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Biography

Frans P. de Vries is Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the 51cg Business School where he holds the Chair in Environmental and Resource Economics. He is a member of the Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (SEEL), the Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance (ACREEF), and an affiliate of the North Atlantic Microplastic Centre () in Norway.

Professor De Vries’s research is centred around the design and functioning of environmental markets and incentive-based policy mechanisms for pollution control and biodiversity conservation. Another focal point of his research relates to the interplay between environmental regulation, market structure and technological change. Across these domains, his research has been published in the European Economic Review and leading field journals, including the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Energy Economics.

Professor De Vries received an MSc from Wageningen University (1996) and a PhD from the University of Groningen (2003). He joined the 51cg in 2021 and previously has held academic positions at the University of Stirling in Scotland (2007-2021), and the Universities of Groningen (2004-2007) and Tilburg (2002-2004) in the Netherlands. He has been a visiting scholar at Purdue University, Indiana University, Syracuse University, the Australian National University, the University of Victoria (Canada), and a visiting professor at the University of Waikato (New Zealand) and Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). He has consulted for the OECD (Environment Directorate), the UK and Irish Environment Agencies, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, and the European Patent Office.

Research Overview

Environmental Economics
Environmental Policy and Technological Change
Industrial Organisation
Applied Game Theory

Past Research

Selected Publications

Cason, T.N, J.K. Stranlund & F.P. de Vries (2026), , European Economic Review 187, 105358.

Beaumont, N., T. Börger, J.R. Clark, N. Hanley, R.J. Johnston, K. Meginnis, C. Stapenhurst & F.P. de Vries (2025), , Communications Earth & Environment 6, 134.

R.J. Johnston, T. Börger, N. Hanley, K. Meginnis, T. Ndebele, G.E.A. Siyal, N. Beaumont & F.P. de Vries (2024), , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 126, 103011.

Börger, T., N. Hanley, R.J. Johnston, K. Meginnis, T. Ndebele, G.E.A. Siyal & F.P. de Vries (2024), , American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106, pp. 416-441.

Cason, T.N., J.K. Stranlund & F.P. de Vries (2023), , Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10, pp. 283-314.

Banerjee, S., T.N. Cason, F.P. de Vries & N. Hanley (2021), , Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 8, pp. 1013-1049.

Banerjee, S., T.N. Cason, F.P. de Vries & N. Hanley (2017), , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 83, pp. 68-89.

Banerjee, S., F.P. de Vries, N. Hanley & D.P. van Soest (2014), , American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96, pp. 1009-1029.

Dekker, T., H.R.J. Vollebergh, F.P. de Vries & C.A. Withagen (2012), , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 64, pp. 45-67.

Dijkstra, B.R. & F.P de Vries (2006), , European Economic Review 50, pp. 425-446.

Funding and Grants

The Economics of Marine Plastic Pollution: What are the Benefits of International Cooperation? - Principal Investigator, ESRC-funded project (June 2019 - April 2023)