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Professor for Sustainability Economics and Chair of the Sustainability Economics Group, University of Hamburg
Project chair, Cluster of Excellence “Climate, Climatic Change, and Society” (CLICCS)
Member, Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)
Member, Standing Field Committee on Environmental & Resource Economics, Verein für Socialpolitik
Affiliate, CESifo Research Network
Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
Guest Professor, University of Gothenburg
Member of the Editorial Board at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM)
My research focuses on designing and evaluating public policies to address sustainability challenges, such as relating to climate change, biodiversity conservation, fishery and forests, air and water quality, and health, with a special focus on distributional issues. Drawing on theory, modelling and empirical approaches, my work seeks to inform the transition towards more sustainable futures.
My work has appeared in general economics journals (e.g. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, European Economic Review), field journals (e.g. JEEM, EARE), and interdisciplinary journals (e.g. Nature Climate Change, PNAS, Science), is featured in various media outlets, and has informed public policy guidance i.a. in Germany, the Netherlands, the EU, the UK, and the US.
News: Join P. Basaglia, B. Bos, L. Sager, F. Schaumann & me as a a PostDoc to study and map effects of environmental policies, funded by the Joachim Herz Prize. Application deadline is 08.07.2024.
Journal publications:
Pricing Carbon: Evidence from Expert Recommendations
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, forthcoming 2024 (with Nesje, F. & R.C. Schmidt).
The EU Emissions Trading System Might Generate Large Co-Benefits from Pollution Reduction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2024 (with Basaglia, P., & J. Grunau).
Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems
Science, 2024 (with M.C. Hänsel, E.P. Fenichel, M. Freeman, C. Gollier, B. Groom, G.M. Heal, P.H. Howard, A. Millner, F.C. Moore, F. Nesje, M.F. Quaas, S. Smulders, T. Sterner, C. Traeger & F. Venmans). Interactive shiny app.
Effects of behavioral interventions on climate beliefs and policy support across 55 countries
Science Advances, 2024 (with Vlasceanu, M., Doell, K., et al.). Interactive shiny app.
Relative Price Changes of Ecosystem Services: Evidence from Germany
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024 (with J. Heckenhahn).
US benefit-cost analysis requires revision
Science, 2023 (with Howard, P. H., Sarinsky, M. et al.).
Philosophers and economists agree on climate policy paths but for different reasons
Nature Climate Change, 2023 (with Nesje, F., Groom, B., & Freeman, M.C.).
Inequality and the Environment: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management [Editorial], 2023 (with Meya, J.N., Quaas, M.F. & L. Sager).
The future, now: A review of social discounting
Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2022 (with Groom, B., Freeman, M.C., & F. Nesje).
Relative Prices and Climate Policy: How the Scarcity of Non-Market Goods Drives Policy Evaluation
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 (with M.C. Hänsel).
Moral dilemmas and trust in leaders during a global health crisis
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 (with Everett, J.A.C., Colombatto, C., & M.J. Crockett et al.).
Testing Structural Benefit Transfer: The Role of Income Inequality
Resource and Energy Economics, 2021 (with Meya, J.N., & N. Hanley).
PLoS ONE, 2021 (with Quaas, M.F., Meya, J.N., Schenk, H., Bos, B., & T. Requate).
Climate economics support for the UN climate targets
Nature Climate Change, 2020 (with Hänsel, M.C., Johansson, D.J.H., Nesje, F., Azar, C., Freeman, M.C., Groom, B. & T. Sterner).
Moral suasion and the private provision of public goods: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020 (with Bos, B., Meya, J.N., and M.F. Quaas).
Between Ostrom and Nordhaus: The research landscape of sustainability economics
Ecological Economics, 2020 (with Baumgärtner, S., Meyer, M., Quaas, M.F. & H. von Wehrden).
Intertemporal utility with heterogeneous goods and constant elasticity of substitution
Economics Letters, 2020 (with Quaas, M.F., Baumgärtner, S., & J.N. Meya).
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020 (with Khadjavi, M., Riekhof, M.-C. & R. Voss).
Truth-telling and the regulator. Experimental evidence from commercial fishermen
European Economic Review, 2019 (with Khadjavi, M. & M.F. Quaas).
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018 (with Freeman, M.C., Groom, B. & F. Nesje).
Economic Inequality and the Value of Nature
Ecological Economics, 2018 (with Meya, J.N., Baumgärtner, S. & M.F. Quaas).
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2018.
Subsistence, Substitutability and Sustainability in Consumer Preferences
Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017 (with Baumgärtner, S., & M.F. Quaas).
Income Inequality and Willingness to Pay for Environmental Public Goods
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017 (with Baumgärtner, S., Meya, J.N., Munz, J.M. & M.F. Quaas).
Energy Policy, 2011.
Working papers & selected work-in-progress:
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment
CESifo Working Paper 11036 (with Kornek, U., Meya, J.N. & L. Sager).
Inequality and the Value of Public Natural Capital
CESifo Working Paper 8752 (with Meya, J.N., Baumgärtner, S. & M.F. Quaas).
CESifo Working Paper 10508 (with Basaglia, P. & Behr, S.M. ).
Climate Policy Curves: Linking Policy Choices to Climate Outcomes
CESifo Working Paper 10113 (with M.C. Hänsel, Bauer, M., Wagner, G. & G. Rudebusch).
NBER Working Paper 32544 (with Moore, F., Rising, J., Dietz, S., Rudik, I. & G. Wagner)
Heterogeneity in expert recommendations for designing carbon pricing policies across the globe
CESifo Working Paper 10620 (with Nesje, F. & R.C. Schmidt).
Testing the free-rider hypothesis in climate policy
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.06209 (with R.C. Schmidt, Hoegen, H. & F. Nesje).
Financial risk-taking under health risk
CESifo Working Paper 10387 (with Bos, B., Meya, J.N., & M.F. Quaas).
Sense and sensitivity: An argument against reporting multiple Net Present Values SSRN Working Paper (with Nesje, F., M.C. Freeman and B. Groom).
The Truth-Telling of Truth-Seekers: Evidence from Online-Experiments with Scientists
CESifo Working Paper 10897 (with Khadjavi, M. & R. Voss).
Limited substitutability, relative price changes and the uplifting of public natural capital values
CESifo Working Paper 11156 (with Z. Turk, Groom, B., & J. Heckenhahn).
Heterogeneous Substitutability Preferences
(with Bos, B., Disque, S. & J.N. Meya).
Dishonesty is associated with the spread of infectious diseases
(with Martini, C., Bos, B., Meya, J.N. & M.F. Quaas).
Distributional preferences in risky situations
(with Bos, B., & P.G. Piacquadio).
The Commons Problem under Uncertainty and Precaution
(with Bos, B., Meya, J.N., & M.F. Quaas).
Re-assessing the health of the global oceans according to general population preferences
(with Bos, B., & S. Disque).
Low Emission Zones and Environmental Justice
(with Bos, B., & L. Sager).
What to expect of integrated assessment models: a call for clarity
(with Schaumann, F., Baehr, J., Hedemann, C., & Heilmann, C.).
Towards comprehensive economic impact assessments of climate extremes
(with Orlov, A., Avakumovic, V., Blanz, B., Borchert, L., Schaumann, F., Waidelich, P. )
Structural modelling interactions in climate policy evaluation
(with Schaumann, F., Anthoff, D., Hänsel, M.C., Moore, F.C., Rennels, L., & Rising, J.).
Other publications:
2023, Public Consultation Response on proposed Circular A–4, “Regulatory Analysis.” (with E.P. Fenichel, M. Freeman, C. Gollier, B. Groom, M.C. Hänsel, G.M. Heal, A. Millner, F. Nesje, M.F. Quaas, S. Smulders, T. Sterner, C. Traeger, & F. Venmans).
Public comment on the Social Cost of Carbon and the role of long-term discounting to the US Environmental Protection Agency 2023, Comment on "Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review: EPA-HQ-OAR-2021-0317-1460" (with M.C. Freeman, B. Groom, & F. Nesje).
Ökonomenstimme.org, April 2022 (with Kornek, U., Meya, J.N. & L. Sager).
2021, Comment on: “Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Interim Estimates Under Executive Order 13990” (with Freeman, M.C., Groom, B. & F. Nesje).
2021 (with Bos, B., Meya, J.N., & Quaas, M.F.).
Diskussionsbeiträge der Scientists for Future 2, 2019 (with Mattauch, L. et al.).
How much should we care about the future? What the experts say.
EAERE Magazine No. 5, Spring 2019 (with Freeman, M.C., Groom, B. & F. Nesje)
Indicator-Based Analysis of the Process Towards a University in Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the University of Tübingen (Germany).
In Leal Filho, W. (Ed.): Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp. 169-183, 2015. (with Meisch, S., Hagemann, N., Geibel, J., & Gebhard, E.).
Change from below - student initiatives for universities in sustainable development.
In: Leal Filho, W. (Ed.): Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons, Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, Frankfurt, pp. 733-42, 2012 (with Esguerra, A., Keul, L., Loew Beer, D., Meisch, S. & F. Roosen-Runge).
Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung!
Metropolis, Marburg, 2012 (with Meisch, S., Drupp, M.A., Roosen-Runge, F., Keul, L., Esguerra, A. & J. Geibel for Greening the University e.V. (Eds.).).
Bottom-up Engagement für Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Erfahrungen, Chancen und Grenzen
in: Greening the University e.V. (Eds.): Wissenschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung! Metropolis, Marburg 2012, pp. 91-118 (with Roosen-Runge, F., Keul, L. & A. Esguerra).
Aktionsmöglichkeit für Studierende und Motivationen
in: StudierendenInitiative Greening the University e.V. (Eds.): Greening the University – Perspektiven für eine nachhaltige Hochschule, oekom Verlag, München 2009, pp. 132-137 (with Keul, L.).
Teaching:
University of Hamburg
BSc seminar: Inequality and the Environment (Summer 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).
BSc seminar: The Economics of Climate Change (Winter 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022)
BSc lecture: Sustainability Economics (Winter 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021)
MSc lecture: Cost-Benefit Analysis (Summer 2019)
PhD seminar in Environmental and Resource Economics (Summer 2019, Summer and Winter 2020, Summer 2021, 2023), with A. Lange and G. Perino
MOOLs (Massive Open Online Lectures)
I have also recorded two MOOLs designed as background information for high-school teachers (in German only) for the "Teach Economy" program of the Joachim Herz Stiftung. You can register for this program here:
Grundlagen der Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitsökonomik – Wirtschaft und Umweltschutz, wie passt das zusammen?
Grundlagen der Klimaökonomik – Können wir mit Ökonomik das Klima retten?
Kiel University
MSc seminar: Resource Economics (2014-2015), with M.F. Quaas et al.
University of Tübingen
Sustainable Economic Policy (2012-2016), with J. Geibel
Defining and measuring sustainability (2012, 2015), with S. Meisch et al.
Teaching Assistant for Intermediate Macroeconomics (2010-2011)
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Economics (2008-2009)