The Chair improves the understanding of issues in energy economics and makes critical contributions in the design and evaluation of energy policy instruments by providing analysis based on the rigorous application of econometric methods.
The Chairs research covers a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between exhaustible and renewable natural resources and pollution on the one hand and long-term economic development on the other.
The research of the Energy and Climate Economics Group investigates how environmental processes and policies affect macroeconomic outcomes and human welfare.
The chair investigates organizational, technological and institutional change in the energy sector on two complementary levels: The system level and the firm level.
