Dr. Simon Feindt

Current working papers:

• Feindt, S., Lettow, F., Missbach, L, & Ward H. (2025). What drives the distributional impacts of carbon pricing? Draft available upon request.
• Feindt, S. & Young-Brun, M. & (co-first authors) (2025). Climate impacts on production factors: Implications for growth, inequality, and the social cost of carbon. Draft available upon request.
• Feindt, S. (2024). Why the European Union faces an equity-pollution dilemma, and why it should not be concerned. Draft available upon request.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

• Young-Brun, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Feindt, S., Méjean, A. & Zuber, S. (2025). Within-country inequality and the shaping of a just global climate policy. PNAS. 122 (39). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2505239122. 

• Emmerling, J., Andreoni, P., Charalampidis, I., Dasgupta, S., Dennig, F., Feindt, S., Fragkiadakis, D., Fragkos, P., Fujimori, S., Gilli, M., Grottera, C., Guivarch, C., Kornek, U., Kriegler, E., Malerba, D., Marangoni, G., Méjean, A., Nijsse, F., Piontek, F., Simsek, Y., Soergel, B., Taconet, N., Vandyck, T., Young-Brun, M., Zhao, S., Zheng, Y. and Tavoni M. (2024). A Multi-Model Assessment of Inequality and Climate Change. Nature Climate Change. 14, 1254–1260 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02151-7.

• Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Feindt, S., Ferranna, M., Fleurbaey, M., Klenert, D., Kornek, U., Kuruc, K., Méjean, A., Peng, W., Scovronick, N., Spears, D., Wagner, F. and Zuber, S. (2021). Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being. Nature Climate Change. 11, 1111–1116 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01217-0.

• Feindt, S., Kornek, U., Labeaga, J. M., Sterner, T., and Ward, H. (2021). Understanding regressivity: Challenges and opportunities of European carbon pricing. Energy Economics, 103, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105550.

Policy briefs:

• Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Feindt, S., Ferranna, M., Fleurbaey, M., Klenert, D., Kornek, U., Kuruc, K., Méjean, A., Peng, W., Scovronick, N., Spears, D., Wagner, F. and Zuber, S. (2021). Policy Brief: Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend. Nature Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01228-x
• Del Campo, S., Ewald, J., Feindt, S., Kornek, U., Labeaga, J. and Sterner, T. (2021). Policy Brief: Distributional effects and acceptability of carbon taxes in the European Union. CHIPS Policy Brief No 1. http://chips-project.org/products/chips-policy-brief-no-1-december-2021.pdf

Reports:

• Michael Pahle, Ulrich Fahl, Benjamin Görlach, Ronja Busch, Simon Feindt, Nikolas Messerschmidt, Jana Nysten, Sebastian Osorio, Darius Sultani et al. (2025). Staying the course in turbulent times – Insights on the current state and ways forward for the EU’s climate, energy and finance policy architecture. https://ariadneprojekt.de/en/publication/background-staying-the-course-in-turbulent-times/ 
• Pahle, M., Günther, C., Feindt, S. and Edenhofer, O. (2025). Wie weiter mit dem ETS2? Vorschläge und Erwägungen zur Stärkung der Glaubwürdigkeit. https://www.kas.de/documents/252038/33607021/Wie+weiter+mit+dem+ETS2.pdf/f271a8bf-07a2-a74f-61dd-544a4dd4210b?version=1.0
• Görlach, B., Jakob, M., Umpfenbach, K., Kosch, M., Pahle, M., Konc, T., Aus dem Moore, N., Brehm, J., Feindt, S., Pause, F., Nysten, J. & Abrell, J. (2022). A Fair and Solidarity-based EU Emissions Trading System for Buildings and Road Transport. Kopernikus-Projekt Ariadne, Potsdam. https://ariadneprojekt.de/publikation/report-ensuring-the-fairness-and-solidarity-of-the-ets2-for-road-transport-and-buildings/.
• Steckel, J. C., Missbach, L., Ohlendorf, N., Feindt, S. & Kalkuhl, M. (2022). Effects of the energy price crisis on European households. Socio-political challenges and policy options. MCC working paper. https://www.mcc-berlin.net/forschung/publikationen/publikationen-detail/article/effects-of-the-energy-price-crisis-on-european-households-socio-political-challenges-and-policy-options.html

• Ariadne: The Future of Our Energy. Kopernikus Project. With funding from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space. https://ariadneprojekt.de/en/
• NAVIGATE (2019-2023): Next generation of advanced integrated assessment modelling to support climate policy making. Funded by the  European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. https://www.navigate-h2020.eu/
• CHIPS (2019-2022): Climate change impacts and policies in heterogeneous societies. Funded by the JPI AXIS programme and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Germany. https://chips-project.org/

Courses taught at TU Berlin:

• Economics of Climate Change, Summer Term 2026
• Economics of Climate Policy, Winter Term 2025/26

Supervision of master's theses:

• What Drives Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing? An Analysis of the Development of Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing and its Determinants in EU Countries between 2005 and 2020

2026

• Mannheim conference on Energy and the Environment, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany

2025

• EAERE conference, Bergen, Norway
• Mannheim conference on Energy and the Environment, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany

2024

• EAERE conference, Leuven, Belgium
• Mannheim conference on Energy and the Environment, ZEW, Mannheim, Germany
• Mapping the Effects of Environmental Policies (MEEP) workshop, Hamburg, Germany

2023

• ECEMP conference (online)
• Guest lecture University of Kiel, Germany
• Heinrich Böll foundation seminar (online)

2022

• EAERE conference, Rimini, Italy
• CIRED-NAVIGATE Summer school, Paris, France
• ECEMP conference (online)
• FAERE conference, Rouen, France
• NAVIGATE-CHIPS stakeholder workshop, Paris, France

2021

• EAERE conference (online)
• EAERE summer school, Graz, Austria
• Local Conference of Youth, Kassel, Germany

2020

• EAERE conference (online)
• SURED conference (online)