Research At SCEPA
Optimal Control of a Global Model of Climate Change
ARTICLE | The economy-climate interaction and an appropriate mitigation policy for climate protection have been treated in various types of scientific modeling.
How to Reverse the EU's Division and Support Recovery
ARTICLE | How the European Union (EU) can recover its sense of common purpose after the Covid-19 crisis exacerbated division between and among member countries.
A New Approach to the Business Cycle
ARTICLE | SCEPA economists published research in an influential academic journal on the Keynesian multiplier, a hotly debated issue in progressive economics on the efficacy of fiscal policy and deficit spending in a recession.
Why Carbon Reduction Should Be a Public Service
ARTICLE | As the impacts of climate change – from wildfires to flooding – become impossible to ignore, calls to adapt our economy are joined by calls to remove and store existing carbon dioxide, a process known as carbon drawdown.
Record Demand for Germany's Debut Green Bond
ARTICLE | From SCEPA economists studying the economic impacts of climate change and mitigation policies show green bonds have great potential to help countries across the world increase environmental investments and reach emission targets.
Climate Change Policies And COVID-19 Relief Are Not Mutually Exclusive
ARTICLE | The Journal Makronom, based in Germany, recently published a piececo-authored by Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, on COVID-19 and climate change.
Economics and Climate Policy
ARTICLE | Germany’s Die Zeit, one of Germany’s most influential newspapers, featured the work of Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, on climate policy and strategy.
Green Financing: A Mixed Approach
ARTICLE | Adding green bonds to current carbon taxes is the most effective strategy to achieve global environmental goals, according to research by SCEPA economist Willi Semmler and economists at the Economics Research Institute in Berlin (DIW).
IMF Working Paper: How Climate Disasters Affect Capital
IMF WORKING PAPER | Economist Willi Semmler, director of SCEPA’s Economics of Climate Change project, co-authored an IMF Working Paper modeling how climate disasters affect population segments, infrastructure, housing, and private capital, possibly leading to poverty traps.
Creating Jobs Through Green Transformation
UN REPORT | Tackling climate change requires transitioning to a green, sustainable economy. But will green transformations that lesson our negative environmental impacts also create high-quality jobs?
Economic Growth and Climate Change
WORKING PAPER | This working paper sheds light on the various theories which attempt to explain the relationship between economic growth and climate change.
Financing Climate Change Mitigation: Green Bonds
WORKING PAPER | The United Nation’s 2016 Paris Agreement, negotiated by 195 countries, creates a framework for keeping global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees celsius. The next task is determining how to pay for it in a fair way.
Financing Climate Policies Through Climate Bonds
WORKING PAPER | The issue of who is responsible for funding climate mitigation and adaptation is central to climate negotiations.