Publications

Selected publications – please send me an e-mail for PDFs.

You can find all publications at my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9803-1336

Or head over to my Researchgate profile. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrich-Frey-3

2024

• Sperber, E., Frey, U., Turn down your thermostats – A contribution to overcoming the Bertsch, V. (2024) European gas crisis? The example of Germany. Energy and Buildings: 223
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110144

2023

• Schimeczek, C., Nienhaus, K., Frey, U., Sperber, E., Sarfarazi, F., Nitsch, F., Kochems, K., El Ghazi, A. AMIRIS: Agent-based Market model for the Investigation of Renewable and Integrated energy Systems. Journal of Open Source Software. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05041

• Schimeczek, C., Deissenroth-Uhrig, M., Frey, U., Fuchs, B., El Ghazi, A., Nienhaus, K. FAME-Core: An open Framework for distributed Agent-based Modelling of Energy Systems. Journal of Open Source Software. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.05087

• Nitsch, F., Schimeczek, C., Frey, U., Fuchs, B. FAME-Io: Configuration Tools for Complex Agent-based Simulations. Journal of Open Source Software. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04958

• Frey, U., Schimeczek, C., Deissenroth-Uhrig, M., Fuchs, B., Nienhaus, K. Rapid development and execution of complex agent-based energy system simulations: the FAME framework. IEEE Xplore Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/OSMSES58477.2023.10089770

2022

• Kasper Otten, K., Frey U., Buskens, V.,Przepiorka, W., Ellemers, N. Human cooperation in changing groups: evidence from a large-scale public goods game
  Nature Communications
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34160-5
• Frey, U., Burgess, J. Why do climate change negotiations stall? Scientific evidence and solutions for some structural problems.
  Global Discourse: 1-25. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204378921X16431423735159

2021

• Booshehri, …, Frey, U., et. al. Introducing the Open Energy Ontology: Enhancing Data Interpretation and Interfacing in Energy Systems Analysis.
  Energy and AI 5: 100074
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2021.100074
• Frey, U. (2021) Multiple method modelling reveals lack of robustness in natural resource management research.
  Journal of Environmental Management 281: 111812
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111812
• Cox, M., Gurney, G., Anderies, J., Coleman, E., Darling, E., Epstein, G., Frey, U., Nenadovic, M., Schlager, E., Villamayor-Mayor, T. Lessons learned from synthetic research projects based on the Ostrom Workshop frameworks.
  Ecology and Society 26(1): 17
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-12092-260117
• Frey, U., Wassermann, S., Deissenroth-Uhrig, M. Storage Technologies for the Electricity Transition: An Analysis of Actors, Actor Perspectives and Transition Pathways in Germany Energies 14: 18
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14010018

2020

• Frey, U.: Success in the commons: actors, institutions and sustainability.
  Oxford University Press
• Frey, U. (2020) Putting machine learning to use in natural resource management – improving model performance.
  Ecology and Society 25(4):45.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-12124-250445
• Frey, U., Klein, M., Schimeczek, C., Nienhaus, K. Self-Reinforcing Electricity Price Dynamics under the Variable , Market Premium Scheme.
  Energies 13(20): 5350
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13205350
• Sperber, E., Frey, U., Bertsch, V. Reduced-order models for assessing demand response with heat pumps – Insights from the German energy system.
  Energy and Buildings 223: 110144
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2020.110144
• Barnett, A., Partelow, S., Frey, U. et al. Defining Success in the Commons: Addressing Problem Orientations, Multidimensionality, Norms, and Tradeoffs.
  International Journal of the Commons 14(1): 366–387.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijc.994

2019

• Sietz, D., Frey, U., Roggero, M., Gong, Y., Magliocca, N., Tan, R., Janssen, P., Václavík, T.: Archetype analysis in sustainability research: methodological portfolio and analytical frontiers.
  Ecology and Society 24(3):34
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11103-240334
• Klein, M. Reeg, M., Frey, U.: Models Within Models – Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation in Energy Systems Analysis.
  Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 22 (4) 6
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18564/jasss.412
• Frey, U.: Long-term evidence on cooperation and cultural differences in public goods dilemmas.
  Biology Letters 15: 20190143
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0143
• Frey, U., Klein, M., Deissenroth, M.: Modelling complex investment decisions in Germany for Renewables with different machine learning algorithms.
  Environmental Modelling and Software 118: 61-75
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.03.006 
• Frey, U., Pirscher, F.: Distinguishing Protest Responses in Contingent Valuation: a Conceptualization of Motivations and Attitudes behind them
  PlosOne 14(1): e0209872.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209872 

2018

• Frey, U.: Nachhaltige Bewirtschaftung natürlicher Ressourcen – Erfolgsfaktoren in komplexen sozial-ökologischen Systemen.
  Springer: Heidelberg. ISBN: 978-3-662-55445-6.
• Frey, U.: Crowdfunding – revealing preferences for environmental goods. Management of Environmental Quality 16(2): 1
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MEQ-05-2018-0086
• Frey, U., Pirscher, F.: Willingness to pay and moral stance: the case of farm animal welfare in Germany.
  PloS ONE 13(8): e0202193.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202193 

2017

• Frey, U.: Assessing the generalizability of behavior and motives across different settings.
  Evolution and Human Behavior 38(3): 281-282.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.11.004
• Gorbani, A., Bravo, G., Frey, U., Theesfeld, I.: Self-organization in the commons: An empirically-tested model.
  Environmental Modelling and Software 96: 30-45
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.039
• Frey, U.: A synthesis of key factors for sustainability in social-ecological (2017) systems.
  Sustainability Science 12(4): 507-519.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-016-0395-z
  

2016

• Hirschauer, N., Mußhoff, O., Grüner, S., Frey, U., Theesfeld, I., Wagner, P.: Grundsätzliche Missverständnisse bei der Interpretation des p-Wertes.
  WiSt –Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium: 407-412.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.15358/0340-1650-2016-8-407
• Hirschauer, N., Mußhoff, O., Grüner, S., Frey, U.,
  Theesfeld, I., Wagner, P.: Die Interpretation des p-Wertes – Grundsätzliche Missverständnisse.
  Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 236(5): 557-575.
  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2015-1030
• Frey, U./Villamayor, T./Theesfeld, I.: A continuum of governance regimes: a new perspective on performance in irrigation systems.
  Environmental Science and Policy 66: 73-81.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.08.008
• Frey, U.: A synthesis of key factors for sustainability in social-ecological systems.
  Sustainability Science 12(4):
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11625-016-0395-z 
• Frey, U.: Cooperative strategies outside the laboratory – evidence from a long-term large-N-study in five countries.
  Evolution and Human Behavior 38(1): 109-116.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2016.07.006

2015

• Frey, U./Cox, M.: Building a Diagnostic Ontology of Social-Ecological Systems.
  International Journal of the Commons 9(2): 595-618.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18352/ijc.505

2014

• Salk, C./Frey, U./Rusch, H.: Comparing forests across climates and biomes: Qualitative assessments, reference forests, and regional inter-comparisons.
  PLOS ONE 9(4): E94800.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094800
• Frey, U./Rusch, H.: Modeling ecological success of common pool resource systems using large datasets.
  World Development 59:93-103.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.01.034

2013

• Frey, U./Rusch, H.: Using Artificial Neural Networks for the Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems.
  Ecology and Society 18(2):40.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05202-180240

2012

• Frey, U./Rusch, H.: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Long-Term Efficiency of Costly Punishment.
  Biology and Philosophy 27(6): 811-831.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-012-9327-1 

2011

• Frey, U./Voland, E.: The evolutionary route to self-deception: Why offensive versus defensive strategy might be a false alternative. A commentary to “The evolution and psychology of self-deception” from W. von Hippel & R. Trivers.
  Behavioral and Brain Sciences 34(1):21-22.
  DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X10001354

In addition: various books, book chapters and non-peer-reviewed articles