Dr. Mar­cel Lum­kow­sky

Marcel Lumkowsky is a research fellow and lecturer at the Chair of Environmental and Behavioral Economics at the University of Kassel. He completed his PhD there in January 2026 with a dissertation on mechanisms for solving cooperation problems in social dilemmas. Prior to this, he obtained an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from Kiel University and a BSc in Economics from Leuphana University Lüneburg. During his studies, he worked as a student research assistant at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and the Institute of Economics at Leuphana University Lüneburg. His research focuses on institutional and behavioral economic mechanisms that promote cooperation, particularly in the context of international climate policy. His work combines online and laboratory experiments with the empirical analysis of survey data.

Journal articles

• Dannenberg, Astrid, Gunnar Gutsche, Marlene C. L. Batzke, Sven Christens, Daniel Engler, Fabian Mankat, Sophia Möller, Eva Weingärtner, Andreas Ernst, Marcel Lumkowsky, Georg von Wangenheim, Gerrit Hornung, Andreas Ziegler (2024) The Effects of Norms on Environmental Behavior, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 18 (1)
• Lumkowsky, Marcel, Emily K. Carlton, David G. Victor, Astrid Dannenberg (2023) Determining the willingness to link climate and trade policy, Climatic Change 176(10), 133
• Dannenberg, Astrid, Marcel Lumkowsky, Emily K. Carlton, David G. Victor (2023) Naming and Shaming as a Strategy for Enforcing the Paris Agreement: The Role of Political Institutions and Public Concern, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 120(40), e2305075120
• Victor, David G., Marcel Lumkowsky, Astrid Dannenberg (2022) Determining the credibility of commitments in international climate policy, Nature Climate Change 12(9), 793-800
• Vasconcelos, Vítor V., Sara M. Constantino, Astrid Dannenberg, Marcel Lumkowsky, Elke Weber, Simon Levin (2021) Segregation and Clustering of Preferences Erode Socially Beneficial Coordination, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118(50), e2102153118

Further publications (not peer-reviewed)

• Pittel, Karen, Franziska Holz, Sonja Peterson, Dawud Ansari, Carlo Gallier, Achim Hagen, Marcel Lumkowsky, Donia Mahabadi, Angelika Vogt, Marie-Theres von Schickfus (2021) Chances and Obstacles to Strengthening the Paris Agreement – The Case of Resource-Rich Countries, Background Paper Forum Climate Economics 9