Cees A. Withagen

Examining the Green Paradox

Cees Withagen’s main research interest is in the economics of non-renewable resources and climate change, on which he published articles and several books. He focuses on the various aspects of the Green Paradox, mainly in the context of economic growth and the dynamic and strategic interaction between importers and exporters of fossil fuel and the development of substitutes.

During his stay at CESifo, Mr. Withagen will work on revisions of current papers (on Carbon Capture: Storage versus Utilization; Road Networks and Tropical Deforestation; Do strong oligopolies reverse Green Paradox effects?; Economically Exhaustible Resources in an Oligopoly-Fringe Model with Renewables. He will also discuss possible new research with CESifo members and attend the area conference on Energy and Climate Economics.

Cees Withagen is professor of economics at IPAG Business School in Paris and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Economics at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Department of Spatial Economics in the School of Business and Economics. He holds a master’s degree from Tilburg University in econometrics with a specialization in mathematical economics as well as a PhD also from Tilburg University. He is currently a Fellow of Tinbergen Institute and CentER (Tilburg University), a CESifo Research Network Fellow and a Research Professor at the ifo Center for Energy, Climate and Exhaustible Resources. He is associate editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and of the Scientific Advisory Board of Environmental and Resource Economics. Together with Rick van der Ploeg (Oxford University) he received an ERC Advanced Grant to study the political-economy aspects of the Green Paradox. .