Carla J. Vogt

Prof. Dr. Carla J. Vogt is a full-time faculty member at Bochum University of Applied Sciences, where she has served as Professor of Economics since 2009. Her academic career includes previous roles at HTWK Leipzig (2006-2009), ZEW Mannheim (2000-2006), and earlier positions at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg. She specializes in Environmental and Climate Economics, Game Theory, and Public Policy, with a focus on fairness preferences, international climate negotiations, and experimental economics.

Her research portfolio includes major projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), BMBF, and Hessisches Ministerium, such as the 2025 DFG project on heterogeneous inequality aversion in climate models and the INFAIRCOM project (2018-2021). She has co-authored numerous influential publications in journals like Climatic Change, Environmental and Resource Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, often collaborating with scholars like Böhringer, Lange, and Sturm.

Key scientific contributions include the 2001 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization paper on cooperation in prisoner’s dilemmas and the 2012 Experimental Economics study on inequality aversion. Awards highlight her excellence, including the 2001 Best Dissertation Award from the University of Magdeburg. Her teaching spans Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Environmental Policy, with textbooks like Umweltökonomik (2018) and Mikroökonomik (2014) serving as foundational resources. She has led interdisciplinary teams in projects addressing carbon leakage, emissions trading, and water resource economics, reflecting her broad policy engagement.