Research interests

• environmental and energy economics
• climate policy
• energy transition
• welfare and wellbeing indicators

Key publications

• Benjamin Schalembier, Brent Bleys, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt (2020) How the income of others affects the life satisfaction of materialists, Journal of economic behavior & organization. 174. p.64-74

• Jonas Van der Slycken, Brent Bleys (2020) A conceptual exploration and critical inquiry into the theoretical foundation(s) of economic welfare measures, Ecological Economics. 176

• Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Marten Ovaere (2020) Field experimental evidence shows that self-interest attracts more sunlight, Proceedings of the national academy of sciences of the United States of America. 117(34). p.20503-20510

• Kenneth T. Gillingham, Christopher R. Knittel, Jing Li, Marten Ovaere, Mar Reguant (2020) The short-run and long-run effects of Covid-19 on energy and the environment, Joule. 4(7). p.1337-1341

• Kenneth Bruninx, Marten Ovaere, Erik Delarue (2020) The long-term impact of the market stability reserve on the EU emission trading system, Energy economics. 89.

• Benjamin Schalembier, Brent Bleys, Luc Van Ootegem, Elsy Verhofstadt (2019) How relative income affects work hours preferences, Applied Economics. 51(51). p.5545-5558
• Bleys, B., Defloor, B., Van Ootegem, L., & Verhofstadt, E. (2018) The Environmental Impact of Individual Behavior: Self-Assessment Versus the Ecological Footprint, Environment and Behavior 50(2), 187-212
• Albrecht, J., Hamels, S. en Thomas, L. (2017) Energietrilemma. Een verkenning van het Belgische elektriciteitslandschap in 2030 (SKRIBIS ISNB 978 90 736 2665 2), 127 p
• Verhofstadt, E., Van Ootegem, L., Defloor, B., & Bleys B. (2016) Linking Individuals' Ecological Footprint to their Subjective Well-Being, Ecological Economics 127, 80-89.
• Albrecht, J., Laleman, R. en Vulsteke, E. (2015) Balancing demand-pull and supply-push measures to support renewable electricity in Europe, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 49, 267–277

Recent PhD graduates

_{First or current placement (when available) in parenthesis}

• Hamels Sam, September 2021, Realising a carbon-neutral European electricity system and building stock – technoeconomic and financial challenges
• Linh Nguyen Thi Dieu, June 2021, Climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture : the case of saltwater intrusion and rice production in central coastal region of Vietnam
• Jonas Van der Slycken, March 2021, Beyond GDP: alternative measures of economic welfare for the EU-15
• Sarmad Zaman Rajper, October 2020, Essays on prospects of electric vehicles in Pakistan
• Désirée Vandenberghe, September 2020, The economics of preventive health care
• Ruben Laleman, May 2015, Policies to support the low carbon electricity transition
• Johan Albrecht, April 2002, Institutional and instrumental innovations for environmental policy
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