Primary fields of interest: economic growth, climate change economics, environmental economics, and macroeconomics.

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Publications

Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Directed Technical Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Population Growth, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102885

Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Testing R&D-Based Endogenous Growth Models, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12552

Beck, U. R., P.K. Kruse-Andersen, and L.B. Stewart (2023). Carbon Leakage in a Small Open Economy: The Importance of International Climate Policies. Energy Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106447

Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Jacobsen, M.S. (2023). A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2287074

Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Climate Policy in the Shadow of National Security. Economics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110923

Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2145259

Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal energy taxes and subsidies under a cost-effective unilateral climate policy: Addressing carbon leakage. Energy Economics, 109, 105928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105928

Beck, U., and Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2020). Endogenizing the Cap in a Cap-and-Trade System: Assessing the Agreement on EU ETS Phase 4. Environmental and Resource Economics 77, 781–811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00518-w

Kruse-Andersen, Peter K. (2019). Comment on B. Carlén and B. Kriström: Are Climate Policies in the Nordic Countries Cost-Effective? Nordic Economic Policy Review 2019: Climate Policies in the Nordics, 148-151. DOI: 6027/Nord2019-012

Working Papers

Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal Carbon Taxation with Carbon Leakage at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin, CESifo Working Paper No. 9185, 2021 (link).

Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2016). Directed Technical Change and Economic Growth Effects of Environmental Policy, University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 16-06., 2016.

Teaching Advanced Economics of the Environment and Climate Change, master's course, Deparment of Economics, UCPH

Supervising bachelor and master's students in the fields:

• Environmental Economics
• Economics of Climate Change
• Economic Growth

FIELDS OF CONCENTRATION

• Environmental Economics
• Climate Change
• Economic Growth
• Macroeconomics

EMPLOYMENT

• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, since November 2018.
  • Parental leave June-May 2019 and January-April 2022.
• Senior Economist (Specialkonsulent), Secretariat of the Danish Economic Councils, September 2018 – October 2018.
• Economist, Secretariat of the Danish Economic Councils, September 2017 – August 2018.
• PhD Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, September 2013 – August 2017.

EDUCATION

• PhD in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, December 2017.
  • Dissertation: “R&D-Based Economic Growth, Directed Technical Change, and Environmental Policy”.
  • Assessment committee: Charles I. Jones (Stanford Graduate School of Business), John Hassler (IIES, Stockholm University), and Peter Birch Sørensen [Committee Chair] (University of Copenhagen).
  • Supervisor: Christian Groth
• Visiting researcher, Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg University, January 2016 – June 2016.
  • Visiting Sjak Smulders.
• Master of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, December 2014.
  • Dissertation: “Growth Effects of Environmental Policy, when Production and Abatement Technologies are Embodied in Separate Intermediates”.
  • Dissertation nominated for the Zeuthen Prize of 2015.
• Exchange Student, University of California, San Diego, September 2012 – June 2013.
  • Courses included graduate courses in macroeconomics, international trade, and public economics.
• Bachelor of Economics, Department of Economics, the University of Copenhagen, Summer 2012.

PUBLICATIONS

• Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Directed Technical Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Population Growth, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102885

  Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Testing R&D-Based Endogenous Growth Models, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/obes.12552

  Beck, U. R., P.K. Kruse-Andersen, and L.B. Stewart (2023). Carbon Leakage in a Small Open Economy: The Importance of International Climate Policies. Energy Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106447

  Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Jacobsen, M.S. (2023). A coordination failure between EU climate policies exemplified by the North Sea energy island. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2287074

  Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2023). Climate Policy in the Shadow of National Security. Economics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110923

  Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal carbon taxation in EU frontrunner countries: coordinating with the EU ETS and addressing leakage. Climate Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2145259

  Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal energy taxes and subsidies under a cost-effective unilateral climate policy: Addressing carbon leakage. Energy Economics, 109, 105928. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.105928

  Beck, U., and Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2020). Endogenizing the Cap in a Cap-and-Trade System: Assessing the Agreement on EU ETS Phase 4. Environmental and Resource Economics 77, 781–811. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00518-w

  Kruse-Andersen, Peter K. (2019). Comment on B. Carlén and B. Kriström: Are Climate Policies in the Nordic Countries Cost-Effective? Nordic Economic Policy Review 2019: Climate Policies in the Nordics, 148-151. DOI: 6027/Nord2019-012

CURRENT WORKING PAPERS

• Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2017). Testing R&D-Based Endogenous Growth Models, University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 17-05 (link).
• Kruse-Andersen, P.K., and Sørensen, P.B. (2022). Optimal Carbon Taxation with Carbon Leakage at the Extensive and the Intensive Margin, CESifo Working Paper No. 9185, 2021 (link).
• Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2019). Directed Technical Change, Environmental Sustainability, and Population Growth, University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 19-12, 2019 (link).
• Kruse-Andersen, P.K. (2016). Directed Technical Change and Economic Growth Effects of Environmental Policy, University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Discussion Paper No. 16-06., 2016 (link).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022

• Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Developer, Advanced Economics of the Environment and Climate Change, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2022 (link).
• Lecturer, Perspectives on sustainability, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2022 (link).
• Lecturer, Klimapolitik: Valg af diskonteringsrente, instrumenter og virkemidler [Continuing and Professional Education course], Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2022.

2021

• Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Developer, Advanced Economics of the Environment and Climate Change, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2021 (link).
• Co-organizer (with Frikk Nesje), PhD workshop in Climate Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2021.
• Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Developer, En udfordring for Danmark som klimapolitisk foregangsland: Hvordan undgår vi CO2e-lækage? [Continuing and Professional Education course], Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2021.

2020

• Course Coordinator, Lecturer, and Developer, Advanced Economics of the Environment and Climate Change, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2020.
• Course Coordinator and Developer, Seminar: Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2020.

2019

• Course Coordinator and Lecturer, The Economics of the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2019.

Pre-2019

• Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics C, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Spring 2014.
• Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics C, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Fall 2013.
• Teaching Assistant, Macroeconomics 2, Department of Mathematical Sciences,

University of Copenhagen, Fall 2013.

• Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics B, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 

Spring 2012.