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Matthias Kalkuhl studied Applied System Science at the University of Osnabrück. In his Diploma thesis he developed an integrated climate policy assessment model within the framework of dynamic game theory. In his PhD thesis he studies the design of optimal first-best and second-best climate policy instruments (carbon taxes, emissions trading, renewable energy subsidies). For this purpose, he developed the PRIDE model to study the effect of several policies on emissions, welfare, energy prices and rents.   Short CV: PDF

Activities and research interests at PIK

• Research Domain III - Sustainable Solutions
• Working Group: Policy Instruments Modeling
  
• Climate policy modeling: PRIDE model development
• Economics of exhaustible resources: supply side dynamics, green paradox
• Intertemporal climate policy instruments
  
• Low-carbon development
  

IPCC: Contributing author for the IPCC's (2011) Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation  (Ch. 11: Policy, Financing and Implementation)

Publications

Working Papers

• Kalkuhl, M. and B. Brecha (2012): "The Carbon Rent Economics of Climate Policy". PIK Working Paper.
  
• Kalkuhl, M., O. Edenhofer and K. Lessmann (2011): "Renewable energy subsidies: Second-best policy or fatal aberration for mitigation?"  FEEM Working Paper 48.2011 PDF
• Kalkuhl, M. and O. Edenhofer (2010): "Prices vs. Quantities and the Intertemporal Dynamics of the Climate Rent". CESifo Working Paper No. 3044  PDF
  

• Kalkuhl, M., O. Edenhofer and K. Lessmann (2012): "Learning or Lock-in: Optimal Technology Policies to Support Mitigation". Resource and Energy Economics, 34(1), 1-23. PDF. Journal version (online). CESifo Working Paper Version.
• Edenhofer, O. and M. Kalkuhl (2011): "When Do Increasing Carbon Taxes Accelerate
  Global Warming? A Note on the Green Paradox".  Energy Policy, 39(4), 2208-2212.  Journal version.  Manuscript version.
• Steckel, J.C., M. Kalkuhl, and R. Marschinski (2010): Should Carbon-exporting Countries Strive for Consumption-based Accounting in a Global Cap-and-trade Regime? Climatic Change Letters, 100 (3), 779 - 786 Journal version. Manuscript version.

• Edenhofer, O., R. Pietzcker, M. Kalkuhl, E. Kriegler (2011): "Taxation Instruments for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Comparison with Quantity Instrument" in: The Economics of Climate Change in China. Towards a Low Carbon Economy. Earthscan.
  
• Edenhofer, O., R. Pietzcker, M. Kalkuhl, E. Kriegler (2010): "Price and Quantity Regulation for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions" in: Global Sustainability – A Nobel Cause. Cambridge University Press. PDF.
• Kalkuhl, M. (2009): Gastkommentar zu W. Ressing's "Die vollen Zitronen auspressen, nicht die leeren" . Potsdamer Klimakonferenz 2008. Abschlussdokumentation, S. 35 .
• Edenhofer, O. and M. Kalkuhl (2009): Das grüne Paradoxon - Menetekel oder Prognose (2009) in: Beckenbach et al. (Eds.) Jahrbuch Ökologische Ökonomik 6. Metropolis-Verlag.
• Edenhofer, O., Knopf, B., Kalkuhl, M. (2009): CCS - CO2 Sequestrierung: Ein wirksamer Beitrag zum Klimaschutz?  ifo Schnelldienst, 3/2009.
• Kalkuhl, M., K. Eisenack and O. Edenhofer (2008): Climate Policy Instruments in a Differential Stackelberg Game with Market Imperfections. Conference Paper for the 13th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications in Wroclaw. PDF.
• Kalkuhl, M. (2008): Modeling Climate Policy Instruments in a Stackelberg Game with Endogenous Technological Change and Market Imperfections. Diploma Thesis; supervised by O. Edenhofer and K. Eisenack . PDF.

Supplementary Material

• Kalkuhl, M. and Edenhofer, O. (2011): Stocks of Carbon in the Ground and in the Atmosphere. PDF.

Contact

Matthias Kalkuhl

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

P.O. Box 60 12 03

D-14412 Potsdam, Germany

Phone: +49-331-288-2528

Email: kalkuhl ((at)) pik-potsdam.de