PhD Alumni

Ioulia Ossokina

Area of employment: Public employment
Area of research: Region and the environment
Homepage: http://www.cpb.nl/nl/org/homepages/ivo/

Title of PhD thesis: Environmental Policy and Environment-saving Technologies. Economic aspects of policy making under uncertainty
Date: 2003-06-20
Supervisor(s): Prof.dr. O.H. Swank, Prof.dr. J. van Sinderen

Abstract:
It is generally known that natural environment is profoundly influenced by technological change. The direction and the size of this influence are, however, surrounded by uncertainties, which substantially complicate environmental policy making. This dissertation uses game-theoretical models to study policy making under uncertainty about (a) the costs of technological advances in pollution control, (b) the preferences of the policy maker and the voters, and (c) the consequences of policy measures. From a positive point of view the analysis provides explanations for environmental policies in modern democracies. From a normative point of view it gives a number of recommendations to improve environmental policies.