Andreas Gerster is a Professor of Environmental Microeconomics at the University of Mainz, Germany, and is also affiliated with the “Environment and Resources” competence area at the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen, Germany.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in International Economics and European Studies from the University of Tübingen and his Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Münster. For his doctoral studies, he joined the Ruhr Graduate School in Economics and the RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research, where he later continued as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2019, he moved to the Department of Economics at the University of Mannheim, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later serving as Acting Chair of Quantitative Economics until 2024.

His research interests lie in the fields of environmental and public economics, experimental and behavioral economics, as well as applied econometrics. In particular, he studies the effects of informational and price-based instruments in climate policy using causal methods of program evaluation.

Andreas Gerster is a CESifo research affiliate and a member of the Committee on Environmental & Resource Economics of the German Economic Association (AURÖ).

More info on recent research can be found here.