolutionary Biology Meeting, 19.9.2014, Marseilles.

2013

Dynamic Carbon Leakage and Taxation with Depletion and Discounting. CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, 31.10.2013, Munich.

I Know I Don’t Know the Leakage Rate – And Nobody Else Knows It Either. Public Thesis Defense Presentation, 11.9.2013, St. Gallen

Electricity Modelling: Which Elements Matter? – An Example. Ghent Summer School on the Economics of Electricity Markets, 30 Aug 2013, Ghent, BE.

Consistent Tax on Non-Renewable Resources Revisited. SSES Annual Congress, 20.6.2013, University of Neuchâtel.

2012

No Green Fuel-Tax Paradox on Earth. BrownBag Seminar UNISG, 19.12.2012, University of St. Gallen.

Dynamic Leakage, Carbon Pricing and Fuel Market Modeling. OxCarre Seminar, 21.11.2012, University of Oxford.

Dynamic Leakage, Carbon Pricing and Fuel Market Modeling. CESifo Seminar, 19.11.2012, CESifo Munich.

Carbon Taxation if Liquefied Coal will (not) Substitute Oil and Gas, British Institute of Energy Economics 9th Academic Conference, 20.9.2012, Oxford.

Optimal Fuel-Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage, IAEE European Conference, 12.9.2012, Venice.

No Green Fuel-Tax Paradox on Earth?, IAEE European Conference – PhD-Day, 9.9.2012, Venice.

Optimal Fuel-Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage. 68th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) (2012), 16-19.8.2012, TU Dresden.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Other Possible Future Climate Measures. Theory and Empiricis of the Green Paradox – CESifo Summer Institute Workshop, 20.7.2012, Venice International University, San Servolo.

Optimal Fuel-Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage. Rationality – Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) (2012), 12.-13.4.2012, University of Zurich.

Fuel-Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage. Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE) (2012), 26.-28.4.2012, ZEW Mannheim.

2011

Green Go for the Cheap – The Effect of Pricing Situations and Market Conditions on Attributable Externalities.

Sustainable Consumption Conference – Towards Action and Impact (2011), 5.-8.11.2011, Curiohaus, Hamburg.

Fuel-Dependent Carbon Pricing – How the Law of One Price is Violated for realistic climate policies. 12th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (GCET) (2011), 20-21.10.2011, Institute de Estudios Fiscales, Madrid.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. North American Conference on Energy Economics (30th USAEE/IAEE) on Redefining the Energy Economy: Changing Roles of Industry, Government and Research (2011), 9-12.10.2011, Washington DC.

The Smart Carbon Price is Fuel-Dependent – How the law of one price is violated for realistic climate policies. Smart Energy Strategies Conference (2011), 21-23.9.2011, ETH Zurich.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik (2011), 4-7.9.2011, Frankfurt am Main.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. 67th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) (2011), 8-11.7.2011, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, An Arbor USA.

Brennstoffspezifische CO2-Steuersätze – Mehr als ein theoretisches Konstrukt. Finanzwissenschaftliches Forschungsseminar der LMU Universität München (2011), 22.7.2011, ifo-Institut, München DE.

The Law of Small Abatements – Prices over Quantities in Realistic Climate Policies. 3rd French Assoc. of Energy Econ. (FAEE) PhD workshop, IFP Energies nouvelles, Paris, July 2011.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at 18th European Assoc. for Environmental and Resource Econ. (EAERE) Annual Conference, University of Rome Tor Vergata, July 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at 34th Intl. Assoc. for Energy Econ. (IAEE) International Conference, Stockholm School of Economics, June 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Uniform Willingness To Pay for Global Emission Reductions – On the Need for Fuel-Specific Carbon Prices. Presented at PhD-Day of the 34th Intl. Assoc. for Energy Econ. (IAEE) International Conference, Stockholm School of Economics, June 2011.

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at Annual Conference of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES) “New Developments in Political Economy”, June 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures – A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Austrian Economic Association (NOeG) (2011) “Climate and Global Change”, June (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

The Law of Small Abatements: Prices Over Quantities in Realistic Climate Policies. Presented at 22nd International Climate Policy Workshop, Cologne 2011.

Impossibility of long-term Commitments and the Desirability of Current Climate Policies. Presented at Spring Meeting of Young Economists (SMYE), Groeningen NL (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

CO2 Tax and Anticipation Effects in Light of Future Climate Measures: A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at Young Swiss Economists Meeting (YSEM) of the Swiss Society for Economics and Statistics (SSES), Bern 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

CO2-Steuer und Antizipierungseffekte im Lichte zukünftiger Klimamassnahmen: Eine Relativierung des Grünen Paradoxon.

Presented at AURÖ-Nachwuchsworkshop of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS), Heidelberg 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

2010

CO2 Tax and Anticipation Effects in Light of Future Climate Measures: A Relativization of the Green Paradox. Presented at 21st International Climate Policy Workshop, Zürich 2011 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

CO2-Steuer und Antizipierungseffekte im Lichte zukünftiger Klimamassnahmen: Eine Relativierung des Grünen Paradoxon. Presented at Conference New Developments in Political Economy – Basel, Basel 2010 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Green Urgency – Why a GHG-tax is not counterproductive despite anticipation effects (and why thus the Green Paradox is misleading). Presented at 2nd Workshop of the Swiss Association for Energy Economics (SAEE) Student Chapter, ETH Zurich 2010 (with Gebhard Kirchgässner).

Book Reviews

Urs Meister (Avenir Suisse) (2010), Energiesicherheit ohne Autarkie – Die Schweiz im globalen Kontext, Journal Aussenwirtschaft, 2011, Review by Florian Habermacher.

Frank Bodmer and Silvio Borner (2010), CRASH – Marktversagen Staatsversagen, Journal Aussenwirtschaft, Issue 2010-IV, Review by Florian Habermacher.

Miscellaneous

Suboptimal Climate Policies – Green Paradox, Leakage and the Law of Small Abatements, 2013, PhD Thesis, Dissertation no. 4219, University of St. Gallen.

Joint Implementation. Article in Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, G. S. Philander (ed.), 2nd Edition, July 2012, SAGE Publications.

Contribution to Report: Ph. Thalmann, Instruments économiques pour la gestion du territoire dans le canton de Vaud (Economic Instruments for Spatial Managment in the Canton of Vaud), REME-EPFL, 2007

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Economics, Environment, Energy, Ethics, Evolution, Etc.