My research is in applied microeconometrics primarily in the fields of environmental and urban economics. I work on the impact of environmental and climate regulation on firm performance and the drivers of (renewable energy) technology adoption. I also work on revealed preferences especially in housing markets and the associated challenges dealing with spatial correlation and endogeneity.
Ex post evaluation of climate policy in the manufacturing sector:
Climate policy and electricity prices: Why abate when you can generate? (joint with Elisa Rottner) (R&R at AEJ:Economic Policy)
Earlier version circulated under the title: Do Manufacturing Plants Respond to Exogenous Changes in Electricity Prices? Evidence from Administrative Micro-Data (with Elisa Rottner) (Old version: ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-038)
Cited in the annual report of the German Council of Economic Exports 2022 and the corresponding VoxEU column
Is Germany becoming Europe's Pollution Haven? (joint with Elisa Rottner and Philipp Richter)
Climate policy, Manufacturing Competitiveness and the Decision to Exit: Evidence from Germany (joint with Markus Janser, Stephen Jarvis and Ulrich Wagner) (Discussion paper coming soon)
Rising Energy Prices Without Falling Consumption? The Role of Energy Price Dispersion in a Multi-Product World, (joint with Joscha Krug und Elisa Rottner), ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-047, Mannheim
The role of information provision:
The Real Effects of Disclosing Polarizing Information: Field Experimental Evidence from a Carbon Offsetting Program (with Eric Floyd, Carina Fugger, Martin Kesternich and Michael Price) (R&R at Management Science)
The Effects of Information-Based Regulation on Innovation and Financial Outcomes in Germany (with Dietrich Earnhart and Robert Germeshausen) ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-015
Miscellaneous:
Gone with the Wind: The Effect of Air Pollution on Crime - Evidence from Germany (with Yasemin Karamik) ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-013
Demand for forest availability– a multiple markets hedonic second-stage analysis (with Marie Lautrup, Toke Panduro, Lasse Matthiesen and Jette Jacobsen), (New draft coming soon!)
From Cold Feet to Warm Homes? Subsidies for Heat Pump Adoption (with Bettina Chlond)
Entry and Exit in the Energy Transition: Evidence from Germany (with Markus Janser, Elisa Rottner and Kinga Tchorzewska)
What drives Carbon Emissions in German manufacturing: Scale, Technique or Composition? (with Elisa Rottner) Environmental and Resource Economics, 2024.
Cited in the annual report of the German Council of Economic Exports 2022
Energy Use Patterns in German Manufacturing from 2003 to 2017 (with Elisa Rottner), Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2023.
Cited in the annual report of the German Council of Economic Exports 2022
Earlier version published as ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-008.
State Mandate on Renewable Heating Technologies and the Housing Market (with Robert Germeshausen), Land Economics, 2023.
Does the Stick make the Carrot more Attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable heating Technologies (with Robert Germeshausen and Martin Achtnicht), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022.
Who demands peri-urban nature? A second stage hedonic house price estimation of household’s preference for peri-urban nature, (with Cathrine Ulla Jensen, Toke Emil Panduro, Thomas Hedemark Lundhede and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen), Landscape and Urban Planning, 2021.
Best Practices for Using Hedonic Property Value Models to Measure Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality (with Kelly Bishop, Nicolai Kuminoff, Spencer Banzhaf, Kevin Boyle, Jaren Pope, V. Kerry Smith, and Christopher Timmins), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2020.
Do voluntary environmental programs reduce emissions? EMAS in the German manufacturing sector (with Roland Kube, Andreas Loeschel and Philipp Massier) Energy Economics, 2019.
Eliciting preferences for urban parks (joint with Toke Panduro, Cathrine U. Jensen, Thomas H. Lundhede and Bo J. Thorsen), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018.
The Amenity Cost of Road Noise, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018.
The Effect of Emissions Information on Housing Prices in Germany (joint with Daniel Römer and Alexander Rohlf), Environmental and Resource Economics, 2018.
Reducing CO2 from Cars in the European Union: Emission Standards or Emission Trading? (joint with Sergey Paltsev, Henry Chen, Valerie Karplus, Paul Kishimoto, John Reilly, Andreas Löschel and Simon Koesler), Transportation, 2018.
An alternative to the standard spatial econometric approaches in hedonic house price models (with Toke Panduro, University of Copenhagen), Land Economics, 2015.
Classification and valuation of urban green spaces - A hedonic house price valuation (with Toke Panduro, University of Copenhagen) published under the name: Kathrine Lausted Veie, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2013.
Bettina Chlond and Kathrine von Graevenitz. (2025) GEG-Novellierung: Das "Heizungsgesetz" und die Bundestagswahl 2025, ZEW policy brief No. 07-25 (German).
Kathrine von Graevenitz, Elisa Rottner and Andreas Gerster (2023), Brückenstrompreis: Fehler aus der Vergangenheit fortführen? , ZEW policy brief No. 06-23 (German).
Covered by Zeit online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Tagesspiegel, CleanEnergyWire.
Dauth, Wolfgang, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Markus Janser (2022), Die Energiekrise wird manche Regionen härter treffen als andere, IAB-Forum, 2022.
Wambach, Achim, Kathrine von Graevenitz und Martin Kesternich (2022), Gas- statt Preisbremse: Wie die Umsetzung von Unterstützungsprogrammen zum Gassparen für Haushalte und Unternehmen gelingen kann, ifo Schnelldienst 11/2022 , 21-24.
Frick, Marc, Dario Foese, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Martin Kesternich, Ulrich Wagner (2021), Transparente Klimabilanzen - Information für klimafreundliches Handeln, Hintergrundpapier zum 8. Forum Klimaökonomie des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung.
Published as: Marc Frick, Dario Foese, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Martin Kesternich und Ulrich Wagner (2023), Die Doppelwirkung von Information für klimafreundliches Handeln, Ökologisches Wirtschaften 1.2023 (38) , 44-50.
Achtnicht, Martin, Robert Germeshausen and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2019), Wärmewende im Gebäudesektor: Lasst den CO2-Preis wirken, ZEW policy brief No. 19-07.
Covered by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Podcast "Lage der Nation".
Early work/Retired working papers:
Stochastic Trends and Economic Fluctuations in a Small Open Economy: The Danish Business Cycle (MSc thesis, University of Essex - Winner of the Department of Economics Prize for best thesis in 2004/2005)
Prices as climate policy: The effect of electricity prices on German manufacturing (with Benjamin Lutz and Philipp Massier) (Draft November 2018)