Dr. Christina Roolfs is a postdoctoral researcher and member of the FutureLab: Public Economics and Climate Finance (PIK-MCC). She is based at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), working group Economic Growth and Human Development. She has studied mathematics, and Sustainability Economics & Management. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and wrote her dissertation on "Carbon Pricing and Transfers - Feasible and Effective Multilevel Climate Policy in Federations" with a focus on the European Union.
In addition to her academic work, Christina Roolfs has more than a decade of professional experience in the planning and management of wind farms and photovoltaics, being particularly interested in congestion management measures. Her master thesis also focused on congestion management measures and multinational power system planning using an analytical flow-based electricity pricing model.
Current research interests
Fiscal federalism, tax reform, burden-sharing and debt
Germany and the European Union
Papers submitted for peer review
Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer, and Lessmann (under revision): Technology Beats Capital - Sharing the Carbon Price Burden in Federal Europe (February 6, 2020). Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3533251
Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer (resubmitted to JEEM): Make or brake — Rich states in voluntary federal emission pricing. Working paper available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2941505
Working papers
Roolfs and Hagen: Self-Enforcing Environmental Federations. SURED2020 conference paper
Gaitan, Roolfs, Edenhofer: A generalized approach on Multilevel Emissions Policies and Transfers.
Roolfs, Gaitan, Edenhofer: Assessing EU ETS minimum prices and revenue distribution from a multilevel policy perspective. WCERE2018 conference paper
Publications
Edenhofer, O., Roolfs, C., Gaitan, B., Nahmmacher, P., Flachsland, C. (2017): Agreeing on an EU ETS Price Floor to Foster Solidarity, Subsidiarity and Efficiency in the EU. In Parry, I.; Pittel, L.; Vollebergh, H. (Eds.): Energy Tax and Regulatory Policy in Europe: Reform Priorities, MIT press. See MIT press or the pre-print version.
Schmid, E., Pechan, A., Neetzow, P., Roolfs, C., Neubauer, L., Eisenack, K. (2017): 6 Thesen zu einer de.zentralen Energiewende – Erkenntnisse aus dem Projekt de.zentral. link
Contact
14412 Potsdam
ORCID
Kopernikus project ARIADNE project
Past project
KLIF - Integrierte Finanz- und Klimapolitik: Handlungsspielräume für Nationalstaaten unter Wettbewerbsdruck. DFG funded joint project with TU Berlin's Public and Health Economics.
de.zentral - Institutionally and technologically consistent energy strategies for a rather central or decentralized energy transition in Germany. BMBF fnuden project with University of Oldenburg, HU Berlin and various practical partners from the energy industry and politics.
2020 IIPF conference, Iceland / online
2019 PET conference, Strassbourg
2018 WCERE World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenborg
2018 Leibniz im Bundestag, Berlin
2018 Girls' Day at the Potsdam-Institute
2017 IRMBAM subconference in environmental economics, Nice
2017 PET conference, Paris
2017 EAERE conference, Athens
2017 Verein für Socialpolitik, AURÖ Young Researchers Workshop, Basel
2016 de.zentral Stakeholder Workshop, Berlin
2016 Strommarkttreffen - Energiewende 2.0, Berlin
2016 PET conference, Rio de Janeiro
2016 EAERE conference, Zurich
2015 Workshop on Energy and Territories, Dijon (invited talk)
2015 PhD Conference Sustainable Environmental Politics and Economy, Berlin
2015 ICP workshop, Berlin
2013 IAEE Conference, Düsseldorf
2013 FAEE Student Workshop, Paris (invited talk)
2012 SAEE Student Chapter Workshop, Zürich
Student Award from the Swiss Association for Energy Economics (SAEE) for Master’s thesis on „Modeling electric network capacity under different institutional settings” (Executive summary and poster)
