Ralf Steinhauser - Universität Hamburg

Ralf Steinhauser
Contact
Information
Fachbereich Sozialökonomie
Office: (+49) 40 42838-8665
Fakultät WiSo
E-mail: [email protected]
Universität Hamburg
Room: Welckerstr. 8, R. 3.23
Welckerstr. 8, R 2.20, D-20354 Hamburg
WWW: wiso.uni-hamburg.de/professuren/vwl-wachstum-umwelt-und-ressourcen/
Personal
Age: 39, Married, 2 children: Klara (born 10/2005), Anton (born 11/2007)
Citizenship: Germany/Australia (dual)
Current
Positions
Professur als Juniorprofessur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere Wachstum,
Umwelt und Ressourcen, Fachbereich Sozialökonomie, WiSo Fakultät
Universität Hamburg
August 2012 -
Education
Adjunct Research Fellow, Research School of Economics
The Australian National University
July 2012 -
University of California, Berkeley, USA
2004 - 2007
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, May 2007
M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics, December 2005
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin, Germany
1998 - 2004
M.A., School of Business and Economics, September 2004
B.A. (Vordiplom BWL), School of Business and Economics, July 2000
Past Positions
Research Fellow, Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics,
The Australian National University
January 2010 - July 2012
Research Fellow, Economics Program, Research School of Social Sciences,
The Australian National University
July 2007 - December 2009
Research
Interests
Honors and
Awards
Environmental and Resource Economics, Applied Econometrics, Corporate Social
Responsibility, Behavioural Economics
ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, 2011.
College of Business and Economics Award for Teaching Excellence, ANU, 2010.
Harry Wellman Award, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley, 2007.
Giannini Foundation Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, 2006.
UC Berkeley Graduate Division Travel Grant, 2005.
Valedictorian for School of Business and Economics, Humboldt-Universität, 2004.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship, 2003.
Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Scholarship, 2001 - 2004.
Inaugural Humboldt-Universitäts-Stipendium Scholarship, 2001 - 2002.
Fulbright Travel Grant, 2001-2002.
One of two students from the entire Humboldt-Universität selected for Excahnge
to the Univerity of California, 2001.
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Refereed
Publications
Links refer to journal articles; links to working paper version can be found on my
webpage.
“Maintaining the Common Pool: Voluntary Water Conservation in Response to Increasing Scarcity”, with Emma Aisbett, Environmental and Resource Economics
2014, 59(2), pp 167-185.
“A Framework for Forecasting the Path of US CO2 Emissions Using State-Level
Information”, with Maximilian Auffhammer, Review of Economics and Statistics
2012, 94(1), pp. 172-185.
“Managers’ Behavior under Weak Governance.”, in Abol Jalilvand and Tassos
Malliaris (eds.) Risk Management and Corporate Governance (Routledge) 2011,
pp.69-86. (Routledge).
“The Future Trajectory of US CO2 Emissions: The Role of State vs. Aggregate
Information.”, with Maximilian Auffhammer, Journal of Regional Science 2007,
47(1), pp. 47-61.
“Tax Smoothing and the Cross-Country Pattern of Privatization.”, with Peter Berck
and Jonathan Lipow. World Development 2006; 34(2) pp. 238-246.
Reports and
Non-Refereed
Publications
“Does anybody give a dam? The importance of public awareness for urban water
conservation during drought”, with Emma Aisbett, EERH Research Report No.
100, 2011.
Working Papers “Fiscal Stimulus and Household Consumption: Evidence from the 2009 Australian
Nation Building and Jobs Plan” (with Markus Brückner, Rhett Wilcox and Emma
Aisbett)
“Estimating Treatment Effects from Counts of Binary Outcomes: a Conditional
Likelihood Estimator of Relative Risk” (with Christopher Aisbett and Emma
Aisbett)
“Principals vs. Principles: What Do Managers Do When Governance Is Slack?”
“Bayesian Model Averaging vs. Out-of-sample Model Selection: An Application to
Forecasting Carbon Emissions”
Work in
Progress
“Charitable Donation - Who donates? Taking a closer look using German Taxpayer
Data” (with Daniel Rahaus)
“Corporate Social Responsibility - The Do’s and Don’ts of Aggregating KLD Indicators”
“The Role of Employee Relations in the Financial Performance” (with Sandra Limas)
Research
Funding
Bertelsmann Stiftung, Programm Zukunft der Zivilgesellschaft, “Spendenstruktur in Deutschland”. 2014 - 2015 (14.500 Euro)
Project Leader and Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council (ARC)
Linkage grant with Treasury, Project: “Estimating the impact of fiscal stimulus
on household expenditure”. 2012 - 2014 ($100.000)
ANU College of Business and Economics Research Grand, Project: “Does Financial Literacy Boost Savings?”. 2010 - 2011 ($10.000)
Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility, Environmental Economics Research Hub, Project: “Learning from the Irrational: A study of Environmental
Preferences”. 2009 - 2010 ($53.000)
Media Coverage
The Australian (October 30, 2012) “Government’s fiscal stimulus a dud” by
Judith Sloan
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Teaching and
Advising
Graduate course: Psychology and Economics (Verhaltensökonomie)
(2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), Universität Hamburg. Overall Teaching Score:
5.7/6
Graduate course: Experimental Economics (Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), Universität Hamburg. Overall Teaching
Score: 5.4/6
Graduate course: Individual Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty (2013), International Summer School run by Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin and the Universidad de la Habana. Teaching Score: 1.7 (Score from 1 to
6, with 1 beeing the best score.)
Graduate course: Behavioural and Experimental Economics (joint with
Carsten Schmidt) (2009), International Summer School run by Humboldt-Universität
zu Berlin and the Universidad de la Habana.
Honours level course: Non-cooperative Game Theory (2008), Australian
National University. Overall Teaching Effectiveness: 6.3/7
Undergraduate course: Introduction to Financial Mathematics (2016),
International Summer School run by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the
Universidad de la Habana.
Undergraduate course: Introduction to Economics (Grundkurs Volkswirtschaftslehre) (2015), Universität Hamburg.Overall Teaching Score: 4.9/6
Undergraduate course: Behavioral Economics ( Einführung in die Verhaltensökonomie) (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), Universität Hamburg. Overall
Teaching Score: 5.4/6
Undergraduate course: Behavioural Economics: Psychology and Economics (2009, 2010, 2011), Australian National University. Overall Teaching
Effectiveness: 4.4/5
Undergraduate course: Introduction to Environmental Economics &
Policy (2005), University of California, Berkeley, Teaching Assistant to Keith
Gilless. Overall Teaching Score: 5.2/7
Advising
Universität Hamburg
Ph.D Level
Jan Brosse (Head of Examination Committee, 2017)
Steffen Lange (Examener Dissertation, 2016)
Konrad Himmel (Head of Examination Committee, 2017)
Daniel Rahaus (Advisor Dissertation, 2015 -)
Erkin Erdogan (Second Advisor Dissertation, 2013 -)
I have supervised 5 Master and 19 Bachelor theses in economics and was second
examiner on roughly equally many theses.
The Australian National University
I have supervised 4 Economics Honours and Applied Economics Honours theses
in economics.
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Referee for
Journals
Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economics Review, Land Economics
(2), Environmental and Resource Economics (3), IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Ecological Economics (3), The Economic Record (3), Australian Journal of
Agricultural and Resource Economics, Energy Economics (2), Economics and Business Letters, Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, Journal of
Environmental Management, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
Conference
Program
Committees
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Beaver
Run, Colorado, June 2016.
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, San
Diego, California, June 2015.
5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics, Istanbul, Turkey,
June/July 2014.
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Banff,
Alberta, June 2013.
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Asheville,
NC, June 2012.
40th Australian Conference of Economists, Canberra, July 2011.
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Inaugural Summer Conference, Seattle, June 2011.
Session organizer and chair, Experimental Economics, Economics & Democracy Conference, ANU, December 2008.
Other Academic
Service/
Member of the Graduate School Managing Board,
Experience
College of Economics and Social Science
Universität Hamburg
2014 -
Examiner for the approval of External Credits for all Economic Subjects,
School of Socioeconomics, College of Economics and Social Science
Universität Hamburg
2013 Seminar Coordinator, Departmental Seminar and Brownbag Seminar Series (85 seminars), Economics Program,
The Australian National University
2008 - 2009
Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of California, Berkeley
2004 - 2007
Carrer Center Manager, Master Program, School of Business and Economics,
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin
2002 - 2003
Member of the College Council (Fakultätsrat), School of Business and Economics,
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin
2000 - 2003
Student Advisor, Student Office, School of Business and Economics,
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin
1999 - 2001
Member of the University Council (Konzil/Akademische Senat)
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin
2000 - 2001
Founding Member and Chairman, StudentenRat e.V, alumni organization at the
School of Business and Economics,
Humboldt-Universität, zu Berlin
1999 - 2003
Invited and
Conference
Presentations
Public Economics Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (7/04); Breslauer Sympo-
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sium—International House, Berkeley (2/05); Seventh Intnternational Conference
Russian Society for Ecological Economics—Saint Petersburg, Russia (6/05); Public
Economics Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (7/05); Third World Congress
of Environmental and Resource Economists—Kyoto, Japan (7/06); Environment
and Resource Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, (10/06); Department Seminar, Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2/07).
Environment and Resource Seminar, University of California, Berkeley (4/07); Economics Program Seminar, Australian National University (9/07); Crawford School
of Economics and Government, Australian National University (10/07); Economics
Showcase, Australian National University (11/07); CORE Conference IV ‘Potential
of CSR in EU Integration’—Berlin, Germany (6/09); 17th Annual Conference European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists—Amsterdam (6/09);
Econometric Society Australasian Meeting—Canberra, Australia (7/09); Third Annual Organizational Economics Workshop—University of Sydney (7/09); Discussant,
Honours Conference—Australian National University (8/09); 4th Conference of the
International Summer School in Economics and Management—Universidad de la Habana, Cuba (9/09); Risk Management & Corporate Governance Conference—Loyola
University, Chicago (10/09); HUB workshop at the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Annual Conference—Adelaide, Australia (2/10); Public
Economics Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (6/10); 16th International Conference on Panel Data—Amsterdam (7/10); Economic Science Association World
Meeting—Copenhagen (7/10); Macro Analysis and Forecasting Seminar, German
Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin (7/10); Economics and the Environment Network Symposium, Crawford School ANU—Canberra, Australia (11/10);
Research School of Economics, Australian National University (2/11); Department
of Socioeconomics Seminar, Universität Hamburg (6/11); 18th Annual Conference
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists—Rome (6/11);
Public Economics Seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (7/11); Econometrics
and Business Statistics Seminar, Monash University, Melbourne (10/11); Research
School of Economics, Australian National University (6/12); International Water
Resource Economics Consortium (IWREC) 10th Annual Meeting—Stockholm, Sweden (8/12); 4th Conference of the International Summer School in Economics and
Management—Universidad de la Habana, Cuba (9/13); 4th Sustainability, Ethics,
and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference—Denver, Colorado, USA (5/15) 7th Conference of the International Summer School in Economics and Management—Universidad de la Habana, Cuba (9/16); BAMS - Berlin Applied Micro Seminar, HumboldtUniversität zu Berlin (1/17); Hamburg Center for Health Economics Seminar, Universität Hamburg (1/17);
Memberships
American Economic Association, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists,
Economic Science Association, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Verein für Socialpolitik
Last updated: November, 2016.
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