Jasper N. Meya

Environmental Economist
External lecturer at University of Bayreuth (MSc Global Change Ecology; Link)
Policy advisor at a State Ministry for the Environment
Main research areas

Biodiversity Economics and Natural Capital Valuation
Inequality and the Environment
Environmental Policies in Multi-level Governments Systems

ORCID , google scholar
Academic CV, contact: jasper.meya[at]uni-bayreuth.de

News:

13.08.2025: New Discussion Paper out "Biodiversity Engel Curves: Estimating How Income and Inequality Shape Consumption- Driven Biodiversity Loss" estimating the link between houshold income and biodiversity pressure.
21.01.2025: Review Article on The Economics of Inequality and the Environment, accepted in the Journal of Economic Literature.
19.11.2024: New health economic paper online that empirically investigates the link between dishonesty and the spread of COVID-19 infections (online cointossing experiment and sourvey with 2,723 Germans).

Journal Publications

The Economics and Inequality and the Environment, 2025, with M.A. Drupp, U. Kornek, L. Sager, L. Forthcoming in Journal of Economic Literature. Link to CESifo Working Paper No. 11036.
Dishonesty as a Predictor of Infectious Diseases, 2024, 245, Economics Letters, C. Martini, B. Bos, M.A. Drupp & M.F. Quaas.
The value of naturalness of urban green spaces: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment. Land Economics, 2024, with J. Bronnmann, V. Liebelt, F. Marder & M.F. Quaas.
Inequality and the Environment: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, with M.A. Drupp, M.F. Quaas & L. Sager.

Urban conservation gardening in the decade of restoration. Nature Sustainability, 2022, with J. Segar, C.T. Callaghan, E. Ladouceur, H.M. Pereira, A. Perino & I.R Staude.
Biodiversity Post-2020: closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation. Conservation Letters, 2022, with A. Perino, H.M. Pereira et al.
Renewable energy policies in federal government systems. Energy Economics, 2021, with P. Neetzow.
The Social Cost of Contacts: Theory and Evidence for the first wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany. PLoS ONE, 2021, with M.F. Quaas, H. Schenk, B. Bos, M.A. Drupp & T. Requate.
Testing Structural Benefit Transfer: The Role of Income Inequality. Resource and Energy Economics, 2021, with M.A. Drupp. & N. Hanley.
Moral suasion and the private provision of public goods: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020, with B. Bos, M.A. Drupp & M.F. Quaas.
Environmental inequality and economic valuation. Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020.
Intertemporal utility with heterogeneous goods and constant elasticity of substitution. Economic Letters, 2020, with M.F. Quaas, M.F., S. Baumgärtner, S. & M.A. Drupp.
Rethinking resilience: A cross-epistemic resilience framework for interdisciplinary energy research. Energy Research & Social Science, 2020, with S. Hamborg, K. Eisenack & T. Raabe.
Economic inequality and the value of nature. Ecological Economics, 2018, with M.A. Drupp, S. Baumgärtner & M.F. Quaas.
Effectiveness of gaming for communicating and teaching climate change. Climatic Change, 2018, with K. Eisenack.
How empirical uncertainties influence the stability of climate coalitions. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 2018, with U. Kornek & K. Lessmann.
Income inequality and willingness to pay for public environmental goods. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, with S. Baumgärtner, M.A. Drupp, J.M. Munz & M.F. Quaas.
Ecosystem services in infrastructure planning – a case study of the projected deepening of the Lower Weser river in Germany. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2017, with N. Droste.

Working Papers

Heterogeneous Substitutability Preferences, with M.A. Drupp, B. Bos and S. Disque, CESifo Working Paper 11197. Revise & Resubmit at the The Economic Journal.
Biodiversity Engel Curves: Estimating How Income and Inequality Shape Consumption-driven Biodiversity Loss, ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-041 (2025), Mannheim., with T. Kalmey & L. Sager.
Inequality and the Value of Public Natural Capital. CESifo Working Paper 8752, with S. Baumgärtner, M.A. Drupp, M.F. Quaas. Revise & Resubmit at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Financial risk-taking under health risk, CESifo Working Paper 10387, with B. Bos, M.A. Drupp & M.F. Quaas.
Life Satisfaction Shadow Pices for Environmental Public Goods, EAERE 2025 Conference Paper, with Y. Kassouri & M.F. Quaas.
Hedonic Analysis of Biodiverse Urban Green: A Survey-Based Case Study of 14 German Cities. with V. Liebelt, F. Marder, J. Bronnmann and M.F. Quaas, SSRN Working Paper, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5130876

Publications in German, Reports and Policy Briefs

Transformationspotenziale zum Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt, in: Faktencheck Artenvielfalt: Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven für den Erhalt der biologischen Vielfalt in Deutschland. oekom, October 2024, with C. Hauck, J., Schreiner, V., Grunewald, K., Kleemann, J., Knauß, S., Kolkmann, M., Mehring, M., Poßer, C., Potthast, T., Schleyer, C., Warner, B., Wittmer, H., Böhning-Gaese, K., & Fürst.
Umweltpolitik muss Verteilungsfragen berücksichtigen, ohne das eigentliche Ziel aus den Augen zu verlieren. Ökonomenstimme.org, April 2022, with M.D. Drupp, U. Kornek & L. Sager.
Naturschutz als Investition. Blog Natur ist unser Kapital von der Deutschen Umwelthilfe (DUH) für das Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit (BMU). 2021.
You Can’t Always Get What You Want: Research Beyond Carbon Pricing. EAERE Magazine, 2021, with P. Neetzow.
COVID-19 in Deutschland: Befragungsergebnisse zur Einkommenserwartung, Heterogenität in der Impfbereitschaft, Unterstützung des Infektionsschutzes und der Rückkehr zur „Normalität“. With B. Bos, M.A. Drupp & M.F. Quaas.
Der Wert von Biodiversität in der Bioökonomie. Köpfe des Wandels. Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, 2020. With M.F. Quaas.
Ökonomische Ungleichheit und gesellschaftliche Zahlungsbereitschaft für den Naturschutz. DNT-Journal 2019 „Klarer Kurs – Naturschutz“, 2019.
Structural benefit transfer for the valuation of ecosystem services and natural capital. Proceedings of the USDA-Workshop on Ecosystem Services Valuation. With M.A. Drupp.
Beim Kohleausstieg sollten wir uns nicht auf eine unsichtbare Hand verlassen, Positionspapier der Arbeitsgruppe Ressourcenökonomik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2019, with R. Mendelevitch, P. Neetzow, A. Hagen. M. Roggero & K. Eisenack.
Die internationale Klimapolitik auf dem Spielbrett. In: Hühn, C., Zürn, B., Schwägele, S., Hoffman, S., Trautwein, F., Planspiele – Analyse und Wirkungen. Rückblick auf den Deutschen Planspielpreis 2015 und 2017. ZMS Schriftenreihe 9.
Die internationale Klimapolitik auf dem Smartphone. Globales Lernen am Beispiel des digitalen Planspiels KEEP COOL mobil. In: Oliver Emde, Uwe Jakubczyk, Bernd Kappes, Bernd Overwien (Herausgeber), Mit Bildung die Welt verändern? Globales Lernen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung. Verlag Barbara Budrich. 2017, with N. Marscheider.
Die Menge macht’s? Das EEG 2017 und die Folgen für die deutsche Energiewende. Energiewirtschaftliche Tagesfragen, 2016, with P. Neetzow, L. Neubauer & A. Pechan.
Methodische Defizite der Umweltbewertung im Bundesverkehrswegeplan 2030. WasserWirtschaft, 2016, with N. Droste & B. Klauer.
Das Klima aufs Spiel setzen. Simulation der internationalen Klimaverhandlungen mit dem Planspiel KEEP COOL. Gesellschaft-Wirtschaft-Politik, 2016, with L. Meya.
Beitrag der politischen Bildung zur Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung. polis, 2016, with A. Lillie.