Dr Moritz Schwarz

Moritz Schwarz is a Climate and Environmental Economist currently holding the Einstein International Postdoctoral Fellowship financed by the Einstein Foundation in Berlin.

He obtained a DPhil (PhD) in the field of Climate Econometrics from the University of Oxford and is currently based at the Faculty of Economics and Management at TU Berlin and the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is additionally associated with the Climate Econometrics research group at the University of Oxford and the Austrian Ministry of Finance in Vienna.

In his research, he focuses on environmental economics and the econometric estimation of future economic impacts of climate change, with further interests including the effectiveness of climate and environmental policy, especially carbon pricing-based mitigation policy. Moritz makes ample use of econometric time series and panel methods and contributes to the development of open-source estimation software, such as the gets R-package and the getspanel R-package.

During his DPhil studies, he was based at the School of Geography and Environment. He remains associated with the Climate Econometrics project at Nuffield College as well as with the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. As a Clarendon Scholar, Moritz's DPhil was supported by the Clarendon Fund, while his research was supervised by Prof Sir David F Hendry and Prof Cameron Hepburn.