Sebastian Renner

University of Hamburg | UHH

Increasing temperatures will make space cooling a necessity for maintain comfort and protecting human health, and rising income levels will allow more people to purchase and run air conditioners. Here we show that, in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and Mexico income and humidity-adjusted temperature are common determinants for adopting air-conditioning,...

Understanding who would be affected in which way by carbon pricing is pivotal for effective and socially equitable policy design, addressing climate change and reducing inequality. This paper focuses on eight key countries in developing Asia (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam). By combining national h...

Generator use is widespread among firms in developing and emerging economies, including Indonesia, shielding them from unreliable and insufficient electricity supply. This, however, makes these firms more vulnerable to fuel price increases, as well as more emission intensive. We exploit variation in policy-induced fossil fuel and electricity tariff...

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We analyse the effects of environmental taxes on welfare and carbon emissions at the household level for the case of Mexico. The integrated welfare-environmental analysis, which is based on a censored energy consumer demand system, extends previous work in two ways. First, the estimation of a full matrix of substitution elasticities allows us to te...

Mexico recently declared ambitious goals in reducing domestic CO2 emissions and introduced a carbon tax in 2014. Although negative effects on household welfare and related poverty measures are widely discussed as possible consequences, empirical evidence is missing. We try to fill this gap by simulating an input-output model coupled with household...

Energy use is not only crucial for economic development, but is also the main driver of greenhouse-gas emissions. Developing countries can reduce emissions and thrive only if economic growth is disentangled from energy-related emissions. Although possible in theory, the required energy-system transformation would impose considerable costs on develo...

We estimate total emissions, which are attributed to the expenditure of one household during one year and identify the key consumption groups, which drive strong increases in household emissions when income is rising. First we apply input-output energy analysis in combination with household expenditure survey data from India for the year 2005; we c...