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Johanna Arlinghaus

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Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability, Hertie School, Berlin

University of Oxford

PhD (Technical University Berlin, Germany); MPP (Hertie School, Germany); BSc (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)

Johanna Arlinghaus is Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School in Berlin and an Honorary Research Affiliate at the University of Oxford.

Johanna is an environmental economist with a focus on fiscal and climate policy. Methodologically, she uses econometric methods for causal inference and large micro-level datasets to evaluate policies. Before joining Hertie, Johanna was a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University.

She completed her PhD in Economics at TU Berlin and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, and she worked as an economist at the OECD Center for Tax Policy and Administration for more than four years prior to her PhD. While at OECD, she designed and led projects on energy and carbon taxes, and emissions trading systems, in close exchange with national policy makers. Johanna holds a BSc degree in Economics from Maastricht University, and an MPP from the Hertie School.