Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford

• linus.mattauch@ouce.ox.ac.uk

Linus Mattauch is an Honorary Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment. Linus Mattauch holds the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship on Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Technical University of Berlin. He also co-leads the Future Lab "Inequality, Human Well-Being and Development" at the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research. Linus is also an Associate of the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Linus is an economist with expertise on climate policy and economics, wealth inequality and welfare.

Linus' research centres around evaluating policy options for mitigating climate change and addressing wealth inequality. He also analyses what makes such policies acceptable to citizens. As an example, his work shows that a carbon tax can be popular with citizen and benefit poor households.

Linus' further research interests are second-best analyses of public finance and normative implications of behavioural economics and preference changes. He also works on theories of economic growth and low-carbon transport. His research has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, Science, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Climate Change, Environmental and Resource Economics, Economics Letters, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Global Environmental Change and Transportation Research Part.

Linus previously completed a postdoctoral grant of the German Academic Exchange Service (2016-2018) and worked at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change and the Technical University of Berlin. He completed his PhD thesis, entitled "Rent and Redistribution: The welfare implications of financing low-carbon public investment", in 2015 there. He holds an MMathPhil from Oxford in mathematics and philosophy.

A full academic CV can be accessed here.

Mattauch, L., Hepburn, C., Stern, N. (2018). Pigou pushes preferences: decarbonisation options when preferences are endogenous. CESifo Working Paper 7404.

Sommer, S., Mattauch, L., Pahle, M. (2020). Supporting carbon taxes and the role of fairness. (INET Working paper 2020-23)

Sulikova, S., van den Bijgaart, I., Klenert, D., Mattauch, L. (2020). Optimal fuel taxation with suboptimal health choices. (INET Working Paper 2020-22)

Zhao, J., Mattauch, L. (2020). When standards have better distributional consequences than carbon taxes. (INET Working Paper 2020-25)

Ein Kompromiss für faire Energiepreise (2022, with S. Sommer, M. Pahle) Makronom.

Carbon pricing for inclusive prosperity: the role of public support (2019, with D. Klenert). Economists for inclusive Prosperity Policy Brief 16.

Reducing wealth inequality through wealth taxes without compromising economic growth (2019, with D. Klenert).

Können sich Demo­kra­tien eine ambi­tio­nierte Kli­ma­po­li­tik leisten? (2019, with O. Edenhofer, in German)

Why is carbon pricing in some countries more successful than in others? (2018, with F. Funke)

Shrink emissions, not the economy! (2018, with A. Radebach, J. Siegmeier and S. Sulikova)

Forthcoming

• Funke, F., Mattauch, L., van den Bijgaart, I., Godfray, C., Hepburn, C., Klenert, D., Springmann, M. and Treich, N. (forthcoming) Is Meat Too Cheap? Towards Optimal Meat Taxation. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.

2022

• Frondel, M., Helmers, V., Mattauch, L., Pahle, M., Sommer, S., Schmidt, C.M. and Edenhofer, O. (2022) Akzeptanz der CO₂-Bepreisung in Deutschland: Evidenz für private Haushalte vor Einführung des CO₂-Preises. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 23(1): 49-64.
• Mattauch, L., Hepburn, C., Spuler, F. and Stern, N. (2022) The economics of climate change with endogenous preferences. Resource and Energy Economics.
• Mattauch, L., Klenert, D., Stiglitz, J.E. and Edenhofer, O. (2022) Overcoming wealth inequality by capital taxes that finance public investment. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

2021

• Ceutzig, F., Niamir, L., Bai, X., Callaghan, M., Cullen, J., Díaz-José, J., Figueroa, M., Grubler, A., Lamb, W., Leip, A., Masanet, E., Mattauch, L., Minx, J., Mirasgedis, S., Mulugetta, Y., Budi Nugroho, S., Pathak, M., Perkins, P., Roy, J., de la Rue du Can, S., Saheb, Y., Some, S., Steg, L., Steinberger, J. and Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2021) Demand-side solutions to climate change mitigation consistent with high levels of well-being. Nature Climate Change, 12: 36-46.
• Sommer, S., Mattauch, L. and Pahle, M. (2021) Supporting carbon taxes: The role of fairness. Ecological Economics, 195. 107359.

2020

• Klenert, D., Funke, F., Mattauch, L. and O'Callaghan, B. (2020) Five Lessons from COVID-19 for Advancing Climate Change Mitigation. Environmental and Resource Economics, 76: 751-778.
• Mattauch, L., Matthews, H.D., Millar, R., Rezai, A., Solomon, S. and Venmans, F. (2020) Steering the Climate System: Using Inertia to Lower the Cost of Policy: Comment. American Economic Review, 110(4): 1238-1241.

2019

• Hagedom, G., et al. (2019) The concerns of the young protesters are justified: A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 28(2): 79-87.
• Mattauch, L., Siegmeier, J. and Funke, F. (2019) Wirtschaftswachstum aufgeben? Zur Struktur wachstumskritischer Argumente. [Giving up on Growth? On the Validity of Post-Growth Arguments]. Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafts-und Unternehmensethik (zfwu) / Journal for Business, Economics and Ethics, 20(1): 5-30. (Working paper version).

2018

• Creutzig, F., Roy, J., Lamb, W.F., Azevedo, I.M.L., Bruine de Bruin, W., Dalkmann, H., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Geels, F.W., Grubler, A., Hepburn, C., Hertwich, E., Khosla, R., Mattauch, L., Minx, J.C., Ramakrishnan, A., Rao, N.D., Steinberger, J., Tavoni, M., Urge-Vorsatz, D. and Weber, E.U. (2018) Towards demand-side solutions for mitigating climate change. Nature Climate Change, 8: 268-271.
• Klenert, D., Mattauch, L., Combet, E., Edenhofer, O., Hepburn, C., Rafaty, R. and Stern, N. (2018) Making carbon pricing work for citizens. Nature Climate Change, 8: 669-677.
• Klenert, D., Schwerhoff, G., Edenhofer, O. and Mattauch, L. (2018) Carbon Taxation, Inequality and Engel's Law -- The Double Dividend of Redistribution. Environmental and Resource Economics, 71(3): 605-624.
• Mattauch, L., Millar, R., van der Ploeg, R., Rezai, A., Schultes, A., Venmans, F., Bauer, N., Dietz, S., Edenhofer, O., Farrell, N., Hepburn, C., Luderer, G., Pless, J., Spuler, F., Stern, N. and Teytelboym, A. (2018) Steering the Climate System: An Extended Comment. CESifo Working Paper No. 7414.
• Mattauch, L., Siegmeier, J., Edenhofer, O. and Creutzig, F. (2018) Financing Public Capital through Land Rent Taxation: A Macroeconomic Henry George Theorem. Public Finance Analysis, 74: 340-360.
• Siegmeier, J., Mattauch, L. and Edenhofer, O. (2018) Capital beats coal: How collecting the climate rent increases aggregate investment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 88: 366-378.
• Siegmeier, J., Mattauch, L., Franks, M., Klenert, D., Schultes, A. and Edenhofer, O. (2018) The fiscal benefits of stringent climate change mitigation: an overview. Climate Policy, 18(3): 352-367.

2017

• Mattauch, L., Roesti, M., Schwarz, M. and Siegmeier, J. (2017) Economic Growth and Climate Change - Opportunities and Challenges on the Way to a Zero-Carbon Society. Wirtschaftspolitische Blaetter, 3(2017).

2016

• Klenert, D. and Mattauch, L. (2016) How to make a carbon tax progressive: the role of subsistence consumption. Economic Letters, 138: 100-103.
• Klenert, D., Mattauch, L., Edenhofer, O. and Lessmann, K. (2016) Infrastructure and Inequality: Insights from Incorporating Key Economic Facts about Household Heterogeneity. Macroeconomic Dynamics.
• Mattauch, L. and Hepburn, C. (2016) Climate Policy When Preferences Are Endogenous—and Sometimes They Are. Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 40(1): 76-95.
• Mattauch, L., Edenhofer, O., Klenert, D. and Bernard, S., (2016) Distributional effects of public investment when wealth and classes are back. Metroeconomica, 67(3): 603-629.
• Mattauch, L., Ridgway, M. and Creutzig, F. (2016) Happy or liberal? Making sense of behavior in transport policy design. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 45: 65-83.

2015

• Creutzig, F., Jochem, P., Edelenbosch, O.Y., Mattauch, L., van Vuuren, D.P., McCollum, D. and Minx, J. (2015) Transport: A roadblock to climate change mitigation? Science, 350(6263): 911-912.
• Edenhofer, O., Mattauch, L. and Siegmeier, J. (2015) Hypergeorgism: When Rent Taxation is Socially Optimal. Finanzarchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 71(4): 474-505.
• Edenhofer, O., Jakob, M., Creutzig, F., Flachsland, C., Fuss, S., Kowarsch, M., Lessmann, K., Mattauch, L., Siegmeier, J. and Steckel, J.C. (2015) Closing the Emissions Price Gap. Global Environmental Change, 31: 132-143.
• Mattauch, L., Creutzig, F. and Edenhofer, O. (2015) Avoiding Carbon Lock-In: Evaluating Policy Options for Advancing Structural Change. Economic Modelling, 50: 49-63.