Frank Goetzke received his doctorate in Economics from WVU in 2006. He has an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Biology (University of Bremen, 1991) and a Master’s degree in Energy and Environmental Studies (Boston University, 1996). Frank has more than 20 peer-reviewed publications, two book chapters and one co-authored monograph. He also has been a guest editor for two special journal issues on transportation, as well as a visiting scholar at the IFO Institute for Economic Research and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. He also is a research fellow at the RWI Institute for Economic Research. Furthermore, Frank had served in the Council for the Southern Regional Science Association.

Research Interests: Transportation planning and modeling, governance in sustainability and environmental policy, urban and regional economics, applied and spatial econometrics

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Economics, West Virginia University

Master of Arts, Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University

Bachelor of Science, Political Science and Biology, University of Bremen

Courses

SUST 303: Quantitative Research Methods in Sustainability and Urban Studies – QR (Fall)

SUST 402: Policy and Governance in Sustainability – WR (Fall)

PLAN 603: Urban Economics (Fall)

PLAN 620: Environmental Policy (Spring - odd years)

PLAN 624: Urban Transportation Planning and Policy (Spring - even years)

Recent Publications

Creutzig Felix, Frank Goetzke, Anjali Ramakrishnam, Anjali, Marina Andrijevic, Patricia Perkins. 2023. Designing a Virtuous Cycle: Quality of Governance, Effective Climate Change Mitigation, and Just Outcomes Support Each Other. Global Environmental Change, 82.

Marz, Waldemar and Frank Goetzke. 2022. CAFE in the City – A Spatial Analysis of Fuel Economy Standards. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 115.

Goetzke, Frank and Colin Vance. 2020. An Increasing Gasoline Price Elasticity in the United States? Energy Economics, 95, 104982.

Hankins, William B., Frank Goetzke and Gary A. Hoover. 2019. Partisan Determinants of Federal Highway Grants. The Review of Regional Studies, 49(2).

Weinberger, Rachel and Frank Goetzke. 2019. Automobile Ownership and Mode Choice: Learned or Instrumentally Rational? Travel Behavior and Society 16.

Goetzke, Frank and Samia Islam. 2017. Testing for Spatial Equilibrium Using Happiness Data. Journal of Regional Science 57(2).