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

Jan 2025
Article
Net zero: Strategy and tactics
Jennifer L. Castle ,  Ebba Mark ,  David F. Hendry ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Felix Pretis
Sept 2024
Video
Special panel discussion: Climate Policies that achieved major emissions reductions
Ebba Mark ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Anupama Sen ,  Chris Stark
Aug 2024
Journal
Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades
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
Feb 2024
Journal
Mar 2023
Journal
Large weather and conflict effects on internal discplacement in Somalia with little evidence of feedback onto conflict
in Global Environmental Change
Lisa Thalheimer ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Felix Pretis
Sept 2022
Journal
Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes
in Nature Energy
Nicolas Koch ,  Lennard Naumann ,  Felix Pretis ,  Nolan Ritter ,  Moritz Schwarz
Jul 2022
Journal
Whose jobs face transition risk in Alberta? Understanding sectoral employment precarity in an oil-rich Canadian province
in Climate Policy
Antonina Scheer ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Debbie Hopkins ,  Ben Caldecott
May 2022
Journal
Decarbonization in state-owned power companies: Lessons from a comparative analysis
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Philippe Benoit ,  Alex Clark ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Arjuna Dibley
Dec 2020
Report
Climate change and Emerging Markets after Covid-19
François Cohen ,  Matthew Ives ,  Sugandha Srivastav ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Paolo De Souza ,  Yangsiyu Lu ,  Penny Mealy ,  Cameron Hepburn ,  Luke Jackson
Aug 2020
Journal
The Challenge of Using Epidemiological Case Count Data: The Example of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and the Weather
in Environmental and Resource Economics
François Cohen ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Yangsiyu Lu ,  Anant Jani ,  Sihan Li
Apr 2018
Journal
Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C warming
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
Felix Pretis ,  Kevin Tang ,  Moritz Schwarz ,  Karsten Haustein ,  Myles R. Allen
Oct 2017
Paper
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