Welcome to my website!

I am an applied economic theorist working on environmental economics, game theory, and lab experiments. My home base is the Department of Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. I also teach mathematics in the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics and co-organize the seminar series at my department.

In my (non-existent) free time, I play the violin. Colleague Sjak Smulders and I from time to time force upon our fellow economists a concert in which we play music of our own choosing.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. (2023) Adjustable Emissions Caps and the Price of Pollution. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
• Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Rosendahl, K. E. (2022). Shifting Concerns For the EU ETS: Are Carbon Prices Becoming Too High? Environmental Research Letters.
• Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Rosendahl, K. E. (2021). An Endogenous Emission Cap Produces a Green Paradox. Economic Policy.
• Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Rosendahl, K.E. (2020). COVID-19 Tests the Market Stability Reserve. Environmental and Resource Economics.
• Gerlagh, R., & Heijmans, R.J.R.K. (2019). Climate-Conscious Consumers and the Buy, Bank, Burn Program. Nature Climate Change.

Working papers (up-to-date manuscript available)

• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. Time Horizons and Emissions Trading. Under review.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. The Global Climate Game.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. Unraveling Coordination Problems.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. Network Subsidies.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Moura, A. Pandemic Policy in a Global Game.
• Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Rosendahl, K. E. Flexible Emissions Caps and Counterproductive Policies.

Work in progress

• Ferguson, S., & Heijmans, R.J.R.K. Do Domestic Climate Policies Stimulate the Export of Polluting Technologies? Evidence From Trade Data.
• Capitán, T., Goeschl, T., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Naso. P. Stabilising Cap and Trade Markets in the Lab.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Rausch, S. Carbon Prices and the Social Value of Emissions.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Suetens, S. Comparing Policies to Solve Coordination Problems.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Van Damme, E. Sequential Global Games.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Spiro, D. Multiple Expectations-Based Equilibria in the EU ETS.

Principal investigator

• “Trading Emissions to Combat Climate Change: Problem or Promise?” Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse program grant, number P22-0229. SEK 1,370,000 (stipend; exempt from taxes). 2023-2026.

Lectures and course design

• Mathematics for Economists (PhD)
• Environmental and Resource Economics (MSc)

Supervision

• BSc theses
• MSc theses

Previous teaching (as TA)

• Macroeconomics (BSc)
• Economics for Social Sciences (BSc)
• Game Theory (MRes)
• Environmental Economics (BSc)

In English

• Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Mayumi, K. T. (2019). Can the social cost of carbon be calculated? Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer. Routledge.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Gerlagh, R. (2020). Why the New EU ETS is Almost Perfect. EAERE Magazine.

In Dutch

• Van Damme, E.E.C., Gerlagh, R., Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Willems, B.J. (2018). Veilen of vergelijken voor het winnen van windenergie op zee?
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K., & Gerlagh, R. (2019). Hervorming van Europees emissiehandelssysteem is effectief en biedt kansen. Economisch Statistische Berichten.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. (2021). Toekomstbestendig klimaatbeleid vergt prijsband voor CO₂-emissierechten. Economisch Statistische Berichten.
• Heijmans, R.J.R.K. (2021). Promotiebespreking. Economisch Statistische Berichten.

• roweno.heijmans(at)gmail(dot)com
• Room D362, Department of Economics, Ulls väg 27, 756 51 Uppsala, Sweden
• By appointment