09/05/2022 - Every other year, the Joachim Herz Foundation honours scientists in interdisciplinary research in economics for their significant contribution to the further development of economic research. This year, the award aimed to honour scientists in the field of 'environmental economics'. Prof. Dr. Linus Mattauch together with his colleague Jiaxin Zhao was awarded third place with their paper 'When Standards have better Distributional Consequences than Carbon Taxes'.
In their working paper, Zhao and Mattauch explore which climate protection measures are particularly effective and which criteria they fulfill in terms of social equity, since the aspect of equity has a direct influence on political feasibility. In doing so, they show which climate protection measures may have a lot of support but a lower impact than others. See here for some more details of the paper and here for details of the award (in German).
