Dr. Nolan Ritter

• 2018 - 2024: Mercator Research Institute for Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin.
• 2015 - 2018: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin.
• 2009 - 2012: Ph.D. in Economics (Dr. rer. oek).
  • Ruhr-Univerty Bochum
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph M. Schmidt
• 2008 - 2015: Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Essen.
• 2008: Graduation in Economics (Diplom).
  • University of Duisburg-Essen

• empirical evaluation of economic policies
• causal analysis
• reverse causal analysis
• machine-learning
• research interests (inter alia): environmental regulation and health, environmental regulation and stranded assets, road congestion

Stechemesser, A., Koch, N., Mark, E., Dilger, E, Klösel, P., Menicacci, L, Nachtigall, D., Pretis, F., Ritter, N., Schwarz, M., Vossen, H., Wenzel, A. (2024) Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global evidence from two decades, Science, 385(6711), 884-892, https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/science.adl6547.

Klauber, H., Holub, F., Koch, N., Pestel, N., Ritter, N., Rohlf, A. (2024) Killing Prescriptions Softly: Low Emission Zones and Child Health from Birth to School, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16(2), 220-248. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210729.

Koch, N., Naumann, L., Pretis, F., Ritter, N., Schwarz, M. (2022) Attributing agnostically detected large reductions in road CO2 emissions to policy mixes. Nature Energy 7, 844–853.

Rohlf, A., Holub, F., Koch, N., Ritter, N. (2020) The effect of clean air on pharmaceutical expenditures. Economic Letters, Volume 192, 109221.

Ritter, N., C. Vance, and V. Procher (2017), Housework allocation in Germany: The role of income and gender identity. Social Science Quarterly, 2017.

Kihm, A., Ritter, N., and C. Vance (2016), Is the German retail gas market competitive? A spatio-temporal analysis using quantile regression. Land Economics, 92(4), 718-737.

Ritter, N., C. Vance, and C. M. Schmidt (2016), Short-run fuel price responses: At the pump and on the road. Energy Economics, 58: 67-76.

Ritter, N., and C. Vance (2014), Is peace a missing value or a zero? On selection models in political science. Journal of Peace Research 51 (4), 528-540.

Ritter, N. and C. Vance (2013), Do fewer people mean fewer cars? Population decline and car ownership in Germany. Transportation Research Part A 50, 74-85.

Frondel, M., N. Ritter, and C. M. Schmidt (2012), Measuring long-term energy supply risks: A G7 ranking. Energy Studies Review 19 (1), 29-42.

Frondel, M., N. Ritter, and C. Vance (2012), Heterogeneity in the rebound effect: Further evidence for Germany. Energy Economics 34, 461-467.

Vance, C. and N. Ritter (2012), The phantom menace of omitted variables: A comment. Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2), 233-238.

Ritter, N. and C. Vance (2011), The Determinants of Bicycle Helmet Use: Evidence from Germany. Accident Analysis and Prevention 43:95-100.

Frondel, M., N. Ritter, C. M. Schmidt and C. Vance (2010), Economic Impacts from the Promotion of Renewable Energy Technologies: The German Experience. Energy Policy 38:4048-4056.

• FAIRCLIP - Stranded assets, financial constraints, and the distributional
  impacts of climate policy

• 2024/25: Economic Development, German International University, Winter Semester 2024.

• 2023/24: Economic Development, German International University, Winter Semester 2023.

• 2023: Money & Banking, German International University, Spring Semester 2023.

• 2023: Macroeconomics, German International University, Spring Semester 2023.

• 2022/23: Economic Development, German International University, Winter Semester 2022.

• 2022: Political Economy, German International University, Spring Semester 2022.

• 2022: Money & Banking, German International University, Spring Semester 2022.

• 2020: Macroeconomics, German University in Cairo, Campus Berlin, Spring Semester 2020.

• 2020: Money & Banking, German University in Cairo, Campus Berlin, Spring Semester 2020.

• 2019/20: Money & Banking, German University in Cairo, Campus Berlin, Winter Semester 2019.

• 2018/19: Economic Development, German University in Cairo, Campus Berlin, Winter Semester 2018.

• 2018: Political Economy, German University in Cairo, Campus Berlin, Spring Semester 2018.