Essays
Explorations at the intersection of macroeconomics, artificial intelligence, and climate economics—from peer-reviewed research to long-form analysis.
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When Genocide Has a Throughput
What train records reveal about Operation Reinhard: reconstructing the hyperintense 'pulse' of late-summer 1942 through rate-centric genocide analysis.
Human-AI Collaboration and the Tripartite Labor Structure
A deep dive into Fügener et al.'s groundbreaking research on automation versus augmentation—and the emergence of a tripartite workforce taxonomy.
Norms and the Development of New Knowledge in the Era of AI
How artificial intelligence reshapes the hierarchies of tacit knowledge—and the normative trade-offs between efficiency and equity in the emerging knowledge economy.
The Great Sobering in Climate Economics
A research digest from November 2025: Structural rigidities and the macroeconomic consequences of the 'missed decade' in climate policy.
Canaries in the Coal Mine
Generative AI as a Determinant of Labor Market Dynamics. New empirical evidence reveals a 13% employment decline for early-career workers in AI-exposed fields.
The Great Fracture: AI, Labor, and the New Industrial Organization
A comprehensive synthesis of late 2025 research from NBER, IMF, and OECD revealing a 'Great Fracture' in labor markets and industrial organization.
The Tyranny of Catastrophic Risks
Why standard economic models fail when facing low-probability, high-impact events like climate change. A proposal for a new risk-adjusted discount rate.
Peeling the Onion: Decoding Europe's Energy Efficiency Gains
Decomposing EU energy efficiency improvements to understand what drives decoupling of energy use from economic growth.
The Price of Substitution
A deep dive into empirical substitution elasticities for climate policy modeling. How flexible is production really?
Feed-In Tariffs and Wind Power in Germany
How Germany's feed-in tariff shaped the spatial equilibrium of wind investment (1996–2010) — and why grid integration becomes the hidden constraint.
The Industrialization of Economic Science
An empirical investigation into co-authorship patterns in environmental economics. How the 'lone wolf' model of research gave way to team science.
Trade Liberalization and Environmental Quality
How international trade affects environmental outcomes through scale, composition, and technique effects—evidence from European manufacturing.
How Can Pure Social Discounting Be Ethically Justified?
A rigorous ethical examination of intergenerational discounting—why market-rate arguments fall short, and how impossibility results reshape what 'fair' evaluation can mean on infinite horizons.
Modeling Technological Change in Climate Economics
A comprehensive survey of how exogenous and endogenous technological change has been incorporated into climate-energy-economics models—and why these assumptions fundamentally shape policy recommendations.
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