Frans de Vries


	Dr Frans de Vries Lecturer in Economics	Room 3B85 Telephone +44 (0)1786 467485 Fax +44 (0)1786 467469 Email f.p.devries@stir.ac.uk

Biography	M.Sc. (Wageningen). Ph.D. (Groningen) Postdoc at CentER, Tilburg 2002-05, Assistant Professor at Groningen 2004-07, Lecturer at Stirling 2007-
Research interests	Environmental economics, applied microeconomics, the economics of technological change
Teaching	ECN311 Advanced Microeconomics ECN3IN Industrial Economics ECN3NV Environmental Economics EFGP37 Environmental Finance EGMP68 Seminar on Energy Management
Selected publications	"Environmental Taxes and Industry Monopolization" (with Lambert Schoonbeek), Journal of Regulatory Economics 36 (2009), pp. 94-106. "Effects of Environmental Policy on the Type of Innovation: The Case of Automotive Emissions Control Technologies" (with Ivan Hascic, Nick Johnstone and Neelakshi Medhi), OECD Journal: Economic Studies 1 (2009), pp. 41-58. "Technology Diffusion, Product Differentiation and Environmental Subsidies" (with Matthew McGinty), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Topics) 9 (2009), Article 11. "Technology-Forcing through Environmental Regulation" (with Andries Nentjes and Doede Wiersma), European Journal of Political Economy 23 (2007), pp. 903-916. "Market Structure and Technology Diffusion Incentives under Emission Taxes and Emission Reduction Subsidies", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163 (2007), pp. 256-268. "Location Choice by Households and Polluting Firms: An Evolutionary Approach" (with Bouwe Dijkstra), European Economic Review 50 (2006), pp. 425-446. "The Taxation of Drivers and the Choice of Car Fuel Type" (with Jan Rouwendal), Energy Economics 21 (1999), pp. 17-35.