Rick Der Ploeg

Prof. Rick van der Ploeg (1956) combines his University Professorship at the UvA with his chair at Oxford University. At Oxford he is an Economics professor and research director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OXCARRE). He was also a professor at the School of Business and Economics at the VU Amsterdam. Previously, he worked at the London School of Economics and held professorial positions at the European University Institute in Florence, Tilburg University and the UvA, and most recently as visiting professor of Complexity Science at Utrecht University. He has a PhD in engineering from Cambridge University and became an economist at the University of Cambridge with Nobel Prize winners Richard Stone and James Mead as mentors.

Van der Ploeg's academic interests are very broad: he makes contributions in the fields of macroeconomics, international economics, political economics, environmental economics and resource economics. As a professor at Oxford, he focuses mainly on the economics of natural resources and environmental economics. He has published an exceptionally large number of influential articles in leading scientific journals.

Van der Ploeg was also active as a politician. He was a Member of Parliament (and spokesperson for Finance) for the PvdA and Under-Secretary of State for Culture and Media in the Kok II Cabinet. In addition, he is an active participant in social debates. As an economist, he has held numerous advisory positions at international organisations such as the IMF, the European Commission, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank.

Selected publications

THE RISK-ADJUSTED CARBON PRICE August 2021 | Journal article | The American Economic Review

RACE TO BURN THE LAST TON OF CARBON AND THE RISK OF STRANDED ASSETS September 2020 | Journal article | EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

ASSET DIVERSIFICATION VERSUS CLIMATE ACTION June 2020 | Journal article

DISCOUNTING AND CLIMATE POLICY January 2020 | Journal article | CESifo Working Paper

MACRO POLICY RESPONSES TO NATURAL RESOURCE WINDFALLS AND THE CRASH IN COMMODITY PRICES September 2019 | Journal article | JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MONEY AND FINANCE