Prof. Dr. Roland Menges
Department of Economics and Macroeconomics
Julius-Albert-Str. 6 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld Room: 134
Phone: +49 (5323) 72 - 7652 Fax: +49 (5323) 72 - 7697 roland.menges@tu-clausthal.de
Office hours: Tuesdays, 2-3 p.m., appointment via e-mail
Secretary's office: Petra Ernst Phone +49 (5323) 72 - 7653 petra.ernst@tu-clausthal.de
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Roland Menges studied economics at Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel and received his diploma in 1992. In 1993, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Experimental Economics at the University of York, UK. In 1996, he received his doctorate in Kiel for a thesis on uncertain preferences and the adaptive use of information strategies. Between 1999 and 2003, he was a member of the European Renewable Energy Certificate Trading (RECS) initiative, during the pilot phase of European certificate trading. His habilitation in economics took place in 2006 with a paper on the provision of environmental public goods at the University of Flensburg.
Since July 2010, Menges is Professor of Economics and Macroeconomics at TU Clausthal.
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Roland Menges' main research interests are environmental economics, behavioral economics and experimental economics. He is specifically concerned with the social acceptance of the energy transition, among others. He is a member of the Research Center for Energy Storage Technologies at Clausthal University of Technology. In 2019, he co-edited the Kompendiums der Wirtschaftstheorie und Wirtschaftspolitik (Compendium of Economic Theory and Policy), to which he contributed an article on environmental economics. The compendium is published by Springer-Verlag.
