Hi!

My name is Elisabeth Gsottbauer. I am environmental economist focusing on how policy instruments and behavioral interventions can effectively promote more sustainable behavior.

I am a Professor and Director of the Centre for Sustainability at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change. I hold further Research Fellow positions at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the Department of Economics at the University of Innsbruck.

Beyond that, I am interested in effectively communicating research findings, including through visual formats (see a previous hosted exhibition Visualizing Klimawandel). And I deeply enjoy outdoor sports in the mountains and at sea.

🎉 New Publications:

Pricing instruments in environmental and climate policy when polluters are boundedly rational (npj Climate Action (Nature), 2025)

Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2025)

Choice architecture promotes sustainable choices in online food-delivery apps (PNAS Nexus, 2024)