Prof. Dr. Thomas S. Lontzek
Raum 513
Templergraben 64
52068 Aachen
Tel.: 0241/80-96203
Sprechstunden nach Vereinbarung
Thomas S. Lontzek hat von 1999-2003 Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Maastricht University und der University of California San Diego studiert. Anschliessend war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Kiel und dem Kieler Institut für Weltwirtschaft. 2009 promovierte er an der Universität Kiel in Volkswirtschaftslehre. Von 2010 bis 2016 war er Assistent und Oberassistent am Institut für Operations Research und Quantitativer BWL an der Universität Zürich. In 2012 war er visiting scholar an der Hoover Institution der Stanford University. Seit Oktober 2016 ist er Universitätsprofessor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der RWTH Aachen University. Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt ist die Entwicklung von numerischen Methoden und deren Anwendung in der Volkswirtschaftslehre.
Forschungsgebiete
- Economic Growth
- Quantitative Macroeconomics
- Resource and Energy Economics
- Computational Economics
- Climate Risk Management
- Decision Making under Uncertainty
Ausgewählte Forschungsarbeiten
- The Social Cost of Carbon When We Wish for Full-Path Robustness [forthcoming in Management Science] (with Yifan Zhao, Arnab Basu, and K. Schmedders)
- The social cost of carbon with economic and climate risks, Journal of Political Economy, 2019 (with Y. Cai)
- “Its earlier versions include Hoover economic working paper 18113, arXiv:1504.06909, NBER working paper 18704 (“The social cost of stochastic and irreversible climate change”), RDCEP working paper 12-02 (“DSICE: A dynamic stochastic integrated model of climate
and economy”), and RDCEP working paper 12-03 (“Tipping points in a dynamic stochastic IAM”), all of which were written with Kenneth L. Judd”
- “Its earlier versions include Hoover economic working paper 18113, arXiv:1504.06909, NBER working paper 18704 (“The social cost of stochastic and irreversible climate change”), RDCEP working paper 12-02 (“DSICE: A dynamic stochastic integrated model of climate
- Statistical Approximation of High-Dimensional Climate Models, Journal of Econometrics, 2018 (with A. Miftakhova, K.L. Judd, and K. Schmedders)
- Risk of multiple climate tipping points should trigger a rapid reduction in CO2 emissions, Nature Climate Change, 2016 (with Y. Cai and T.M. Lenton)
- Environmental tipping points significantly affect cost-benefit assessment of climate policies, Nature Climate Change, 2015 (with Y. Cai, K.L. Judd, and T.M. Lenton)
- Stochastic integrated assessment of climate tipping points indicates the need for strict climate policy, PNAS, 2015 (with Y. Cai, K.L. Judd, T.M. Lenton, D.Narita)
Courses
ID | Course Name | Duration | Start Date |
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1 | Makroökonomie II | 10/10/2017 | |
2 | Angewandte Computational Economics | 10/09/2017 |