Welcome to my website!

I do research in environmental economics and game theory.

I am an assistant professor at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics. I am also affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and teach mathematics in the Central-German Doctoral Program Economics.

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

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

Working papers (up-to-date manuscript available)

• Unraveling Coordination Problems
• Time Horizons and Emissions Trading
• Climate Policy And Trade In Polluting Technologies, with S. Ferguson
• Flexible Emissions Caps and Counterproductive Policies, with R. Gerlagh and K.E. Rosendahl

Work in progress

• Network Subsidies
• Comparing Policies to Solve Coordination Problems, with S. Suetens
• Carbon Prices and the Social Value of Emissions, with S. Rausch
• Commitment and Climate Policy, with D. Spiro
• Sequential Global Games, with E. van Damme

Principal investigator

• “Trading Emissions to Combat Climate Change: Problem or Promise?” Handelsbanken Research Foundation, number P22-0229. SEK 1,370,000 (stipend; exempt from taxes). 2023-2026.

PhD Students

Max Engström (co-supervisor)

MSc theses

Approximately 10

BSc theses

Approximately 15

Lectures and course design

• Mathematics for Economists (PhD)
• Environmental and Resource Economics (MSc)
• Environmental Economics and Markets (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
• NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science, Helleveien 30, 5045 Bergen, Norway
• By appointment