Directory of Scholars

EDWIN WOERDMAN

LAW AND ECONOMICS, CLIMATE CHANGE, EMISSIONS TRADING, ENERGY MARKETS
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

email e.woerdman@rug.nl

Primary Research Interests

  • Climate change law
  • Economic instruments & the environment (taxes, emission trading, etc)

Secondary Research Interests

  • Energy law
  • Environmental politics

Selected Publications

  • Energy Prices and Emissions Trading: Windfall Profits from Grandfathering? (with O. Couwenberg and A. Nentjes), European Journal of Law and Economics, 2009. (accepted for publication / forthcoming)
  • Emissions Trading and the Polluter-Pays Principle: Do Polluters Pay under Grandfathering? (with A. Arcuri and S. Clò), Review of Law and Economics 4 (2), 2008, pp. 565-590
  • "Shifts in Gas Market Governance: Path-Dependent Institutional Innovation in the Netherlands" (with Couwenberg, O.), in A. Prinz, A.E. Steenge and J. Schmidt, eds., Innovation: Technical, Economic and Institutional Aspects, Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2006, pp. 25-64
  • "Tradable Emission Rights", in: J.G. Backhaus, ed., Elgar Companion to Law and Economics, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar, 2005, pp. 364-380
  • The Institutional Economics of Market-Based Climate Policy, Developments in Environmental Economics Series, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004 326 pages, www.elsevier.com/locate/isbn/0444515739