Dr. Melanie Dunger
Personal details
Melanie Dunger has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy (IERP) and Academic Program Assistant (MSc "The Economics of Global Challenges") at the University of Bremen since 2024. Her research interests lie in the field of behavioral economics and experimental economic research, with a particular focus on environmental economics and information economics. She is particularly interested in how individuals and societies process and respond to information, especially in the context of environmental decision-making, public policy, and the perception of new technologies.
Previously, she worked at the Chair of Innovation and Structural Economics and analyzed how information, communication and technology characteristics influence the acceptance of CCS technologies in the AIMS³ project. She wrote her dissertation at the University of Göttingen, at the Chair of Microeconomics, in which she focused on social norms. Prior to this, Ms Dunger completed her Master's degree in Economic Behaviour and Governance and her Bachelor's degree in Economic Education at the University of Kassel.
Teaching
| SoSe 2026 | Seminar "Morals and Markets" Spieltheorie |
| WiSe 25/26 | Seminar "Environmental Economics" (Master) Seminar Projektmodul Verhaltensökonomik (Bachelor) |
| SoSe 2025 | Seminar "Morals and Markets" (Bachelor) |
| SoSe 2024 | Mikroökonomie (Universität Bremen) |
WiSe 22/23 | Seminar “Topics in Behavioral Economics“ (Universität Göttingen, Masterkurs) |
SoSe 2022 | Seminar “Forschendes Lehren und Lernen“ (Universität Göttingen, Masterkurs) |
| Übung zu „Fridays for Sustainability – Verhaltensökonomische Aspekte zu Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit“ (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs, Übung) |
SoSe 2020 - 2022 | Übung zur Mikroökonomie I (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs, Übung) |
WiSe 20/21 | Übung zur Mikroökonomie II (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs) |
WiSe 2019 | Vorlesung “Wirtschaftspolitik und Aussenhandel (DHBW Heilbronn, Bachelorkurs) |
SoSe 2018 - 2020 | Übung zu Spieltheorie (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs, Übung) |
SoSe 2017 - 2020 | Seminar “Experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung” (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs) |
WiSe 16/17 - 19/20 | Übung zu Spieltheorie (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs, Übung) |
WiSe 16/17 - 17/18 | Übung zur Experimentellen Wirtschaftsforschung (Universität Göttingen, Bachelorkurs) |
SoSe 2015 | Tutorium Wirtschaftspolitik (Universität Kassel) |
WiSe 14/15 | Tutorium Wirtschaftspolitik (Universität Kassel) |
SoSe 2014 | Tutorium Wirtschaftspolitik (Universität Kassel) |
Publications
| 2024 |
Dunger, M., Kraus, J. (2024). “Bridging Individual Behavior and Technological Solutions in Climate Change Mitigation”, Bremen Papers on Economics & Innovation, No. 2401. https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/3046. |
Kopf, A., Bhattacharya, S., Dunger,M., Hinz, A., Kamrad, M., Kremin, I., Lange, I., Achterberg, E.P., Bach, W., Bachmayer, R., Brunner, R., Eickhoff, M., Esposito, M., Freudenthal, T., Fuchs, N., Meurer, C., Rüpke, L., Schelwat, H., Seidel, G., Zabel, M. (2024). „Initial results of a pilot project for sub-seabed basalt storage of carbon dioxide on the Reykjanes Ridge”, Carbon Capture Science & Technology (13). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccst.2024.100265. |
| 2019 |
| Bruns, S. B., Asanov, I., Bode, R., Dunger, M., Funk, C., Hassan, S. M., Hauschildt, J., Heinisch, D., Kempa, K., König, J., Lips, J., Verbeck, M., Wolfschütz, E., Buenstorf, G. (2019): „Reporting errors and biases in published empirical findings: evidence from innovation research”, Research Policy 48(9). |