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Stef Proost

Stef Proost

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
40
Citations
6708
World Ranking
2304
National Ranking
25

Overview

Stef Proost is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and conducts research across multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on transportation, economics, and environmental sustainability. Their work integrates perspectives from engineering, economics, econometrics, and social sciences.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, Stef Proost specializes in subfields such as:

  • Transportation
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering

The central topics in their research are:

  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure
  • Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Vehicle emissions and performance

Stef Proost has contributed to numerous scientific papers published in various venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • Cost-effective reduction of fossil energy use in the European transport sector: An assessment of the Fit for 55 Package, 2022, Energy Policy
  • A review of transport market modeling using game-theoretic principles, 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • Vehicle choices and urban transport externalities. Are Norwegian policy makers getting it right?, 2020, Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Renewable electricity support in perfect markets: Economic incentives under diverse subsidy instruments, 2020, Energy Economics
  • Climate ambitions for European aviation: Where can sustainable aviation fuels bring us?, 2023, Energy Policy

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Bruno De Borger
  • Kenneth Løvold Rødseth
  • Marten Ovaere
  • Nicole Adler
  • Christina Littlejohn

Stef Proost regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economics of Transportation
  • Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice
  • Energy Policy
  • Resource and Energy Economics

Best Publications

  • THE MARGINAL EXTERNAL COSTS OF URBAN TRANSPORT

    Inge Mayeres;Sara Ochelen;Stef Proost

  • Traffic Congestion And Congestion Pricing

    C. Robin Lindsey;Erik T. Verhoef

  • Marginal tax reform, externalities and income distribution

    Inge Mayeres;Stef Proost

  • Parking Policies and Road Pricing

    Edward Calthrop;Stef Proost;Kurt van Dender

  • Private Port Pricing and Public Investment in Port and Hinterland Capacity

    Bruno De Borger;Stef Proost;Kurt Van Dender

  • Optimal urban transport pricing in the presence of congestion, economies of density and costly public funds

    Stef Proost;Kurt Van Dender

  • Optimal Tax and Public Investment Rules for Congestion Type of Externalities

    Inge Mayeres;Stef Proost;Stef Proost

  • Carve-outs under airline antitrust immunity

    Jan Keith Brueckner;Stef Proost

  • Regulating on-street parking

    Edward Calthrop;Stef Proost

  • The welfare impacts of alternative policies to address atmospheric pollution in urban road transport

    Stef Proost;Kurt Van Dender

  • Discomfort in mass transit and its implication for scheduling and pricing

    André de Palma;André de Palma;Moez Kilani;Stef Proost

  • Reforming transport pricing in the European Union : a modelling approach

    Bruno De Borger;Stef Proost

  • A political economy model of road pricing

    Bruno De Borger;Stef Proost

  • Congestion and tax competition in a parallel network

    Bruno De Borger;Stef Proost;Kurt Van Dender

  • Cost-effective reduction of fossil energy use in the European transport sector: An assessment of the Fit for 55 Package

    Marten Ovaere;Stef Proost

  • Strategic investment and pricing decisions in a congested transport corridor

    B De Borger;Fay Dunkerley;Stef Proost;Stef Proost

  • What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics

    Stef Proost;Jacques-François Thisse

  • The Double Dividend and the Role of Inequality Aversion and Macroeconomic Regimes

    S. Proost;D. Van Regemorter

  • Road Transport Externalities

    Edward Calthrop;Stef Proost

  • The Opening of the European Electricity Market and Environmental Policy: Does the Degree of Competition Matter?

    Andrea Bigano;Stef Proost

  • Efficiency and distribution in greenhouse negotiations

    Johan Eyckmans;Stef Proost;Erik Schokkaert

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno De Borger
Bruno De Borger University of Antwerp
Amihai Glazer
Amihai Glazer University of California, Irvine
André de Palma
André de Palma CY Cergy Paris University
Jan K. Brueckner
Jan K. Brueckner University of California, Irvine
Robin Lindsey
Robin Lindsey University of British Columbia
Jacques-François Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp
Erik Delarue
Erik Delarue KU Leuven

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