I am an economist, focusing on the political economy of rapid, policy-induced structural change that is required for the transition to a low-carbon economy. I consider questions of both financing low-carbon investments and divesting from high-carbon ones, and analyze the characteristics of stable, equitable growth with climate policy. My research also analyzes the measurement and interpretation of economic inequality, and the characteristics of distributions of quantifiable social phenomena more generally.
Contact: gBEARsemieniuk@umassBEAR.edu (strike out large mammals for the email address)
I work as an Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and the Department of Economics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and I am also on leave from my Senior Lecturer (tenured) position at the Department of Economics of SOAS University of London. I am affiliated with UCL's Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose and with the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) of the University of Sussex.
Current work in progress analyzes financial risks from the low-carbon transition in this NERC-funded project; the mobilization of finance for renewable energy investments using plant level data in this ClimateWorks-funded project; the long-run evolution of export baskets in this ESRC-funded project; a tractable framework for analyzing rebound effects; and historical energy demand and economic growth patterns around the world, where a more forward-looking companion piece was just published in Nature Climate Change.
Gregor Semieniuk, Philip Holden, Jean-Francois Mercure, Pablo Salas, Hector Pollitt, Katharine Jobson, Pim Vercoulen, Unnada Chewpreecha, Neil Edwards and Jorge Vinuales. 2021. Stranded Fossil-Fuel Assets Translate into Major Losses for Investors in Advanced Economies PERI Working Paper 549.
Isabella Weber, Gregor Semieniuk, Tom Westland and Junshang Liang. 2021. What You Exported Matters: Persistence in Productive Capabilities across Two Eras of Globalization Economics Department Working Paper Series 299.Gregor Semieniuk. 2018. Energy in Economic Growth: Is Faster Growth Greener? SOAS Economics Working Paper Series 208.
Paul Brockway, Steven Sorrell, Gregor Semieniuk, Matthew Heun and Victor Court. 2021. Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: a review of the evidence and its implications. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 141, 110781. (open access)
Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai and Duncan Foley. (2021). Feasible energy demand patterns in a growing global economy with climate change mitigation. Nature Climate Change 11(4), 313-318.
P. Brutschger, P. Ravillard and G. Semieniuk. (2021). Do Firms With Higher Energy Efficiency Have Better Access to Finance? The Energy Journal 42(6). https://doi.org/10.5547/01956574.42.6.pbru
Gregor Semieniuk, Emanuele Campiglio, Jean-Francois Mercure, Ulrich Volz and Neil Edwards. 2021. Low-carbon transition risks for finance. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change 12(1), e678. (open access).
Gregor Semieniuk, Isabella Weber. 2020. Inequality in Energy Consumption: A Case of Statistical Equilibrium or a Question of Social Accounting? European Physics Journal Special Topics 229(9), 1705-1714.
Gregor Semieniuk, Victor Yakovenko. 2020. Historical Evolution of Global Inequality in Carbon Emissions and Footprints versus Redistributive Scenarios. Journal of Cleaner Production 264, 121420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121420
Matteo Deleidi, Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk. 2019. Neither Crowding in nor Crowding out: The Role of Public Direct Investment in Mobilising Private Investment into Renewable Electricity Projects. Energy Policy 140, 111195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.111195
Isabella Weber, Gregor Semieniuk. 2019. American Radical Economists in Mao's China: From Hopes to Disillusionment. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 37(A), 31-63.
Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk. 2018. Financing renewable energy: Who is financing what and why it matters. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 127, 8-22. (open access)
Gregor Semieniuk. 2017. Piketty's Elasticity of Substitution: A Critique. Review of Political Economy 29(1), 64-79.
Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk. 2017. Public financing of innovation: new questions. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 33(1), 24-48. (open access)
Ellis Scharfenaker, Gregor Semieniuk. 2017. A Statistical Equilibrium Approach to the Distribution of Profit Rates. Metroeconomica 68(3), 465-499.
Ellis Scharfenaker, Gregor Semieniuk. 2015. A Mixture Model for Filtering Firms' Profit Rates. In Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter et al. (ed.) The Contributions of Young Researchers to Bayesian Statistics, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics 125, Cham: Springer.
Gregor Semieniuk, Mariana Mazzucato. 2019. Financing Green Growth. In Roger Fouquet (ed.) Handbook on Green Growth, Cheltenham: Elgar.
Gregor Semieniuk, Achim Truger, Till van Treeck. 2012. Nothing Learned from the Crisis? Some Remarks on the Stability Programmes 2011-2014 of the Euro Area Governments In Jesper Jespersen and Ove Madsen (ed.) Keynes's General Theory for Today. Cheltenham: Elgar.
Various reports on employment and just transition aspects of a low-carbon energy transition published on PERI's website.
Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk, and Jose Coronado. Public investments in a green recovery from COVID-19: What steps can Canada take? Smart Prosperity Institute, Commentary.
Francesco Lamperti, Mariana Mazzucato, Andrea Roventini and Gregor Semieniuk. (2019). The green transition: Public policy, finance and the role of the state. Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research), 88(2), 1-16.
Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai. 2018. A Reply to Michael Grubb. Institute for New Economic Thinking, Commentary.
Gregor Semieniuk, Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai. 2018. The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy. Institute for New Economic Thinking, Commentary.
Mariana Mazzucato, Gregor Semieniuk et al. 2018. Bridging the gap: The role of innovation policy and market creation. In UNEP. Emissions Gap Report 2018. United Nations Environment Programme.
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