Dr Lennart Stern

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the FutureLab CERES at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), working at the research department Climate Economics and Policy - MCC Berlin. I work on different aspects of an architecture for improving global public good provision that is outlined here. The proposed architecture consists of two main components, reward funds incentivizing specific outcomes (e.g. low emissions) and policies (e.g. spending on certain types of disease surveillance) with positive global externalities and tax clubs that would generate funding for the reward funds.

With colleagues, we have developed a research agenda seeking to develop optimized versions for different components of the architecture and also for how they can best be combined. Several of these projects are sketched here with references to preliminary results and some existing working papers that are also available here. We are interested in collaborating with other researchers on these projects.

Some of the projects (indicated in the documents on reward funds and tax clubs ) are suitable for master students in economics, mathematics, computer science or related fields. Students interested in collaborating on these topics as their Master's thesis are welcome to write me at lennart.stern[at]pik-potsdam.de.