Armon Rezai
Univ.Prof. Dr. Armon Rezai
Deputy Head of the Institute
Armon Rezai is full professor at WU and senior researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics and environmental economics, mostly climate change economics. He has been director of policy at the WIIW (Vienna Institute for International Studies), a Fulbright Fellow and a Schrödinger Fellow of the Austrian Science Fund. He currently is a senior visiting fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and a research fellow at CEPR’s Climate Change and the Environment program.
Research Interest
Macroeconomics
Political economy
Climate change economics
Distribution and inequality
Environmental policy
Financialization
Recent Publications
2024
Van der Ploeg, R., Rezai, A., and M. Tovar (2024). Third-best carbon taxation: Trading-off Emissions, Equity, and Efficiency, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics J, forthcoming
Karp, L., Peri, A., and A. Rezai (2024). Selfish incentives for climate policy: Empower the young!, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming
Yokomatsu, M., Schinko, T., Mochizuki, J. and A. Rezai (2024) Climate-related disaster impacts in the Global South: Heterogeneity and human capital investment, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, forthcoming.
Belfiori, E. and A. Rezai (2024). Implicit carbon prices – Making do with the taxes we have, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
2022
Van der Ploeg, R., Tovar, M. and A. Rezai (2022) Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform: Evidence from German Household Surveys, European Economic Review, 141, 103966.
Ederer, S. and A. Rezai (2022) Labour markets in a Post-Keynesian growth model: the effects of endogenous productivity growth and working time reduction, Review of Keynesian Economics, 10, 355–381.
Karp, L. and A. Rezai (2022) Trade and Resource Sustainability with Asset Markets, Dynamic Games and Applications, 12, 929–953.
Strunk, B., Ederer, S., and A. Rezai (2022). The role of labor in a socio-ecological transition, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 19, 103-118.
2021
Semieniuk, G., Taylor, L., Rezai, A. and D. Foley (2021) Plausible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate policy, Nature Climate Change, 11, 313-318.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2021) Optimal carbon pricing in general equilibrium: Temperature caps and stranded assets in an extended annual DSGE model, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 110, 102522.
Dietz, S., van der Ploeg, F., Rezai, A. and F. Venmans (2021) Are economists getting climate dynamics right and does it matter?, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 8, 895-921. (reviewed in Nature Climate Change by Tol, 2021)
2020
Mattauch, L., Matthews, H. D., Millar, R., Rezai, A., Solomon, S. and F. Venmans (2020). Steering the Climate System: Comment, American Economic Review, 110, 1231-37.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2020). Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy, Annual Review of Resource Economics, 12, 281-298.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2020). The risk of policy tipping and stranded carbon assets, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 200, 102258. (media coverage: Financial Times)
2019
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2019). The Agnostic's Response to Climate Deniers: Price Carbon!, European Economic Review, 111, 70–84.
Taylor, L., Foley, D. and A. Rezai (2019). Demand drives growth all the way, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43, 1333–1352.
Rezai, A. (2019). Review of Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance, Journal of Economic Literature, LVII, 185-187.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2019). Simple rules for climate policy and integrated assessment, Environmental and Resource Economics, 72, 77–108.
2018
Glötzl, F. and A. Rezai (2018). A net lending perspective on Europe, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42, 3, 779-795.
Taylor, L., Rezai, A. and D. Foley (2018) Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Climate Change, Ecological Economics, 146, 164-172.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2018). The Simple Arithmetic of Carbon Pricing and Stranded Assets, Energy Efficiency, 11, 627-639.
2017
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2017). Climate policies under climate model uncertainty: max-min and min-max regret, Energy Economics, 68, 4-16.
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2017). Second-best climate policies to decarbonize the economy: commitment and the Green Paradox, Environmental and Resource Economics, 66, 409-434.
Crawford, B. and A. Rezai (2017). The Gold Standard, the Euro, and Leadership: A Cautionary Tale, German Society and Politics, 35, 77-104. preprint
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2017). Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How much and how fast? Manchester School, 85, e16-e44.
van der Ploeg, R. and A. Rezai (2017). Cumulative emissions, untapped tapped fossil fuel and the optimal carbon tax, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 116, 216-222.
Taylor, L., Rezai, A., Kumar, R., Barbosa, N. and L. Carvalho (2017). Wage Increases, Transfers, and the Socially Determined Income Distribution in the USA, Review of Keynesian Economics, 2, 259-275.
2016
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2016). Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam’s rule for the global carbon tax, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 3, 493-522.
Rezai, A. and S. Stagl (2016). Ecological Macroeconomics: Introduction and Review, Ecological Economics, 121, 181-185.
Carvalho, L., Rezai, A. (2016). Personal income inequality and aggregate demand, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40, 491-505.
Taylor, L. Rezai, A. and D. K. Foley (2016). An Integrated Approach to Climate Change, Income Distribution, Employment, and Economic Growth, Ecological Economics, 196-205.
2015
Rezai, A. and R. van der Ploeg (2015). Robustness of a simple rule for the social cost of carbon, Economics Letters, 132, 48-55.
Rezai, A. (2015). Demand and Distribution in Integrated Economies, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39:5, 1399-1414.
2014
Karp. L. and Rezai, A. (2014). The Political Economy of Environmental Policy with Overlapping Generations, International Economic Review, 55(3), 711-733.
Glötzl, F., Marterbauer, M., Rehm, M., Rezai, A (2014). Finanzierungssalden und die Krise in Europa, in Dullien, S., Hein, E. and A. Truger (eds.): Makroökonomik, Entwicklung und Wirtschaftspolitik. Festschrift für Jan Priewe,Metropolis, Marburg, 263-277.
Stagl, S., Schulz, N., Kratena, K., Mechler, R., Pirgmaier, E., Radunsky, K., Rezai, A., Köppl, A. (2014). Transformationspfade. In: Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht Klimawandel 2014 (AAR14). Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC), Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.
2013
Foley, D.K., Rezai, A., Taylor, L. (2013). The social cost of carbon emissions, Economics Letters, 121, 90-97.
Rezai, A. (2013). Cycles of demand and distribution and monetary policy in the US economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, 36, 231-250.
Scrieciu, S., Rezai, A., Mechler, R. (2013). On the Economic Foundations of Green Growth Discourses: The Case of Climate Change Mitigation and Macroeconomic Dynamics in Economic Modelling, WIREs: Energy and Environment, 2, 251–268.
Rezai, A., Taylor, L., Mechler, R. (2013). Ecological Macroeconomics: An application to climate change, Ecological Economics, 85, 69-76.
2012
Rezai, A. (2012). Goodwin Cycles, Distributional Conflict, and Productivity Growth, Metroeconomica, 63 (1), 29-39.
Rezai, A., Foley, D.K., Taylor, L. (2012). Global Warming and Economic Externalities, Economic Theory, 49, 329–351.
2011
Rezai, A. (2011). The Opportunity Cost of Climate Policy: A Question of Reference, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 113 (4), 885–903.
Semmler, W., Greiner, A., Diallo, B., Rajaram, A., Rezai, A. (2011). Fiscal Policy, Public Expenditure Composition, and Growth: Theory and Empirics, Aestimatio - the IEB International Journal of Finance, 2, 48-89 (also published as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4405).
2010
Rezai, A. (2010). Recast the DICE and its Policy Implications, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 14 (S2) 275-289.