Dr Ralf Steinhauser
Areas of expertise
- Public Economics Taxation And Revenue 140215
- Experimental Economics 140206
- Environment And Resource Economics 140205
- Economic Models And Forecasting 140303
- Panel Data Analysis 140304
- Behavioural Economics 380102
Research interests
Behavioural Economics, Fiscal Policy, Applied Econometrics, Experimental Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Corporate Social Responsibility
Biography
Dr Ralf Steinhauser is a Senior Research Fellow at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. He was previously Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Hamburg and is currently a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from Humboldt University in Berlin and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published research on carbon emissions forecasting, consumer behaviour, green industrial policy, corporate governance and taxation. He is an expert in behavioural and environmental economics, with particular expertise in large data analysis and experimental design. He has worked extensively on economic policy issues including elasticities of state taxes, the spending effects of GFC stimulus payments, property tax reform, influences on fertility in Australia, detailed costing of road crashes and a review of the CGCs assessment of state judicial costs.
Publications
- Aisbett, E, Raynal, W, Steinhauser, R et al. 2023, 'International green economy collaborations: Chasing mutual gains in the energy transition', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 104.
- Gray, E, Reimondos, A, Lazzari, E et al. 2022, Impacts on policies on fertility rates.
- Aisbett, E & Steinhauser, R 2014, 'Maintaining the Common Pool: Voluntary Water Conservation in Response to Varying Scarcity', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 167-185.
- Auffhammer, M & Steinhauser, R 2012, 'Forecasting the Path of U.S. C02 Emissions Using State-Level Information', Review of Economics and Statistics vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 172-185.
- Steinhauser, R 2012, 'Manager's Behavior When Governance Is Weak', in Abol Jalilvand and A.G. Malliaris (ed.), Risk Management and Corporate Governance, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York, pp. 69-86.
- Auffhammer, M & Steinhauser, R 2007, 'The Future Trajectory of US CO2 Emissions: The Role of State vs. Aggregate Information', Journal of Regional Science, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 47-61.
- Berck, P, Lipow, J & Steinhauser, R 2006, 'Tax Smoothing and the Cross-Country Pattern of Privatization', World Development, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 238-246.
- Steinhauser, R & Auffhammer, M 2005, 'Forecasting US CO2 Emissions Using State-Level Data', Breslauer Symposium, ed. Conference Program Committee, University of California, Berkely USA, p. 26.
Projects and Grants
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- The use of nudges as a local government environmental policy instrument (Secondary Investigator)
- Cost of road crashes in Australia (Secondary Investigator)
- Research services to investigate barriers to and boosters of the total fertility rate (Secondary Investigator)
- Impact of ACT Government tax reform (Secondary Investigator)
- Estimation of elasticities for revenue bases (Secondary Investigator)
- Estimating the impact of fiscal stimulus on household expenditure. (Primary Investigator)