Prof. Dr. Henk Folmer
Room and building: 0117, Leeuwenborch (201)
Tel: +31 (0)317 483853 (direct) 485455 (secretary)
Fax: +31 (0)317 485373
E-mail: Henk.Folmer@wur.nl
Personal information
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General information
Position: Professor of General Economics at the WUR and Professor of Methodology at the University of Groningen
Education: Social Sciences, University of Nijmegen
Ph.D Economics, University of Groningen
Research
Research topics:
1. Environmental and Resource Economics
2. Regional Economics
3. Labor Economics
4. Econometrics
Publications
Teaching
Courses
1. Evironmental and Resource Economics, NAKE
2. Public Finance
3. Econometrics
4. Regional Economics
5. Game theory
Supervision Ph.D. Theses
1. Life cycle assessment of the textile industry. The case of the River Wouri, Cameroon.
2. Environmental policy and firm location behavior.
3. Environmental policy in the European Union. An interconnected game approach.
4. Water management in the North China Plain.
5. Fishery management. A game theoretical approach.
6. Firewood management in Harare, Zimbabwe.
7. Welfare impacts of privatization. The case of Ghana.
8. An econometric model of the Frisian labor market.
9. Rural industrialization. The case of Bengal, India.
10. Assessing the costs and market impacts of carbon sequestration, climate change, and acid rain.
The optimal governance of public goods provision: Towards a unifying theory.
Other activities
1. Editor The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics (with Tom Tietenberg)
2. Editor New Horizons in Environmental Economics (with Wallace Oates)
3. Editor textbook Principles of Environmental and Resource Economics. A Guide for Students and Decision-Makers (with Landis Gabel)
4. Member editorial board Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Annals of Regional Science
5. Member Commission on Green Taxes, Ministry of Finance, Netherlands
Any other extra information
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.