WORKING PAPERS
van den Bijgaart, I., Jordaan, J. & Felici (2026) Economic exposure and climate policy support, CESifo working paper No. 12520
This paper quantifies the relationship between economic exposure to climate policies and climate policy support. We develop a stylised theoretical model to decompose exposure through income, energy spending and vehicle use, and define consistent measures of these exposure channels. We then combine detailed Dutch household administrative data and survey data on climate policy support and find that higher exposure is robustly associated with lower support for stronger climate policies across all three channels. Further analysis reveals that high electricity rather than high natural gas spending is associated with reduced support, and vehicle fuel efficiency is a more important predictor of support than income-adjusted kilometres driven. Income exposure, proxied by the sectoral carbon-intensity of jobs, is particularly salient among older and lower–to-middle educated respondents
PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed)
Löfgren, Å., Ahlvik, L., van den Bijgaart, I., Coria, J., Jaraitė, J., Johnsson, F., & Rootzén (2024) Green industrial policy for climate action in the basic materials industry. Climatic Change, 177, 147
Ahlvik, L. & van den Bijgaart, I. (2024). Screening green innovation through carbon pricing. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 124, 102932.
van den Bijgaart, I. & Cerruti, D. (2024). The effect of information on market activity: Evidence from vehicle recalls. Review of Economics and Statistics, 106(1), 230-245.
van den Bijgaart, I., Klenert, D., Mattauch, L., & Sulikova, S. (2024). Healthy climate, healthy bodies: Optimal fuel taxation and physical activity. Economica, 91(361), 93-122.
van den Bijgaart, I. & Rodriguez, M., (2023) Closing wells: fossil development and abandonment in the energy transition. Resource and Energy Economics, 74
Funke, F., Mattauch, L., van den Bijgaart, I. , M., Godfray, C., Hepburn, C., Klenert, D., Springmann M., & Treich N., (2022) Toward Optimal Meat Pricing: Is It Time to Tax Meat Consumption? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 16(2), pp 219-240
Sterner, T., Barbier, E.B., Bateman, I., van den Bijgaart, I., Crépin, A-S., Edenhofer, O., Fischer, C., et al. (2019) Policy design for the Anthropocene. Nature Sustainability, Vol. 2, pp 14-21.
Hamann, M., Berry, K., Chaigneau, T., Curry, T., Heilmayr, R., Henriksson, P., Hentati-Sundberg, J., Jina, A., Lindkvist, E., Lopez-Maldonado, Y., Nieminen, E., Piaggio, M., Qiu, J., Rocha, J.C., Schill, C., Shepon, A., Tilman, A., van den Bijgaart, I., & Wu, T. (2018) Inequality and the Biosphere. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43, pp 61-83
van den Bijgaart, I.M., & Smulders, J.A., (2018) Does a recession call for less stringent environmental policy? A partial-equilibrium second-best analysis. Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 70, pp 807-834
Gerlagh R., van den Bijgaart, I.M., Michielsen T., & Nijland, N., (2018) Fiscal policy and CO2 emissions of new passenger cars in the EU. Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 69, pp 103-134
van den Bijgaart, I.M. (2017) The unilateral implementation of a sustainable growth path with directed technical change. European Economic Review, Vol. 91, pp. 305-327
van den Bijgaart, I.M., Gerlagh R., & Liski M. (2016) A simple formula for the social cost of carbon. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 77, pp. 75–94.
Recipient of the 2016 JEEM best paper award
BOOK CHAPTERS
van den Bijgaart, I., Lindman, Å., Löfgren, Å., & Söderholm, P. (2025). Green industrial policy: Key challenges and policy design in decarbonizing the basic materials industries. In T. Lundgren, M. Bostian, & S. Managi (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics (Vol. 2, pp. 213–221). Elsevier.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Firm heterogeneity and technology adoption in the green transition (with Mauricio Rodriguez and Francesco Della Longa)
Climate policy for coordination (with Åsa Löfgren)
DORMANT RESEARCH
Too slow a change? Deep habits, consumption shifts and transitory tax policy [download]