Maximilian Fuchs
Maximilian Fuchs is an Affiliate Fellow at Bruegel. He specialises in finance and climate economics.
He covers carbon pricing, carbon markets, climate policy and financial and energy market impacts. His expertise lies in the quantitative assessment of environmental policy impacts on the financial system and the real economy with experience in academia, banking and insurance sectors.
He speaks English and German.
Before joining Bruegel, Maximilian was a Research Fellow at Copenhagen Business School, a Visiting Scholar at New York University Stern School of Business and a Research Fellow at the European Central Bank in the Directorate General Macroprudential Policy & Financial Stability. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from Copenhagen Business School.
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Featured work
The European Union is exporting carbon pricing through trade
Early experience of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism shows trade can spread carbon pricing, but lower-income partners need support
Carbon pricing beyond borders: assessing climate policy spillovers from the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism
EU CBAM is nudging trade-exposed partners towards carbon pricing, but spillovers are concentrated in high and upper middle-income countries
To what extent can the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism spur global climate action?
All work
First Glance
01 April 2026
The European Union is exporting carbon pricing through trade
Early experience of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism shows trade can spread carbon pricing, but lower-income partners need support
Working paper
26 March 2026
Carbon pricing beyond borders: assessing climate policy spillovers from the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism
EU CBAM is nudging trade-exposed partners towards carbon pricing, but spillovers are concentrated in high and upper middle-income countries
Newsletter
23 March 2026