Habermacher Florian HSLU W

Dr. Florian Habermacher Florian Habermacher

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Habermacher Florian HSLU W

Lucerne School of Business

Zentralstrasse 9
6002 Luzern


Institute of Business and Regional Economics IBR

CC Regional Economy

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Biography

  • Lecturer and Project Leader at IBR Centre for Regional Economics (CC Regionalökonomie), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Economics (HSLU - Wirtschaft) (Since 2022)
  • Director, suissenergy (Since 2019)
  • Research Associate, Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW), University of St. Gallen (Since 2014)
  • Institute for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford, Associate Fellow (2016-18)
  • Head of Modelling/Head of Econ & Quant, Aurora Energy Research (Oxford) (2013-18)
  • Head of Section Environment, Energy and Transport - foraus thinktank (2012-13)
  • PhD Economics and Finance (University of St. Gallen, HSG) (2009-13)
  • Visiting Scholar Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (Oxcarre), University of Oxford (2012-13)
  • Swiss National Bank (SNB) Program for Doctoral Students, Gerzensee (2010-11)
  • Visiting Student Indian Institute for Technology Delhi (2003-4)
  • MSc Environmental Engineering and Science (ETH Lausanne, EPFL) (2001-6)
Professional competencies
  • General Economics
  • Finance
  • Public, Environmental, Energy/Electricity and Resource Economics
  • Analytical & Quantitative Modelling (optimziation, agent-based simulation, AI, Statistics, Game-Theory)
  • Programming (e.g. Python, C++, GAMS, Matlab)
  • Cause Priorization/Effective Altruism
  • Environmental Life Cycle Analysis
Teaching and research focus
  • Economics
  • Economics of the Energy Transition (Ökonomie der Energiewende)

Lecturer and Project Leader at the IBR Centre for Regional Economics (CC Regionalökonomie)

Projects

Service projects

  • SECO Partnerships for Macroeconomic Support Phase III: Domestic Revenue Mobilization

Research projects

  • Glocal energy value creation systems with Open Big Data and structured decision facilitation
  • Incentives for New Energy
  • PPP Finanzierung Klimaschutzmassnahmen
  • Einfluss von Homeoffice und steigender Inflation auf das Konsumverhalten
  • Project Support Partnership with SECO: Public Financial Management

Publications and presentations

Publications and presentations - Article, review; peer reviewed

  • Habermacher, Florian & Lehmann, Paul (2020). Commitment vs. Discretion in Climate and Energy Policy. Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics, 39. doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00414-3
  • Feddersen, John; Habermacher, Florian; Imhof, Jan & van der Ploeg, Rick (2015). Energy modeling post 1973. Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, 161. doi: 10.1080/19390459.2015.1039238
  • Habermacher, Florian & Kirchgässner, Gebhard (2013). Das Bedingungslose Grundeinkommen – vielleicht wuenschenswert aber nicht bezahlbar. Wirtschaftsdienst, 583. doi: 10.1007/s10273-013-1571-8

Publications and presentations - Article, review; not peer reviewed

  • Habermacher, Florian (14.09.2022). Initiative sur l’élevage intensif, mise sous tutelle ou raison économique? infoméduse,
  • Habermacher, Florian (08.09.2022). «Echte Liberale müssen das Tierwohl höher gewichten». Infosperber,
  • Habermacher, Florian (08.02.2022). Kann Tabakwerbung ökonomisch sinnvoll sein? Ökonomenstimme,
  • Habermacher, Florian (23.08.2021). Incentivizing Donations through Mutual Matching. Effective Altruism Forum,
  • Habermacher, Florian (20.07.2018). Massentierhaltung: Glückliche Tiere sind so wichtig wie saubere Luft. NZZ am Sonntag,

Publications and presentations - Chapter/legal commentary/lexicon article

  • Habermacher, Florian (2015). Altruism, Religion and Self-Enhancement in a Framework of Ad-Hoc Evolutionary Adaptation. In Pantarotti et al. (Hrsg.), Evolutionary Biology: Biodiversification from Genotype to Phenotype (S. 225-244). US: Springer.
  • Habermacher, Florian & Kirchgässner, Gebhard (2014). Does a Future Rise in Carbon Taxes Harm the Climate? Climate Policy and Exhaustible Resources – The Green Paradox and Beyond MIT: MIT Press.
  • Habermacher, Florian (2012). Is Carbon Leakage Really Low? A critical reconsideration of the leakage concept. Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation, XI – Carbon Pricing, Growth and the Environment (S. 247-261). US: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Publications and presentations - Report/working paper

  • Habermacher, Florian (2016). Externalities in Risky Resource Markets – Optimal Taxes, Leakage and Divestment (CESifo Working Papers No. 5865).
  • Habermacher, Florian & Kirchgässner, Gebhard (2016). Das garantierte Grundeinkommen: Eine (leider) nicht bezahlbare Idee (HSG Economics Working Paper No. 201607).
  • Habermacher, Florian (2015). Carbon Leakage: A Medium- and Long-Term View (CESifo Working Papers No. 5216).
  • Habermacher, Florian (2011). The Law of Small Abatements: Prices over Quantities in Realistic Climate Policies (HSG Economics Working Paper).
  • Habermacher, Florian (2011). Optimal Fuel-Specific Carbon Pricing and Time Dimension of Leakage (HSG Economics Working Paper No. 1144).

Publications and presentations - Presentation (conference/report/lectures)

  • Habermacher, Florian (14.09.2020). Illusionism as Underappreciated Risk of AI? - Does AI Lure People to Illusionism and Undermine Altruism and Society? The Science of Consciousness conference 2020, Online instead of Tucson Arizona.
  • Habermacher, Florian (25.06.2019). The Case for Very Strong Computationalism – Questioning the Quantitativeness of Experience. The Science of Consciousness Conference 2019, Interlaken, Switzerland.
  • Habermacher, Florian (04.07.2017). What Carbon Price is Needed to Mainstream New Low Carbon Power, Transport, and Heat? Whole Systems Energy Modelling Consortium (wholeSEM) Annual Conference 2017, London, UK.
  • Habermacher, Florian (19.05.2017). Universal Basic Income and New Technology. Universal Basic Income and New Technology – Expert Panel Discussion, München, Deutschland.