About the Professorship

The Chair of Economics (in particular Institutional Environmental Economics) was established in 2008 as a corporate call from the Leipzig University and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. The professorship is part of the Institute of Infrastructure and Resources Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business Management (IIRM).

Research Programme

The research programme of the professorship investigates environmental issues using the approaches of new institutional economics, the theory of institutional change, the contract and agency-theory, the property rights approach, the economic analysis of law, politics and bureaucracy and the economics of information. Furthermore, methods from public economics and general environmental economics are used.

Application-oriented research topics in the field of international water management, environmental issues in managing the interface in the fields of energy, transport and infrastructure as well as climate change issues are all being investigated. A special focus is on the institutions and instruments of environmental policy as well as on modelling environmental economics.

A large part of this research takes place in the Department of Economics at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ. The staff at UFZ and at the academic chair at Leipzig University conduct research on the following topics:

  • The economics of climate change, in particular climate adaption (UFZ)
  • Economic aspects of using bioenergy (UFZ)
  • Charges and pricing of water services (UFZ)
  • Environmental interface problems in the fields of energy, transport and technical infrastructure (IIRM)
  • Financing transport infrastructure (IIRM)
  • Fees and charges for communal supply and disposal (water, wastewater, waste) (IIRM)

Courses

Within the faculty of economics and business management the staff lecture in the fields of environmental, resource and energy economics, microeconomics and new institutional economics.

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