NEWS
UPCOMING TALKS
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University of Vienna
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National Bank of Slovakia
FEB 4
TU Dortmund
OTHER NEWS
Off the press: New directions for research on the economics of reducing the carbon footprint of the industrial sector.
Off the press: New wind turbines reduce preferences for green electricity and Green Party vote shares among nearby residents. Local financial participation can mitigate this backlash.
Read our VoxEU column on at-home charging of Plug-in Hybrids.
Read a digest of our article on carbon trading.
Off the press: Carbon pricing reduces manufacturing emissions but not output
Visit the website of the pan-European research network on Evaluating Environmental Performance and Regulation of Enterprises in Europe.
PAPERS
WORKING PAPERS
No Place Like Home: Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(with Johannes Gessner, Wolfgang Habla and Benjamin Rübenacker). February 2025. CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 663. Read our VoxEU column
Revise & resubmit at Journal of the European Economic Association
Designing Effective Carbon Border Adjustment with Minimal Information Requirements. Theory and Empirics
(with Alessia Campolmi, Harald Fadinger, Chiara Forlati and Sabine Stillger). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 18645. This version: July 2025. Read our VoxEU column
Urban Air Quality and Sick Leaves: Evidence from Social Security Data
(with Felix Holub and Laura Hospido), August 2021.
The Effect of Climate Policy on Productivity and Cost pass-through in the German Manufacturing Sector
(joint with Beat Hintermann, Corrado Di Maria, Maja Žarković), CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 249. December 2020.
Carbon Footprints of European Manufacturing Jobs: Stylized Facts and Implications for Climate Policy
(lead author, joint with A. Gerster, J. Jaraite-Kazukauske, D. Kassem, M. Klemetsen, M. Laukkanen, J. Leisner, R. Martin, Jakob R. Munch, M. Muûls, August E.T. Nielsen, L. de Preux, K. E. Rosendahl, S. Schusser). CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper No. 250. December 2020.
PUBLISHED
New Frontiers in Research on Industrial Decarbonization
K. T. Gillingham, L. Barrage, S. Armitage, D. Burtraw, J. Colmer, L. B. de Preux, J. Hawkins-Pierot, C. Holt, V. J. Karplus, Å. Löfgren, R. Martin, N. Miller, M. Muûls, M. Osborne, E. Severnini, W. Shobe, G. Sileo, V. Smirnyagin, T. Stoerk, A. Tsyvinski, K. Wagner, U. J. Wagner, and X. Wu (2025). Science, 390(6771): 338-340.
Support for Renewable Energy: The Case of Wind Power
Germeshausen, R., S. Heim, and U.J. Wagner (2025). Journal of Public Economics, 250: 105468
Does Pricing Carbon Mitigate Climate Change? Firm-Level Evidence from the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme
Colmer, J., M. Muûls, R. Martin, and U.J. Wagner (2025). Review of Economic Studies 92(3): 1625-1660.
Microeconomic Insights, March 28, 2025.
Management Practices and Climate Policy in China
S.K. Yong, U.J. Wagner, P. Shen, L. de Preux, M. Muûls, R. Martin, and J. Cao (2024). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,11(5): 1065-1100.
Can Social Comparisons and Moral Appeals Encourage Low-Emission Transport Use?
J. Gessner, W. Habla, and U.J. Wagner (2024). Transportation Research Part D: Transport and the Environment 133 (August). DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2024.104289
Response of the Ozone-related Health Burden in Europe to Changes in Local Anthropogenic Emissions of Ozone Precursors
Gu, Y., D.K. Henze, M.O. Nawaz, and U.J. Wagner (2023). Environmental Research Letters. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad0167
Sources of PM2.5-Associated Health Risks in Europe and Corresponding Emission-Induced Changes During 2005–2015.
Gu, Y., D.K. Henze, M.O. Nawaz, H. Cao, and U.J. Wagner (2023). GeoHealth, 7 (3).
Strategic Uncertainty, Indeterminacy, and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements.
Narita, D. and U.J. Wagner (2017). Oxford Economic Papers, 69 (2): 432-452.
The Impact of the EU Emissions Trading System on Regulated Firms: What is the Evidence after Ten Years?
Martin, R., M. Muûls, and U.J. Wagner (2016). Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 10(1): 129-148.
Estimating Strategic Models of International Treaty Formation.
Wagner, U.J. (2016). Review of Economic Studies, 83(4): 1741-1778.
On the Empirical Content of Carbon Leakage Criteria in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Martin, R., M. Muûls, L.B. de Preux, and U.J. Wagner (2014). Ecological Economics, 105:78-88.
Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Martin, R., M. Muûls, L.B. de Preux, and U.J. Wagner (2014). American Economic Review, 104(8): 2482-2508.
Editor’s Choice, Science (2014) Vol. 344 No. 6180.
Winner of the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics 2015.
Reprinted as Chapter 39 of “The Economics of Environmental Policy: Behavioral and Political Dimensions”, Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria (eds.), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2016.
The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata.
Martin, R., L.B. de Preux, and U.J. Wagner (2014). Journal of Public Economics, 117:1-14.
Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organizational Structure and Energy Efficiency.
Martin, R., M. Muûls, L.B. de Preux, and U.J. Wagner (2012). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63(2): 208-223.
Energy Use Patterns in German Industry: Evidence from Plant-level Data.
Petrick, S., K. Rehdanz and U.J. Wagner (2011). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 231(3): 379-414.
Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis.
Wagner, U.J., and C. Timmins (2009). Environmental and Resource Economics, 43(2): 231-256.
Reprinted as chapter 16 of “Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment”, Brian R. Copeland (ed.), Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2014.
The Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good? Another Look at CFC Emissions and the Montreal Protocol.
Wagner, U.J. (2009). Oxford Economic Papers, 61(1): 183-196.
The Design of Stable International Environmental Agreements: Economic Theory and Political Economy.
Wagner, U.J. (2001). Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(3): 377-411.
Reprinted as Chapter 5 of “Current Issues in Environmental Economics”, Nick Hanley and Colin J. Roberts (eds.), Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
FUNDED PROJECTS
Health, Labor and Environmental Regulation in Post-industrial Europe (HEAL)
ERC Consolidator Grant
Duration: August 2020 – July 2026
Policies for Sustainability
SFB Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 “Economic Perspectives on Societal Challenges: Equality of Opportunity, Market Regulation, and Financial Stability – EPoS”
Duration: January 2018 – December 31, 2025
Empirical Analysis of the Economics of Lobbying in European Policy Reforms
SFB 884 “Political Economy of Reforms”
Duration: January 2018 – June 30, 2022
Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data – TRACE
Federal Minstry of Education and Research “Economics of Climate Change”
Duration: January 2019 – June 30, 2022
The Economics of International Climate Policy COMPLIANCE
Federal Ministry of Education and Research “Economics of Climate Change”
Duration: September 2018 – February 28, 2022
TEACHING
Ulrich J. Wager currently holds the position of Professor of Economics, Chair in Quantitative Economics at the University of Mannheim.
He teaches courses at the bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. levels. For a list of current and previous course offerings please click here.
MEDIA
Campus TV report on ECR-Grant (German)
Interview on energy efficiency and climate policy
Austrian radio station Ö1 interview on international climate policy. Aired on the 18th of October 2022 (German).
Deutschlandfunk interview on carbon pricing. Aired on the 25th of October 2021 (German)
Radio Regenbogen Interview: Feature on ERC-Grant (German)