Credit: Anna Logue
Johannes Gessner
Year: 2019
Center: Economics
Supervisor: Ulrich Wagner
Johannes was born in 1997 in Heidelberg, Germany. He received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Mannheim. During this time, he spent a semester abroad at San Diego State University in San Diego, California and did an internship in the department for Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management at the Leibniz-Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW). In his bachelor thesis, he analysed characteristics of electric vehicle owners exploiting data from the German Travel Survey “Mobilität in Deutschland 2017”.
His main fields of interest are econometrics and environmental and resource economics. His hobbies are playing piano, riding bicycles and running.
Publications
2023
- Gessner, J., Habla, W. and Wagner, U. J. (2023). Can social comparisons and moral appeals increase public transport ridership and decrease car use? ZEW Discussion Papers, 23–003. Mannheim.
2020
- Huwe, V. and Gessner, J. (2020). Are there rebound effects from electric vehicle adoption? Evidence from German household data. ZEW Discussion Papers, 20–048. Mannheim.
