| Current research |
12 | Agents of Change? – Energy Advisors and the Success of Energy Efficiency Assistance Programs (with B. Chlond, M. Kesternich, M. Werthschulte). Manuscript available. |
| Transporting behavioral insights to low-income households: A field experiment on energy efficiency investments (with B. Chlond, M. Kesternich, and M. Werthschulte). | |
10 | Spatiotemporal Diffusion Patterns and Spillovers in Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Adoption: The Role of Socioeconomic Status, Government Monitors, and Nearby Adopters. Presentation available. |
9 | Experiment Aversion Revised and Revisited (with B. Chlond and J. Lohse). Presentation available. |
8 | Exposed: A Field Experiment on Buying and Using Private Air Quality Sensors (with A. Dangel). Presentation available. |
| How to Organize Monitoring and Punishment: Experimental Evidence (with B. Haberl and A. Solda) | |
| Subsidizing Compliance: A Multi-Unit Price List Mechanism for Legal Fishing Nets at Lake Victoria (with F. Diekert, T. Eymess, S. Gomez-Cardona, and J. Luomba) | |
| Air Quality Alerts and Don’t Drive Appeals: Cautionary Evidence from Germany (with A. Dangel). | |
| Self-nudging is more ethical, but less efficient than social nudging (with J . Diederich and I. Waichman). Revise & Resubmit | |
| The Experience of Social Risk (with F. Diekert and C. König-Kersting). Under review. | |
| Risk Assessment under Ambiguity: Precautionary Learning vs. Research Pessimism (with Daniel Heyen and Boris Wiesenfarth). Revise & Resubmit. | |
| Torts, Experimentation, and the Value of Information (with Tobias Pfrommer). Revise & Resubmit. | |
| Journal publications |
| Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults (with Tosun, J., Debus, M., Schaub, S., Klein, S., Scherer U. and Horn H.). International Journal of Water Resources Development. | |
54 | Trading off autonomy and efficiency in choice architectures: Self-nudging versus social nudging (with Diederich, J. and I. Waichman). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Accepted. |
53 | Attribution to Anthropogenic Causes Helps Prevent Adverse Events (with Diekert, F. and C. König-Kersting). Journal of the Association of Environmental & Resource Economists, forthcoming. |
52 | Money versus Procedures? Evidence from an Energy Efficiency Program (with B. Chlond and M. Kesternich). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, accepted. |
| (Un)Trustworthy Pledges and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas (with A. Soldà). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 223 (July 2024), 106-119 | |
| How to Design the Ask: Funding Units vs. Giving Money (with R.Epperson & J. Diederich). Management Science. | |
| Inter-Charity Competition Under Spatial Differentiation: Sorting, Crowding, and Spillovers. (with C. Gallier; M. Kesternich, J. Lohse, C. Reif; D. Römer). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 216, 457-468. | |
| Compliance and Truthfulness: Leveraging Peer Information for Competitive Audit Mechanisms (with M. Oestreich & A. Soldà). Journal of the Association of Environmental & Resource Economists 10(4), July 2023, 947-979 | |
| True to Type? EU-Style Date Marking and the Valuation of Perishable Food (with A. d'Amato, L. Lorè, and M. Zoli). Food Policy 114 (2023), 102381. | |
| Zooming-in for climate action—hyperlocal greenhouse gas data for mitigation action? (with Jungmann, M., Vardag, S.N., Kutzner, F., M. Schmidt, N. Aeschbach, U. Gerhard, A. Zipf, S. Lautenbach, A. Siegmund, & A. Butz. Climate Action 1(8) (2022). | |
| Subsidizing Unit Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared (with J. Diederich, C. Eckel, R. Epperson, and P. Grossman). Experimental Economics 25, 734-758 (2022). AWI Working Paper. | |
| How Much Can We Learn About Voluntary Climate Action From Behavior in Public Goods Games? (with J. Lohse, S. Kettner, C. Schwieren). Ecological Economics, Volume 171, May 2020, 1065 | |
| Cold Case: The Forensic Economics of Energy Efficiency Labeling for Refrigeration Devices. Energy Economics 84(S1) (Oct. 2019), 104468. | |
| Leveling Up? - An Inter-Neighborhood Experiment on Parochialism and the Efficiency of Multi-Level Public Goods Provision (with C. Gallier, M. Kesternich, J. Lohse, C. Reif and D. Römer). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 164 (August 2019), 500-517. | |
| Public in-kind relief and private self-insurance (with S. Managi). Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 3(1) (April 2019), 3—21. | |
| Establishing Causality in Climate Litigation: Admissibility, Reliability, and the Fraction of Attributable Risk (with T. Pfrommer, A. Proelss, M. Carrier, J. Lenhard, H. Martin, U. Niemeier, H. Schmidt). Climatic Change 152(1) (January 2019), 67—84. | |
| From social information to social norms. Evidence from two experiments (with J. Lohse, S. Kettner, C. Schwieren). Games 9(4) (November 2018), 91. | |
| Cooperation in public good games: Calculated or confused? (with J. Lohse). European Economic Review (107), (August 2018), 185-203. | |
| Voluntary action for climate change mitigation does not exhibit locational preferences (with J. Diederich). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, (July 2018), 175-180. AWI Working paper version titled “Does Mitigation Begin At Home? | |
| Trust, but verify? Monitoring, inspection costs, and opportunism under limited observability (with J. Jarke). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 142 (October 2017), 320-330. | |
| To Mitigate or Not To Mitigate: The Price Elasticity of Pro-Environmental Behavior (with J. Diederich). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 84, (July 2017), 209-222. | |
| The Climate Policy Hold-Up: Green Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements" (with G. Perino). The Scandinavian Journal of Economics 119(3) (July 2017), 709-732 . | |
| Giving is a question of time: Response times and contributions to a real world public good (with J. Lohse and J. Diederich). Environmental and Resource Economics 67(3), (July 2017), 455-477. | |
| Registered Replication Report: Rand, Greene, and Nowak (2012) (with S. Bouwmeester et al.). Perspectives on Psychological Science 12(3), (March 2017). | |
| Discussion of ‘Climate Policy’ by Hassler, Krusell & Nycander. Economic Policy 31(87), (July 2016), 546 – 549. | |
| Second and Third Party Punishment under Costly Monitoring (with. J. Jarke). Journal of Economic Psychology 54 (June 2016), 124-133. | |
| Group Size and the (In)Efficiency of Pure Public Goods Provision (with J. Diederich and I. Waichman). European Economic Review 85 (June 2016), 272-287. | |
| The Sopranos Redux: The Empirical Economics of Waste Crime (with C. Almer). Regional Studies 49(11), November 2015, 1908-1921. | |
| Comprehension of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes Through the Lifespan (with C. Degen; S.E. Kettner, H. Fischer, J. Lohse, J. Funke, C. Schwieren, and J. Schröder). Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie 47(6), August 2014, 490-494. | |
| Criminalizing Environmental Offences: When the Prosecutor’s Helping Hand Hurts (with O. Jürgens). European Journal of Law and Economics 37(2), April 2014, 199-219. | |
| Willingness to Pay for Voluntary Climate Action and Its Determinants: Experimental Evidence (with J. Diederich). Environmental and Resource Economics 57(3), March 2014, 405-429 | |
| The Warnings Puzzle: an Upstream Explanation (with J. Jarke). Journal of Regulatory Economics 44(3), October 2013, 339-360. | |
| The Intergenerational Transfer of Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Technologies and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks (with D. Heyen and J. Moreno-Cruz). Environmental and Resource Economics. September 2013, 56(1), September 2013, 85-104. | |
| Environmental Quality and Welfare Effects of Improving the Reporting Capability of Citizen Monitoring Schemes (with O. Jürgens). Journal of Regulatory Economics. 42(3), December 2012, 264-286. | |
| Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment (with G. Perino). Environmental and Resource Economics 52(2), June 2012, 195-212. | |
| Explaining uniformity in rule design: The role of citizen participation in enforcement (with O. Jürgens). International Review of Law and Economics 32(1), March 2012, 166-177. | |
| The Political Economy of the Environmental Criminal Justice System: A Production Function Approach (with C. Almer). Public Choice 148(3-4), September 2011, 611-630. | |
| Emissionsvermeidung oder Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Welche Zukunft hat die Klimapolitik? (with H. Bardt, L Feld, K. Konrad, M. Thum, W. Buchholz, D. Rubbelke, C. Hey, K. Holm-Muller, M. Weber, R. Pethig, J. Weimann, Ifo Schnelldienst 64(05), March 2011, 3-29. | |
| The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem (with R. Gatti, B. Groom, and T. Swanson) . Environmental and Resource Economics 48(4), April 2011, 609-628. | |
| Environmental Crime and Punishment: Empirical Evidence from the German Penal Code (with C. Almer). Land Economics 86(4), November 2010, 707–726. | |
| On Backstops and Boomerangs: Environmental R&D under Technological Uncertainty (with G. Perino). Energy Economics 31(5), September 2009, 800-809. | |
| Optimal Conservation, Extinction Debt, and the Augmented Quasi-Option Value (with A. Leroux and V. Martin). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 58(1), July 2009, 43-57. | |
| The Value of Conserving Genetic Resources for R&D (with M. Sarr and T. Swanson). Ecological Economics 67(2), September 2008, 184-193. | |
| Real options in biodiversity conservation (with A. Leroux and V. Martin), Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM) 7(1), December 2007, 1080801-1080802. | |
| Innovation Without Magic Bullets: Stock Pollution and R&D Sequences (with G. Perino). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54(2), Sept. 2007, 146-161. | |
| Property Rights for Biodiversity Conservation and Development: An Analysis of Extractive Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon (with D. Igliori). Development and Change 37(2), March 2006, 427-451. | |
| Non-Binding Linked-Issues Referenda: Analysis and an Application. Public Choice 124 (3-4), September 2005, 249-266. | |
| Incentivizing Ecological Destruction: The Joint International Regulation of the Conservation and Use of Biodiversity (with R. Gatti, B. Groom and T. Swanson), Indiana Law Review 38(3), May 2005, 619-635. | |
| Reconciling Conservation and Development: A Dynamic Hotelling Model of Extractive Reserves (with D. Igliori). Land Economics 80(3), Aug. 2004, 340-54. | |
| Plagues, Pests, and Patents (with T. Swanson). Journal of the European Economic Association, Vol. 1(2-3), May-June 2003, 561-575. | |
| The Development Impact of Genetic Use Restriction: A Forecast based on the Hybrid Crop Experience (with T. Swanson). Environment and Development Economics 8, 2003, 149-165. | |
| The Social Value of Biodiversity for R&D (with T. Swanson). Environmental and Resource Economics 22(4) Aug. 2002, 477-504 | |
| Genetic use restriction technologies and the diffusion of yield gains to developing countries (with T. Swanson). Journal of International Development 12(8) Dec. 2000, 1159-1178. | |
| An Analysis of the Impacts of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) on Developing Countries (with T. Swanson), International Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 2, Jan-Feb. 2000, 56-84. | |
| Property Rights Issues Involving Plant Genetic Resources: Implications of Ownership for Economic Efficiency (with T. Swanson); Ecologigal Economics 32(1), Jan. 2000, 75-92. | |
| Monographs |
| People and Biodiversity Policies : Impacts, Issues, and Strategies for Policy Action (with P. Bagnoli and E. Kovacs). Paris: OECD 2008. | |
| Book contributions |
| The Distributive Impact of Intellectual Property Regimes: A Report from the „Natural Experiment“ of the Green Revolution (with T. Swanson). In: M. Cimoli, G. Dosi, K.E. Maskus, R.L. Okediji, J.H. Reichman and J. Stiglitz (eds.): Intellectual Property Rights: Legal and Economic Challenges for Development. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2014, 264-287. | |
| Bargaining over global public goods (with B. Groom, J.R.J. Gatti, and T. Swanson). In E. Brousseau, T. Dedeurwaerdere, P.-A. Jouvet, M. Willinger (eds.): Global Environmental Commons: Analytical and Political Challenges in Building Governance Mechanisms. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 2011, 105-125.. | |
| International experiences to inform The People’s Republic of China’s institutional choices for environmental policy. In: T. Lin and T. Swanson (eds.): Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2010, 296-317. | |
| Distributive Constraints on Environmental Policy in Central Asia. In: J. Qi,, K. Evered (eds.): Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. New York: Springer 2009, 311-326. | |
| Designing the Legacy Library of Genetic Resources: Approaches, Methods, Results (with T. Swanson). In: A. Kontoleon, U. Pascual and T. Swanson (eds.): Frontiers in Biodiversity Economics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007, 273-292. | |
| Do patent-style intellectual property rights on transgenic crops harm the environment? In: J. Wesseler (ed.): Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops in Europe: Implications for Research, Production, and Consumption. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2005, 203-218. | |
| Diffusion and Distribution: The Impacts on Poor Countries of Technological Enforcement within the Biotechnology Sector (with T. Swanson). In: K. Maskus and J. Reichman (eds.): International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 669-694. | |
| The Inappropriateness of the Patent System for Addressing Recurring Problems of Resistance (with T. Swanson). In: R. Laxminarayan: Battling Resistance to Antibiotics and Pesticides: An Economic Approach. Washington. D.C.: RFF Press 2003, 293 – 329. | |
| Stakes in the Evolutionary Race. The Value of Medicinal Plants. In: C. Johnson and C. Franz (eds.): Breeding Research on Medicinal Plants. Haworth Press, NY 2002, 373-388. | |
| The Impacts of GURTS: Agricultural R&D and Appropriation Mechanisms (with T. Swanson). In T. Swanson (ed): Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World. The Distributional Implications of Technological Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2002, 44-66. | |
| The Impacts of GURTS on Developing Countries: A Preliminary Assessment (with T. Swanson). In T. Swanson (ed): Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World. The Distributional Implications of Technological Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2002, 177-197. | |
| Forecasting the impact of genetic use restriction technologies: a case study on the impact of hybrid crop varieties (with T. Swanson). In T. Swanson (ed): Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World. The Distributional Implications of Technological Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2002, 198-218. | |
| Policy Options for the Biotechnology Revolution: What can be done to address the distributional implications of biotechnologies (with T. Swanson). In T. Swanson (ed): Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World. The Distributional Implications of Technological Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2002, 249-270. | |
| Intellectual Property Rights in Global Agriculture and their Impact on the Diffusion of Productivity Gains (with T. Swanson). In: D. O'Connor (ed.): Technology and Poverty Reduction in Asia and the Pacific. OECD Publications 2002. | |
| On the Economic Limits to Technological Potential: Will Industry Resolve the Resistance Problem? (with T. Swanson). In: Swanson, T. (ed): The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002, ch. 4. | |
| The Diffusion of Benefits from Biotechnological Developments: The Impact of Use Restrictions on the Distribution of Benefits (with T. Swanson). In: Swanson, T. (ed): The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002, ch. 10. | |
| The Impact of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies on Developing Countries: A Forecast. In: Evenson, R., Zilberman, D. (eds).: Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology. Wallingford: CABI. 2002. | |
| Of Terminator Genes and Developing Countries: What are the Impacts of Appropriation Technologies on Technological Diffusion (with T. Swanson). In: M. Qaim, A Krattiger and J.v. Braun: Agricultural Biotechnology in Developing Countries: Towards Optimizing the Benefits for the Poor. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2000, 237-254. | |
| Ecology, Information, Externalities and Policies: The Optimal Management of Biodiversity for Agriculture (with T. Swanson). In: G.H. Peters and J. von Braun (eds.): Food Security, Diversification and Resource Management: Refocusing the Role of Agriculture, Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. | |
| Optimal Genetic Resource Conservation: In Situ and Ex Situ (with T. Swanson). In: Brush, S. (ed.): Genes in the Field: On-Farm Conservation of Crop Diversity. IDRC/Lewis 1999. | |
| Market/Non-Market Incentives and Agricultural Policies for On-Farm Conservation. In: Jarvis, D. and T. Hodgkin (eds.): Strengthening the Scientific Basis of On Farm Conservation of Agricultural Biodiversity. Rome: IPGRI/FAO, 1998. | |