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Herman Vollebergh is professor of Empirical Tax Economics at Tilburg University (Tax Economics – Department of Economics, Tilburg Sustainability Centre and CentER), Senior Researcher at the CPB (Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy), and CESifo Research Fellow in München. His teaching, research and consulting interests cover a broad range of topics including the design and effects of incentive mechanisms to steer major transitions such as the net zero ambition for 2050, He extensively studied the use of (green) taxation, subsidies, tradeable permits and standards in the energy, waste and car market, cost-benefit analysis and social discounting, the long run relationship between emissions and income, and the effect of environmental policy on technological change. He has worked together with the policy community at the OECD, IMF, Coalition of Finance Ministers, European Union and the Dutch government. Recently he completed studies on the role of car standards in green innovation, fossil fuel subsidies, optimal second best corrective pricing and international climate finance.
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