Prof. Dr. Oliver Schenker
Oliver Schenker is Deputy Head of the “Environmental and Climate Economics” Research Unit at ZEW Mannheim. He has been Robert Bosch Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and member of the research group at the FS-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance until May 2023. His main research areas are environmental and energy economics. Currently, he works on the assessment of sustainability risks and opportunities by the financial sector and how scenario analysis that can provide comparable and robust information on these risks.
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 6/2022: The first ECB bottom-up climate stress test: dealing with data gaps and methodological challenges
The ECB’s “SSM Climate risk stress test,” published in July 2022, provides an important step toward integrating climate change related risks into the banking system.…
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Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Cournot, Pigou, and Ricardo walk in a bar — Unilateral environmental policy and leakage with market power and firm heterogeneity.
We study the determinants of emission leakage using a two-country general equilib-rium model with heterogeneous firms and Cournot competition. We show that firmsfrom the non-regulating…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 9/2021: The EU sustainable finance strategy – Implications for the future German Federal Government
The EU’s revised sustainable finance strategy confirms the important role of the financial sector in the sustainability transition of the economy, but does not sufficiently…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Risks and Opportunities
PB 5/2021: Scenario Analysis as a Tool for Companies, Investors, and Regulators on the Path to Climate Neutrality
The structural transformation necessary for achieving climate neutrality is characterized by many interdependent changes. Shaping the transition to a zero-emissions economy cannot be based on…
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Journal of Public Economics: More birds than stones: A framework for second-best energy and climate policy adjustments
A well-known principle in public economics states that at least as many policy instruments as market failures are required to achieve an efficient outcome. In…
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Nature Energy: The cost of debt of renewable and non-renewable energy firms
The risks imminent to younger technologies and markets may hinder renewable energy firms’ access to financing. This could curtail the investment needed for the transformation…
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Canadian Journal of Economics: On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
We extend the literature on global supply chains by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring. We develop an analytical model of two-stage…
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Energy Policy: Designing an EU energy and climate policy portfolio for 2030: Implications of overlapping regulation under different levels of electricity demand
The European Union׳s current climate and energy policy has to operate under an ex ante unforeseen economic crisis. As a consequence prices for carbon emission…
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