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Sjak Smulders
  Professor of Economics, Tilburg University
Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Calgary
Editor Resource and Energy Economics

Professional activities

Fellowships

  • Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, "Academie-onderzoeker KNAW" April 1999 to 2004.
  • NWO (Dutch Scientific Research) research grant, July 1996 - June 1998.
  • CentER Fellow, Tilburg University, September 1994 to present.
  • Fellow Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE).

Journal boards

Short visiting positions Conferences organized
  • "Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics" Monte Verità, June 2004, 2006, and 2008 [conference website]
  • "Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, IV", International conference at Tilburg University, July 8-10 1999.
  • "Instituties en Economische Groei" (Institutions and Economic Growth), Symposium at Tilburg University, Februari 21, 1997.
  • "Workshops on Economic Growth" at Tilburg University and University of Amsterdam: April 1992 - May 1994.
Presentations:
  • 15th Annual conference EAERE, Thessaloniki, June 2007
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  • 6th IDEI-LERNA Conference on Environment and Resources Economics : Environment, Finance and Corporate Behavior May 31 - June 2, 2007, Toulouse, France, invited lecture
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  • Workshop “Environment, Innovation, and Performance”, UMR GAEL Grenoble, invited keynote lecture.
  • Helsinki Center of Economic Research, May 2006, invited seminar
  • Enter Jamboree, January 2005, invited faculty presentation.
  • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expert meeting on emission scenarios, Washington DC January 2005, invited lecture.
  • University of Durham (UK), March 2004, invited seminar.
  • “Economic Integration, Innovation Dynamics and Growth” Brussels, February 2003, invited workshop presentation.
  • Seminaire economique de Louvain, CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, 20 November 2003. Invited seminar.
  • TranSust workshop on implementing sustainability in economic and environmental models, Amsterdam 13 November 2003, invited lecture.
  • Environmental economics seminar, Universite de Toulouse 1, 23 October 2003, invited seminar.
  • Séminaire international "La croissance économique devient-elle immatérielle ? Réflexion sur une voie possible du Développement Durable" Sorbonne Paris, September 2003, invited lecture [program and slides].
  • Workshop "Economic Dynamics and the Environment" Sevilla, July 2-3, 2003, invited lecture.
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists annual conference, Bilbao, Spain, June 2003.[slides]
  • ETH, Zuerich, May 5, 2003, research seminar.
  • Workshop "Social Capital and Economic Development", March 27, 2003, Tilburg University.
  • Research seminar, Merit, Maastricht, February 25, 2003.
  • International conference "Environmental and Technology Policy, Energy Use and Technological Change" Amsterdam, November 2002, discussant.
  • Workshop "Scarcity and growth in the new millennium", invited lecture, Resources for the Future, Washington, November 2002.
  • International Summerschool "Innovation for Sustainable Development", keynote lecture, Seeon, Germany, September 2002
  • European Economic Association, 17th Annual Congress, Venice, August 2002.
  • Research Seminar, CERGE-EI, Prague, Czech Republic, November 2001
  • Zeuthen Workshop "Growth and Competition", Copenhagen University, Denmark, November 2001, invited lecture.
  • Workshop on Growth and the Environment, Wuerzburg, Germany, November 2001, invited lecture.
  • "Growth and the Environment: U-curves without U-turns?" European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists annual conference, Southampton, UK, June 29, 2001, Keynote lecture.
  • Environmental economics Seminar, Gothenburg University, Sweden, June 8, 2001.
  • Macroeconomics Seminar, University of Amsterdam, May 10, 2001
  • Economics Seminar, University Maastricht, February 1, 2001
  • Five Lectures, Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Economics, Heidelberg, Germany, January 14-24, 2001
  • Invited lecture, NWO-Pret Workshop, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, January 2001.
  • International Workshop "Economic Modelling of Environmental Policy and Endogenous Technological Change", Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 2000.
  • International Conference "The Monopolistic Competition Revolution after 25 years", Groningen, The Netherlands, October 2000
  • Economics seminar, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2000.
  • International Conference "The International Dimension of Environmental Policy", Kerkrade, The Netherlands, October 2000.
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists annual conference, Rethymno, Krete, June 2000.
  • workshop "Economic Dynamics and Environmental Issues", Paris, Universite Paris X, Nanterre, June 2000.
  • Delhi, Institute of Economic Growth, March 2000.
  • Delhi, Delhi School of Economics, February 2000.
  • Bombay, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, February 2000.
  • Delhi, Indian Statistical Institute, February 2000.
  • Greifswald, Economics Seminar, November 1999.
  • Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Economics seminar, August 1999.
  • NBER - FEEM conference Distributional and Behavioral Effects of Environmental Policy, Milan, Italy, January and June 1999
  • European Economic Association, 13th Annual Congress, Berlin, September 1998.
  • International Conference "Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, III", Taiwan, August 1998.
  • World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Venice, June 1998.
  • Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungsseminar Universität Zürich, 16 April 1998.
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists eighth annual conference, Tilburg, June 1997.
  • International Conference "Dynamics, Economic Growth and International Trade, II", Hong Kong, July 1997.
  • International Symposium "Economic Modelling of Sustainable Development", Amsterdam December 20, 1996;
  • EPRU, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, January 1995.
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists sixth annual conference, Umea, Sweden, June 1995.
  • Conference of the International Institute of Public Finance "Public Finance, Environment and Natural Resources", Harvard University, August 1994;
  • International Workshop "Environment: policy and market structure", Athens institute of economic policy studies and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Athens, Greece, January 14-15, 1994.
  • International Conference on the Economics of Innovation, Milan, Italy, June 1993;
  • International Symposium on Economic Modelling, Athens, Greece, June 1993;
  • Amsterdam University, Rotterdam University and Groningen University, The Netherlands.
Referee work: American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Ecological Economics, Econometrica, Economica, Economic Modeling, Economic Journal, Environmental and Development Economics, European Economic Review, European Journal of Political Economy, German Economic Review, Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Public Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of economic Studies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Review of Economic Studies, Environment and Development Economics, Journal of Macroeconomics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Oxford Economic Papers, Manchester School, Australian Economic Papers.
Programme Committee member EEA annual conferences 2000 and 2002, EAERE annual conferences 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, World Congres of Environmental and resource economists 2002, 2006.

Research Interests
Theory of economic growth;
Economics of innovation;
Environmental, resource and energy economics
International trade and convergence

Teaching Interests
Undergraduate: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Growth and Innovation, Environmental Economics, International Trade.
Graduate: Growth theory, Macroeconomics.


Publications

Journals

  • "Reconstructing Growth Theory: a Survey", De Economist 140 (1992), nr.2, pp. 177-203 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Kartels: lust of last ?" (Collusion, good or bad ?), Economisch Statistische Berichten, 77, 19 augustus 1992, pp. 788-792 (with R. Gradus).
  • "The Trade-off between Environmental Care and Long-term Growth; pollution in three proto-type growth models", Journal of Economics, 58 (1993), No. 1, pp. 25-51 (with R. Gradus).
  • "Imperfect Competition and Endogenous Technological Change", Revista Internazionale di Scienze sociali 101 (1993), No. 3, pp. 321-350 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Imperfect Competition, Concentration and Growth with Firm-specific R&D", European Economic Review 39 (1995), No. 1, pp. 139-160 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Strategies for Growth in a Macroeconomic Setting", The Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 63 (1995) 388-411 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Environmental Quality and Pollution-augmenting Technological Change in a Two-sector Endogenous Growth Model", 1995, Journal of Public Economics 57, pp. 369-391 (with A.L. Bovenberg).
  • "Entropy, Environment and Endogenous Economic Growth", 1995, Journal of International Tax and Public Finance 2, pp. 317-338. Download
  • "Environmental Policy and Sustainable Economic Growth; an endogenous growth perspective", De Economist 143 (1995), 163-195. Download
  • "North-South Knowledge Spillovers and Competition; convergence versus divergence", 1996, Journal of Development Economics (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Transitional Impacts of Environmental Policy in an Endogenous Growth Model", International Economic Review 37 (1996), 861-893 (with A.L. Bovenberg).
  • "Pollution Abatement and Long-term Growth", European Journal of Political Economy 12 (1996), 505-532 (with Raymond Gradus).
  • "Growth, Competition and Welfare", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 99 (1997), 99-118 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Marktwerking of dynamiek?" (Regulation or growth?), Economisch Statistische Berichten 14-5-1997, pp. 384-387 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Dertien Kabinetten, Twaalf Ongelukken?" (Thirteen Dutch Governments compared), Economisch Statistische Berichten 17-4-1998, pp. 323-326 (with N. Gruijters).
  • "R&D: Waar een klein land klein in kan zijn" (R&D: a small country can be small in it), Economisch Statistische Berichten 28-8-1998, p. 638 (with R. Nahuis).
  • "Catching-up and Regulation in a Two-sector Small Open Economy", Review of International Economics, Vol. 7, Issue 3, August 1999(with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Loont energiebesparing dubbel?" (What are the benefits ofenergy saving?), EconomischStatistische Berichten 10-12-1999 (with M. de Nooij).
  • "Groei en Vriendschap" (Growth and Friendship), in: Henk Klok, Ton van Schaik and Sjak Smulders (eds) "Economologues, liber amicorum voor Theo van de Klundert", Tilburg, 2001.
  • "Groei vraagt om historisch besef" (Growth in historical perspective), Economisch Statistische Berichten 23-3-2001.
  • "Loss of Technological Leadership of Rentier Economies, a two-country endogenous growth model", Journal of International Economics 54 (May 2001), 211-231 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "The skill premium, technological change and appropriability", Journal of Economic growth 7 (2002), 137-156 (with  R. Nahuis).
  • "Technological Distance, Growth and Scale Effects", Economic Journal 112 (July 2002) 603-624(with P. Peretto).
  • "The impact of energy conservation on technology and economic growth" Resource and Energy Economics, 25 (2003) 59-79 (with M. de Nooij).
  • "International Trade, Species diversity and habitat conservation" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48 (2004) 891-910 (with D. van Soest and C. Withagen).
  • "International Capital Market Integration: Implications for Convergence, Growth and Welfare" International Economics and Economic Policy 1 (2004), 173-194.
  • "Trade Pessimists vs Technology Optimists: Induced Technical Change and Pollution Havens", Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 4: No. 2, Article 7 (2004) (with C. Di Maria). Download
  • "Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics" Environmental and Resource Economics 36 (2007), 1-13 (with Lucas Bretschger).
  • "Climate policy and the optimal extraction of high- and low-carbon fossil fuels" Canadian Journal of Economics, forthcoming (with Edwin van der Werf).
Books
  • Growth, Market Structure and the Environment; essays on the theory of endogenous economic growth, Ph.D. thesis, Tilburg University, September 1994, 336 p.
  • Growth Theory in Historical Perspective; Selected Essays of Theo van de Klundert, Sjak Smulders (ed.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001, xxvi + 338 p.
  • Economologues; Liber Amicorum voor Theo van de Klundert, Henk Klok, Ton van Schaik and Sjak Smulders (eds), Tilburg, 2001, ISBN 90 5668 077 3, 392 p.
  • Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics, Lucas Bretschger and Sjak Smulders (eds), Springer (forthcoming September 2007).


Contributions inbooks and conference volumes

  • "Environmental Policy in a Two-sector Endogenous Growth Model", in R. de Mooij and H. Vollebergh (eds) Quantitative Economicsfor Environmental Policy, Ocfeb Papers and Proceedings 9405, 1994 (with A.L. Bovenberg).
  • "Technological Change, Economic Growth, and Sustainability" in Jeroen van den Bergh and Marjan Hofkes (eds.) Theory and Implementation of Economic Models for Sustainable Development, p. 39-65, Dordrecht, Kluwer 1998.
  • "Endogenous Growth Theory and the Environment", in J.C.J.M. van den Bergh (ed.) Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics, Edward Elgar 1999, chapter 42, pp. 610-621.
  • "Catching-up and Regulation in a Two-sector Small Open Economy", in E. Kwan Choi and Bjarne S. Jensen (eds.) Economic Growth and International Trade Blackwell, Oxford, 1999, chapter 5, pp. 73-96 (with Th. van de Klundert).
  • "Economic Growth and Environmental Quality" in: H. Folmer and L. Gabel (eds) Principles of Environmental Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar,2000, chapter 20, pp. 602-664.
  • "Environmental Taxation in Open Economies: Trade Policy Distortions and the Double Dividend", in: G. Schulze and H. Ursprung (eds) International Environmental Economics: a Survey of the Issues, Oxford University Press, 2001, chapter 8.
  • "Green Taxes and Administrative Costs: the Case of Carbon Taxation", in: C. Cararo and G. Metcalf (eds.), Distributional and Behavioral Effects of Environmental Policy, NBER, University of Chicago Press, 2001, Chapter 3, p. 91-130 (with Herman Vollebergh).
  • "Milieu, technologie en kennis" (Environment, Technology and knowledge), in R. Gradus, J. Kremers and J. van Sinderen (eds) Nederland Kennisland? Kennis en innovatie: uitdagingen voor het economisch beleid, 403-421, Leiden: Stenfert Kroese, 2001(with Jan Pieters and Herman Vollebergh).
  • "Greener Taxes, Freer Trade? Environmental Policy and Tariff Reduction in a Second-Best World", in: L. Marsiliani, M. Rauscher and C. Withagen (eds) Environmental Economics and the International Economy, Kluwer 2002, 1-19 (with Partha Sen).
  • "Indeeen voor vernieuwing van het innovatiebeleid" (Ideas for renewing innovation policy) in: Het Nederlandse Innovatiebeleid: tijd voor vernieuwing? Ministerie van Economische zaken, Den Haag, 2002, 27-41 (met Jan Boone en Eric van Damme).
  • "Bonding and bridging social capital: which type is good for economic growth?" in: Arts, W., Halman, L., and Hagenaars, J. (eds.) The cultural diversity of European unity, Leiden: Brill (2003), pp. 147-184 (with Sjoerd Beugelsdijk).
  • "Convergence and the Welfare Gains of Capital Mobility in a Dynamic Dixit-Stiglitz World", in S. Brakman and B. Heijdra (eds) The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect, Cambridge University Press 2004.
  • "Monopolistic Competition and Economic Growth", forthcoming in S. Brakman and B. Heijdra (eds) The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (with Theo van de Klundert).
  • "Dynamiek van technologie-ontwikkeling: innovatie, adoptie en diffusie" in H. Vollebergh, W. van Groenendaal, M. Hofkes and R. Kemp (eds) Milieubeleid en Technologische ontwikkeling, Den Haag: SDU uitgevers, 2004, 79-97. (with Henri de Groot, Marjan Hofkes and Peter Mulder).
  • "Over de wisselwerking tussen milieu- en technologiebeleid" in H. Vollebergh, W. van Groenendaal, M. Hofkes and R. Kemp (eds) Milieubeleid en Technologische ontwikkeling, Den Haag: SDU uitgevers, 2004 Chapter 5.
  • "Milieu- en technologiebeleid in een kleine open economie" in H. Vollebergh, W. van Groenendaal, M. Hofkes and R. Kemp (eds) Milieubeleid en Technologische ontwikkeling, Den Haag: SDU uitgevers, 2004 (with Henri de Groot).
  • "Economic growth, liberalization and the environment" in C. Cleveland (ed) Encyclopedia of Energy Economics, Elsevier, 2004.
  • "Endogenous technological change, natural resources and growth" in D. Simpson and M. Toman (eds) Scarcity and Growth in the new millennium, Baltimore: RFF press 2005.
  • "Growth and Environment: on U-Curves without U-turns" in: C. de Miguel, X Labandeira, B. Manzano (eds), Economic Modelling of Climate Change and Energy Policies. CHeltenham: Edward Elgar 2006. Download
  • "Kan nieuwe schone technolgie het klimaat redden?" (Can new clean technology save the climate?) in H de Groot and P. Tang (eds): Struisvogels en dwarskoppen, Den Haag 2007, 163-168.
  • "Green National Accounting" in: S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition (forthcoming).
Working Papers
  • "Should Environmental Standards be Tighter if Technological Change is Endogenous?", CentER discussion paper No. 9779, October 1997.
  • "Specialization, Knowledge Dilution, and Scale Effects in an IO-based Growth Model", CentER discussion paper No. 9802, January 1998 (co-author: P. Peretto).
  • "Capital Mobility and Catching up in a Two-country, Two-sector Model of Endogenous Growth", CentER Discussion Paper No. 9813, February 1998 (co-author: Th. van de Klundert).
  • "The trade-off between sclerosis and hold up problems: Rhenish vs. Anglosaxon economies", CentER Discussion Paper No. 9970, August 1999 (co-author: J. Boone).
  • "A Note on the Relation between Income and Welfare", CentER Discussion Paper No. 2000-5, January 2000 (co-author: J. Boone).
  • "The Double Dividend and Trade Liberalization", CentER Discussion Paper No. 2000-6, January 2000 (co-author: Partha Sen) [revised version available].
  • "Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves: How Pollution Induces Policy and New Technologies" CentER dp (with Lucas Bretschger).
Book reviews
  • M. Baranzini, "A Theory of Wealth Distribution and Accumulation", European Journal of Political Economy 8 (1992), pp. 501-503.
  • D. Pilat, "The Economics of Rapid Growth; the Experience of Japan and Korea", De Economist 145 (1997).
  • D. Archibugi and J. Michie (eds) "Trade, Growth and Technical Change", De Economist 147 (1999), 375-376.
  • B. Valdes "Economic Growth: Theory, Empirics and Policy", De Economist 148 (2000), No. 2.
  • S. Borghese and A. Vercelli “Global Sustainability; Social and Environmental Conditions”, Land Economics, volume 83, issue 3 (August 2009).
Various other book reviews in Dutch, published in De Staatscourant, Economisch Statistische Berichten.
 

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  • TSC Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg University
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