Prof. Dr. Achim Hagen
“My research examines the economic implications of domestic and international climate policy, with a particular focus on political economy considerations and the interaction between climate policy and finance. My work aims to inform policy design and support the transition toward a sustainable, carbon-neutral economy.”
Selected Publications
Hagen, A. (2025). Contested Compromise: Public Policy Reforms as Share Contests. Economics & Politics 0: 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.70024.
Hagen, A., and M. Schopf. (2024). Political influence on international climate agreements with border carbon adjustment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 102979.
von Dulong, A., Gard-Murray, A., Hagen, A., Jaakkola, N., & Sen, S. (2023). Stranded Assets: Research Gaps and Implications for Climate Policy. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 17(1), 161-169.
von Dulong, A., A. Hagen, R. Mendelevitch and K. Eisenack. (2023). Buy coal and gas? Addressing interfuel carbon leakage on deposit markets with market power. Energy Economics 117, 106434.
Hagen, A., and J. Schneider (2022). Small climate clubs should not use trade sanctions. Energy Research & Social Science, 92, 102777.
Hagen, A. and J. Schneider. (2021). Trade sanctions and the stability of climate coalitions. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 109, 102504.
Eisenack, K., A. Hagen, R. Mendelevitch and A. Vogt. (2021). Politics, profits and climate policies: How much is at stake for fossil fuel producers? Energy Research & Social Science 77, 102092.
Hagen, A., J.-C. Altamirano-Cabrera and H.-P. Weikard. (2021). National political pressure groups and the stability of international environmental agreements. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 21(3), 405-425.
Hagen, A. and K. Eisenack. (2019). Climate clubs vs. single coalitions: the ambition of international environmental agreements. Climate Change Economics, 10 (3), 1950011.
Work in Progress
Cooperation, inequality and equity in the provision of public goods: Experimental evidence (with L. Bartels and C. Gallier).
The value of corporate lobbying for turbulent times: Evidence from the EU-ETS (with M. Bohnet and S. Sen).
Sustainable consumption spillovers from sustainable investing: Evidence from a causal survey experiment among retail investors (with J. Friedrichsen, M.-P. Bohnet, P. Fliegel, L. Rischen)
Carbon Pricing and Household Finance: How Banks Price Transition Risk in Auto Loans, CESifo Working Paper No. 12288, https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/Zxb (with P. Fliegel, N. Koch and N. Ritter)
The political economy of asset ownership: Evidence from the global power sector. (with P. Fliegel and A. Stomper)
Climate Risk Spillovers and Sovereign Financing Conditions. (with L. Rischen)
Climate Policies, Investments, and the Role of Elections, CESifo Working Paper No. 12063, https://www.ifo.de/cesifo/5cb (with G. Kollenbach).
The Political Economy of Fossil Fuel Subsidy Removal: Evidence from Bolivia and Mexico, IMF Working Papers 2024, 230 (2024), https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400290480.001 (with M. Montes de Oca Leon and F. Holz).
Endogenous climate policy, systemic risk and asset stranding (with A. von Dulong & N. Jaakkola).
Education
10/2018
PhD, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (summa cum laude). Thesis title: Global Climate Policy Beyond Nation-State Actors: An Economic Analysis of Environmental Cooperation.
2014
Master of Arts Sustainability Economics and Management (with Distinction), Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg.
Contact
Address
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hannoversche Str. 27 / Room 1.18b
D-10099 Berlin
Phone
+49 (30) 2093-46376
E-mail
achim.hagen(at)hu-berlin.de