Dr. Jan Abrell

Research Interests

Public Economics

Environmental and Energy Economics

Applied Partial and General Equilibrium Modeling

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

• J. Abrell, S. Rausch, and G. Schwarz (201x). How Robust is the Uniform Emissions Pricing Rule to Social Equity Concerns? (PDF, 678 KB). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
• J. Abrell, S. Rausch, and H. Yonezawa (201x). Higher Price, Lower Costs? Minimum Prices in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, (PDF, 1009 KB), Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
• Abrell, J. and S. Rausch (2017): external page Combining Price and Quantity Controls Under partitioned Regulation.Journal of Public Economics, 145, 226-242. Online appendix with computer codes is available here.
• Abrell, J. and H. Weigt (2016): external page The Short and Long Term Impact of Europe's Natural Gas Market on Electricity Markets until 2050.The Energy Journal, 37(SI3), 125-146.
  
• Zaklan, A., J. Abrell, and A.Neumann (2016): external page Stationarity Changes in Long-Run Fossil Resource Prices: Evidence from Persistence Break Testing. Energy Economics, 59, 96-103.
  
• Abrell, J. and S. Rausch (2016), external page Cross-Country Electricity Trade, Renewable Energy and European Transmission Infrastructure Policy, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,  79, 87-113. Working paper version is available here
• Pycroft, J., Abrell, J., and J.-C. Ciscar (2016): external page The Global Impacts of Extreme Sea-level Rise. A comprehensive economic assessment.  Environmental and Resource Economics, 64, 225-253.
• Pycroft, J., Abrell, J., and J.-C. Ciscar (2016): external page Response to “Comment on ‘The Global Impacts of Extreme Sea-Level Rise: A Comprehensive Economic Assessment”’.  Environmental and Resource Economics, 64, 345-347.
• Abrell, J., and Weigt, H. (2016): external page Investments in a Combined Energy Network Model: Substitution between Natural Gas and Electricity?, The Energy Journal, 37(4).
  
• Vrontis, Z., J. Abrell, F. Neuwahl, B. Saveyn, and F. Wagner (2016): external page Economic impacts of EU clean air policies assessed in a CGE framework. Environmental Science and policy, 55(1), 54-64.
• Abrell, J., and F. Kunz (2015): external page Integrating Intermittent Renewable Wind Generation - A Stochastic Multi-Market Electricity Model for the European Electricity Market. Networks and Spatial Economics, 15(1): 117-147.
• Abrell, Jan und H. Weigt (2012): external page Combining Energy Networks. Networks and Spatial Economics 12 (3): 377-401.
• Abrell, J. (2010): external page Regulating CO2 emissions of transportation in Europe: A CGE-analysis using market-based instruments.Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 15(4), 235-239.

Books

• Abrell, J. (2011): external page Transport under Emission Trading: A Computable General Equilibrium Assessment. PhD Thesis, Dresden. Suedwestdeutscher Verlag fuer Hochschulschriften.
  

Other publications

• European Commission (2013): external page The Clean Air Policy Package, Commission Staff Working Document. Impact Assessment, COM(2013) 920 final, SWD(2013) 531.
• European Commission (2012): external page Review of Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases, Commission Staff Working Document. Impact Assessment, COM(2012) 643 final, SWD(2012) 364.

Working Papers

• Abrell, J., M. Kosch, and S. Rausch (2017): The Economic Cost of Carbon Abatement with Renewable Energy Policies. Revision requested by Journal of Public Economics.
  
• Abrell, J. (2016): Download The Swiss Wholesale Electricity Market. 
  
• Abrell, J. and H. Weigt (2008): external page The Interaction of Emission trading and Renewable Promotion.
• Abrell, J., F. Kunz, and H. Weigt (2008): external page Start Me Up Modeling of Power Plant Start-Up Conditions and Their Impact on Prices.

Work in progress

• The Economics of Renewable Energy Support (with C. Streitberger and S. Rausch)
• Impacts of the UK carbon price floor: A machine learning approach (with M. Kosch)
• Environmental Policy and Competitiveness of Product Markets: The Case of Electricity (with J.-P. Nicolei and A. Zaklan)
• Measuring Supply Security - A compund indicator (with L. Chavaz and H. Weigt)
• Pricing the Unexpected: Optimal Imabalnce Pricing in Electricity Markets (with C. Mendes, J. Salvesberg, and H. Weigt)