Cees A. Withagen

Oil Suppliers and Oil Consumers

Cees Withagen is starting a new research project that will focus on a limited number of fossil fuel suppliers who face demand from two regions, one of which employs a tax on the imported resource and a subsidy on an available backstop technology, and one that has no environmental policy in place. In the case of a monopolistic supplier, the price path displays two limit pricing phases, where the price of fossil fuel is set just below the production cost of the renewable. The research question is whether and how this is modified in case of a symmetric oligopoly, of a cartel-fringe structure or of a dominant firm model.

In addition to resource economics, Mr Withagen’s research includes environmental economics and international trade, sustainability, green income accounting, backstop technologies, Porter’s hypothesis and evolutionary economics.

Cees Withagen is Professor of Environmental Economics at VU University, Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. He is fellow of Tinbergen Institute and CentER (Tilburg University) and CESifo Research Fellow as well as Research Professor at the Ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources.

Mr Withagen is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and of the Scientific Advisory Board of Environmental and Resource Economics. He is also associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and the European Economic Review. He received his MA and PhD in Econometrics from Tilburg University.