Biography

Prof. Dr. Johanna Arlinghaus is Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School. She is also affiliated with the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford. Johanna is an environmental economist with a focus on fiscal and climate policy. Methodologically, she uses econometric methods for causal inference and large micro-level datasets to evaluate policies. Johanna completed her PhD in Economics at TU Berlin and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (now PIK), and she worked as an economist at the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration for more than four years prior to her PhD. While at OECD, she designed and led projects on energy and carbon taxes, and emissions trading systems, in close exchange with national policy makers. Johanna holds a BSc degree in Economics from Maastricht University, and an MPP from the Hertie School.

Recent Publications

Jun 2025
Blog
Policy Pathways to Achieve Net-Zero Goals: A New Look at Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Siyu Feng ,  Johanna Arlinghaus ,  Joseph Stemmler ,  Stephen M. Smith ,  Samuel Fankhauser
May 2025
Policy Briefing
Policy Evaluation and Selection to Accelerate Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployment
Siyu Feng ,  Joseph Stemmler ,  Johanna Arlinghaus ,  Samuel Fankhauser ,  Stephen M. Smith
May 2025
Working Paper
A taxonomy of policies to support geological carbon dioxide removal
Johanna Arlinghaus ,  Siyu Feng ,  Joseph Stemmler ,  Samuel Fankhauser ,  Stephen M. Smith
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