Moritz Schwarz is a Climate and Environmental Economist currently holding the Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellowship financed by the Einstein Foundation in Berlin.
He obtained a DPhil (PhD) in the field of Climate Econometrics from the University of Oxford and is currently based at the Faculty of Economics and Management at TU Berlin and the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is additionally associated with the Climate Econometrics research group at the University of Oxford and the Austrian Ministry of Finance in Vienna.
In his research, he focuses on environmental economics and the econometric estimation of future economic impacts of climate change, with further interests including the effectiveness of climate and environmental policy, especially carbon pricing-based mitigation policy. Moritz makes ample use of econometric time series and panel methods and contributes to the development of open-source estimation software, such as the gets R-package and the getspanel R-package.
During his DPhil studies, he was based at the School of Geography and Environment. He remains associated with the Climate Econometrics project at Nuffield College as well as with the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. As a Clarendon Scholar, Moritz's DPhil was supported by the Clarendon Fund, while his research was supervised by Prof Sir David F Hendry and Prof Cameron Hepburn.
Contact
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
TU Berlin
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Federal Ministry of Finance, Austria
Climate Econometrics, University of Oxford
Job Market Paper
Pretis, F., and Schwarz, M. (JMP). Discovering What Mattered: Detecting Unknown Treatment as Breaks in Panel
Models.
Peer-reviewed publications
Mark, E., Rafaty, R., and Schwarz, M. (2024). Spatial-temporal dynamics of employment shocks in declining coal mining regions and potentialities of the ‘just transition’. Energy Policy 195: 114338.
Stechemesser, A., Koch, N., Mark, E., Pretis, F., Ritter, N., Schwarz, M., et al. (2024). Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades. Science 385(6711): 884–892.
Jiao, X., Pretis, F., and Schwarz, M. (2024). Testing for Coefficient Distortion due to Outliers with an Application to the Economic Impacts of Climate Change. Journal of Econometrics 239(1).
Thalheimer, L., Schwarz, M., and Pretis, F. (2023). Large weather and conflict effects on internal displacement in Somalia with little evidence of feedback onto conflict. Global Environmental Change.
Koch, N., Naumann, L., Pretis, F., Ritter, N., and Schwarz, M. (2022). Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes. Nature Energy 7: 844–853.
Scheer, A., Hopkins, D., Schwarz, M., and Caldecott, B. (2022). Stranded labour in Alberta, Canada: A mixed methods study on the employment impacts of oil price in a resource-rich province. Climate Policy 22(8): 1016–1032.
Benoit, P., Clarke, A., Schwarz, M., and Dibley, A. (2022). Decarbonization in state-owned power companies: Lessons from a comparative analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production 355: 131796.
Cohen, F., Schwarz, M., Li, S., Lu, Y., and Jani, A. (2020). The challenge of using epidemiological case count data: The example of confirmed COVID-19 cases and the weather. Environmental and Resource Economics: Perspectives.
Pretis, F., Schwarz, M., Tang, K, Haustein, K., and Allen, M. R. (2018). Uncertain impacts on economic growth when stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5◦C or 2◦C warming. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 376(2119): 20160460.
R&R, Working Papers & Ongoing Research
Schwarz, M., Kurle, J., Pretis, F., Martinez, A., and Harper, G. (R&R at International Journal of Forecasting). An Open-Source Empirical Macro (OSEM) Model for Economic and Emission Forecasting.
Schöngart, S., Schwarz, M., Schwaab, J., Pretis, F., Pfleiderer, P., and Schleußner, C.-F. (Working Paper). Temporary warming, lasting losses: Economic damages from climate overshoot may be irreversible within this century.
Schwarz, M., and Pretis, F. (Working Paper). An empirical climate damage function accounting for climate extremes and adaptation. SSRN 4022690.
Schwarz, M. statIAM: Building a statistical emulator for Integrated Assessment Models.
