Ulrike Kornek

Dr. Ulrike Kornek is a Post-doc in the Governance group of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin. She studied Physics at the University of Magdeburg and did her PhD in economics at the Potsdam- Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Technische Universität Berlin in 2015. Her research interests are in environmental economics with a focus on international climate policy. She uses analytical and numerical models to study the interaction of various actors with differing interests. At the center of her research are applied game-theoretical models that describe the consequences of different policy instrument and institutions on the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, she analyzes the effect of market-based environmental regulation in the context of the European emission trading scheme.