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Rick van der Ploeg
Researcher at University of Oxford
Publications - 57
Citations - 3528
Rick van der Ploeg is an academic researcher from University of Oxford. The author has contributed to research in topics: Carbon tax & Green paradox. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 57 publications receiving 3238 citations. Previous affiliations of Rick van der Ploeg include Tinbergen Institute & VU University Amsterdam.
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Do Natural Resources Attract FDI? Evidence from Non-Stationary Sector-Level Data
TL;DR: In this paper, a new and extensive panel of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) at the sector level is used to estimate the determinants of non-resource and resource FDI.
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The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy, Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best
TL;DR: In a recent paper as discussed by the authors, the authors argue that people care about relative incomes and become unhappy if others earn and consume much more than they do, which explains why people do not seem to get happier.
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The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe special features of cultural goods and clarify some misconceptions about the value of culture, valid and invalid arguments for subsidising culture are discussed, and the insights of the theories of local public goods and federalism are applied to the making of cultural policy.
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between natural resources and civil war and found that private exploitation is more attractive for governments who have incentives to fight hard, i.e., in the presence of large office rents and a strong army.
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The Economics of Books
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the tension between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses and insights from the theory of industrial organization are given.