Prof. dr. M.W. Hofkes

Summary

Marjan Hofkes is full professor of Environmental Economics and full professor of Economics of Sustainable Development at the VU University Amsterdam. In her capacity as head of the Department of Environmental Economics of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) she has direct management responsibility for about 20 research staff.

Professor Hofkes has extensive research and research management experience across a number of fields, including economic modelling, economic growth, endogenous technology and transitions, labour market economics and income policy, ranging from pure academic to policy supporting research. In 1991 she received her PhD in mathematical economics. Her more recent work has been concerned with economics of sustainable development and environment-economy trade-offs.

Among other advisory roles Professor Hofkes is a member of the Committee on Sustainable Development of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER). Furthermore, she is a member of the editorial board of TPEdigitaal, a Dutch electronic journal on political economy.

Expertise

Economic Modelling, Environmental Economics, Environment-Economy Trade-off, Green Accounting, Sustainable Economic Development.

Academic training

• 1991: PhD thesis ‘Modelling and Computation of General Equilibrium’, VU University Amsterdam.

• 1987: Masters Degree in Econometrics cum laude; major field mathematical economics, Faculty of Economics and Econometrics, VU University Amsterdam.

• 1984: Bachelors Degree in Econometrics cum laude, VU University Amsterdam.

Professional employment history

• 2006-present: Professor of Environmental Economics, VU University Amsterdam.

• 2005-present: Professor of Economics of Sustainable Development, VU University Amsterdam.

• 2004-2009: Deputy Director, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam.

• 2004: Acting Director, IVM, VU University Amsterdam.

• 2002-present: Head of the Department of Environmental Economics, IVM, VU University Amsterdam (on leave from 1 May 2009 – 1 May 2010).

• 1993-2005: Various research positions at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of the VU University Amsterdam and at IVM.

• 1991-1993: Policy Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Den Haag; policy advisor of the Minister of Finance in the field of labour market and income policy.

• 1982-1991: Various research positions at the Department of Econometrics, VU University Amsterdam.

Awards

Hennipman Award 2001 for the best bi-annual article in ‘De Economist’.

Selected publications

• Brouwer, R. & Hofkes, M (2008).Integrated hydro-economic modelling: Approaches, key issues and future research directions. Special Issue Ecological Economics. Integrated River Basin Modelling for Effective and Sustainable Water Management. Ecological Economics, 16-22.

• Brouwer, R., Hofkes, M. & Linderhof, V (2008). General equilibrium modelling of the direct and indirect economic impacts of water quality improvements in the Netherlands at national and river basin scale. Special Issue Ecological Economics Integrated River Basin Modelling for Effective and Sustainable Water Management.Ecological Economics,
  127-140.

• Dellink, R.B., Hofkes, M.W., Ierland, E.C. van & Verbruggen, H. (2004).Dynamic Modelling of Pollution Abatement in a CGE Framework. Economic Modelling, 21(6), 965 - 989.

• Gerlagh, R., Zwaan, B. van der, Hofkes, M.W. & Klaassen, G. (2004).Impacts of CO₂ taxes in an economy with niche markets and learning-by-doing. Environmental and Resource
   Economics, 28(3), 367-394.

• Mulder, P., Groot, H.F.L., de & Hofkes, M.W. (2003).Explaining Slow Diffusion of Energy-Saving Technologies: a vintage model with returns to diversity and learning-by-using.
  Resource and Energy Economics, 25(1), 105-126.

• Gerlagh, R., Dellink, R.B., Hofkes, M.W. & Verbruggen, H. (2002).A measure of sustainable national income for the Netherlands. Ecological Economics, 41, 157-174.

• Butter, F.A.G. den & Hofkes, M.W. (2001).Endogenous technology and environmental quality in economic models. The International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 1(1/2), 32-44.

• Hofkes, M.W. (2001). Environmental Policies: short term versus long term effects. Environmental and Resource Economics, 20, 1-26.

• Mulder, P., Groot, H.F.L. de & Hofkes, M.W. (2001).Economic growth and technological change: a comparison of insights from a neo-classical and an evolutionary perspective. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 68, 151-171.

• Bouman, M., Gautier, P.A. & Hofkes, M.W. (2000). Do firms time their pollution abatement investments optimally?De Economist,148, 71-86. (Hennipman Award 2001).

• Hofkes, M.W. (1996). Modelling Sustainable Development: an economy-ecology integrated model, Economic Modelling, 13, 333-353.

• Butter, F.A.G. den & Hofkes, M.W. (1995), Sustainable development with extractive and non-extractive use of the environment in production. Environmental and Resource Economics, 6, 341-358.

• Hofkes, M.W. (1990), A simplicial algorithm to solve the non-linear complementarity problem on Sⁿ x R^m₊. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 67, 551-565.

Books

• Bergh, J.C.J.M. van den & Hofkes, M.W. (Eds.)(1998). Theory and Implementation of Economic Models for Sustainable Development. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.