Raphael Calel
- I am a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics. I also teach Applied Environmental Economics in the Department of Geography and Environment. I have previously studied economics at the University of Cambridge and UCL.
- E-mail: r calel lse ac uk
- CV
- Current research
- Climate Change Policy and Induced Innovation
- Impacts of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
- The history of emissions trading
- Uncertainty in climate forecasts
- Articles and Working papers
- Do probabilistic expert elicitations capture scientists’ uncertainty about climate change? (with Antony Millner, David Stainforth, and George MacKerron). Climatic Change. November 2012.
- Are first-borns more likely to attend Harvard? (with Antony Millner). Significance. Vol. 9, No. 3, 2012. An earlier version here, and some media coverage here.
- Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European carbon market (with Antoine Dechezleprêtre). Available as Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment Working Paper Series, No. 75, CEP Discussion Paper, No. 1141, and FEEM Nota Di Lavoro, 22.2012, 2012 (Also here). See also the blog.
- Improving cost-efficiency of conservation auctions with joint bidding Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2012. An earlier version here here (Also here)
- US Healthcare Reform: More changes are needed. (with Kathy Liu). Student British Medical Journal, September, 2011.
- Market-based Instruments and Technology Choices: A synthesis. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment Working Paper Series, No. 57, 2011. (Also here)
- Perverse incentives in the CDM: A Comment. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment Working Paper Series, No. 53, 2011. (Also here)
- Climate Change and Carbon Markets: A panoramic history. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment Working Paper Series, No. 52, 2011. (Also here)
- The Language of Climate Change Policy. Opticon1826, No. 9, 2010.
- Environmental Policy and Public Opinion: A note on instrument choice. Opticon1826, No. 7, 2009.
- How does Education Impact Child Mortality?: A study of social interaction effects in Kenya Cambridge Undergraduate Journal of Development Economics (PIXEL), Vol. 2, No. 1, 47 – 62, 2009.
- Is TRIPs a four-letter word?: Theory and History of Intellectual Property Rights. Infinity Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008.
- Intellectual Property Rights: The mother of all invention? Cambridge International Development Magazine (Vision), No. 7, 2008.
- Have We Solved Poverty?: A look at the current state of microfinance McGill Undergraduate Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2007.
- Presentations
- Environmental Policy and Directed Technological Change: Evidence from the European Carbon Market Presentation given as part of IEFE-FEEM Seminar Series. University of Bocconi 2012.
- CO2 Panel Discussion: The European Carbon Market in 2012. Hosted by the European Energy Exchange (EEX) at the International Press Centre at the European Commission in Brussels. Synopsis and full video available here .
- Confidence From Uncertainty: Interpreting climate predictions. Part of the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibit 2011.
- Allocating Payments for Ecosystem Services: Lessons from Economics. Presentation given at the Environment Agency's Ecosystem Service Missing Markets Workshop and as part of Defra's Natural Environment Economics Seminar Series.
- Auctioning Conservation Contracts in the Presence of Externalities. Conference paper given at the 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists and envecon 2010: Applied Environmental Economics Conference. See also presentation slides.
- Supervision & support
- I am supervised by Sam Fankhauser and Carmen Marchiori. I am chiefly funded by the Economics & Social Research Council, with additional funding from the Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius Foundation. I am also grateful for the financial support of the Grantham Institute Scholarship for the first year of my PhD.
Last updated: July 2012