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 Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrich-Frey-3
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