Steckel, Jan

Prof. Dr. Jan Steckel heads the working group "Political Economy" at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). He is also a professor of the political economy of climate policy at the Technical University of Munich.

Jan is the author of multiple academic and non-academic publications focusing on climate policy and economics, inter alia on the political economy of energy transitions, distributional effects of carbon pricing policies or acceptabiltiy of climate policy.

He has contributed to various IPCC reports and led a chapter on the international coal phase-out in UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2017. Jan has advised governments and international organizations, such as the IMF or World Bank, and NGOs. Jan co-leads the Climate Policy for Development Initiative hosted by EfD. 

 

Curriculum vitae

20250330_JanSteckel_CV_englisch.pdf
Publications
Negative health effects of carbon prices can outweigh the climate benefits in developing countries
Negative health effects of carbon prices can outweigh the climate benefits in developing countries
Electricity price hikes raise firewood consumption and women’s collection time in Malawi
The Political Economy of Coal - Obstacles to Clean Energy Transitions
Carbon pricing and household welfare: evidence from Uganda
Emission pricing in developing countries
Enabling Policy Environment - brief actionable research agenda
Cash transfers in the context of carbon pricing reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean
Africa needs context-relevant evidence to shape its clean energy future
Double progressivity of infrastructure financing through carbon pricing - insights from Nigeria
Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Distributional impacts of carbon pricing in developing Asia
Implications of climate change mitigation for sustainable development
The role of capital costs in decarbonizing the electricity sector
The climate rent curse: new challenges for burden sharing
Clean up your own mess: An experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency
Reports of coal's terminal decline may be exaggerated
Mobilizing domestic resources for the Agenda 2030 via carbon pricing
Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle-income countries – A global comparative analysis
How global climate policy could affect competitiveness
Successful coal phase-out requires new models of development
Can government transfers make energy subsidy reform socially acceptable? A case study on Ecuador
Coal and carbonization in sub-Saharan Africa
All or nothing: Climate policy when assets can become stranded
Funding Inclusive Green Transition through Greenhouse Gas Pricing
People | 4 May 2020