Energy Economics

Lecture: Monday, 14.30-16.00, PRÜ-1104
Exercise: Tuesday, 08.00-09.30, MIB-1108

Please also keep yourself constantly informed about the current courses in OPAL.

ZUWAKO - Future Water Conflicts in Germany (2022 - 2025)
The project is funded by the Daimler and Benz Foundation.

4NEMO - Research Network for the Development of New Methods in Energysystem Modelling (2017 - 2020)
The project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
Contribution to work package 3: Development of consistent socio-technical context scenarios.

Books and Special Editions

Wind Energy Deployment and the Relevance of Rare Earths: An Economic Analysis
published in the 'BestMasters' series, Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden, 2014. ISBN: 9783658049133

Articles in Scientific Journals

More than Chair Circles? – A Qualitative Systematic Review of Serious Games Related to Water Governance and their Potential Effects on Policy Design
(with Simon Brauner, Janina Moschner and Fabian Hölzlberger); Water International, 1–24, 2025.

Uncharted Water Conflicts Ahead: Mapping the Scenario Space for Germany in the Year 2050
(with Hannah Kosow, Simon Brauner, Wolfgang Hauser, Fabian Hölzlberger, Janina Moschner, Dirk Rübbelke, Stefan Vögele and Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle); Frontiers in Water, Vol. 6, 1492336, 2024.

Minimum Participation Requirements and the Role of Co-benefits in International Climate Policy
(with Dirk Rübbelke); Frontiers in Environmental Economics, Vol. 1, 1106186, 2023.

The Purity of Impure Public Goods
(with Wolfgang Buchholz and Dirk Rübbelke);Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2023.

Allocation of Adaptation Aid: A Normative Theory
(with Vivekananda Mukherjee, Dirk Rübbelke and Theresa Stahlke); Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 242(4), 471–499, 2022.

How Does a "Green" Good Affect Environmental Quality and Social Welfare?
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 242(3), 371–401, 2022.

The Market Introduction of a "Green" Good: Implications for Environmental Quality and Social Welfare
CWG-Dialogue, Vol. 24, No. 03, 1–5, 2019

Closing material loops
(with Heiner Gutte, Hans-Georg Jäckel, Dirk Rübbelke and Bernd Meyer); in: Acamonta, Vol. 21, 138–140, 2014.

Articles in Edited Volumes

Impure Public Good Models as a Tool to Analyse the Provision of Ancillary and Primary Benefits
(with Wolfgang Buchholz and Dirk Rübbelke); in: Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy: New Theoretical Developments and Empirical Findings, Buchholz, W., Markandya, A., Rübbelke, D. and Vögele, S. (eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 109–123, 2020.

Impure Public Goods and the Aggregative Game Approach
(with Wolfgang Buchholz and Dirk Rübbelke); in: Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy: New Theoretical Developments and Empirical Findings, Buchholz, W., Markandya, A., Rübbelke, D. and Vögele, S. (eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 141–155, 2020.

Critical Natural Resources and Climate Change Mitigation 
in: Climate Finance - Theory and Practice, Markandya, A., Galarraga, I. and Rübbelke, D. (eds.), World Scientific, Singapore, 107–126, 2017.

Working Papers and Proceedings

Future Water Conflicts in Germany: Serious Gaming for Policy Design under Future Uncertainty
(with Hannah Kosow, Simon Brauner, Fabian Hölzlberger, Janina Moschner, Stefan Vögele, Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle and Dirk Rübbelke); Conference Paper for ICPP6, T14 P12, 2023.

More than Chair Circles? - Serious Games related to Water Governance and their potential Effects on Policy Design
(with Simon Brauner, Fabian Hölzlberger and Janina Moschner); Conference Paper for ICPP6, T07 P04, 2023.

The Purity of Impure Public Goods
(with Wolfgang Buchholz and Dirk Rübbelke); CESifo Working Paper No. 8852, CESifo, Munich, 2023.

Presentations

European Hydrogen Imports from Africa: Opportunities for two Continents?
Scientific Workshop „Challenges for the Direct and Indirect Supply of Raw Materials for the Energy Transition“, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 2025.

Structural Change and Future Water Conflicts in Lusatia
Lausitzer ZukunftsForum Landnutzung, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, 2024.

Water Conflicts in Large-Scale Mining Projects: The Case of the Turów Mine
(with Fabian Hölzlberger); ZuWaKo – Projekttreffen, Universität Stuttgart, 2023.

Water Conflicts in Large-Scale Mining Projects: A Case Study of Lusatia
(with Fabian Hölzlberger); ZuWaKo – Projekttreffen, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 2023.

Sustainability and Impure Public Goods
Doktorandenseminar, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 2022.

Water Conflicts in Large-Scale Projects
(with Fabian Hölzlberger); Kick-off meeting of the project "ZUWAKO – Zukünftige Wasserkonflikte in Deutschland", Daimler und Benz Stiftung, Ladenburg, 2022.

How Does a "Green" Good Affect Environmental Quality and Social Welfare?
AURÖ-Nachwuchsworkshop "Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie", Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2021. 

The Paris Agreement, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the Tinbergen Rule
Poster presentation at the International Autumn School "Climate Policy and Energy System Transformation: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Consideration of Co-Benefits", Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2021.

Green Goods, Environmental Quality and Social Welfare
Poster presentation at the International Winter School "Impact Assessment of European Climate Policy", Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2020.

Impure Public Goods in Environmental Economics
PhD Seminar, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2019.

Introducing a "Green" Good: Implications for Environmental Quality and Social Welfare
Chemnitzer Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Forschungsseminar, Technische Universität Chemnitz, 2019

Introducing a "Green" Good: Implications for Environmental Quality and Social Welfare
Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Universität Leipzig, 2019.

A Broader Perspective on Nash Equilibria in Impure Public Good Models
Doktorandenseminar, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2017.

Development of consistent socio-technical context scenarios
Auftaktworkshop zum Projekt "4NEMO - Research Network for the Development of New Methods in Energysystem Modelling", Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung GmbH (ZEW), Mannheim, 2017.

Presentation of the 4NEMO Project
1. Workshop "Cross-Impact-Bilanzanalyse", Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2017.

Equilibrium Existence and Uniqueness in Impure Public Good Models Reconsidered
AURÖ-Nachwuchsworkshop "Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie", Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ) Leipzig, 2016.

Price Formation in the Rare Earths Market 
BHT-Teilkonferenz "Ressourcen und Verhalten", Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, 2015.