• International and European environment and climate policy
• Bioenergy
• Technology transfer and climate policy

• Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Modeling
• Environmental policy instruments

      since 2010      Management Coordinator at the IfW

• Bioenergy and Land-use
• International Environmental and Resource Politics
• Innovation, Technology Diffusion and Climate Policy

• Kretschmer, B., Narita, D., Peterson, S. (2009). The economic effects of the EU biofuel target. Energy Economics, 31, S285-S294.
• Peterson, S., Van der Werf, E. (2009). Modeling Linkages Between Climate Policy and Land Use: An Overview. Agricultural Economics, 40, 507-517.
• Peterson, S. (2008). Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Developing Countries Through Technology Transfer? - A Survey of Empirical Evidence. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 13(3), 283-305.
• Peterson, S. (2008). Intensity Targets: Implications for the economic uncertainties of emissions trading. Bernd Hansjürgens & Ralf Antes (eds), Economics and Management of Climate Change - Risks, Mitigation and Adaptation . Springer, New York.
• Hübler, M., Klepper, G., Peterson, S. (2008). Costs of Climate Change - The Effects of Rising Temperatures on Health and Productivity in Germany. Ecological Economics, 68, Elsevier, 381-393.
• Peterson, S. (2006). Uncertainty and Economic Analysis of Climate Change: A Survey of Approaches and Findings. Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 11(1), 1-17.
• Peterson, S. (2006). The European Emissions Trading Scheme and its Competitiveness Effects for European Business - Results from the CGE Model DART. Antes, R., Hansjürgens, B., Lemathe, P. (eds), Emissions Trading and Business 1. Physika/ Springer, Heidelberg.
• Klepper, G., Peterson, S. (2005). Trading Hot-Air: The Influence of Permit Allocation Rules, Market Power, and the US Withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol. Environmental & Resource Economics, 32(2), 205-227.