Environmental Economics

Research interests

• environmental and energy economics
• climate policy
• energy transition
• welfare and wellbeing indicators

Key publications

• Jonas Van der Slycken, Brent Bleys (2024) Is Europe faring well with growth? Evidence from a welfare comparison in the EU-15 (1995–2018), Ecological Economics. 217.
• Damaris Castro, Brent Bleys (2023) Do people think they have enough? A subjective income sufficiency assessment, Ecological Economics. 205.
• Xing Hu, Shiwei Yu, Xu Fang, Marten Ovaere (2023) Which combinations of renewable engergy policies work better? Insights from policy text synergies in China, Energy Economics. Volume 127, Part A
• Johan Albrecht (2022) Klimaatneutraal in 2050? Hoe organisaties het verschil kunnen maken (OWL Press Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, ISBN 9789463934497), 172 p.
• Mariateresa Silvi, Emilio Padilla Rosa (2021) Reversing impatience: Framing mechanisms to increase the purchase of energy-saving appliances, Energy Economics. 103.

• Benjamin Schalembier, Brent Bleys, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt (2020) How the income of others affects the life satisfaction of materialists, Journal of economic behavior & organization. 174. p.64-74

• Jonas Van der Slycken, Brent Bleys (2020) A conceptual exploration and critical inquiry into the theoretical foundation(s) of economic welfare measures, Ecological Economics. 176

• Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Marten Ovaere (2020) Field experimental evidence shows that self-interest attracts more sunlight, Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America. 117(34). p.20503-20510

• Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, Jing Li, Marten Ovaere, Mar Reguant (2020) The short-run and long-run effects of Covid-19 on energy and the environment, Joule. 4(7). p.1337-1341

• Benjamin Schalembier, Brent Bleys, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt (2019) How relative income affects work hours preferences, Applied Economics. 51(51). p.5545-5558

Recent PhD graduates

_{First or current placement (when available) in parenthesis}

• Ren Qiuzhen, September 2024, Towards Circular Economy: Progress, policies and outcomes
• Castro Damaris, August 2024, Lessons in less: Paving the way for sufficiency and working-time reduction
• Hamels Sam, September 2021, Realising a carbon-neutral European electricity system and building stock – technoeconomic and financial challenges
• Linh Nguyen Thi Dieu, June 2021, Climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture : the case of saltwater intrusion and rice production in central coastal region of Vietnam
• Jonas Van der Slycken, March 2021, Beyond GDP: alternative measures of economic welfare for the EU-15
• Sarmad Zaman Rajper, October 2020, Essays on prospects of electric vehicles in Pakistan
• Désirée Vandenberghe, September 2020, The economics of preventive health care