Magnus Merkle

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School of Economics and Business

As part of my PhD project at NMBU’s School of Economics and Business I am working on implementational and distributional challenges associated with carbon pricing. These challenges are connected to structural change, trade-embedded emissions, sectoral employment and household expenditures. My research employs large environmentally extended multi-regional input-output matrices, structural decomposition techniques and econometrics.

I have a Master of Science in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh, and I was programming geospatial models to downscale socio-economic scenarios within a climate research consortium in the UK before joining NMBU. I have also published research on food system resilience, working on the interplay of social-ecological systems and economics.

Publications
List of publications from my research. (Cristin)
Dolphin, G. & Merkle, M. (2024). Emissions-weighted carbon price: sources and methods. Scientific Data, 11 (1017).

Merkle, M. & Dolphin, G. (2024). Distributional Impacts of Heterogenous Carbon Prices in the EU. IMF Working Paper 24/149 & Skatteforsk Working Paper No. 8.

Merkle, M., Dellaccio, O., Dunford, R., Harmáčková, Z.V., Harrison, P.A., Mercure, J-F., Pedde, S., Seo, B., Simsek, Y., Stenning, J., Rounsevell, M. (2023). Creating Quantitative Scenario Projections for the UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, Climate Risk Managament 40 (100506).

Brown, C., Seo, B., Alexander, P., Burton, V., Chacón-Montalván, E., Dunford, R., Merkle, M., Harrison, P., Prestele, R., Robinson, E., Rounsevell, M. (2022). Agent-based modelling of alternative futures in the British land use system, Earth’s Future, 10 (11).

Merkle, M., Alexander, P., Brown, C., Seo, B., Harrison, P.A., Harmáčková, Z.V., Pedde, S., Rounsevell, M. (2022). Downscaling Population and Urban Land Use for Socio-economic Scenarios in the United Kingdom, Regional Environmental Change, 22 (106).

Harmáčková, Z.V., Pedde, S., Bullock, J.M., Dellaccio, O., Dicks, J., Linney, G., Merkle, M., Rounsevell, M.D.A., Stenning, J., Harrison, P.A. (2022). Improving regional applicability of the UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways through iterative participatory co-design, Climate Risk Management 37 (100452).

Maire, J., Sattar, A., Henry, R., Warren, F., Merkle, M., Rounsevell, M., Alexander, P. (2022). How different COVID-19 recovery paths affect human health, environmental sustainability, and food affordability: a modelling study, The Lancet Planetary Health, 6(7), E565-E576.

Zurek, M., Ingram, J., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Goold, C., Lyon, C., Alexander, P., Barnes, A., Bebber, D.P., Breeze, T.D., Bruce, A., Collins, L.M., Davies, J., Doherty, B., Ensor, J., Franco, S.C., Gatto, A., Hess, T., Lamprinopoulou, C., Liu, L., Merkle, M., Norton, L., Oliver, T., Ollerton, J., Potts, S., Reed, M.S., Sutcliffe, C., Withers, P.J.A. (2022). Food system resilience: concepts, issues, and challenges. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 47

Merkle, M., Moran, D., Warren, F., Alexander, P. (2021). How does market power affect the resilience of food supply? Global Food Security 30 (100556).

Moran, D., Cossar, F., Merkle, M., & Alexander, P. (2020). UK food system resilience tested by COVID 19, Nature Food 1, 242.
Teaching
Course Responsible
- ECN101 Economics for Environment and Development
Teaching Assistant
- AOS341 Quantitative Methods
- BUS350 Data Analytics in R
- ECN372 Climate Economics
- ECN280 Energy Economics
Research and projects
Research projects with a website outside NMBU

Magnus Merkle

Research projects with a website outside NMBU