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Inge van den Bijgaart is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University specializing in economics and environmental policy. Her research explores the economic repercussions of climate policy, focusing on how policy design influences economic justification for climate policy choices. In recent years, she has published extensively on topics such as climate policy, emission mitigation, and green innovation. Her co-authored works include studies on meat taxation and the environmental and health considerations that justify higher fuel taxes. Ongoing projects focus on policy interventions necessary for decarbonizing basic materials industries and the development of green industrial policies. She has received funding from FORMAS, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, for her work. Van den Bijgaart was awarded the NWO Vidi grant to study the interplay between firm heterogeneity and climate policy, with the project running from 2025 to 2030. At Utrecht University, she teaches subjects related to economic growth, climate change, and environmental policy, including modules in the BSc course 'Intermediate Macroeconomics: Growth and Sustainability' and a Research Master course in 'Advanced Macroeconomics.' Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, from September 2016 to November 2021, and obtained her PhD from Tilburg University in 2016.
University of Gothenburg • Gothenburg, Sweden
Taught courses on economics and conducted research in climate policy.
Department of Psychology