Research & Publications

Research should be relevant and rigorous and methodologically free spirited within these boundaries. The focus of Florian Egli's reseach group Public Policy for the Green Transition at TU Munich is on the role of finance in the climate transformation and the political economy of this transformation. His PhD thesis “The role of finance in mitigating climate change: Insights for public policy” won the ETH medal for outstanding dissertations and the Swiss Association of Energy Economics (SAEE) annual prize for the best dissertation. He commits substantial time to the science-policy interface, for example with the TUM Think Tank or the Swiss Young Academy.

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Peer-reviewed

See Google Scholar for a list of publications.

Top 5

Lonergan, K. E. et al. (2023). Improving the representation of cost of capital in energy system models. Joule. To publication
Toetzke, M., Stünzi, A., & Egli, F. (2022). Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance. Nature Climate Change. To publication, won the Financial Times’ Best Academic Research with Societal Impact Award, University of St. Gallen Impact Award and UNESCO International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence.
Egli, F., Schmid, N., & Schmidt, T. S. (2022). Backlash to fossil fuel phase-outs: the case of coal mining in US presidential elections. Environmental Research Letters. To publication, Featured in The Atlantic
Agutu, C., Egli, F., Williams, N. J., Schmidt, T. S., & Steffen, B. (2022). Accounting for finance in electrification models for sub-Saharan Africa. Nature Energy. To publication
Egli, F., Steffen, B., Schmidt, T. S. (2018). A dynamic analysis of financing conditions for renewable energy technologies. Nature Energy. To publication

Book chapters

Egli, F., Steffen, B. & Schmidt, T.S. (2020). Cost of capital for renewable energy – the role of industry experience and future potentials. In Green Banking (ed. Böttcher, J.). De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany. To publication
Steffen, B., Egli, F. & Schmidt, T.S. (2020). The role of public banks in catalysing private renewable energy finance. In Renewable Energy Finance (ed. Donovan, C.). World Scientific Publishing: Singapore. To publication

Selected policy briefs

Zaussinger, F., Egli, F., Schmidt, T., Amarasinghe, U., Schmid, S., & Scharf, U. (2022). Labour market impacts of the green transition: the need for more granular data. In Cedefop & OECD (Eds.), Apprenticeships for greener economies and societies (pp. 37–48). To publication
Egli, F. (2020). State Investment Bank: An effective tool to finance sustainability?. In Financing the low-carbon economy transition – mapping innovative instruments. Swiss Sustainable Finance: Geneva, Switzerland. To publication
Hofstetter, D. & Egli, F. (2020). Transformation Capital – A Systemic Investment Logic. In Financing the low-carbon economy transition – mapping innovative instruments. Swiss Sustainable Finance: Geneva, Switzerland. To publication
Balthasar, F., Cantalou, J., Egli, F. (2020). Forschung – Innovationskraft und Vollassoziierung an EU-Forschungsprogramm sichern. In Der bilaterale Weg: Wie weiter mit dem überholten Betriebssystem? (eds. Farman, D., Vogel, F.). foraus Policy Brief. To publication
Egli, F. & Maule, S. (2017). Missing in Action: The lack of ESG capacity at leading investors. E3G Policy Brief. To publication
Stünzi, A., Egli, F., Jönsson, O. (2017). Neue Wege in der Schweizer Klimapolitik. foraus Policy Brief. To publication
Egli, F. & Johnstone, N. (2015). Emerging Technologies and Firm Dynamics: The implications of green growth. OECD Issue Note for Green Growth and Sustainable Development Forum. To publication