KAREN PITTEL Personal Data Date of Birth: March 7, 1969 Nationality: Office address: German Ifo Leibnitz Institute for Economic Research Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources Poschingerstraße 5 81679 Munich, Germany Phone: ++49 (0) 89 9224 1384 email: pittel@ifo.de Home address: Leopoldstr. 106 D-80802 München Phone: ++49 (0) 89 5506 7992 Current and Previous Positions since 2010 since 2010 Head of department Energy, Environment and Exhaustible Resources at Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany Professor for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Natural Resources at Ludwig- Maximians-University, Munich, Germany 2009-2010 Head of Center of Economic Policy, ZHAW Winterthur, Switzerland 2003-2010 Senior research fellow (Wissenschaftliche Oberassistentin) Chair of Economics/Resource Economics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2001 2002 Assistant professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin) Chair of Public Finance, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany 1995 2000 Research assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) Chair of Public Finance, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany 1992 1995 Research student (Studentische Hilfskraft) Chair of Economic Policy, University of Göttingen, Germany
Research Interests Environmental and Resource Economics Economic Dynamics Energy, Climate and Environmental Policy Education 08/10 Habilitation (ETH Zürich) thesis: "Economic Growth, Environmental Resources and Climate Negotiations" 12/00 Dr. rer. pol. in Economics (Chemnitz University of Technology) thesis: "Endogenous Growth and Sustainable Development" 1995 2000 Chemnitz University of Technology (Ph.D. research) 04/95 Diplom-Volkswirtin (University of Göttingen) thesis: "Variationen des Branson/Buiter Modells von 1984 bzgl. des Overshooting Phänomens " (Variations of the Buiter/Branson model of 1984 regarding the overshooting phenomenon) 1992 1995 University of Göttingen (graduate studies in Economics) 1991 1992 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (graduate studies in Economics) 1989 1991 University of Göttingen (undergraduate studies in Economics and Business Administration) 1988 1989 University of Hannover (undergraduate studies in History and English Language/Literature) Selected Acquisition of External Funds / Participation in Research Projects BMBF Federal German Ministry of Education and Research BMWI Federal German Ministry for Economics and Technology BAFU Swiss Federal Office for the Environment German Bundestag, Study Commission on Growth, Well-being and Quality of Life SMWK Saxon Ministry of Sciences and Art 2
Research Visits 2011, 2013 BC3 Basque Center for Climate Change 2009, 2010 CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo 2008 University of Calgary 1999 2007 (annually), 2013 University of Toulouse 2002 University of Tel Aviv 2001 Erasmus University Rotterdam Editorships and Committee Memberships Associate Editor "Environment and Development Economics" Member of the National Committee on Research in Future Earth of the German Science Foundation Member of the Environmental and Resource Economics Committee ("Ausschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie") of the German Economists' Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) Member of Organising Committees (Conferences/Workshops): 2013 ifo PIK Workshop on the Transition towards Global Carbon Pricing and Fossil Energy Markets 2011 ifo TU Munich Symposium on the Energiewende Quo vadis Germany? 2004-2010 Biannual Conferences on "Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics (SURED)" (Ascona, Switzerland) 2005 Annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (Zurich) Selected Teaching Experience Lectures Spring 2011, 2012,2013 growth and natural resources Fall 2010, 2011 environment and resource economics Fall 2009 economic globalization Fall 2009 microeconomics 1 Spring 2009, 2010 microeconomics 2 Spring 2006, 2007, 2009 economic theory of sustainable development Spring 2006 international economics Spring 2005 sustainability and long-run economic development Fall 2003-2006 environmental policy and structural change Fall 2003-2006 resource economics 3
Grants and Awards 2009 Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation 2008 Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation 2004 Grant of the German Economists' Association (Verein für Socialpolitik) 2001 Commerzbank-Award (doctoral thesis) 2001 Award of the BFI-Bank (doctoral thesis) 2001 Grant of German Association of Economists 1991-1992 Grant of the German-American Fulbright-Commission Presentations Selected Conferences EEA European Economic Association World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists EAERE European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Canadian Economics Association VfSP - Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economists' Association) PET Association for Public Economic Theory IIPF International Institute of Public Finance SURED Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics AFSE Thematic Meeting of the French Economic Association "Frontiers in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Management" (Toulouse) DET Workshop, Economic Growth and Institutions (Copenhagen) Selected Research Seminars Universities of Calgary, Tel Aviv, Basel, Bilbao, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Tübingen, Leipzig, Kassel and Technical University Munich. Publications Books and Special Issues Pittel, Karen / W. Buchholz / J. Frank / H.-D. Karl / J. Pfeiffer / U. Triebswetter / J. Habermann / W. Mauch / T. Staudacher, Die Zukunft der Energiemärkte: Ökonomische Analyse und Bewertung von Potenzialen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten, ifo Forschungsberichte 57, ifo Institut, 2012. Pittel, Karen / L. Bretschger / C. Brunnschweiler / L. Leinert / T. Werner, Preisentwicklung bei natürlichen Ressourcen. Vergleich von Theorie und Empirie, Umwelt-Wissen Nr. 1001, Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern, 2010. Pittel, Karen / Bretschger, L. (eds.), Special Issue of Environment and Resource Economics on SURED 2006 Conference on Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics 13, no. 6, 2008. 4
Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (eds.), Special Issue of the International Journal of Global Environmental Issues on Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, vol. 4, no. 1-3, 2004. Pittel, Karen, Sustainability and Endogenous Growth, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar, 2002. Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Volumes Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2013), International Climate Finance and its Influence on Fairness and Policy, The World Economy 36, 419-436. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2012), Decision Processes of a Suicide Bomber the Economics and Psychology of Attacking and Defecting, Defence and Peace Economics 23, 251-272. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke / M. Altemeyer-Bartscher (2012), International Efforts to Combat Global Warming, in: Chen, W.-Y. / Seiner, J.M. / Suzuki, T. / M. Lackner (eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation, Springer, Heidelberg and Berlin. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2012), Transitions in the Negotiations on Climate Change: From Prisoner s Dilemma to Chicken and Beyond, International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 12, 23-39. Pittel, Karen / Zabel, A. / Göran, M. / S. Engel (2011), Comparing Conventional and New Policy Approaches for Carnivore Conservation, Environmental and Resource Economics 48 (2), Special Issue on Conservation and Human Welfare: Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Services, 287-301. Pittel, Karen / Clemens, C. (2011), Labor Supply and Growth Effects of Environmental Policy under Technological Risk, Macroeconomic Dynamics 15, 31-59. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2011), Characteristics of Terrorism, in: Braddon, D. and K. Hartley (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of Conflict, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2011), Energy Supply and the Sustainability of Endogenous Growth, in: Galarraga, I. / M. Gonzalez-Eguino / A. Markandya (eds.), Handbook of Sustainable Energy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Pittel, Karen / J. P. Amigues / T. Kuhn (2010), Recycling under a Material Balance Constraint, Resource and Energy Economics 32, 379 394. Pittel, Karen / L. Bretschger (2010), The Implications of Heterogeneous Resource Intensities on Technical Change and Growth, Canadian Journal of Economics 43, 1173 1197. Pittel, Karen / L. Bretschger, From Time Zero to Infinity: Transitional and Long run Dynamics in Capital Resource Economies, Environment and Development Economics 13, 673 689, 2008. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Climate Policy and Ancillary Benefits: A Survey and Integration into the Modelling of International Negotiations on Climate Change, Ecological Economics, 2008, 68, 210 220. Pittel, Karen, Nachhaltigkeit in der Europäischen Union, in: John, K. D./Rübbelke, D. (Hrsg.), Europäische Umweltpolitik, Aachen: Shaker, 2007. 5
Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Rationierungsverfahren Eine Renaissance, WISU Das Wirtschaftsstudium, 6/07, 828 832, 2007. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Private Provision of Public Goods: Incentives for Donations, Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 33, 6, 497 519, 2006. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, What Directs a Terrorist?, Defence and Peace Economics, vol. 17, 4, 311 328, 2006. Pittel, Karen / L. Bretschger, Innovative Investments, Natural Resources, and Intergenerational Fairness: Are Pension Funds Good for Sustainable Development?, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, vol. 141, 3, 355 376, 2005. Pittel, Karen, Diskontraten: Endogen oder nicht endogen? Eine umweltrelevante Fragestellung, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, vol. 225, 441 458, 2005. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Reine und unreine öffentliche Güter, WISU Das Wirtschaftsstudium, Juli, 936 941, 2005. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Internationale Klimaschutzverhandlungen und sekundäre Nutzen der Klimapolitik, Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, vol. 6, 3, 369 383, 2005. Pittel, Karen, Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Wirtschaftswachstum, WiSt, irtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium, vol. 33, 9, 537 544, 2004. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Environmentally Sustainable Economic Growth, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, vol. 4, 1 10, 2004. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Perspektiven für den ostdeutschen Arbeitsmarkt im Umweltschutz, in: Moldaschl, M./Thießen, F. (Hrsg.) Neue Ökonomie der Arbeit, Marburg, Metropolis, 405 424, 2003. Pittel, Karen / T. Kuhn, Incentive Compatible Regulation of Quality Provision by Natural Monopolies The Role of Technical Progress, in: Koray, S./Sertel, M.R. (Hrsg.) Advances in Economic Design, Berlin: Springer, 281 296, 2003. Pittel, Karen / T. Kuhn / T. Schulz, Recycling for Sustainability A Long Run Perspective?, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, vol. 3, 339 355, 2003. Pittel, Karen / T. Kuhn, Incentives for Quality Provision and Environmental Innovations by Water Supply Utilities, in: Cahiers d'economie et Sociologie Rurales, vol. 45/1997. Articles in non-refereed journals Pittel, Karen / W. Buchholz /J. Pfeiffer (2013), Die Energiewende und das energiepolitische Zieldreieck: Neue Herausforderungen für die deutsche Energiepolitik, forthcoming in: Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen. Pittel, Karen (2012), Das energiepolitische Zieldreieck und die Energiewende, ifo Schnelldienst 65, 22-26. 6
Pittel, Karen / J. Lippelt (2012), Kurz zum Klima: Die Energiewende und das energiepolitische Zieldreieck Teil 1: Versorgungssicherheit, ifo Schnelldienst 65, 57-60. Pittel, Karen / M. Huber, K. Hessel, H. Traublinger (2012), Symposium Energiewende an die technologische Spitze oder ins wirtschaftliche Abseits?, ifo Schnelldienst 65, 03-21. Pittel, Karen / J. Lippelt (2012), Kurz zum Klima: Schöne Weihnachten!, ifo Schnelldienst 63, 83-85. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2007), Die Renaissance der Rationierungsverfahren, WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 6, 828-832. Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke (2005), Reine und unreine öffentliche Güter, WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium, 936-941. Pittel, Karen (2004), Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Wirtschaftswachstum, WiSt, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 33, 537-544. Pittel, Karen / T. Kuhn, Das deutsche Steuersystem (keyword articles: Steuern, Einkommensteuer, Gewerbesteuer, Kapitalertragsteuer, Körperschaftsteuer, Umsatzsteuer, Vermögensteuer), in: Enzyklopädisches Lexikon des Geld, Bank und Börsenwesens, Frankfurt, 1999. Working Papers Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Improving Global Public Goods Supply through. Conditional Transfers The International. Adaptation Transfer Riddle, CESifo Working Paper, No. 4103, 2013, Pittel, Karen / D. Rübbelke, Local and Global Externalities, Environmental Policies and Growth, BC3 Working Paper Series, 2010 15. Pittel, Karen / L. Bretschger, Sectoral Heterogeneity, Resource Depletion, and Directed Technical Change: Theory and Policy, Economics Working Paper Series 08/96, ETH Zürich, 2008. Pittel, Karen, A Kuznets Curve for Recycling, Economics Working Papers Series 06/52, ETH Zürich, May 2006. 7