Publications

• Winkelmann R* / Donges JF* / Smith EK* / Milkoreit M*, Eder C, Heitzig J, Katsanidou A, Wiedermann M, Wunderling N, Lenton TM (2022) Social tipping processes towards climate action: a conceptual framework. Ecological Economics 192:107242 arXiv:2010.04488. (with ERAlab)  *shared first authorship
• Budolfson M, Dennig F, Errickson F, Feindt S, Ferranna M, Fleurbaey M, Klenert D, Kornek U, Kuruc K, Méjean A, Wei P, Scovronick N, Spears D, Wagner D, Zuber S (2021) Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend. Nature Climate Change 11:1025–1026
• Feindt S, Kornek U, Labeaga JM, Sterner T, Ward H (2021) Understanding regressivity: Challenges and opportunities of European carbon pricing. Energy Economics 103:105550
• Kornek U, Klenert D, Edenhofer O, Fleurbaey M (2021) The social cost of carbon and inequality: When local redistribution shapes global carbon prices. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) 107:102450
• Fleurbaey M, Kornek U (2021): When redistribution makes personalized pricing of externalities useless. Journal of Public Economic Theory. doi:10.1111/jpet.12505
  
• Donges JF, Lochner J, Kitzmann N, Heitzig J, Lehmann S, Wiedermann M, Vollmer J (2021) Dose-response functions and surrogate models for exploring social contagion in the Copenhagen Networks. EPJ ST. doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00279-7. arXiv:2103.09496 (with ERAlab)
• Kittel T, Müller-Hansen F, Koch R, Heitzig J, Deffuant G, Mathias JD, Kurths J (2021) From lakes and glades to viability algorithms: automatic classification of system states according to the Topology of Sustainable Management. EPJ ST. doi: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00262-2. arXiv:1706.04542
• Helfmann L, Heitzig J, Koltai P, Kurths J, Schütte C (2021) Statistical analysis of tipping pathways in agent-based models. EPJ ST. doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00191-0. arXiv:2103.02883
• Asano YM, Kolb JJ, Farmer JD, Heitzig J (2021) Emergent inequality and business cycles in a simple behavioral macroeconomic model. PNAS 118 (27): e2025721118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2025721118. SSRN:3415472
• Ansari S, Anvari M, Pfeffer O, Molkenthin N, Hellmann F, Heitzig J, Kurths J (2021) Moving the epidemic tipping point through topologically targeted social distancing. EPJ ST. doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00138-5. arXiv:2102.09997 (this paper won the outstanding young researcher award by Friends of PIK)
• Müller PM, Heitzig J, Kurths J, Lüdge K, Wiedermann M (2021) Anticipation-induced social tipping – can the environment be stabilised by social dynamics? EPJ ST. doi:10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00011-5 arXiv:2012.01977
• Kolb JJ, Müller-Hansen F, Heitzig J, Kurths J (2020) Macroscopic approximation methods for the analysis of networked agent-based models: The example of a two-sector investment model. Physical Review E 102:042311
  
• Wiedermann M, Smith EK, Heitzig J, Donges JF (2020) A network-based microfoundation of Granovetter's threshold model for social tipping. Scientific Reports 10:11202
• Heitzig J* / Donges JF*, Barfuss W, Kassel JA, Kittel T, Kolb JJ, Kolster T, Müller-Hansen F, Otto IM, Wiedermann M, Zimmerer KB, Lucht W (2020) Earth system modeling with endogenous and dynamic human societies: the copan:CORE open World-Earth modeling framework. Earth System Dynamics 11:395–413. doi:10.5194/esd-11-395-2020    * shared first authorship
• Mathias JD, Debeljak M, Deffuant G, Diemer A, Donges JF, Gladkykh G, Heitzig J, Holtz G, Obergassel W, Pellaud F, Sánchez A, Trajanov A, Videira N (2020) Grounding social foundations for Integrated Assessment Models of climate change. Earth's Future 8:e2020EF001573. (with ERAlab)
• Raiser K, Kornek U, Flachsland C, Lamb W (2020): Is the Paris Agreement effective? A systematic map of the literature. Environmental Research Letters 15:083006
  
• Kornek U, Edenhofer O (2020) The strategic dimension of financing global public goods. European Economic Review 127:103423
  
• Emmerling J, Kornek U, Bosetti V, Lessmann K (2020) Climate thresholds and heterogeneous regions: implications for coalition formation, http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-019-09370-0 Review of International Organizations
• Kornek U, Flachsland C, Kardish C, Levi S, Edenhofer O (2020) What is important for achieving 2°C? UNFCCC and IPCC expert perceptions on obstacles and response options for climate change mitigation. Environmental Research Letters 15:024005
• Dorsch M, Flachsland C, Kornek U (2019) Building and enhancing climate policy ambition with transfers: allowance allocation and revenue spending in the EU ETS. Environmental Politics. doi:10.1080/09644016.2019.1659576
• Strnad FM, Barfuss W, Donges JF, Heitzig J (2019) Deep reinforcement learning in World-Earth system models to discover sustainable management strategies. Chaos 29:123122. doi:10.1063/1.5124673. arXiv:1908.05567

At the date of establishment of GaNe in January 2019, we built on the following works from our earlier work, many of which were carried out in the copan project:

• Kornek U, Marschinski R (2018) Prices vs quantities for international environmental agreements. Oxford Economic Papers, gpy016. doi:10.1093/oep/gpy016
• Heitzig J, Barfuss W, Donges JF (2018) A thought experiment on sustainable management of the Earth system. Sustainability 10(6):1947. doi:10.3390/su10061947
• Heitzig J, Kornek U (2018) Bottom-up linking of carbon markets under farsighted cap coordination and reversibility. Nature Climate Change 8:204–209. doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0079-z
• Kornek U, Steckel J, Lessmann K, Edenhofer O (2018) The Climate Rent Curse: New Challenges for Burden Sharing. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, online first. doi:10.1007/s10784-017-9352-2
• G. Schwerhoff, U. Kornek, K. Lessmann, M. Pahle (2017) Leadership in Climate Change Mitigation: Consequences and Incentives. Journal of Economic Surveys, online first. doi:10.1111/joes.12203
• Meya J, Kornek U, Lessmann K (2017) How empirical uncertainties influence the stability of climate coalitions. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. doi: 10.1007/s10784-017-9378-5
• Müller-Hansen F, Schlüter M, Mäs M, Donges JF, Kolb JJ, Thonicke K, Heitzig J (2017) Towards representing human behavior and decision making in Earth system models – an overview of techniques and approaches. Earth System Dynamics 8:977–1007. doi:10.5194/esd-8-977-2017
• Heitzig J, Kittel T, Donges J, Molkenthin N (2016) Topology of sustainable management of dynamical systems with desirable states: from defining planetary boundaries to safe operating spaces in the Earth System. Earth System Dynamics 7, 21-50. doi:10.5194/esd-7-21-2016
• Lessmann K, Kornek U, Bosetti V, Dellink R, Emmerling J, Eyckmans J, Nagashima M, Weikard HP, Yang Z (2015) The stability and effectiveness of climate coalitions: A comparative analysis of multiple integrated assessment models. Environmental and Resource Economics (online first)
• Auer S, Heitzig J, Kornek U, Schöll E, Kurths J (2015) The dynamics of coalition formation on complex networks. Scientific Reports 5:13386. doi:10.1038/srep13386
• Wiedermann M, Donges JF, Heitzig J, Lucht W, Kurths J (2015) Macroscopic description of complex adaptive networks co-evolving with dynamic node states. Physical Review E 91, 052801. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.91.052801
• Kornek U, Lessmann K, Tulkens H (2014) Transferable- and Non-transferable Utility Implementations of Coalitional Stability in Integrated Assessment Models. CORE Discussion Paper 35
• Lessmann K, Marschinski R, Finus M, Kornek U, Edenhofer O (2013) Emissions trading with non-signatories in a climate agreement - An analysis of coalition stability. The Manchester School DOI: 10.1111/manc.12045
• Schmidt RC, Heitzig J (2013) Carbon leakage: grandfathering as an incentive device to avert relocation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) 67(2):209–223. doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2013.12.004
• Heitzig J, Donges JF, Zou Y, Marwan N, Kurths J (2012) Node-weighted measures for complex networks with spatially embedded, sampled, or differently sized nodes. The European Physical Journal B 85(1):38. doi:10.1140/epjb/e2011-20678-7
• Heitzig J, Simmons FW (2012, online first 2010) Some chance for consensus: voting methods for which consensus is an equilibrium. Social Choice and Welfare 38(1):43–57. doi:10.1007/s00355-010-0517-y
• Heitzig J, Lessmann K, Zou Y (2011) Self-enforcing strategies to deter free-riding in the climate change mitigation game and other repeated public good games. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 108:15739–15744. doi:10.1073/pnas.1106265108. Accompanying PNAS Commentary, Guardian article, Huffington Post article, Climatewire article.