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Frederick van der Ploeg

Frederick van der Ploeg

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
56
Citations
15347
World Ranking
995
National Ranking
107

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Frederick van der Ploeg is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of economics and energy, with significant contributions to the subfields of economics and econometrics, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, global and planetary change, and finance.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Energy

Frederick van der Ploeg's research spans several core topics such as climate change policy and economics, energy, environment, and transportation policies, fiscal policy and economic growth, global energy and sustainability research, market dynamics and volatility, natural resources and economic development, and atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics.

  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

The scientist has coauthored frequently with several researchers, including Armon Rezai, Rabah Arezki, Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños, Christoph Hambel, and Cees Withagen.

  • Armon Rezai
  • Rabah Arezki
  • Miguel Angel Tovar Reaños
  • Christoph Hambel
  • Cees Withagen

Frederick van der Ploeg has published multiple papers in prominent journals, including the following recent notable works:

  • "Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy," 2020, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • "Gathering support for green tax reform: Evidence from German household surveys," 2021, European Economic Review

Other significant papers from their field of study, although not authored by van der Ploeg, reflect the broader research context in which they work:

  • "The Risk-Adjusted Carbon Price," 2021, American Economic Review
  • "Are Economists Getting Climate Dynamics Right and Does It Matter?", 2021, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • "Macrofinancial Risks of the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy," 2022, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • American Economic Review

Frederick van der Ploeg has also contributed to book publications, including the title Radical Climate Policies published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks in 2022.

Recognition for Frederick van der Ploeg includes being made a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Natural Resources: Curse or Blessing?

    Frederick van der Ploeg

  • The Spatial Theory of Voting: An Introduction

    James M. Enelow;Melvin J. Hinich

  • Exchange-rate instability

    Paul R. Krugman

  • Volatility and the natural resource curse

    Unknown

  • Environmental policy, public finance and the labour market in a second-best world

    Unknown

  • Harnessing Windfall Revenues: Optimal Policies for Resource-Rich Developing Economies†

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Anthony J. Venables

  • The pungent smell of “red herrings”: Subsoil assets, rents, volatility and the resource curse

    Unknown

  • Is there really a green paradox

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Cees A. Withagen

  • Can the Natural Resource Curse Be Turned Into a Blessing? The Role of Trade Policies and Institutions

    Rabah Arezki;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • International aspects of pollution control

    Unknown

  • Crossing the river: a comparative perspective on Italian employment dynamics

    Giuseppe Bertola;Andrea Ichino

  • The Impact of Natural Resources: Survey of Recent Quantitative Evidence

    Frederick Van Der Ploeg;Steven Poelhekke

  • Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with involuntary unemployment

    A.Lans Bovenberg;A.Lans Bovenberg;A.Lans Bovenberg;Frederick van der Ploeg;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Pollution control and the Ramsey problem

    Unknown

  • Guide to reform of higher education: a European perspective

    Unknown

  • Do natural resources depress income per capita

    Rabah Arezki;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Consequences of environmental tax reform for involuntary unemployment and welfare

    A. Lans Bovenberg;Frederick Van der Ploeg

  • Trade unions, investment, and employment

    Unknown

  • Aggressive oil extraction and precautionary saving: Coping with volatility

    Frederick van der Ploeg

  • GROWTH, RENEWABLES, AND THE OPTIMAL CARBON TAX

    Frederick Van Der Ploeg;Frederick Van Der Ploeg;Cees Withagen

  • Global Warming and the Green Paradox: A Review of Adverse Effects of Climate Policies

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Cees Withagen

  • Tax reform, structural unemployment and the environment

    A. Lans Bovenberg;Frederick Van Der Ploeg

  • The Handbook of International Macroeconomics.

    Eric Pentecost;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Pollution, the cost of public funds and endogenous growth

    Jenny E. Ligthart;Jenny E. Ligthart;Frederick van der Ploeg;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Absorbing a windfall of foreign exchange: Dutch disease dynamics

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Frederick van der Ploeg;Anthony J. Venables;Anthony J. Venables

  • Too Much Coal, too little Oil

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Cees Withagen

  • Stranded Assets in the Transition to a Carbon-Free Economy

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Frederick van der Ploeg;Armon Rezai

  • Intergenerational Inequality Aversion, Growth, and the Role of Damages: Occam's Rule for the Global Carbon Tax

    Armon Rezai;Frederick Van der Ploeg

  • Foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags

    Steven Poelhekke;Frederick van der Ploeg

  • Natural Resource Wealth: The Challenge of Managing a Windfall

    Frederick van der Ploeg;Anthony J. Venables

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Rabah Arezki
Rabah Arezki Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Massimo Bordignon
Massimo Bordignon Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Jan C. van Ours
Jan C. van Ours Erasmus University Rotterdam
Roel M. W. J. Beetsma
Roel M. W. J. Beetsma University of Amsterdam
Henk A. Dijkstra
Henk A. Dijkstra Utrecht University
Paul Collier
Paul Collier University of Oxford
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science

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