Welcome to my website!

I’m a Postdoctoral Researcher at Graduate School of Economics and Management at the University of Geneva. I completed my PhD in economics at Sciences Po Paris under the supervision of Johannes Boehm and Stefan Pollinger. Before, I obtained my master’s degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim and worked as an energy policy consultant at the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) in Cologne.

My research lies at the intersection of environmental economics and industrial organization. Specifically, I use structural methods to study the dynamics of green technology adoption in concentrated industries under varying environmental regulations. Additionally, I work on the market design of emissions trading systems. Earlier publications focused on empirical evaluations of the local economic impacts of wind power deployment and the emission-reducing effects of international climate finance using econometric inference.

During the second year of the PhD, I joined the International Energy Agency (IEA) as a part-time Junior Energy Analyst in the Power Markets Division. I was also fortunate to spend a semester of my third year at Columbia University, hosted by Gautam Gowrisankaran.

I am on the 2026/2027 job market. Feel free to also check the research of my amazing wife Sophia.

If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to reach out at niklas.schoch@unige.ch.