Felix Pretis

University of Victoria, Department of Economics

3800 Finnerty Rd

Victoria, British Columbia V8P 5C2

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University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

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  • University of Victoria, Department of Economics

  • University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School

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1.

Does a Carbon Tax Reduce CO2 Emissions? Evidence From British Columbia

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2021
Felix Pretis
University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Carbon Tax, CO2 Emissions, Regulation, Break Detection

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Are We Running Out of Exhaustible Resources?

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 May 2023 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
Felix Pretis, Cameron Hepburn, Alexander Pfeiffer and Alexander Teytelboym
University of Victoria, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment and University of Oxford
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Resource extraction, resource price, reserves-to-production, trend, exhaustion

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All Change! The Implications of Non-Stationarity for Empirical Modelling, Forecasting and Policy

Oxford Martin School Policy Paper Series, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Jan 2017
David F. Hendry and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford-Nuffield College and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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nonstationarity, cointegration, location shifts, forecast

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Uncertain Impacts on Economic Growth When Stabilizing Global Temperatures at 1.5°C or 2°C Warming

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, DOI 10.1098/rsta.2016.0460
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Felix Pretis, Moritz Schwarz, Kevin Tang, Karsten Haustein and Myles Allen
University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford and University of Oxford - School of Geography and the Environment
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climate, impacts, economic growth, 1.5 degrees, uncertainty, inequality

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Exogeneity in Climate Econometrics

Energy Economics, 2021
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2021
Felix Pretis
University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Exogeneity, Climate Econometrics

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Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of CO2 Emissions

Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 140
https://doi.org/10.36687/inetwp140
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 01 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2021
Ryan Rafaty, Geoffroy Dolphin and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford - Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Cambridge Judge Business School and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Carbon Pricing, CO2 Emissions, Decarbonization, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Climate Policy.

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Discovering What Mattered: Answering Reverse Causal Questions by Detecting Unknown Treatment Assignment and Timing as Breaks in Panel Models

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 03 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
Felix Pretis and Moritz Schwarz
University of Victoria, Department of Economics and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Panel Data, Two-Way Fixed Effects, Treatment, Policy Evaluation, Difference-in-Differences; Break Detection, Indicator Saturation, Adaptive LASSO, Machine Learning

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Testing for Coefficient Distortion due to Outliers with an Application to the Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 02 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2023
Xiyu Jiao, Felix Pretis and Moritz Schwarz
University of Oxford - Department of Economics, University of Victoria, Department of Economics and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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outlier robustness, robust estimation, iterated 1-step Huber-skip M-estimator, indicator saturation, climate econometrics, climate change, adaptation

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An Empirical Climate Damage Function Accounting for Climate Extremes and Adaptation

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 03 Feb 2022
Moritz Schwarz and Felix Pretis
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Climate Change, Econometrics, Climate Damages, Climate Impacts, Adaptation

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Attributing Agnostically-Detected Large Reductions in Road CO2 Emissions to Policy Mixes

Nature Energy volume 7, pages844–853 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01095-6
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 22 Sep 2022
Nicolas Koch, Lennard Naumann, Felix Pretis, Nolan Ritter and Moritz Schwarz
Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) and Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Emissions, CO2, Break Detection, Treatment Evaluation, Policy Mix

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Modeling the Interconnectivity of Non-stationary Polar Ice Sheets

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Luke Jackson, Katarina Juselius, Andrew B. Martinez and Felix Pretis
University of Durham, University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Macroeconomic Analysis and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Cointegration, dynamic analysis, sea level

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Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of Co2 Emissions

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Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of Co2 Emissions

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 12 Aug 2022
Ryan Rafaty, Geoffroy Dolphin and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Carbon pricing, CO2 Emissions Elasticity, Carbon Pricing Emissions Reductions, Carbon Tax Effectiveness, Emissions Trading Effectiveness, Carbon Pricing Efficacy, Econometric Evaluation of Climate Policy Effects, Generalized Synthetic Control, Emissions-Weighted Carbon Price Data, Sector Carbon Price Data.

Carbon Pricing and the Elasticity of Co2 Emissions

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 14 Mar 2022
Ryan Rafaty, Geoffroy Dolphin and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford, Resources for the Future and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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carbon pricing, CO2 Emissions Elasticity, Carbon Tax Effect on Emissions, Emissions Trading Effects, Climate Policy Effects, Generalized Synthetic Control, Emissions-Weighted Carbon Price.

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Analyzing Differences between Scenarios

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 May 2020
David F. Hendry and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford-Nuffield College and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Scenario, Invariance, Projection

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Large Weather and Conflict Effects on Internal Displacement in Somalia With Little Evidence of Feedback Onto Conflict

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Feb 2023
Lisa Thalheimer, Moritz Schwarz and Felix Pretis
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Quantifying the Uncertainty around Break Dates in Step-Indicator Saturation

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Apr 2023
David F. Hendry and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford-Nuffield College and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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Structural break, date, uncertainty, step-indicator saturation, confidence interval

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Testing the Presence of Outliers in Regression Models

Posted: 08 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2022
Xiyu Jiao and Felix Pretis
University of Oxford - Department of Economics and University of Victoria, Department of Economics
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misspecification, outlier detection, robust estimation, iterated 1-step Huber-skip M-estimator, indicator saturation