"In 2050, I will be 65 years old and looking forward to my retirement. In the same year, at the latest, we must achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit global warming. It is my professional goal to be able to say at my retirement: The world has managed to stop global warming - and I have contributed to it!"
Mirjam Kosch is an enthusiastic environmental scientist and completed her doctorate in economics at ETH Zurich on climate policy in the electricity sector. As part of her doctoral thesis, she empirically analyzed the impact of renewable energy subsidies and carbon pricing. Currently, she is working on the expansion of the European emissions trading system and investigating the interplay of different policy instruments as well as the impact of climate policy on electricity prices. In addition, Mirjam Kosch is actively engaged in the dialogue between science and politics.
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14412 Potsdam
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Abrell J., M. Kosch, S. Rausch (2019). Carbon Abatement with Renewables: Evaluating Wind and
Solar Subsidies in Germany and Spain. Journal of Public Economics, 169, 172-202.
Böhringer C., M. Kosch, F. Landis, S. Rausch (2019). Efficient and Equitable Policy Design: Taxing Energy Use or Promoting Energy Savings? The Energy Journal, 40(1), 73-104.
Landis F., S. Rausch, M. Kosch (2018). Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Costs of Decarbonization. Environmental and Resource Economics,.70, 483-516.
Under Review
Abrell, J. and Kosch, M. (2020). The impact of carbon prices on optimal renewable energy support.
R&R from Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Kosch, M., Betz, R., Schillinger, M., Geissmann, T., Weigt, H. (2020). The Future of Swiss Hydropower: How to distribute the risk and the profits? R&R from Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics.
Abrell, J., Kosch, M., and Rausch, S. (2020). How Effective Is Carbon Pricing? Emissions and Cost Impacts of the UK Carbon Tax. Under review.
Policy Papers and Reports
Acworth, W., Kuneman, E., La Hoz Theuer, S., Abrell, J., Baer, J., Betz, R. Kosch, M., Müller, T., Cludius, J., Healy, S., Graichen, J., Boute, A., Zhang, H., Baisch, R. (2020). Influence of market structures and market regulation on the carbon market. Interim Report. On behalf of the German Environment Agency.
Barry, M., Betz, R., Fuchs, S., Gaudard, L., Geissmann, T., Giuliani, G., Hediger, W., Herter, M., Kosch,
M., Romerio, F., Schillinger, M., Schlange, L., Schuler, C., Schumann, R., Voegeli, G., Weigt, H.
(2019). The future of Swiss hydropower realities, options and open questions. Working Papers 2019/08, Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel.
Abrell, J. and M. Kosch (2019). The drivers of carbon abatement with renewables. Quarterly Magazine of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Summer 2019.
SCCER-CREST (2018). Zur schweizerischen Klimapolitik: Wie effizient ist die Bepreisung des fossilen
Energieverbrauchs? SCCER CREST Whitepaper, Dezember 2018.
Rausch, S., F. Landis, M. Kosch, A. Müller, C. Böhringer, R. van Nieuwkoop (2016). Promotion- or Steering-based Energy Policy: Assessing Efficiency and Distributional Impacts. Final report for SNF-funded project under NRP 71 “Managing energy consumption”.
