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Chair of Energy Economics Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Felix Müsgens

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

Niklas Ziemann, Christin Hoffmann, Franziska Kathe & Felix Müsgens (2026): It’s green, I turn it on! Experimental evidence on a behavioral rebound effect in electricity demand response based on information. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 245, 107503. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268126000892; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2026.107503 

Niklas Ziemann, Leon Fazlik, Franziska Kathe, Christin Hoffmann & Felix Müsgens (2026): From the careless to the paralyzed? A consequential lab study on a potential inverted U-shaped relationship between climate anxiety and climate action. Environmental Research Communications, Volume 8, Number 1. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ae32e8; https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae32e8

Muhammad, S., Hoffmann, C., & Müsgens, F. (2025). Assessing energy security risks: Implications for household electricity prices in the EU. Energy, 136201. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544225018432

Auer, T., Berg, T., & Hoffmann, C. (2024). Inter- and intragenerational differences in corrupt behaviour: the development of morals after German reunification. The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 21(2), 211-264. dx. doi.org/10.25428/1824-2979/032

Christin Hoffmann, Shanmukha Srinivas Byrukuri Gangadhar, Felix Müsgens (2025). Smells like green energy the impact of bioenergy production on residential property values in Germany. Available online 27 March 2025, 108404. www. sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325002282

Muhammad, S., Hoffmann, C. (2024): From investment to impact: The role of green finance and technological innovation on German energy transition. Renewable Energy.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2024.121665

Hoffmann, C., & Thommes, K. (2024). Can leaders motivate employees' energy-efficient behaviour with thoughtful communication? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 125, 102990. doi. org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102990

Hoffmann, C., Byrukuri Gangadhar, S., Müsgens, F., (2024): Smells Like Green Energy - Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Bioenergy Production on Residential Property Values https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4760312

Hoffmann, C., Ziemann, N., Penske, F., & Müsgens, F. (2023, June). The value of secure electricity supply for increasing acceptance of green hydrogen First experimental evidence from the virtual reality lab. In 2023 19th International Conference on the European Energy Market (EEM) (pp. 1-9). IEEE. DOI 10.1109/EEM58374.2023.10161844 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10161844

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 behaviour. Ecological Economics, 107212 (2022). 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). 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). 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). 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). 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 & Organisation, 49-65 (2020). 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 Behaviour in a Principal-Agent Context. Organisation & Environment, 1086026620945343 (2020). doi. org/10.1177/1086026620945343

Hoffmann, C. & Thommes, K. Using loss aversion to incentivise energy efficiency in a principal-agent context-Evidence from a field experiment. Economics Letters, 108984 (2020). 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). 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). 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.