Staff Biography

Biography:

Current Areas of Research:

Education:

• PhD in Economics, London School of Economics
• MSc in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, LSE

Selected Publications:

• The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on business: Evidence from Microdata (joint with Laure de Preux and Ulrich Wagner, March 2009 CEP Discussion Paper No 0917, http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp0917.pdf)
  
  

CEP Publications:

• Brexit as Climate Policy: The Agenda on Energy and the Environment
  Ralf Martin, June 2017
  Paper No' CEPEA043: Read Abstract | Full paper
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• Do Tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D
  Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen, John Van Reenen, March 2016
  Paper No' CEPDP1413: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Unraveling Firms: Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity
  Emanuele Forlani, Ralf Martin, Giordano Mion, Mirabelle Muûls, January 2016
  Paper No' CEPDP1402: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• #ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election
  Ghazala Azmat, Brian Bell, Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Swati Dhingra, Christian Hilber, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, Ralf Martin, Alistair McGuire, Sandra McNally, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Henry Overman, Isabelle Roland, Thomas Sampson, Anna Valero, John Van Reenen, Jonathan Wadsworth, Gill Wyness, Gabriel Zucman, April 2015
  Paper No' CEPEA034: Read Abstract | Paper 1 | Paper 2
  
  
• Energy and the Environment: a cold climate for climate change policies?
  Jonathan Colmer, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin, April 2015
  Paper No' CEPEA032: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Impact of 'Clean Innovation' on Economic Growth: Evidence from the Transport and Energy Industries'
  Ralf Martin, November 2014
  Paper No' CEPPA017: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Knowledge Spillovers from Clean and Dirty Technologies
  Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Ralf Martin, Myra Mohnen, September 2014
  Paper No' CEPDP1300: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency and Directed Technical Change: Evidence from the Auto Industry
  Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin, John Van Reenen, November 2012
  Paper No' CEPDP1178: Read Abstract | Full paper
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  This paper has been published as:
  Carbon Taxes, Path Dependency, and Directed Technical change: Evidence from the Auto Industry, Philippe Aghion, Antoine Dechezleprêtre, David Hemous, Ralf Martin, John Van Reenen, Journal of Political Economy, Volume 124, Issue 1, January 2016
  
  
• Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
  Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner, Laure B. de Preux, June 2012
  Paper No' CEPDP1150: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  On the empirical content of carbon leakage criteria in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure B. de Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner, Ecological Economics, Volume 105, September 2014
  
  
• In brief: Can industrial policy boost jobs?
  Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman, John Van Reenen, May 2012
  Paper No' CEPCP370: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy' by Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No. 1113, January 2012
  
  
• The polluter-doesn't-pay principle
  Ralf Martin, Ulrich J. Wagner, Laure B. de Preux, May 2012
  Paper No' CEPCP369: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
  Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen, January 2012
  Paper No' SERCDP0098: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
  Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen, January 2012
  Paper No' CEPDP1113: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Climate Change Policy and Business in Europe. Evidence from Interviewing Managers
  Barry Anderson, Jorg Leib, Ralf Martin, Marty McGuigan, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner, Laure B. de Preux, March 2011
  Paper No' CEPOP27: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organisational Structure and Energy Efficiency
  Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner, Laure B. de Preux, December 2010
  Paper No' CEPDP1039: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Productivity Spreads, Market Power Spreads and Trade
  Ralf Martin, September 2010
  Paper No' CEPDP0997: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Europe's emissions trading scheme: taxpayers versus sthe industry lobby
  Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner, July 2010
  Paper No' CEPCP311: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Still time to reclaim the European Union Emissions Trading System for the European tax payer
  Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls, Ulrich J. Wagner, May 2010
  Paper No' CEPPA010: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Climate Change: Consensus on the Long-Run Targets - But Will We Get Policies that Deliver?
  Ralf Martin, April 2010
  Paper No' CEPEA016: Full paper
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• In brief: Modern Management: Good for the environment or just hot air?
  Nick Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, Raffaella Sadun, February 2010
  Paper No' CEPCP303: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air? by Nick Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun, CEP Discussion Paper No. 891
  
  
• Why is the US so Energy Intensive? Evidence from US Multinationals in the UK
  Ralf Martin, January 2010
  Paper No' CEPDP0965: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on business: Evidence from Microdata
  Ralf Martin, Ulrich J. Wagner, Laure B. de Preux, March 2009
  Paper No' CEPDP0917: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• In brief: Saving the economy and the planet
  Ralf Martin, March 2009
  Paper No' CEPCP276: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?
  Nick Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, Raffaella Sadun, October 2008
  Paper No' CEPDP0891: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Technologies to Tackle Global Warming
  Ralf Martin, December 2006
  Paper No' CEPCP222: Read Abstract | Full paper
  See also Climate Change: Economic Sense and Non-sense of Carbon Mitigation Policies, CEP Policy Analysis CEPPA003 published in February 2006.
  
  
• Productivity Dispersion, Competition and Productivity Measurement
  Ralf Martin, May 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0692: Read Abstract | Full paper
  New Additional Software: Estimating firm level TFP
  
  
• Multinationals and US Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain
  Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, January 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0672: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Globalisation, ICT and the Nitty Gritty of Plant Level Datasets
  Ralf Martin, September 2004
  Paper No' CEPDP0653: Read Abstract | Full paper