Prof. Kathrine von Graevenitz, PhD
Prof. Kathrine von Graevenitz, PhD
Environmental and Climate Economics
Kathrine von Graevenitz is Deputy Head of ZEW’s Research Unit “Environmental and Climate Economics” and, since October 2021, Professor of Empirical Environmental Economics at the University of Mannheim. The professorship is funded under the Leibniz Programme for Women Professors.
She is an applied microeconometrician with a research area focused on environmental and industrial economics. Her work examines in particular the effects of environmental and climate policy on markets and firms, as well as the diffusion of low-carbon technologies, for example in the fields of renewable energy and the heating transition. Another focus is on the use and analysis of spatial microdata.
Kathrine von Graevenitz studied Economics and Econometrics at the University of Aalborg, the University of Essex and the European University Institute. She obtained her PhD from the University of Copenhagen in December 2013 with a thesis entitled “Improved Methods for the Valuation of the Environment in an Urban Setting”.
In 2013, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy at Arizona State University. Prior to that, she worked as a senior economist at the Danish Economic Councils in Copenhagen.
She has been a researcher at ZEW since 2014. In addition, she is a member of various scientific advisory bodies, for example in the context of research data infrastructure for official statistics, and is active in the network of female economists at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
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Prof. Kathrine von Graevenitz, PhD
Deputy Email kathrine.vongraevenitz@zew.de Phone +49 (0)621 1235-340-
2024 - until now
MembershipsAusschuss für Umwelt- und Ressourcenökonomie des Vereins für Socialpolitik, Berlin, Germany