Moritz Schwarz

Biography

Moritz is an Associate with the Climate Econometrics project at Nuffield College and the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment. He currently holds the Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Berlin. His research focuses on quantifying the effects of climate policies on emission trajectories using methods from the macro-econometrics as well as the causal inference literature. He also uses similar methods to create forecasting models of the energy system and has published on the economic impacts of climate change as well as on Just Transition aspects of the Clean Energy Transition. He has published widely including in Science, the Journal of Econometrics, Nature Energy, Climate Policy and Energy Policy. He is also contributing to several R-packages to disseminate the methods and techniques he develops, e.g. in the R-packages {gets} (general to specific modelling techniques, indicator saturation, and model selection), {getspanel} (using gets-type techniques for causal inference), and {osem} (Open-Source Empirical Macro Model for economic and climate indicators). Moritz is currently based at the Economics Department of TU Berlin and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Moritz completed a DPhil at Oxford under the supervision of Prof Sir David Hendry and Prof Cameron Hepburn and in the course of his doctoral studies worked at Climate Econometrics, INET Oxford and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He also holds a degree from LSE and an MSc from Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute. Outside of academia, Moritz has worked for the Austrian government in various roles and has been involved in domestic, European (Fit for 55 package) and international (UNFCCC, CBD, etc.) policy-making.