Contact and Affiliations

About Martin Kesternich

Prof. Dr. Martin Kesternich has been Professor of Economics, in particular Sustainability, at the Center for Sustainable Economy at the University of Paderborn and Research Associate at the ZEW-Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim since April 2023. Before that he was a Professor for Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Kassel and deputy head of the research department "Environmental and Climate Economics" at the ZEW. He studied economics at the University of Mannheim and the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires. In July 2015 he completed his doctorate at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Hamburg. As a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service, Martin Kesternich was a guest researcher at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. His research interests include experimental and empirical approaches in the field of environmental and behavioral economics.

Research

Research Interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Climate Economics
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Experimental Economics

Publications

Latest Publications

More money or better procedures? Evidence from an Energy Efficiency Assistance Program

B. Chlond, T. Goeschl , M. Kesternich, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2025).



Transporting behavioral insights to low-income households: A field experiment on energy efficiency investments

M. Kesternich, B. Chlond , T. Goeschl, M. Werthschulte, Transporting Behavioral Insights to Low-Income Households: A Field Experiment on Energy Efficiency Investments, AWI Discussion Paper Series No. 755, 2024.


Collective Minimum Contributions to Counteract the Ratchet Effect in the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

M. Alt, M. Kesternich, C. Gallier, B. Sturm, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023).


Inter-Charity Competition under Spatial Differentiation: Sorting, Crowding, and Spillovers

C. Gallier, T. Goeschl, M. Kesternich, J. Lohse, C. Reif, D. R?mer, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 216 (2023) 457–468.


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Teaching


Current Courses

  • Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Umwelt- und Verhaltens?konomik
  • Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Umwelt- und Verhaltens?konomik
  • Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
  • Fostering sustainability: an economic perspective
  • Behavioral Environmental Economics