Muller, Adrian. Ph.D. (Alumni)

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

• environmental and resource economics
• corporate responsibility and business ethics

• market based policy instruments in environmental and resource economics and regulation
• theory of incentives in regulation

• economics and sustainability
• development economics
• economics and society/philosophy

Current Projects:

• ethical foundations of corporate responsibility
• the notion of power and responsibility in economics
• initial allocation in permit trading systems

• decomposition analysis - comparison of methods

• sustainable bioenergy supply

• efficiency and productivity analysis with "bad" outputs

Publications

Refereed Publications:

• Mason S. and Muller A. (in press). Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts: New Concepts to Assess Market-Based Policy Instruments. Forthcoming in Ecological Economics. Working Paper Version [pdf]
• Muller, A. (2006). How to Make the CDM More Sustainable - The Potential of Rent Extraction. Forthcoming in Energy Policy. Working Paper Version [pdf]

• Banfi S. Filippini M. and Muller A. (2005). An Estimation of the Swiss Hydropower Rent. Energy Policy 33 (7) 927-937.
• Pachauri S. Mueller A. Kemmler A. and Spreng D. (2004). On Measuring Energy Poverty in Indian Households. World Development 32 (12) 2083-2104.
• Muller A. (2003). A Flower in Full Blossom? Ecological Economics at the crossroads between normal and post-normal science. Ecological Economics 54(1): 19-27.

Books, Book Chapters:

• Muller, A. and Sterner, T., eds. (2006). Environmental Taxation in Practice. In the series “The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy” (series editor: T. Tietenberg), Ashgate.
• Mason, S. and Muller, A. (2006). Transforming Environmental and Natural Resource Use Conflicts. In: Steininger, K. and Cogoy, M. (eds): The Economics of Global Environmental Change: International Cooperation for Sustainability. Edward Elgar.
• Muller, A. (forthcoming). Risk Management in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – The Potential of Sustainability Labels. In: Antes, R., Hansjürgens, B. and Zabel, H.-U. (eds): Climate change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and Business View. Springer. Working Paper Version [pdf]
• Gisler N. and Muller A. (2005). Being Invisible. In: G. Buurman, ed., Total Interaction - Theory and Practice of a New Paradigm for the Design Disciplines, Birkhäuser. Contribution in the context of system theory, arts and design (HGKZ Zürich)[pdf].
• Filippini M. Banfi S. Luchsinger C. and Muller A. (2004). Bedeutung der Wasserzinse in der Schweiz - Möglichkeiten einer Flexibilisierung. vdf-Verlag, Reihe "Wirtschaft, Energie, Umwelt", ISBN 3-7281-2925-9

Non-refereed Publications:

• Muller, A. and Denne, T. (2006). How Much Longer for Cheap Reductions? [pdf]. Carbon Finance, February 2006.
• Mason, S. A. and Muller, A. (2005): Globale Ressourcen- und Umwelttrends und schweizerische Sicherheitspolitik, in: Wenger, A. (ed.): Bulletin 2005 zur schweizerischen Sicherheitspolitik, pp. 137-148. Forschungsstelle für Sicherheitspolitik der ETH Zürich, www.css.ethz.ch (a summary article based on the report Mason and Muller (2004), see below).Web
• Mason S. and Mueller A. (2004). Konflikte um Ressourcen - Konsequenzen für die Schweiz. Schweizer Monatshefte, Juli/August 2004 (a draft including references is available here [pdf]).
• Muller A. (2004). Die Schweiz ist ein schönes Land - Switzerland is a Beautiful Country. Editorial text in the "International Reader" for foreign students, School for Arts and Design, Zurich (HGKZ) (invited contribution [pdf]).

Reports:

• Mason S. and Muller A. (2004). Umwelt- und Ressourcentrends 2000-2030 - Konsequenzen für die Schweizer Sicherheitspolitik. Invited study on behalf of the Federal Department on Defense, population and sports (VBS), Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, ISBN 3-905696-00-2. Paper-copies and download. A short article on this report has been published in the Web Journal of the ETH, ETH-life (25.8.2005)

• Filippini M., Banfi S., Fetz A., Luchsinger C., Muller A., and Pioro D. (2003). Bedeutung der Wasserzinse in der Schweiz und Möglichkeiten einer Flexibilisierung. Final Report, Zurich, October 2003.

Working Papers:

• Muller, A. (2006). Incentive regulation and initial allocation in permit trading systems.
• Sterner, T. and Muller, A. (2006). Output and Abatement Effects of Allocation Readjustment in Permit Trade (submitted). RFF Discussion Paper 06-49. [pdf]

• Muller, A. (2006). Clarifying Poverty Decomposition (submitted). Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics No. 217

• Juergens, I. and Muller, A. (2006). Bioenergy Projects Under the Climate Change Mitigation Regime and Their Contribution to Sustainable Development.

• Muller, A. (2006). Putting decomposition of energy use and pollution on a firm footing - clarifications on zero and negative values and the residual (submitted). Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics No. 215

• Muller, A. (2006). An organic farming perspective on the production of biomass for energy use. Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics No. 216
• Muller, A. (2006). Solutions to the Residual and Zero-Value Problems in Decomposition. Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics No. 213

Conference Presentations and Contributions to Conference Proceedings

• Muller, A. (2006). Incentive regulation and initial allocation in permit trading systems. Presentation at the conference on “Permit Trading in different Applications”, Halle-Wittenberg, Nov. 2006.

• Muller, A. (2006). Was fehlt in der 2000 Watt-Gesellschaft? - Thesen zur Erweiterung. Bernische Kraftwerke BKW Alpine Workshop, 21./22.9.2006.

• Muller, A. (2005). Risk Management in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – The Potential of Sustainability Labels. Presentation at the conference on “Climate change, Sustainable Development and Risk - an Economic and Business View”, Halle-Wittenberg, Nov. 2005.

• Muller A. and Mason S. (2004). Analyzing Economic Market Interactions as Conflicts: New Options for Regulatory Actions. Presentation at the Jan Tinbergen Peace Science Conference of the Network of European Peace Scientists (NEPS), Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam University, June 9-11, 2004.

• Banfi S. Filippini M. and Muller A. (2003). Rent of Hydropower Generation in Switzerland in a Liberalized Market. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), June 4-7, 2003, Prague.
  and at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE), June 28-30, 2003, Bilbao.
• Müller A. (2003). Sustainability and Poverty: Energy Requirement Patterns of Different Life-Style Groups of Households in India [pdf]. Presentation at the Annual Conference of the Swiss Association for Energy Economics (SAEE), 27 March 2003, Zurich.
• Luchsinger C. and Muller A. (2003). Incentive Compatible Extraction of Natural Resource Rent. Presented at the Annual Congress of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SGVS), 20-21 March 2003, Berne
  and
  as a poster at the Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAERE), June 28-30, 2003, Bilbao.
• Muller A. (2002). A Flower in Full Blossom? Potential Difficulties for Ecological Economics, Proceedings of the 7th Biennical Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics "Environment and Development" (ISEE 2002), Sousse/Tunisia, 6-9 March 2002.

Teaching experience and material:

• WS 2006/07: Seminar "Umwelt und Globalisierung", with Prof. Armin Schmutzler, Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich.
• March 2006 : Lessons on Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution, Road Transportation, and Energy and Climate in the Syllabus on "Environmental Policy Instruments", part of the Masters Program on Industrial Ecology, Chalmers University, Göteborg. Lecturers: T. Sterner, A. Muller, M. Hennlock.
• WS 2005/06: Seminar "Umwelt und Globalisierung", with Prof. Armin Schmutzler, Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich.
• December 2005: Guest lecture on the EU Emissions Trading Scheme with a focus on business implications, in the course on Sustainability and Innovation, University of St. Gall , Switzerland. Main lecturer: Rolf Wuestenhagen.

• April 2005: Lessons on Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution in the graduate/PhD course "Environmental Economics and Policy Making", Department of Economics, Göteborg University. Main lecturer: Prof. Thomas Sterner.
• February 2005: Lessons on Policy Instruments for Industrial Pollution, Road Transportation, and Energy and Climate in the Syllabus on "Environmental Policy Instruments", part of the Masters Program on Industrial Ecology, Chalmers University, Göteborg. Lecturers: T. Sterner, F. Alpizar, A. Muller.
• Muller A. (2003). A Didactic Note: Be Cautious with Statistical Analysis in a Political Discussion - the Example of Multidimensional Scaling [pdf].
• Muller A. (2003). Lecture Notes on Finding Groups in Data - Cluster Analysis, Dimension Reduction, Basic Descriptive Methods (Draft version Januar 2004 [pdf]).
• Muller A. (1999). Group Theory in Physics - An Introductory Seminar (Lecture notes for a seminar on mathematical methods in physics, summer term 1999. In german [pdf]).