prof. dr. Daan van Soest

Bio

Daan van Soest is professor of environmental economics (Department of Economics and CentER), and Academic Director of the Tilburg Sustainability Center.  He has worked on a wide variety of topics within environmental economics, such as renewable natural resource management, energy economics, and environmental policy design. His research is both theoretical and empirical in nature, and he also uses field experiments to gain insight into the behavioral aspects of (un)sustainable resource use. He publishes his work in specialized field journals in environmental economics as well as in general interest economics journals. He has served as associate editor for Environmental and Resource Economics, and as co-editor-in-chief of Resource and Energy Economics.

Expertise

Environmental and natural resource economics, experimental economics, behavioral economics, climate economics, development economics.

Teaching

Environmental  and resource economics (BSc and MSc), development economics (RM)

Courses

• Dev. and Growth: Microeconomics (CentER)
• Sem. Environmental & Resource Economics

Recent publications

1. E-payment technology and business finance: A randomized controlled tr…

   Dalton, P., van Soest, D., & Uras, B. (2023). E-payment technology and business finance: A randomized controlled trial with mobile money. Management Science. Advance online publication.

2. Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs

   Ferraro, P. J., Cherry, T. L., Shogren, J. F., Vossler, C. A., Cason, T. N., Flint, H. B., Hochard, J. P., Johansson-Stenman, O., Martinsson, P., Murphy, J. J., Newbold, S. C., Thunström, L., van Soest, D., van’t Veld, K., Dannenberg, A., Loewenstein, G. F., & van Boven, L. (2023). Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs. Science, 381(6659), 735-737.

3. Faseer fossiele belastingvoordelen uit, en doe het snel

   Gerlagh, R., Smulders, S., & van Soest, D. (2023). Faseer fossiele belastingvoordelen uit, en doe het snel. Het Financieele Dagblad. https://fd.nl/opinie/1489491/faseer-fossiele-belastingvoordelen-uit-en-doe-het-snel

4. Crowdfunding conservation (and other public goods)

   Ansink, E., Koetse, M., Bouma, J., Hauck, D., & van Soest, D. (2022). Crowdfunding conservation (and other public goods). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 9(3), 565-602.

5. Can global aquaculture growth help to conserve wild fish stocks? Theo…

   Bogmans, C. W. J., & van Soest, D. (2022). Can global aquaculture growth help to conserve wild fish stocks? Theory and empirical analysis. Natural Resource Modeling, 35(1), Article e12323.