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.
Recent Publications
Jennifer L. Castle , Ebba Mark , David F. Hendry , Moritz Schwarz , Felix Pretis
Ebba Mark , Moritz Schwarz , Anupama Sen , Chris Stark
in Energy Policy
Ebba Mark , Ryan Rafaty , Moritz Schwarz
in Science
Annika Stechemesser , Nicolas Koch , Ebba Mark , Elina Dilger , Patrick Klösel , Laura Menicacci , Daniel Nachtigall , Felix Pretis , Nolan Ritter , Moritz Schwarz , Helena Vossen , Anna Wenzel
in Journal of Econometrics
Xiyu Jiao , Felix Pretis , Moritz Schwarz
in Global Environmental Change
Lisa Thalheimer , Moritz Schwarz , Felix Pretis
in Nature Energy
Nicolas Koch , Lennard Naumann , Felix Pretis , Nolan Ritter , Moritz Schwarz
in Climate Policy
Antonina Scheer , Moritz Schwarz , Debbie Hopkins , Ben Caldecott
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Philippe Benoit , Alex Clark , Moritz Schwarz , Arjuna Dibley
François Cohen , Matthew Ives , Sugandha Srivastav , Moritz Schwarz , Paolo De Souza , Yangsiyu Lu , Penny Mealy , Cameron Hepburn , Luke Jackson
in Environmental and Resource Economics
François Cohen , Moritz Schwarz , Yangsiyu Lu , Anant Jani , Sihan Li
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Felix Pretis , Kevin Tang , Moritz Schwarz , Karsten Haustein , Myles R. Allen
Linus Mattauch , Matthias Roesti , Moritz Schwarz , Jan Siegmeier
Recent Events
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'Speculation or market forces? What drives the EU ETS price and what does this tell us about abatement costs.' - Moritz Schwarz (Climate Econometrics)
INET Researcher Seminar
Online Event
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"Temperatures and beyond: An Econometrically-Estimated Damage Function of 21st Century Climate Impacts using Extreme Climate Indicators" - Moritz Schwarz (EMoD)
INET Researcher Seminar
In Person Event