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Environmental Economics Brownbag Seminar
The Environmental Economics Brownbag Seminar series is a cooperation between Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) and the universities of Mannheim and Heidelberg. The seminar brings together environmental and resource economists from the whole metropolitan area as well as external speakers to present and discuss cutting edge work. It typically takes place once a month. Anyone interested in the topic is welcome to attend.
Unless noted otherwise, all seminars take place at ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Room HKH (L7,1, 68161 Mannheim) or at FZU - Seminar Room 215 (Bergheimer Str. 20, 69115 Heidelberg). If you have questions or are interested in joining a seminar, please send an email to one of the organizers:
Mateus Nogueira Meirelles de Souza (mateus.souza(at)uni-mannheim.de)
Elisa Rottner (Elisa.Rottner(at)zew.de)
Sorell de Silva (sorell.desilva(at)awi.uni-heidelberg.de)
Upcoming Talks
Presenter: Anna Meier , Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg
Authors: Anna Maier, Florian Diekert, Patrick Hoffmann und Carolin Kreier
Date: 17.12.2024 / Time: 12:30 to 14:00 hours
Location: RCEE Uni Heidelberg - Research Center for Environmental Economics University of Heidelberg , Seminar Room 2015 (Bergheimer Straße 20, 69115 Heidelberg)
Title : The Effect of a Normative Appeal on Cooperation among (A)symmetric Groups
Abstract : This research explores group decision-making in social dilemmas by introducing a novel experimental design combining elements of a take-framed common pool resource game and a give-framed public goods game. Departing from traditional focus on individual behavior, we examine groups as units of decision-making in scenarios where two groups jointly manage a public good. In the Symmetric Take treatment (SymT) both groups take from the public good. In the Asymmetric treatment (Asym) there is one give- and one take-group managing the public good. We compare SymT with Asym and investigate whether there is a difference in inter-group cooperation levels. In an additional treatment, we explore the impact of a Normative Appeal, which is a message that highlights the benefits of cooperation. Although the appeal is displayed to all participants, the message is specifically directed to take-groups. We study whether the Normative Appeal increases cooperation in these between-group social dilemmas or whether it causes reactance in groups in the asymmetric treatment. The data is being collected in November/December 2024 in the Laboratory for Economic Experiments on Human Behavior (LEcH) at the University of Augsburg.
Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
Past Talks
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26.11.2024 - Imelda, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland | Crime in the Dark: Role of Electricity Rationing |
15.10.2024 - Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University | Socially Efficient Menu Design for Residential Electricity Plans |
17.09.2024 - Sabine Stillger, University of Mannheim | The Role of Firm Heterogeneity and Intermediate Inputs for Carbon Leakage |
25.06.2024 - Manuel Linsenmeier, Columbia University | Quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of climate policies in the USA |
21.05.2024 - Anna Straubinger, ZEW | the Welfare Effects of Climate Policies for Global Aviation |
16.04.2024 - Lint Barrage | Equilibrium Particulate Exposure |
19.03.2024 - André Danelon | Exploring the Interplay Between Forest Conservation and Sanitation Costs in Brazil under the New Regulatory Framework: A Total Factor Productivity decomposition using stochastic frontier models |
Special Environmental Economics Brownbag Seminar 29.02.2024 - Douglas Almond, (Columbia University) | Fugitive Methane Emissions and Policy Responses |
20.02.2024 - CANCELLED - André Danelon | Exploring the Interplay Between Forest Conservation and Sanitation Costs in Brazil under the New Regulatory Framework: A Total Factor Productivity decomposition using stochastic frontier models |
16.01.2024 - Menglu Neupert-Zhuang (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) | Do individuals invest more sustainably when advised to do so? An incentivised online experiment |
Talks in 2023 | |
17.01.2023 Philipp Richter (University of Mannheim) | Offshoring and Environmental Policy: Firm Selection and Distributional Effects |
14.02.2023 Bettina Chlond (ZEW/Heidelberg University) | More money or better procedures? Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program |
21.03.2023 Jeromin Zettelmeyer (Bruegel) | How Europe should answer the US Inflation Reduction Act |
19.04.2023 Kenneth L. Judd (Stanford University) | Dynamic Stochastic Analysis of Climate Policies |
16.05.2023 Lei Li (University of Mannheim) | The Amazon Forest Fire: Export-Induced Deforestation and Political Change |
20.06.2023 Jakob Lehr (University of Mannheim) | Import Competition and Firm-Level CO2 Emissions: Evidence from the German Manufacturing Industry |
18.07.2023 Elisa Rottner (ZEW) + Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | Is Germany becoming the European Pollution Haven? / High-Speed Rail and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Evidence from Japan's Shinkansen |
19.09.2023 Mateus Souza (University of Mannheim) | The Tragedy of the Common Heating Bill |
17.10.2023 Katharina Momsen (Heidelberg University) | The story behind climate change science: Belief updating and pro-environmental behavior |
14.11.2023 Laurence Kotlikoff (Boston University) | Can Today’s and Tomorrow’s World Uniformly Gain from Carbon Taxation? |
12.12.2023 Madeline Werthschulte (Heidelberg University) | Nudging the Poor: Field Experimental Evidence on Increasing Energy Efficiency Investments among Low-Income Households |
Talks in 2022 | |
18.01.2022 (cancelled) Tillmann Eymess (Heidelberg University) | |
15.02.2022 Peter Andre (briq - Institute on Behavior and Inequality / Bonn) | Fighting Climate Change The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values (joint work with Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, and Armin Falk) |
15.03.2022 Ulrich J. Wagner (University of Mannheim) | The Co-Pollution Impacts of Climate Policy Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (joint work with Dana Kassem and Laure de Preux) |
03.05.2022 Frank Jotzo (Australian National University & ANU Institute for Climate, Energy and Disaster Solutions) | Shifts in the economic geography of heavy industry in a decarbonising world a view from Australia |
24.05.2022 Santiago Gómez Cardona (Heidelberg University) | Subsidizing Compliance A Multi-Unit Price List Mechanism for Legal Fishing Nets at Lake Victoria |
21.06.2022 Lassi Ahlvik (University of Helsinki) | Quantifying supply-side climate policies |
19.07.2022 Tillmann Eymess (Heidelberg University) / Beathe Thies (UMA) | Relative Income and Contributions to Public Goods: An application to air pollution / Air Quality and the Productivity of High-Skilled Workers: Evidence from GitHub |
22.09.2022 Antonio Bento (University of Southern California) | Why do inefficient policies persist? Evidence from Energy Subsidies in Brazil |
18.10.2022 Anna Straubinger (ZEW) | Going electric Environmental and Welfare Impacts of Urban Ground and Air Transport |
15.11.2022 Alexander Dangel (presenter) and Timo Goeschl (Heidelberg University) | Diffusion Patterns and Neighbor Effects in Air Quality Sensor Adoption The Role of Neighborhoods, Nearby Adopters, and Non-Compliant Monitors |
13.12.2022 Johannes Gessner (presenter) and Wolfgang Habla, Ulrich J. Wagner | Can social comparisons and moral appeals increase public transport ridership and decrease car use? |
Talks in 2021 | |
19.01.2021 Nicholas Tyack (The Graduate Institute Geneva / Heidelberg University) | An experimental approach to farmer valuation of African rice genetic resources |
16.02.2021 Stephen Jarvis (University of Mannheim) | The Economic Costs of NIMBYism |
16.03.2021 Pei Huang (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) | Air Pollution, Racial Disparities, and Health Evidence from Ports and Oceanic Weather Events |
20.04.2021 Johannes Lohse (University of Birmingham) | Absolute groupishness and the demand for information |
18.05.2021 Lukas Tomberg (RWI and Ruhr Graduate School in Economics) | Warm-Glow versus Cold-Prickle and the Alignment Effect |
15.06.2021 Robert Germeshausen (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) | Public Support for Renewable Energy The Case of Wind Power |
20.07.2021 Andreas Pondorfer (Technical University of Munich) | Animal spirits the natural geography of economic behavior |
24.08.2021 Oliver Schenker (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management) | International Trade and Weather Variation |
21.09.2021 Dana Kassem (University of Mannheim) | The Social Cost of Power Outages in Delhi (joint work with Yatang Lin) |
19.10.2021 Grischa Perino (University of Hamburg) | Sentiments and (In-)Stability in Cap-and-Trade Schemes |
16.11.2021 Yixuan Gu (University of Mannheim) | The chemical transport model and some applications |
14.12.2021 Madeline Werthschulte (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) | The Hidden Costs of Traffic Congestion (joint work with Andreas Löschel, Michael Price and Laura Razzolini) |
Talks in 2020 | |
21.01.2020 Jörg Peters (RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research) | The regional energy efficiency rebound Price and quantity effects in a randomized policy roll-out |
18.02.2020 Dimitri Szerman (University of Mannheim) | Heat and Health a Tale of a Tropical City |
17.03.2020 (Cancelled due to coronavirus) | |
21.04.2020 Hannah Klauber (Mercator Research Center on Global Commons and Climate Change, MCC) | What driving bans tell us about the lasting health legacy of diesel pollution |
19.05.2020 Santiago Gomez Cardona (Heidelberg University) | Basis Risk Effects on the Demand for Index Insurance. Experimental Games with Colombian Coffee Growers |
16.06.2020 Mateus Souza (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) | Predictive Counterfactuals for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Event Studies with Staggered Adoption |
21.07.2020 Daniel Heyen (ETH Zurich) | Public gob provision Theory and experimental design |
18.08.2020 Raphael Epperson (University of Mannheim) | Willful Ignorance and the Effect of Information on Meat Consumption |
15.09.2020 Albert Roger (ZEW) | Estimating Technological Gains and Losses from International Environmental Agreements the Case of Stock Pollutants |
20.10.2020 Tillmann Eymess (Heidelberg University) | Changing Collective Action Norm-Based Interventions and Team Decisions (joint work with Florian Diekert) |
17.11.2020 Nanna Fukushima | The UK Clean Air Act, Black Smoke, and Infant Mortality |
15.12.2020 Carlo Gallier (ZEW Mannheim) | The ratchet effect in social dilemmas |
Talks in 2019 | |
15.01.2019 Andreas Gerster (University of Mannheim) | Disaggregated Consumption Feedback and Energy Conservation Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial |
12.02.2019 Jason Wong (Columbia University) | Blue-sky Thinking Connectivity Impacts on Regional Economies and Innovation in the United States |
19.03.2019 Frikk Nesje (Heidelberg University) | Cross-dynastic intergenerational altruism |
16.04.2019 (cancelled) | |
21.05.2019 Christian Traeger (University of Oslo) | Pricing Climate Risk |
18.06.2019 Malte Faber (Heidelberg University) | MINE - Mapping the Interplay between Nature and Economy. A digital map for Ecological Economics |
16.07.2019 Dimitri Szerman (University of Mannheim) | Impacts of Infrastructure on the Environment Evidence from Power Plants in the Amazon |
20.08.2019 Robbert Schaap (Heidelberg University) | Prudence and Precautionary Saving by Natural Resource Users |
17.09.2019 Madzharova, Boryana (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) | Subsidies for Energy Efficient Appliances |
15.10.2019 Marcel Oestreich (Brock University) and Alice Solda (Heidelberg University) | The role of inter-firm information on the effectiveness of competitive audit mechanism |
19.11.2019 Ann-Kathrin Koessler (University of Osnabrueck ) | Social influence motivates public commitments to cooperate |
17.12.2019 Vincenzo Mollisi (University of Mannheim) | The Productivity Effect of Public-Private Partnership |
Talks in 2018 | |
16.01.2018 Camila Steffens (University of Sao Paolo) | Cigarette Consumers Behavior Effects of Smoking Bans in Brazil |
20.02.2018 Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños (ZEW) | Distributional effects of policies against floods in Germany |
20.03.18 Nicolas Koch (Mercator Research Institute) | Agricultural Productivity and Forest Conservation Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon |
17.04.2018 Frederick van der Ploeg (University of Oxford) | Should pollution taxes be targeted at income redistribution? |
22.05.2018 Tillmann Eymess (Heidelberg University) | Nudging with Teeth Conforming with Norms of Cooperation |
19.06.2018 Nikolas Wölfing (University of Mannheim) | Forward Contracts and Collusion in Supply Functions |
17.07.2018 Johannes Diederich (Heidelberg University) | Subsidizing Quantity Donations Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared |
18.09.2018 Theodoros Chatzivasileiadis (ZEW) | The stock markets’ reflection on the IPCC’s findings |
16.10.2018 Mario Liebensteiner (TU Kaiserslautern) | Do Intermittent Renewables Threaten the Electricity Supply Security? |
20.11.2018 Dana Kassam (University of Mannheim) | Does Electrification Cause Industrial Development? Grid Expansion and Firm Turnover in Indonesia |
18.12.2018 Marius Alt (ZEW) | Match Point – Experimental analyses on different matching rates |
Talks in 2017 | |
17.01.2017 Robert Germeshausen (ZEW) | Effects of Attribute-Based Regulation on Technology Adoption - The Case of Feed-In Tariffs for Solar Photovoltaic |
14.02.2017 Martin Wörter (ETH Zürich) | The adoption of green energy technologies the role of policies in an international comparison |
21.03.2017 Nicola Pavanini (Tilburg University) | Welfare and redistribution in residential electricity markets with solar power |
18.04.2017 Wolfgang Hablan (ZEW) | Strategic Delegation and International Permit Markets Why Linking May Fail |
23.05.2017 Tobias Pfrommer (Heidelberg University) | Learning by Negligence - Torts, Experimentation, and the Value of Information |
20.06.2017 Jana Gallus (UCLA Anderson) | Increasing Wikipedia editor retention with non-monetary awards A field experiment |
18.07.2017 Daniel Osberghaus (ZEW) | The causal effect of flood experience on climate engagement evidence from search requests for green electricity in Germany |
19.09.2017 Robert Germeshausen (ZEW) | Does the Stick make the Carrot more attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable Heating Technologies |
17.10.2017 Karlijn van den Broek (Heidelberg University) | What determines the effectiveness of environmental, economic and combined appeals in environmental campaigns? |
21.11.2017 Nicolas Koch (Mercator Institute) | |
19.12.2017 Florian Diekert (Heidelberg University) | Why do fishermen comply with regulations? The role of preferences |
Talks in 2016 | |
19.01.2016 Claudio Bacchianti (ZEW) | Traffic Jam on the Path for Green Growth the Macroeconomics of Sectoral Climate Policies |
16.02.2016 Stefan Trautmann (Heidelberg University) | Climate Policy Commitment Devices |
08.03.2016 Daniel Römer (ZEW) | The Power of Active Choice Field Experimental Evidence on Repeated Contribution Decisions to a Carbon Offsetting Program |
19.04.2016 Claire Gavard (ZEW) | Limited Trading of Emissions Permits as a Climate Cooperation Mechanism? US-China and EU-China Examples |
24.05.2016 Johannes Diederich(Heidelberg University) | Direct Prices of Giving |
28.06.2016 Daniel Römer (ZEW) | Environmental Policy and Simultaneous Incentives for Process and Product Innovation Theory and Experimental Evidence |
26.07.2016 Miguel Angel Tovar (ZEW) | Cost-effectiveness and Incidence of Renewable Energy Promotion in Germany |
20.09.2016 Sylwia Bialek (University of Frankfurt) | Monopolists and the Commons Trading-off Yield and Disease |
18.10.2016 Frank Pothen, Leibniz (University of Hannover) | Distributional Aspects of Household Material-Footprint. The Case of Germany |
15.11.2016 Claudio Baccianti (ZEW) | Laggard Sectors and the Cost of Green Growth Policies |
13.12.2016 Florian Diekert (Heidelberg University) | Why do fishermen comply with regulations? The role of preferences |
Talks in 2015 | |
20.01.2015 Frank Pothen (Leibniz University of Hannover) | A Structural Decomposition of Global Raw Material Consumption |
24.02.2015 Israel Waichman (Heidelberg University) | Reciprocity in Labor Market Relationships Evidence from an Experiment Across High-Income OECD Countries |
13.03.2015 Koichiro Ito (Boston University) | The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards |
21.04.2015 Florian Landis (joint work with Peter Heindl) | Distributional Effects of EU Energy and Climate Policy across Countries and Income Levels |
26.05.2015 Bu, Maoliang ( Nanjing University) | Foreign Direct Investment Choices of Multinational Firms Do Corporate Social Responsibility Capabilities and Weaknesses Matter? |
16.06.2015 Stefan Lamp (Yale University) | Projection Bias in Solar Electricity Markets |
29.09.2015 Fredrik Carlsson (University of Gothenburg) | Does the Water Spill Over? Spillover Effects from a Social Information Campaign |
20.10.2015 Goytom Kahsay (ZEW) | Individual behavior in consumer elective pricing the role of uncertainty |
17.11.2015 Claire Gavard (ZEW) | Flexibility in the Market for International Carbon Credits and Price Dynamics Difference with European Allowances |
15.12.2015 Hannes Lohse (FZU) | An Online Experiment on Cooperation and Groupishness across Urban Districts |
Talks in 2014 | |
21.01.2014 Christiane Reif (ZEW) | Consistent or balanced? On the dynamics of voluntary contributions |
18.02.2014 Daniel Heyen (Heidelberg University) | Free-rider vs. free-driver -- R&D incentives for environmental technologies |
18.03.2014 Shunsuke Managi (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) | Disaster, Energy and Economy |
15.04.2014 Prof. Timo Goeschl (Heidelberg University) | Blind trust and cooperation in costly monitoring environments" (with J. Jarke) |
20.05. 2014 Sascha Rexhäuser (ZEW) | Invention in Energy Technologies Comparing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Inventions at the Firm Level |
17.06.2014 Tobias Pfrommer (Heidelberg University) | |
15.07.2014 Nils Kok (Maastricht University) | overview talk of his research on energy efficiency in building, including a new paper on CSR and the cost of debt |
16.09.2014 Florian Landis (ZEW) | Matching of abatement efforts as a catalyst for coalition formation in global climate negotiations? |
21.10.2014 Daniel Heyen (Heidelberg University) | Information acquisition under Ambiguity - Why the Precautionary Principle may keep us uninformed |
11.11.2014 Miguel Angel Tovar Reanos (ZEW) | Fuel for inequality Distributional effects of a subsidy to electrical vehicles |
16.12. 2014 Johannes Diederich (Heidelberg University) | Ambient Noise and Cooperation in Public Good Games |
Talks in 2013 | |
22.01.2013 Johannes Diederich (FZU) | Group size and the provision of public goods An experiment with a diverse German subject pool |
19.02.2013 Claudio Baccianti (ZEW) | Energy Conservation Policies under Household Heterogeneity and Uncertainty |
19.03.2013 Johannes Jarke (Heidelberg University) | Costly Monitoring and the Emergence of Blind Trust |
16.04.2013 Nikolas Wölfing (ZEW) | Asymmetric Pass-through of Emission Allowances Prices in Power Wholesale and its End Part 2 |
14.05.2013 Daniel Heyen (Heidelberg University) | The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks |
18.06.2013 Sacha Rexhäuser (ZEW) | Green Innovations and Organizational Change Making Better Use of Environmental Technology |
16.07.2013 Johannes Lohse (Heidelberg University) | Cooperation in public good games Calculated or confused? |
17.09.2013 Michael Hübler und Frank Pothen (ZEW) | The Optimal Tariff in the Presence of Trade-Induced Productivity Gains |
15.10.2013 Kathrine Lausted Veie | The Amenity Cost of Road Noise |
19.11.2013 Israel Waichman (Heidelberg University) | Asymmetry and coordination in the collective-risk social dilemma – an experimental study |
12.12.2013 Antoine Dechezleprêtre (London School of Economics) | Knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies A patent citation analysis (2013) |
Talks in 2012 | |
16.06.2012 Peter Heindl (ZEW) | Financial Intermediaries, Market Power, and Tradable Permits |
17.07.2012 Dr. Anke Leroux (Monash University) | An opimal portfolio of urban water supply assets under climate change |
14.08.2012 Alexander Glas and Michael Hübler (ZEW) | The Energy-Bias of South-North Convergence - A Global Bilateral, Bisectoral Panel Estimation |
18.09.2012 Prof. Dietrich Harlan Earnhard (University of Kansas) | Effluent Limits and Monitoring Do Regulators Inspect Polluters Facing Tighter Limits Differently? |
16.10.2012 Miguel Angel Tovar Reanos | The structure of energy efficiency investment in the UK households and its average monetary and environmental savings |
11.12.2012 Johannes Lohse (Heidelberg University) | Public good games and public good provision – is there a difference? Evidence from an artefactual field experiment. |
18.12.2012 Nikolas Wölfing (University of Mannheim) | Asymmetric Pass-through of Emission Allowances Prices in Power Wholesale and its End Part 1 - The Effect of Regulatory Scrutiny |