Working papers and work in progress

1. Fifty-five Crowd-Sourced Designs Assessing Carbon Pricing Support (with Schwaiger, R., Holzknecht, A., Kirchler, M., and Huber, J.) Revise & Resubmit at Nature Human Behaviour. 

Working papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, https://www2.uibk.ac.at/downloads/c9821000/wpaper/2026-06.pdf  Previously circulated as Collective Evidence on Behavioral Interventions Targeting Carbon Pricing Support: A Many-Designs Approach with 55 Studies

2. Training adolescents on climate action fosters behavioral change across social concerns and generations (with Bronchal, A., Guerrero-Tort, A. and Struwe, N.) 

Working papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, https://osf.io/qjdfy_v1

3. Salient carbon dividends are not enough to generate widespread support for carbon pricing in Austria (with Schwaiger, R, Benda, J., Holzknecht, A., Huber, J., and Kirchler, M.) 

Working papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/innwpaper/2026-08.htm

4. Reducing strategic uncertainty increases group protection in collective risk social dilemmas (with Steinmanis, I., Struwe, N., and Benda, J.)

Working papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck, https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/innwpaper/2025-02.htm 

5. Targeted Information and Sustainable Consumption: Field Evidence (with Balafoutas, L. and Epperson, R.)

Working papers, Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck. https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/innwpaper/2024-10.htm  Previously circulated as Information Acquisition and Sustainable Consumption: A Field Experiment 

6. Linking Global North Donors to Local Conservation Outcomes: Reducing Wild Meat Supply through Economic Incentives in West African Informal Restaurants (with Steimanis, I., Struwe, N., Benda, J., DOHO, C., and Vollan, B.) Preparation of manuscript. Visit the project website HERE. 

7. Experimental Methods to Measuring Prosociality: A Systematic Comparison and Test with Real-Life Decisions (with Struwe, N., Baier, A. and Lorè, L.) Preparation of manuscript.

8. The economics of label credence goods (with Kerschbamer, R., Holzmeister, F., and Walzl, M.) Preparation of manuscript.  

Peer Reviewed Publications

1. Conditional Payments for Democracy to Local Leaders managing Natural Resources in Rural Namibia. 2026 (with Steinmanis, I. and Vollan, B.). Ecological Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2026.109177.

2. Team formation in coordination games with fixed neighborhoods. 2025 (with Caparros, A. and Finus, M.). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 233, 106943, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106943. 

3. Increasing benefits in one-time public goods does not promote cooperation. 2024 (with Struwe, N. and Walker, J.M.) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121 (41) e2410326121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2410326121 

4. On fraud and certification of green production. 2024 (with Arguedas, C.). Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1–24, https://doi.org/10.1111/jems.12609 

5. No crowding out among those terminated from an ongoing PES program in Colombia. 2023 (with Moros, L., Pfaff, A., I. Steinmanis, Velez, M.A, and Vollan, B.) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102826 (previously circulated as "When only some ecopayments end: Field evidence from Colombia") 

6. Why do outsiders make donations to public good providers? 2023 (with Struwe, N. and  Bogner, K) Accepted - Book chapter in Behavioral Economics and the Environment, Routledge. (Peer Reviewed Chapter)

7. Competition Among Public Good Providers for Donor Rewards. 2022 (with Struwe, N. and Walker, J.M.) Experimental Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-022-09766-7. Replication files: osf.io/v5c4n

8. The role of non-binding pledges in social dilemmas with mitigation and adaptation. 2022 (with McEvoy, D. and Haller, T.) Environmental and Resource Economics 81, 685–710 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00645-y 

9. Substitution of social sustainability concerns under the Covid-19 pandemic. 2022 (with Baier, A., Holzmeister, F., Jaber-Lopez, T., and Struwe, N.) Ecological Economics, 192, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107259. 

10. Long term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on social concerns. 2021 (with Baier, A., Holzmeister, F., Jaber-Lopez, T., and Struwe, N.) Frontiers in Psychology, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743054. 

11. Experimental evidence on sharing rules and additionality in transfer payments. 2021 (with Struwe, N. and Walker, J.M).  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 188, pp. 1221-1247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.06.012  Replication files: osf.io/4djb5

12. Procedural fairness and nepotism among local traditional and democratic leaders in rural Namibia. 2020 (with Vollan, B., Steimanis, I., Petutschnig, F. and Prediger, S.) Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 15, eaay7651. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aay7651  Winner of the Best Published Paper by the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (2020-2021)

13. Social dilemmas with public and private insurance against losses. 2020 (with Dutcher, E.G. and Haller, T.) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 180, pp. 924-937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.02.008  

14. Diagnosing the role of the state for local collective action: types of action situations and policy instruments. 2019 (with Villamayor-Tomas S., Thiel, A., Zikos, D. and Amblard, L.) Environmental Science & Policy, 97, pp. 44-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.03.009 

15. Common-pool resource appropriation and conservation: Lessons from experimental economics. 2019 (with Walker, J.M.) In B. Hudson, J. Rosenbloom, and D. Cole, eds., Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons. Routledge. (Peer Reviewed Chapter) Preprint Version

16. Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Unconditional and Conditional Donations from Outsiders. 2018 (with Haller, T. and Walker, J.M.) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 91, pp. 815-831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.10.002 Accepted Manuscript and Supplementary Material

17. Co-management of protected areas to alleviate conservation conflicts: Experiences in Norway. 2017 (with Fedreheim, G.E.) International Journal of the Commons, 11, pp. 754-773.  http://doi.org/10.18352/ijc.749 

18. Externalities in appropriation: Responses to probabilistic losses. 2017 (with Haller, T., and Walker, J.M.) Experimental Economics, 20, pp.793–808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9511-x  

19. Marine conservation as complex cooperative and competitive human interactions. 2017 (with Basurto, X., Nenadovic, M., and Vollan, B.) In P.S. Levin and M.R. Poe, eds., Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean. Elsevier.  (Peer Reviewed Chapter)

20. The opportunity cost of conservation with deterministic and probabilistic externalities. 2016 (with Lopez, M.C., and Walker, J.M.) Environmental and Resource Economics, 64, pp. 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-014-9868-7   Accepted Manuscript

21. The tension between private benefits and degradation externalities from appropriation in the commons. 2016 (with Haller, T., Lopez, M.C., and Walker, J.M.) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 125, 136-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2016.02.008  Accepted Manuscript and Supplementary Material

22. Integrating simultaneous prosocial and antisocial behavior into theories of collective action. 2016 (with Basurto, X., Nenadovic, M., and Vollan, B.) Science Advances, 2, e1501220. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1501220. Open Access! Press article by The Washington Post, Audio material.

23. Exogenous degradation in the commons: Field experimental evidence. 2015 (with Lopez, M.C. and Villamayor-Tomas, S.) Ecological Economics, 120, pp. 430-439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.03.028. Special issue Collective Action and the Allocation of Resources Common Use in Latin America.

24. Ecolabels, uncertified abatement, and the sustainability of natural resources: An evolutionary approach. 2015 (with Lozano, J.) Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Volume 25, pp 623-647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-015-0403-y 

25. Voting for environmental donations: Experimental evidence from Majorca, Spain. 2012 (with Lopez, M.C and Coleman, E.) Ecological Economics, 75, pp. 52–60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.12.014 

26. A social-ecological approach to voluntary environmental initiatives: the case of nature-based tourism. 2011. Policy Sciences, 44, pp. 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-010-9121-3 

27. An experimental study for environmental fundraising in Majorca, Spain. 2011 (with López, M.C. and Coleman, E.) In R.M. Isaac and D. A. Norton, eds., Experiments on Energy, the Environment, and Sustainability. Research in Experimental Economics Volume 14, 181–211. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald. (Peer Reviewed Chapter)

28. Can ecolabels survive in the long-run? The role of initial conditions. 2010 (with Lozano, J. and Rey-Maquieira, J.) Ecological Economics, 69, pp. 2525-2534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.07.029 

29. Rejuvenation strategies: A comparison of winter sport destinations in Alpine regions. 2010 (with Müller, S. and Peters, M.) Tourism, 58, pp. 19-36. ISSN: 1332-7461 

30. A dynamic approach to voluntary environmental contributions in tourism. 2009 (with Lozano, J. and Rey-Maquieira, J.) Ecological Economics, 69, pp. 104-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.07.012 

31. The economic impacts of voluntary environmental performance of firms: a critical review. 2009 (with Rey-Maquieira, J. and Lozano, J.) Journal of Economic Surveys, 23, pp. 462-502.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6419.2008.00569.x 

32. Economic Incentives of Tourism Firms to Undertake voluntary environmental action. 2009 (with Rey-Maquieira, J. and Lozano, J.) Tourism Management, 30, pp. 112-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2008.04.007 

33. A critical review of voluntary environmental initiatives in tourism: policy implications for rejuvenation. 2009 (with Müller, S.) Tourism, 57, pp. 225-240. ISSN: 1332-7461 

34. Do tourism firms have economic incentives to undertake voluntary environmental initiatives? 2009 (with Lozano, J. and Rey-Maquieira, J.) In (Eds.) Matias, Álvaro; Nijkamp, Peter; Sarmento, Manuela, Advances in Tourism Economics: New Developments, Springer-Verlag, pp. 235-255 (Peer Reviewed Chapter).

35. La fiscalidad ecológica en el sector turístico. Un estudio de caso: La ecotasa balear. 2004 Revista Interdisciplinar de Gestión Ambiental, 72, pp. 37-50. ISSN: 1575-1317

Invited Book Chapters

36. The economic consequences from tourism firms’ environmental action: A survey. 2008. (with Juaneda Sampol, C.N.) In (Eds.) Christopher Kronenberg, Sabine Müller, Mike Peters, Birgit Pikkemaat and Klaus Weiermair, Change Management in Tourism: From 'Old' to 'New' Tourism, Erich Schmidt-Verlag, pp. 235-246. (Invited chapter).

Books

37. Guía metodológica para el análisis económico de la implementación de la Directiva Marco del Agua en las Islas Baleares. 2011. (with Tirado, D.) Libros del Instituto Balear de Economía. ISBN: 978-84-615-0741-2

38. An economic and institutional approach to the use of natural common-pool resources by the tourism industry. 2010. (with Lozano, J. and Rey-Maquieira, J.) Edicions UIB, Palma de Mallorca. ISBN: 978-84-8384-156-3.