Marius Samuel Alt --- Research

I am a behavioral economist researching topics in the field of environmental economics. My work covers various aspects of environmental economics like public good provision, energy conservation, green consumption, and sustainable finance. I did my Ph.D. at the University of Copenhagen in the Department for Food and Natural Resource Economics. At the same time, I had been working as a Researcher for the ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in the Department for Environmental and Resource Economics. In my research, I apply experimental economic methods to investigate behavioral responses to economic incentives, behavioral economic interventions like nudges, and exogenous information shocks.

Publications

Alt, M., Bruns, H., & DellaValle, N. (2024). The more the better? Synergies of prosocial interventions and effects on behavioural spillovers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103061..

Alt, M., Bruns, H., DellaValle, N., Murauskaite-Bull, I. (2024). Synergies of interventions to tackle climate change - a meta-analysis. Global Environmental Change, 84, 102776..

Alt, M. (2024). Better us later than me now - Regulatee-size and time-inconsistency as determinants of demand for environmental policies. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 108, 102144.

Alt, M., Gallier, C., Kesternich, M., Sturm, B. (2023). Collective Minimum Contributions to Counteract the Ratchet Effect in Social Dilemmas. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 122, 102895.

Alt, M., & Gallier, C. (2022). Incentives and intertemporal behavioral spillovers: A two-period experiment on charitable giving. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 200, 959-972.

Alt, M., Gallier, C., Schlüter, A., Nelson, K., & Anggraini, E. (2018). Giving to versus taking from in-and out-group members. Games, 9(3), 57.

Working Papers

Alt, M., Hopfensitz, A., Stepanova, A. (2023). Trust and loneliness nexus - experimental evidence from 27 European countries.

Alt, M., Berger, M., Bersch, J. (2023). Investor responses to information updates on peer behavior and public investment policy: The case of green investments. ZEW-Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper, (23-021). Under Review in Journal of Business Venturing.