Dr. Christina Roolfs

Postdoktorandin
Roolfs

Dr. Christina Roolfs is a postdoctoral researcher and member of the FutureLab: Public Economics and Climate Finance (PIK-MCC). She is based at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), working group Economic Growth and Human Development. She has studied mathematics, and Sustainability Economics & Management. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and wrote her dissertation on "Carbon Pricing and Transfers - Feasible and Effective Multilevel Climate Policy in Federations" with a focus on the European Union.

In addition to her academic work, Christina Roolfs has more than a decade of professional experience in the planning and management of wind farms and photovoltaics, being particularly interested in congestion management measures. Her master thesis also focused on congestion management measures and multinational power system planning using an analytical flow-based electricity pricing model.


Current research interests

Fiscal federalism, tax reform, burden-sharing and debt
Germany and the European Union

Papers submitted for peer review

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer, and Lessmann (under revision): Technology Beats Capital - Sharing the Carbon Price Burden in Federal Europe (February 6, 2020). Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3533251

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer (resubmitted to JEEM): Make or brake — Rich states in voluntary federal emission pricing. Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2941505


Working papers

Roolfs and Hagen: Self-Enforcing Environmental Federations. SURED2020 conference paper

Gaitan, Roolfs, Edenhofer: A generalized approach on Multilevel Emissions Policies and Transfers.

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer: Assessing EU ETS minimum prices and revenue distribution from a multilevel policy perspective. WCERE2018 conference paper

Publications

Edenhofer, O., Roolfs, C., Gaitan, B., Nahmmacher, P., Flachsland, C. (2017): Agreeing on an EU ETS Price Floor to Foster Solidarity, Subsidiarity and Efficiency in the EU. In Parry, I.; Pittel, L.; Vollebergh, H. (Eds.): Energy Tax and Regulatory Policy in Europe: Reform Priorities, MIT press. See MIT press or the pre-print version.

Schmid, E., Pechan, A., Neetzow, P., Roolfs, C., Neubauer, L., Eisenack, K. (2017): 6 Thesen zu einer de.zentralen Energiewende – Erkenntnisse aus dem Projekt de.zentral. link



In addition to her academic work, Christina Roolfs has more than a decade of professional experience in the planning and management of wind farms and photovoltaics, being particularly interested in congestion management measures. Her master thesis also focused on congestion management measures and multinational power system planning using an analytical flow-based electricity pricing model.


Current research interests

Fiscal federalism, tax reform, burden-sharing and debt
Germany and the European Union

Papers submitted for peer review

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer, and Lessmann (under revision): Technology Beats Capital - Sharing the Carbon Price Burden in Federal Europe (February 6, 2020). Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3533251

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer (resubmitted to JEEM): Make or brake — Rich states in voluntary federal emission pricing. Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2941505


Working papers

Roolfs and Hagen: Self-Enforcing Environmental Federations. SURED2020 conference paper

Gaitan, Roolfs, Edenhofer: A generalized approach on Multilevel Emissions Policies and Transfers.

Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer: Assessing EU ETS minimum prices and revenue distribution from a multilevel policy perspective. WCERE2018 conference paper

Publications

Edenhofer, O., Roolfs, C., Gaitan, B., Nahmmacher, P., Flachsland, C. (2017): Agreeing on an EU ETS Price Floor to Foster Solidarity, Subsidiarity and Efficiency in the EU. In Parry, I.; Pittel, L.; Vollebergh, H. (Eds.): Energy Tax and Regulatory Policy in Europe: Reform Priorities, MIT press. See MIT press or the pre-print version.

Schmid, E., Pechan, A., Neetzow, P., Roolfs, C., Neubauer, L., Eisenack, K. (2017): 6 Thesen zu einer de.zentralen Energiewende – Erkenntnisse aus dem Projekt de.zentral. link

Kontakt

Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK)
T +49 (0)331 288 20813
roolfs[at]pik-potsdam.de
P.O. Box 60 12 03
14412 Potsdam

ORCID

KLIF - Integrierte Finanz- und Klimapolitik: Handlungsspielräume für Nationalstaaten unter Wettbewerbsdruck. DFG funded joint project with TU Berlin's Public and Health Economics.

Zurückliegendes Projekt

de.zentral - Institutionell und technologisch konsistente Energiestrategien für eine zentral oder dezentral ausgerichtete Energiewende in Deutschland

2018      WCERE Weltkongress der Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomen, Göteborg

2018      Leibniz im Bundestag, Berlin

2018      Girls' Day am PIK

2017      IRMBAM Sub-Konferenz in Umweltökonomik, Nizza

2017      PET Konferenz, Paris

2017      EAERE Konferenz, Athen

2017      Verein für Socialpolitik, AURÖ Nachwuchsforscher-Workshop, Basel

2016      de.zentral Stakeholder Workshop, Berlin

2016      Strommarkttreffen - Energiewende 2.0, Berlin

2016      PET  Konferenz, Rio de Janeiro

2016      EAERE Konferenz, Zürich              

2016      Cluster-Workshop Governance, BMBF-Programm, Berlin

2015      Workshop on Energy and Territories, Dijon

2015      PhD Conference Sustainable Environmental Politics and Economy, Berlin

2015      ICP workshop, Berlin

2013      IAEE Conference, Düsseldorf

2013      FAEE Student Workshop, Paris

2012      SAEE Student Chapter Workshop, Zürich

Auszeichnung der Schweizerischen Fachvereinigung für Energiewirtschaft (SAEE) für die Masterarbeit „Modeling electric network capacity under different institutional settings” (Executive Summary und Poster)