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Working Papers

2025

1. Air Quality Alerts and Don't Drive Appeals: Evidence on Voluntary Pollution Mitigation Dynamics from Germany
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
2. Revealed preferences for policy experiments
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

2024

3. (Un)Trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas
   Post-Print, HAL
   Also in Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics (2023)
   Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (2023)
   See also Journal Article (Un)Trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2024) (2024)
4. The Behavioral Economics of Extreme Event Attribution
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
5. Transporting behavioral insights to low-income household: A field experiment on energy efficiency investmen
   ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
6. Transporting behavioral insights to low-income households: A field experiment on energy efficiency investments
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
7. Zielgruppengerichtete Ausgestaltung von Förderprogrammen führt zum Erfolg: Was uns das Beispiel "Energieeffizienz für alle" lehrt
   ZEW policy briefs, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

2023

8. COMPLIANCE AND TRUTHFULNESS: LEVERAGING PEER INFORMATION WITH COMPETITIVE AUDIT MECHANISMS
   Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2023)
   See also Journal Article Compliance and Truthfulness: Leveraging Peer Information with Competitive Audit Mechanisms, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2023) (2023)
9. How to Design the Ask? Funding Units vs. Giving Money
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
   Also in Working Papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, Universität Innsbruck (2022)
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics (2021) View citations (3)
   Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics (2022)
   See also Journal Article How to Design the Ask? Funding Units vs. Giving Money, Management Science, INFORMS (2025) (2025)
10. How to Organize Monitoring and Punishment: Experimental Evidence
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
11. Self-nudging is more ethical, but less efficient than social nudging
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
    Also in VfS Annual Conference 2023 (Regensburg): Growth and the "sociale Frage", Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association (2023)

2022

12. Air Quality Alerts and Don't Drive Appeals: Cautionary Evidence from Germany
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
13. More Money or Better Procedures? Evidence from an Energy Efficiency Assistance Program
    MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung)
    Also in ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (2022)
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics (2022)
14. Self-Nudging vs. Social Nudging in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
15. Subsidizing Compliance: A Multi-Unit Price List Mechanism for Legal Fishing Nets at Lake Victoria
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
16. Wie lässt sich die Energieeffizienz in einkommensschwachen Haushalten steigern?
    ZEW policy briefs, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

2021

17. Competitive vs. Random Audit Mechanisms in Environmental Regulation: Emissions, Self-Reporting, and the Role of Peer Information
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
18. Social Risk Effects: The 'Experience of Social Risk' Factor
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2020

19. Date Marks, Valuation, and Food Waste: Three In-Store ‘Eggsperiments’
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics
20. Subsidizing Unit Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Subsidizing unit donations: matches, rebates, and discounts compared, Experimental Economics, Springer (2022) View citations (5) (2022)

2019

21. Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers
    ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research View citations (4)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham (2019) View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2023) View citations (2) (2023)
22. Subsidizing Quantity Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared
    VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

2017

23. Challenges and Opportunities for Integrated Modeling of Climate Engineering
    Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei View citations (2)
    Also in MITP: Mitigation, Innovation and Transformation Pathways, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) (2017) View citations (2)
24. Does Mitigation Begin At Home?
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (9)
25. Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision
    ZEW Discussion Papers, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research View citations (9)
    Also in Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics (2017) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier (2019) View citations (18) (2019)
26. Public in-kind relief and private self-insurance
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Public in-Kind Relief and Private Self-Insurance, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Springer (2019) View citations (8) (2019)

2016

27. An online experiment on cooperation and groupishness across urban districts
    VfS Annual Conference 2016 (Augsburg): Demographic Change, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association
28. Cooperation in Public Good Games. Calculated or Confused?
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Cooperation in public good games. Calculated or confused?, European Economic Review, Elsevier (2018) View citations (12) (2018)
29. Herausforderung Climate Engineering: Bewertung neuer Optionen für den Klimaschutz
    Kieler Beiträge zur Wirtschaftspolitik, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
30. Precision requirements in pesticide risk assessments: Contrasting value-of-information recommendations with the regulatory practice in the EU
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics

2015

31. Learning by Negligence - Torts, Experimentation, and the Value of Information
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
32. Risk Assessment under Ambiguity: Precautionary Learning vs. Research Pessimism
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
33. The Climate Policy Hold-Up: Green Technologies,Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article The Climate Policy Hold‐Up: Green Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Wiley Blackwell (2017) View citations (14) (2017)
34. What do we learn from public good games about voluntary climate action? Evidence from an artefactual field experiment
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (3)

2014

35. Giving is a question of time: Response times and contributions to a real world public good
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (12)
36. Motivational Drivers of the Private Provision of Public Goods: Evidence From a Large Framed Field Experiment
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
37. Trust, but verify? When trustworthiness is observable only through (costly) monitoring
    WiSo-HH Working Paper Series, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, WISO Research Laboratory

2013

38. Non-Strategic Punishment when Monitoring is Costly: Experimental Evidence on Differences between Second and Third Party Behavior
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (1)
39. Second vs. Third Party Punishment under Costly Monitoringː A New Experimental Method and Evidence
    WiSo-HH Working Paper Series, University of Hamburg, Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, WISO Research Laboratory
40. The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (21)
    See also Journal Article The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2013) View citations (20) (2013)
41. To Give or Not to Give: The Price of Contributing and the Provision of Public Goods
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2011

42. Giving in a Large Economy: Price vs. Non-Price Effects in a Field Experiment
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (2)
43. Willingness to Pay for Individual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Evidence from a Large Field Experiment
    Working Papers, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics View citations (13)

2009

44. Instrment choice and motivation: Evidence from a climate change experiment
    Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
    See also Journal Article Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2012) View citations (20) (2012)

2004

45. Biodiversity Conservation on Private Lands: Information Problems and Regulatory Choices
    Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei View citations (4)
46. Endogenous Information Structures in Conservation Contracting
    Staff Papers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
    Also in Staff Paper Series, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics (2004) View citations (1)
47. Property Rights Conservation and Development: An Analysis of Extractive Reserves in the Brazilian Amazon
    Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei View citations (3)
48. The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem
    Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2011) View citations (10) (2011)

2003

49. Hijackers and Hostages in Non-Binding Linked-Issues Referenda: Analysis and an Application
    Staff Papers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
    Also in Staff Paper Series, University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics (2003)
50. On Biology and Technology: The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies
    Working Papers, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei View citations (6)

Journal Articles

2025

1. How to Design the Ask? Funding Units vs. Giving Money
   Management Science, 2025, 71, (4), 2830-2846
   See also Working Paper How to Design the Ask? Funding Units vs. Giving Money, Working Papers (2023) View citations (1) (2023)
2. Money versus procedures — Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2025, 130, (C)
3. Tap water consumption choices in out-of-home settings: insights from a survey of German adults
   International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2025, 41, (3), 647-666
4. Trading off autonomy and efficiency in choice architectures: Self-nudging versus social nudging
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2025, 229, (C)

2024

5. (Un)Trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 223, (C), 106-119
   See also Working Paper (Un)Trustworthy pledges and cooperation in social dilemmas, Post-Print (2024) (2024)

2023

6. Compliance and Truthfulness: Leveraging Peer Information with Competitive Audit Mechanisms
   Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023, 10, (4), 947 - 979
   See also Working Paper COMPLIANCE AND TRUTHFULNESS: LEVERAGING PEER INFORMATION WITH COMPETITIVE AUDIT MECHANISMS, Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium (2023) (2023)
7. Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 216, (C), 457-468 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Inter-charity competition under spatial differentiation: Sorting, crowding, and spillovers, ZEW Discussion Papers (2019) View citations (4) (2019)
8. True to type? EU-style date marking and the valuation of perishable food
   Food Policy, 2023, 114, (C) View citations (2)

2022

9. Subsidizing unit donations: matches, rebates, and discounts compared
   Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, (2), 734-758 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Subsidizing Unit Donations: Matches, Rebates, and Discounts Compared, Working Papers (2020) View citations (5) (2020)

2020

10. How much can we learn about voluntary climate action from behavior in public goods games?
    Ecological Economics, 2020, 171, (C) View citations (14)

2019

11. Cold Case: The forensic economics of energy efficiency labels for domestic refrigeration appliances
    Energy Economics, 2019, 84, (S1) View citations (6)
12. Establishing causation in climate litigation: admissibility and reliability
    Climatic Change, 2019, 152, (1), 67-84 View citations (8)
13. Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 164, (C), 500-517 View citations (18)
    See also Working Paper Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision, ZEW Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (9) (2017)
14. Public in-Kind Relief and Private Self-Insurance
    Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 2019, 3, (1), 3-21 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper Public in-kind relief and private self-insurance, Working Papers (2017) View citations (2) (2017)

2018

15. Cooperation in public good games. Calculated or confused?
    European Economic Review, 2018, 107, (C), 185-203 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Cooperation in Public Good Games. Calculated or Confused?, Working Papers (2016) View citations (2) (2016)
16. From Social Information to Social Norms: Evidence from Two Experiments on Donation Behaviour
    Games, 2018, 9, (4), 1-25 View citations (13)
17. Voluntary action for climate change mitigation does not exhibit locational preferences
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 90, (C), 175-180 View citations (18)

2017

18. Giving is a Question of Time: Response Times and Contributions to an Environmental Public Good
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2017, 67, (3), 455-477 View citations (11)
19. The Climate Policy Hold‐Up: Green Technologies, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119, (3), 709-732 View citations (14)
    See also Working Paper The Climate Policy Hold-Up: Green Technologies,Intellectual Property Rights, and the Abatement Incentives of International Agreements, Working Papers (2015) View citations (5) (2015)
20. To mitigate or not to mitigate: The price elasticity of pro-environmental behavior
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2017, 84, (C), 209-222 View citations (23)
21. Trust, but verify? Monitoring, inspection costs, and opportunism under limited observability
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 142, (C), 320-330 View citations (7)

2016

22. Group size and the (in)efficiency of pure public good provision
    European Economic Review, 2016, 85, (C), 272-287 View citations (39)
23. Second and third party punishment under costly monitoring
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 54, (C), 124-133 View citations (3)

2015

24. The Sopranos Redux: The Empirical Economics of Waste Crime
    Regional Studies, 2015, 49, (11), 1908-1921 View citations (9)

2014

25. Criminalizing environmental offences: when the prosecutor’s helping hand hurts
    European Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 37, (2), 199-219 View citations (2)
26. Willingness to Pay for Voluntary Climate Action and Its Determinants: Field-Experimental Evidence
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2014, 57, (3), 405-429 View citations (102)

2013

27. The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2013, 56, (1), 85-104 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper The Intergenerational Transfer of Solar Radiation Management Capabilities and Atmospheric Carbon Stocks, Working Papers (2013) View citations (21) (2013)
28. The warnings puzzle: an upstream explanation
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2013, 44, (3), 339-360 View citations (1)

2012

29. Environmental quality and welfare effects of improving the reporting capability of citizen monitoring schemes
    Journal of Regulatory Economics, 2012, 42, (3), 264-286 View citations (4)
30. Explaining uniformity in rule design: The role of citizen participation in enforcement
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2012, 32, (1), 166-177 View citations (1)
31. Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2012, 52, (2), 195-212 View citations (20)
    See also Working Paper Instrment choice and motivation: Evidence from a climate change experiment, Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) (2009) (2009)

2011

32. Emissionsvermeidung oder Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Welche Zukunft hat die Klimapolitik?
    ifo Schnelldienst, 2011, 64, (05), 03-29
    Also in EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, 2011, 64, (05), 3-29 (2011)
33. The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2011, 48, (4), 609-628 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics (2004) View citations (2) (2004)
34. The political economy of the environmental criminal justice system: a production function approach
    Public Choice, 2011, 148, (3), 611-630 View citations (3)

2010

35. Environmental Crime and Punishment: Empirical Evidence from the German Penal Code
    Land Economics, 2010, 86, (4) View citations (35)

2009

36. On backstops and boomerangs: Environmental R&D under technological uncertainty
    Energy Economics, 2009, 31, (5), 800-809 View citations (14)
37. Optimal conservation, extinction debt, and the augmented quasi-option value
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2009, 58, (1), 43-57 View citations (18)

2008

38. The value of conserving genetic resources for R&D: A survey
    Ecological Economics, 2008, 67, (2), 184-193 View citations (14)

2007

39. Innovation without magic bullets: Stock pollution and R&D sequences
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 54, (2), 146-161 View citations (20)
40. Regulating the Liabilities of Agricultural Biotechnology
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (1), 210-221

2005

41. Non-binding linked-issues referenda: Analysis and an application
    Public Choice, 2005, 124, (3), 249-266

2004

42. Reconciling Conservation and Development: A Dynamic Hotelling Model of Extractive Reserves
    Land Economics, 2004, 80, (3), 340-354 View citations (5)

2003

43. Pests, Plagues, and Patents
    Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1, (2-3), 561-575 View citations (19)
44. The development impact of genetic use restriction technologies: a forecast based on the hybrid crop experience
    Environment and Development Economics, 2003, 8, (1), 149-165 View citations (6)

2002

45. The Social Value of Biodiversity for R&D
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2002, 22, (4), 477-504 View citations (17)

2000

46. Book review. Conservation of genetic resources - costs and implications for a sustainable utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. D Virchow
    European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2000, 27, (1), 96-98
47. Genetic use restriction technologies and the diffusion of yield gains to developing countries
    Journal of International Development, 2000, 12, (8), 1159-1178 View citations (10)
48. Property rights issues involving plant genetic resources: implications of ownership for economic efficiency
    Ecological Economics, 2000, 32, (1), 75-92 View citations (18)