David Anthoff
 
 
Biography
 
Dr. David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He is a post doctoral associate of The Economic and Social Research Institute (Dublin) and a freelance consultant on climate change issues. He lives and works in Munich, Germany.
 
He is co-developing the integrated assessment model FUND.
 
He was a visiting research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford in the fall of 2008.
 
Work in progress
 
“Government Failure and Market Failure: On the Inefficiency of Environmental and Energy Policy,” with Robert W. Hahn, Climates of Change: Sustainability Challenges for Enterprise, Smith School Working Paper Series, 2009, No 5.
 
“International Climate Policy and Regional Welfare Weights," with Daiju Narita and Richard S.J. Tol, ESRI Working Paper, 2009, No 332.
 
“Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation,” ESRI Working Paper, 2009, No. 278.
 
“Economic Costs of Extratropical Storms Under Climate Change: An Application of FUND,” with Daiju Narita and Richard S.J. Tol, ESRI Working Paper, 2009, No 274.
 
“Global Sea Level Rise and Equity Weighting,” with Robert J. Nicholls and Richard S.J. Tol, FNU Working Paper, 2007, No 136.
 
“On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change,” with Richard S.J. Tol, FNU Working Paper, 2007, No 127.
 
“Checking the price tag on catastrophe: The social cost of carbon under non-linear climate response,” with Megan Ceronsky, Cameron Hepburn and Richard S.J. Tol, FNU Working Paper, 2005, No 87.
 
Peer Reviewed Publications

“Government Failure and Market Failure: On the Inefficiency of Environmental and Energy Policy,” with Robert W. Hahn, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2010, 26(1), forthcoming.
 
“The Economic Impact of Substantial Sea-Level Rise,” with Robert J. Nicholls and Richard S.J. Tol, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, forthcoming.
 
“Economic Costs of Extratropical Storms Under Climate Change: An Application of FUND,” with Daiju Narita and Richard S.J. Tol, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2010, 53(3), forthcoming.
 
“Discounting for Climate Change,” with Richard S.J. Tol and Gary W. Yohe, Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2009, 3(2009-24).
 
“Damage Costs of Climate Change Through Intensification of Tropical Cyclone Activities: An Application of FUND,” with Daiju Narita and Richard S.J. Tol, Climate Research, 2009, 39(2): 87-97.
 
“Risk Aversion, Time Preference, and the Social Cost of Carbon,” with Richard S.J. Tol and Gary W. Yohe, Environmental Research Letters, 2009, 4(024002).
 
“The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND,” with Richard S.J. Tol, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009, 43(3): 351-367.
 
“Equity weighting and the marginal damage costs of climate change,” with Cameron Hepburn and Richard S.J. Tol, Ecological Economics, 2009, 68(3): 836-849.
 
“Discounting and the social cost of carbon: a closer look at uncertainty,” with Jiehan Guo, Cameron Hepburn and Richard S.J. Tol, Environmental Science & Policy, 2006, 9(3): 205-216.

Other Publications
 
“Klimaschäden und Klimaverhandlungen,” with Janina Ketterer and Jana Lippelt, ifo Schnelldienst, 2009, 62(22): 52-54
 
“Equity and Climate Change: Applications of FUND,” Reports on Earth System Science, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, 2009, 74.
 
“Kommentar zu Hans-Werner Sinn,” with Richard S.J. Tol, in Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik 6: Diskurs Klimapolitik, Joachim Weimann (ed.), Metropolis-Verlag, Marburg, 2009.
 
“A Perspective Paper on Methane Mitigation as a Response to Climate Change,” Copenhagen Consensus on Climate, Copenhagen Consensus Center, Copenhagen, 2009.
 
 “Global and regional exposure to large rises in sea-level: a sensitivity analysis,” with Robert J. Nicholls, Richard S.J. Tol and Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Tyndall Working Paper, 2006, No 96.
  
Reports
 
“Marginal Damage from Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” Report for the New Energy Externalities Development for Sustainability project, 2007.

“Global impacts of abrupt sea-level rise,” with Robert J. Nicholls and Richard S.J. Tol, Background paper for the Stern Review, 2006.

“Social Cost of Carbon: A Closer Look at Uncertainty,” with Thomas E. Downing, Ruth Butterfield, Megan Ceronsky, Michael Grubb, Jiehan Guo, Cameron Hepburn, Chris Hope, Alistair Hunt, Ada Li, Anil Markandya, Scott Moss, Anthony Nyong, Richard S.J. Tol and Paul Watkiss, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK), London, 2005.

“The Social Costs of Carbon Review – Methodological Approaches for Using SCC Estimates in Policy Assessment,” with Paul Watkiss, Thomas E. Downing, Cameron Hepburn, Chris Hope, Alistair Hunt and Richard S.J. Tol, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (UK), London, 2005.
 
Consulting
 
David is a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on economic climate change issues.
 
David authored a perspective paper on methane emission mitigation for the Copenhagen Consensus on Climate.
 
David authored a report for the NEEDS (New Energy Externalities Development and Sustainability) project on new Social Cost of Carbon estimates.
 
David co-authored a report on abrupt sea-level rise for the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change.
 
For Defra's review of the social cost of carbon, David co-authored two reports on the Social Cost of Carbon.
 
Presentations

"Die Ökonomie des Klimawandels" at Biozentrum, LMU München, Munich, Germany, 12.11.2009
 
"Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation" at CESifo Area Conference on Energy & Climate Economics, Munich, Germany, 16.10.2009
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at Jahrestagung des Verein für Socialpolitik, Magdeburg, Germany, 11.9.2009
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2009 - Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Climate Change, Venice, Italy, 6.7.2009
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26.6.2009
 
"Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation" at 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26.6.2009
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at the 2009 International Energy Workshop, Venice, Italy, 18.6.2009
 
"National Decision Making on Climate Change and International Equity Weights" at Assessing the Benefits of Avoided Climate Change, Pew Center on Global Climate Change, Washington DC, United States, 16.3.2009
 
"Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation" at University of Warwick, United Kingdom, 13.3.2009
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at The International Dimensions of Climate Policies, Universität Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 23.1.2009
 
"Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation" at The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, 10.12.2008
 
"Optimal Global Dynamic Carbon Taxation" at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 29.10.2008
 
"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at CESifo Venice Summer Institute 2008 - Workshop on Europe and Global Environmental Issues, Venice, Italy, 14.7.2008
 
"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden, 27.6.2008
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, 18.6.2008
 
"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at SURED 2008 (Monte Verità Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics), Ascona, Switzerland, 4.6.2008
 
"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy, 22.5.2008
 
"Bounded Rationality" at Venice International University, Venice, Italy, 19.5.2008
 
"The Impact of Climate Change on the Balanced-Growth-Equivalent: An Application of FUND" at Ph.D. Workshop on International Climate Policy, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany, 1.5.2008
 
"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany, 21.1.2008

"On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change" at The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland, 11.1.2008

"Structural Uncertainty and Climate Change" at Retreat, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Jesteburg, Germany, 10.10.2007

"Social Cost of Carbon – Different Estimates from FUND" at NEEDS (New Energy Externalities Development and Sustainability) project, Kraków, Poland, 5.7.2007

"Equity Weighting and the Social Cost of Carbon" at 15th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Thessaloniki, Greece, 30.6.2007

"Klimakostenmodelle" at Seminar 'Europäische Integration', Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Passau, Passau, Germany, 16.5.2007

"Fund 3.0" at Präsentation integrierte Bewertungsmodelle für das Projekt "Auswirkungen der Klimaänderung auf die Schweizer Volkswirtschaft", Bundesamt für Umwelt, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Bern, Switzerland, 3.4.2007

"Global Sea-Level Rise and Equity Weighting" at Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Valuation of Socio-Economic Impacts, ENCORA Thematic Network Conference, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Venice, Italy, 12.3.2007

"Equity and the aggregation of climate change impacts" at FNU Seminar, FNU, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 24.1.2007

"Equity and Climate Change" at Retreat, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Schwerin, Germany, 4.10.2006

"Social Cost of Carbon – Equity weighting" at Oberseminar, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg, Germany, 4.10.2005

Contact details
 

E-Mail

david.anthoff@esri.ie

Phone+49 (89) 27 37 41 06

Address

David Anthoff
Türkenstr. 21
80799 München
Germany

 

 

 

 

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