Kathrine von Graevenitz is Deputy Head of ZEW’s Research Department “Environmental and Climate Economics” and Professor of Empirical Environmental Economics at the University of Mannheim as of October 2021. She studied economics and econometrics at the University of Aalborg in Denmark, the University of Essex in the United Kingdom, and the European University Institute in Italy. Subsequently, she completed her PhD at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. From 2009 to 2012, she worked at the Danish Economic Councils in Copenhagen, an independent think tank advising the Danish Parliament on economic issues. In 2013 she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy, Arizona State University in the US. Kathrine von Graevenitz defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Improved Methods for the Valuation of the Environment in an Urban Setting" in November 2013. She joined ZEW's Research Department “Environmental and Climate Economics” in 2014. Her main research interests are environmental economics and applied econometrics.
Selected Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Germeshausen, Robert, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Martin Achtnicht (2022), Does the Stick make the Carrot more attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable Heating Technologies, Regional Science and Urban Economics 92. Download
Jensen, Cathrine Ulla, Toke Panduro, Thomas Lundhede, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen (2021), Who demands peri-urban nature? A second stage hedonic house price estimation of household’s preference for peri-urban nature, Landscape and Urban Planning 207. Download
Bishop, Kelly, Nicolai Kuminoff, Spencer Banzhaf, Kevin Boyle, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Jaren Pope, V. Kerry Smith and Christopher Timmins (2020), Best Practices for Using Hedonic Property Value Models to Measure Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality , Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 14, 260-281. Download
Kube, Roland, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Andreas Löschel and Philipp Massier (2019), Do voluntary environmental programs reduce emissions? EMAS in the German manufacturing sector, Energy Economics 84. Download
Panduro, Toke Emil, Cathrine Ulla Jensen, Thomas Hedemark Lundhede, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen (2018), Eliciting preferences for urban parks, Regional Science and Urban Economics Volume 73, 127-142. Download
von Graevenitz, Kathrine (2018), The Amenity Cost of Road Noise, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 90, 1-22.
von Graevenitz, Kathrine, Daniel Römer and Alexander Rohlf (2018), The Effect of Emission Information on Housing Prices: Quasi-experimental evidence from the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, Environmental and Resource Economics 69(1), 23-74. Download
Paltsev, Sergey, Y.-H. Henry Chen, Valerie Karplus, Paul Kishimoto, John Reilly, Andreas Löschel, Simon Koesler and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2016), Reducing CO2 from cars in the European Union, Transportation. Download
von Graevenitz, Kathrine and Toke Panduro (2015), An alternative to the standard spatial econometric approaches in hedonic house price models, Land Economics May 2015 , 91:386-409. Download
von Graevenitz, Kathrine and Toke Panduro (2013), Classification and valuation of urban green spaces - A hedonic house price valuation, Landscape and Urban Planning 120, 119 – 128. Download
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
von Graevenitz, Kathrine, Benjamin Johannes Lutz and Philipp Massier (2017), Die kausalen Effekte von Strompreisen auf Betriebe im deutschen Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, Zeitschrift für amtliche Statistik Berlin Brandenburg, 40-41.
Monographs, Contributions to Edited Volumes
von Graevenitz, Georg and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2019), Science and Politics Today - Part II Introduction, in: Palgrave MacMillan .
Achtnicht, Martin, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Simon Koesler, Andreas Löschel, Beaumont Schoeman and Miguel A. T. Reanos (2019), Road transport and its potential inclusion in the EU ETS, in: E. Gawel et al. .
von Graevenitz, Kathrine (2018), The value of silence - the price of noise, in: Jörn Jensen, Bo J. Thorsen, Jesper S. Schou .
Discussion and Working Papers
Earnhart, Dietrich, Robert Germeshausen and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2022), Effects of Information-Based Regulation on Financial Outcomes: Evidence From the European Union’s Public Emission Registry, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-015, Mannheim. Download
Karamik, Yasemin and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2022), Gone with the Wind: The Effect of Air Pollution on Crime - Evidence from Germany, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 22-013, Mannheim. Download
Rottner, Elisa and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2021), What Drives Carbon Emissions in German Manufacturing: Scale, Technique or Composition?, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-027, Mannheim. Download
Frick, Marc, Annabell Conzelmann, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Martin Kesternich, Ulrich Wagner and Sebastian Rausch (2021), Transparente Klimabilanzen - Information für klimafreundliches Handeln, Hintergrundpapier zum 8. Forum Klimaökonomie des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung. Download
von Graevenitz, Kathrine and Elisa Rottner (2020), Energy Use Patterns in German Manufacturing Since 2003, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 20-008, Mannheim. Download
Achtnicht, Martin, Robert Germeshausen and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2019), Wärmewende im Gebäudesektor: Lasst den CO2-Preis wirken, ZEW policy brief No. 19-07, Mannheim. Download
Germeshausen, Robert and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2019), State Mandates on Renewable Heating Technologies and the Housing Market, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-028, Mannheim. Download
Kube, Roland, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Andreas Löschel and Philipp Massier (2019), Do Voluntary Environmental Programs Reduce Emissions? EMAS in the German Manufacturing Sector, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-004, Mannheim. Download
Achtnicht, Martin, Robert Germeshausen and Kathrine von Graevenitz (2017), Does the Stick Make the Carrot More Attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable Heating Technologies, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-067, Mannheim. Download
Jensen, Cathrine Ulla, Toke Emil Panduro, Thomas Lundhede, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen (2016), Robin Hood in reverse? Assessing distributional effects of green space policy using a second-stage hedonic house price model, IFRO Working Paper, 2016/07, Copenhagen. Download
Panduro, Toke Emil, Cathrine Ulla Jensen, Thomas Lundhede, Kathrine von Graevenitz and Bo Jellesmark Thorsen (2016), Estimating demand schedules in hedonic analysis: The case of urban parks, IFRO Working Paper, 2016/06, Copenhagen. Download
von Graevenitz, Kathrine (2016), The Amenity Cost of Road Noise, ZEW Discussion Paper No. 16-087, Mannheim. Download
Expertises
Achtnicht, Martin, Kathrine von Graevenitz, Simon Koesler, Andreas Löschel, Beaumont Schoeman and Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños (2015), Including Road Transport in the EU-ETS – An Alternative for the Future?, Adam Opel AG, BMW AG, ZEW Mannheim. Download
Projects
Current Projects
- Project Duration 01.12.2019 - 31.05.2023Integrated economic analysis of climate change protection and local air pollution
- Project Duration 01.10.2019 - 31.10.2022Economics of Climate Change – topic coordination: Climate protection: Instruments and policies after COP21
- Project Duration 01.01.2019 - 30.09.2022Evaluating Policy Instruments for the Transformation to a Low Carbon Economy: Causal Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
- Project Duration 01.04.2018 - 31.07.2022Ex-Post Evaluation of Benefits and Costs of Environmental Regulation
Finished Projects
- Project Duration 01.03.2020 - 31.12.2020SEEK Project 2020: Carbon Neutral Courier Services by Voluntary Carbon Offsets – a Survey among the Polish Population
- Project Duration 01.04.2019 - 31.03.2021The Impacts of Environmental Regulation on Innovation and Firm Performance in Europe
- Project Duration 01.08.2018 - 31.03.2019SEEK: Carbon Neutral Courier Services by Voluntary Carbon Offsets – a Field Experimental Analysis
- Project Duration 01.04.2018 - 31.12.2019Effects of Fossil Fuel Fired Power Production on Local Air Pollution
- Project Duration 01.04.2017 - 28.02.2019Evaluation of Tax Incentives 2017
- Project Duration 01.10.2016 - 31.12.2019Kopernikus-Project „System Integration“: ENavi
- Project Duration 01.10.2016 - 31.01.2019Carbon Neutral Courier Services (CO2URIER)
- Project Duration 01.10.2016 - 01.10.2017Drivers of Renewable Energy Investments in Space Heating
- Project Duration 01.03.2015 - 30.06.2017Effects of the European Emissions Trading Scheme on Conventional Power Plants in Germany
- Project Duration 01.02.2015 - 30.04.2015The Future of Europe's Strategy to Reduce CO2 Emissions from Road Transport
- Project Duration 01.09.2011 - 31.08.2016Future Infrastructures for Meeting Energy Demands. Towards Sustainability and Social Compatibility
- Project Duration 01.09.1998 - 30.06.2016Transport Market Indicator from Prognos/ZEW
Events
Expert Seminars
More Information
Teaching Activities and Stand-in Professors
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07.2019:
"Summer School EAERE",
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), Venice, Italy -
06.2017:
"Spatial Econometric Analysis and Spatial Data Management",
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
more information -
08.2015:
"Spatial Econometric Analysis and Spatial Data Management",
University of Copenhagen, Denmark -
08.2014:
"Spatial Econometric Analysis and Spatial Data Management",
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
more information
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07.2019:
"Summer School EAERE",
Other Assessoring and Advisory Activities (also in the scope of a membership)
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2020 - 2022:
Sonstige,
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin, Germany -
2018 - until now:
Berater,
Research Data Centre of the Federal Statistical Office, Wiesbaden, Germany
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2020 - 2022:
Sonstige,
Lectures
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2017:
Prices as climate policy: The causal effect of electricity prices on German manufacturing,
Vereinstagung, Verein für Sozialpolitik,
Universität Wien, Österreich -
2017:
Does the Stick make the Carrot more attractive? State Mandates and Uptake of Renewable Heating Technologies,
FSR Climate Annual Conference 2017,
EUI, Florenz, Italien -
2017:
Prices as climate policy: The causal effect of electricity prices on German manufacturing,
AERE Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) -
2017:
The causal effect of electricity prices on german manufacturing plants,
AFiD Nutzerkonferenz,
Berlin, Deutschland -
2016:
ROBIN HOOD IN REVERSE? ASSESSING DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF GREEN SPACE POLICY USING A SECOND STAGE HEDONIC HOUSE PRICE MODEL,
EAERE,
ETH Zürich, Schweiz -
2016:
The Causal Effect of Electricity Prices on German Manufacturing,
4th IZA Conference on Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies,
IZA Bonn, Deutschland -
2016:
Carbon neutral courier services,
Soc-Pol-Eco ,
Poznan, Polen -
2015:
Does Proximity to Protected Natural Areas increase Attractiveness of Holiday Homes in Germany?,
LEF seminar ,
INRA Nancy, Frankreich -
2014:
Ex-Post Evaluationen in Deutschland,
Energy Efficiency and Climate Policies,
EUI, Florenz, Italien
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2014:
The Effect of Emission Information on German Housing Prices,
6th Atlantic Workshop on Environmental and Energy Economics,
A Toxa (Spain), Spanien -
2014:
The Amenity Cost of Road Noise,
World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Istanbul, Turkey, Türkei
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2017:
Prices as climate policy: The causal effect of electricity prices on German manufacturing,
Research Affiliations
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2021 - until now:
Professor,
Universität Mannheim, Deutschland
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2021 - until now:
Professor,
Department

Function
Deputy