Andreas Löschel

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Andreas Löschel (* 1971 ) is a German economist who holds the chair for microeconomics, especially energy and resource economics, at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . He is director at the Center for Applied Economic Research Münster (CAWM). The FAZ economists ranking 2017 ranks him among the 50 most influential economists in Germany.

education and profession

Löschel studied economics at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and Wayne State University in Detroit . In 2003 a doctorate followed at the University of Mannheim (summa cum laude). Löschel completed his habilitation in 2009 at the University of Oldenburg .

Since 2011 Löschel has been chairman of the expert commission on the monitoring process "Energy of the Future" of the federal government and since 2017 an elected member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering . He is also part of the Energy Transition Research Forum of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and part of the Federal Government's “Energy Systems of the Future” board of trustees. Löschel is lead author of Working Group 3 on the 6th IPCC Assessment Report and the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC. Löschel has been a Senior Researcher at the Center for European Economic Research (ZEW) since 2005 , where he was head of the research area “Environmental and Resource Economics , Environmental Management” between 2007 and 2014. From 2010 to 2014 he was Professor of Economics with a focus on environmental and resource economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Löschel has been advising Aurora Energy Research Limited since 2015. He was a scholarship holder of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom .

research

Löschel's research interests are applied microeconomics, in particular questions of energy and climate economics.

He was visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2003), Stanford University (2005), Australian National University (ANU) (2010, 2011), Beijing Tsinghua University (2013), Vigo University and the University of Oxford and the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. Löschel has been visiting professor at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing since 2013.

Publications (selection)

  • with L. Clarke, K. Jiang, K. Akimoto, M. Babiker, G. Blanford, K. Fisher-Vanden, J.-C. Hourcade, V. Krey, E. Kriegler, D. McCollum, S. Paltsev, S. Rose, PR Shukla, M. Tavoni, BCC van der Zwaan and DP van Vuuren: Assessing Transformation Pathways. In: O. Edenhofer, R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, E. Farahani, S. Kadner, K. Seyboth, A. Adler, I. Baum, S. Brunner, P. Eickemeier, B. Kriemann, J. Savolainen, S. Schlömer, C. von Stechow, T. Zwickel and JC Minx (eds.): Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014.
  • F. Jotzo and A. Löschel: The rise of emissions trading in Asia. Editor of the Special Issue of Energy Policy 75, 2014.
  • A. Löschel, G. Erdmann, F. Staiss, H.-J. Ziesing: Report of the Energy Expert Commission to Monitor the Energy Transformation in Germany on the Fourth Monitoring Report of the German Government. 2015.
  • A. Löschel, G. Erdmann, F. Staiss, H.-J. Ziesing: Report of the Energy Expert Commission to Monitor the Energy Transformation in Germany on the Fifth Monitoring Report of the German Government. 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Professor Dr. Andreas Löschel | Chair of Microeconomics, especially Energy and Resource Economics. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ FAZ economists ranking. Retrieved January 2, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Professor Dr. Andreas Löschel | Chair of Microeconomics, especially Energy and Resource Economics. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: Expert commission submits opinion on the monitoring report "Energy of the future". Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ acatech: News Detail. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 16, 2017 ; accessed on February 1, 2018 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.acatech.de
  6. ↑ Interview with Prof. Andreas Löschel. Accessed February 1, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 20, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ipcc.ch  
  8. ^ Fifth Assessment Report - Mitigation of Climate Change. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  9. ↑ ZEW employee: Prof. Dr. Andreas Löschel. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Löschel, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1971