Welcome!
I work as an Acting Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. I am also a CESifo research affiliate and a member of the Committee on Environmental & Resource Economics of the German Economic Association (AURÖ).
My research focus lies on environmental economics and public economics. In particular, I work on informational and market-based climate policy instruments. I also investigate optimal taxation of internalities.
Curriculum Vitae (June 2023)
Contact details:
University of Mannheim, Department of EconomicsL 7, 3-5 – Room 232Phone: +49 621 181-1791Email: gerster at uni-mannheim.de
+++ News +++
+ I will be offering a PhD position in Environmental Economics shortly: see here for the job posting. Please reach out if you are interested (or know somebody who might be).
+ It is now official: I will join the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from January 2025 onwards as a Professor in Environmental Microeconomics. Looking forward to it!
+ After 10 years of work, the paper "Energy Tax Exemptions and Industrial Production" is finally out at The Economic Journal! It is published under an open access licence, so check it out.
+ Raphael and I have revised our working paper on Willful Ignorance and Moral Behavior. It now includes novel results on treatment effect dynamics and underlying mechanisms. Have a look here.