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Christian Thomann

Christian Thomann is Associate Professor of Corporate Finance at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Swedish House of Finance (SHoF). Thomann’s current research interests lie in (i) Corporate responses to carbon taxes, ii) Environmental Policy and Technical Change, iii) Risk Management and Insurance.

From 2010 until 2022 he worked at the Swedish Ministry of Finance where he was senior advisor at the tax and customs department. From 2017 until 2021 he was vice chair of the OECD's working party on tax policy analysis. 


Selected publications

Christian Thomann, James R. Brown and Gustav Martinsson (2021). Can Environmental Policy Encourage Technical Change? Emissions Taxes and R&D Investment in Polluting Firms. Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming

Christian Thomann, James R. Brown and Gustav Martinsson (2021). Government Lending in a Crisis. Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming

Lohse, T., & Thomann, C. (2015). Are bad times good news for the Securities and Exchange Commission?. European journal of law and economics, 40(1), 33-47.

Lohse, T., Pascalau, R., & Thomann, C. (2014). Public enforcement of securities market rules: Resource-based evidence from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 106, 197-212.z

Thomann, C. (2013). The impact of catastrophes on insurer stock volatility. Journal of Risk and Insurance, 80(1), 65-94.

Contact information

Associate Professor, visiting from Royal Institute of Technology

Website

Strong link between high emissions taxes and investments in research and development

15/02/2022

New publication in the Review of Financial Studies by SHoF researchers: Investigating the correlation between pollution taxes and R&D investment by polluting companies, experts from the US and Sweden say that rather than employing R&D expenditure to launch new innovation, such firms use it to improve their ability to use and assimilate external knowledge.

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