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Chair of Energy and Public Economics

Welcome to the Joint Chair of Energy and Public Economics (ETH and USI) headed by Prof. Dr. Massimo Filippini. We are part of the CER-ETH and CEPE at the Department of MTEC.

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Research at Our Chair

From econometric analysis of energy efficiency and productivity in different sectors to evaluating economic impact of energy policy instruments...

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Project PENNY Kicks-Off!

13.10.16: The partner universities met in Zürich for the new European Commission project on Psychological, Social and Financial Barriers to Energy Efficiecny (PENNY).

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Hiking trip to the alps in Ticino

Prof. Filippini's and Prof. Rausch's chair at the 2-day hiking tour to Campo Tencia in the Ticinese alps.

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Latest News

19.06.2017 | People

Dr. Eva Ranehill to join the University of Gothenburg

We are pleased to announce that, starting September 2017, Dr. Eva Ranehill will join the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg as a post doc. Eva strengthened our capacity in the area of behavioral economics. We look forward to collaborate with her in her new position and we wish her the best of luck. Read more

09.06.2017

A paper by Dr. Adan L. Martinez-Cruz is now available in the online version of Ecological Economics.

The paper "Assessing Impacts From Climate Change on Local Social-ecological Systems in Contexts Where Information is Lacking: An Expert Elicitation in the Bolivian Altiplano" is available online. This paper will be of interest to researchers working on innovative methodologies to measure potential impacts of climate change events in contexts where systematically-collected information is lacking. Read more

09.06.2017 | People

Dr. Adan L. Martinez-Cruz to join as an Assistant Professor at CIDE

We are pleased to announce that, starting August 2017, Dr. Adan L. Martinez-Cruz will join the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), campus Region Centro, located in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes. We are also glad that Dr. Martinez-Cruz will keep his collaboration with CEPE, mostly focused on SCCER-related topics. We wish him the best of luck. Read more

Seminars

Joint CER-ETH & CEPE Lunch Seminar in Energy, Environmental & Resource Economics
(on Fridays)
CER-ETH Seminar
(on Mondays)
CER-ETH KOF Lecture
IdEP Seminar
(Lugano)

Working Papers

Information for Students

Recent Publications

Geissmann, Thomas. A probabilistic approach to the computation of the levelized cost of electricity. Energy 124 (2017): 372-381.

DOI E-Citations

Blasch, Julia, Nina Boogen, Massimo Filippini, and Nilkanth Kumar. The role of energy and investment literacy for residential electricity demand and end-use efficiency. Economics Working Paper Series 17.269 (2017)

DOI E-Citations

Boogen, Nina. Estimating the potential for electricity savings in households. Energy Economics 63 (2017): 288-300.

DOI E-Citations

Information for Researchers

Additional Information

The mission of our research group is to improve the understanding of issues in energy economics and to make critical contributions in the design and evaluation of energy policy instruments by providing analysis based on the rigorous application of econometric methods.