Andreas Gerster

Welcome!

I work as a Professor of Environmental Microeconomics at the University of Mainz. 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 how to optimally tax or subsidize behaviorally biased consumers.

Curriculum Vitae (January 2025)

Contact details:

University of Mainz, Department of Management and EconomicsJakob-Welder-Weg 4 – Room 01-141Phone: +49 621 181-1791Email: gerster at uni-mainz.de

+++ News +++

+ Should fossil-fuel based heating be banned? We discuss the pros and cons in a new comment piece at Nature Climate Change here.

+ Very excited to have joined the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as a Professor in Environmental Microeconomics in January 2025.

+ 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.