Philipp M. Richter

Philipp M. Richter is a Junior Professor in International Economic Policy at the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) and an External Research Fellow at the Kiel Centre for Globalization (KCG) since 2017, actively contributing to research on global supply chains and environmental regulation.

His research centers on trade-environment policy intersections, with specific expertise in climate policy, international energy markets, market structure dynamics, and firm behavior. He investigates how unilateral environmental regulations impact productivity, firm selection, and international competitiveness within open economic systems, employing models of heterogeneous firms and mobile polluters.

His 2019 KCG working papers reveal critical insights: tighter environmental policies can boost domestic productivity through firm reallocation while reducing cross-border emissions leakage. His work demonstrates how firm mobility exacerbates free-riding in climate policy under transboundary pollution, challenging conventional assumptions about unilateral climate action.