Dr. Christin Hoffmann
Contact
Mehrzweckgebäude Universitätsstraße 22 - Room 114
christin.hoffmann(at)b-tu.de
T +49 (0) 355 69-4161
Consultation Hours: by arrangement
Education
2017: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland
2012: Master of Science in Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland
2010: Bachelor of Science in Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland
2009: Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
Dual study program in Cooperation with BASF Schwarzheide GmbH
Academic experiences
Since 2022: Research Group Leader Energy Economics Lab at the Energy Innovation Center, Chair of Energy Economics, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), Germany
Substitute Professor Chair of Decarbonisation and Transformation of Industry, BTU, Germany
2017 – 2022: Post-Doctoral Researcher Chair of General Business Administration, in particular Aspects of Organisation and Corporate Governance, BTU, Germany
2014 – 2020: Teaching Assistant Department Economics, UniDistance, Switzerland
2015: Lecturer Private Hochschule für Wirtschaft Bern, Switzerland
2013: Lecturer NachhaltigkeitsAkademie - Verein für Jugendbildung in Gesellschaft & Wissenschaft e.V., Germany
2012 – 2016: Research and Teaching Assistant Chair of Applied Microeconomics, Department of Economics and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) of the University of Bern, Switzerland
2011: Teaching Assistant Chair of Applied Microeconomics, University of Bern, Switzerland
Research Assistant Economic Policy Directorate, Department of Growth and Competition Policy, SECO - State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Switzerland
Hoffmann, C., Hoppe, J. A. & Ziemann, N. Faster, harder, greener? Empirical evidence on the role of the individual Pace of Life for productivity and pro-environmental behavior. Ecological Economics, 107212 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107212
Hoffmann, C., Hoppe, J. A. & Ziemann, N. Who has the future in mind? Gender, time perspectives, and pro-environmental behaviour. Environmental Research Letters, 104026 (2022). Article PDF
Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Clear Roads and Dirty Air? Indirect effects of reduced private traffic congestion on emissions from heavy traffic. Journal of Cleaner Production, 135053 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.135053
Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Seizing the Opportunity for Automation—How Traffic Density Determines Truck Drivers’ Use of Cruise Control. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (2022). https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2022.3212335
Hoffmann, C., Hoppe, J. & Ziemann, N. The Hare and the Hedgehog - Empirical Evidence on the Relationship between the Individual Pace of Life and the Speed-Accuracy Continuum. PloS one (2021). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256490
Goldbach, C., Hoffmann, C., Hoppe, J., Pitz, T. & Thommes, K. The fast and the furious—An experimental investigation of the pace of life and risky speed choice in traffic. PloS one, e0236589 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236589
Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Can digital feedback increase employee performance and energy efficiency in firms? Evidence from a field experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 49–65 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.034
Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Combining Egalitarian and Proportional Sharing Rules in Team Tournaments to Incentivize Energy-Efficient Behavior in a Principal-Agent Context. Organization & Environment, 1086026620945343 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026620945343
Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Using loss aversion to incentivize energy efficiency in a principal–agent context—Evidence from a field experiment. Economics Letters, 108984 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.108984
Hoffmann, C. Estimating the benefits of adaptation to extreme climate events, focusing on nonmarket damages. Ecological Economics, 106250 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.014
Hoffmann, C. & Stephan, G. Regional Flood Impacts and Adaptation in a Federal Setting: A spatial computable general equilibrium analysis for Switzerland. Climate Change Economics. 1850001 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1142/S201000781850001X
2023
Workshop in Environmental Policy Evaluation, University of St. Gallen (accepted)
2022
Invited Talk - Climate Econometrics Virtual Seminar, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, UK virtual – 9th Atlantic Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics, A Toxa, Spain
2021
North-American Economic Science Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, USA – EEA-ESEM Virtual Conference 2021– 26th Annual Conference of the the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, virtual – 9th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, virtual – 96th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International, virtual
2020
Invited Talk - Chair of Organizational Economics – Prof. Dr. Frauke von Bieberstein, University of Bern, Switzerland
2019
34th Annual Congress of the European Economic Association , Manchester, UK – Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany – Invited Talk: Potsdam Research Seminar in Economics, Chair of Economics, especially Markets, Competition and Institutions, Prof. Dr. Lisa Bruttel, University of Potsdam, Germany – Invited Talk: Chair of Political Economy and Empirical Economics, Prof. Dr. Michael Berlemann, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität/Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, envecon2019, UK Network for Environmental Economists, London, UK (accepted)
2018
6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, WCERE – Gothenburg, Sweden, (accepted)
2015
PhD Workshop "Environmental and Ressource Economics", Association of German-speaking Economists - Chapter of Environmental and Resource Economists (AURö), Hamburg
2014
PhD Workshop "Environmental and Ressource Economics", Association of German-speaking Economists - Chapter of Environmental and Resource Economists (AURö), Kiel – International Conference nordwest 2050 CLARR 2014, Regional Climate Adaption and Resilience, Bremen – 7 th Ruhr Graduate School, Doctoral Conference in Economics, Dortmund, Germany – 4 th Regional Economics Workshop, ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V., Dresden, Germany – International REKLIM Conference 2014, Our Climate - Our Future, Berlin, Germany – PhD Workshop, Swiss Program in Environmental and Energy Economics (SPEE) at the University of Basel
2013
PhD Workshop "Environmental and Resource Economics", Association of German-speaking Economists - Chapter of Environmental and Resource Economists (AURö), Frankfurt/Oder – PhD Workshop, Swiss Program in Environmental and Energy Economics (SPEE) at the University of Base.