Chair of Environmental Economics

Research

Research Areas

The Chair of Environmental Economics focuses on empirical and theoretical research in the following areas

  • environmental economics
  • applied microeconomics
  • decision theory
  • game theory
  • energy economics

Current publications

Heyen, D., & Tavoni, A.:

Public GoBs

In: CESifo Working Paper No. 11736 (2025)

URL: https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2025/working-paper/public-gobs 

Heyen, D., & Tavoni, A.:

Strategic dimensions of solar geoengineering: economic theory and experiments.

In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol.: 112 (2024)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2024.102271

URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214804324001083?via%3Dihub

Diekert, F., Heyen, D., Nesje, F., & Shayegh, S.:
Balancing the Risk of Tipping: Early Warning Systems from Detection to Management.
In: CESifo Working Paper No. 10892 (2024)
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4703296
URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4703296
Liebensteiner M., Naumann F.:
Can Carbon Pricing Counteract Renewable Energies' Self-Cannibalization Problem?
In: Energy Economics (2022)
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106345
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140988322004741 

Social science research to inform solar geoengineering (with Joseph E. Aldy et al.), 2021.

In: Science 374 (2021)

DOI: 10.1126/science.abj6517

URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj6517

Media coverage: SRF Wissenschaftsmagazin 13.11.2021. Resources for the Future (RFF) press release.

Heyen, D., & Lehtomaa, J. :

Solar Geoengineering Governance: A Dynamic Framework of Farsighted Coalition Formation

In: Oxford Open Climate Change, 1(1) (2021)

DOI: 10.1093/oxfclm/kgab010

URL: https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/1/1/kgab010/6370712

Media coverage: Reviewer 2 does geoengineering podcast, November 1st, 2021.

Millner, A., & Heyen, D.:

Prediction: the Long and the Short of it (with Antony Millner), 2021.

In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 13(1) (2021)

DOI: 10.1257/mic.20180240

URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mic.20180240&&from=f

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