dr. Leon Bremer

Visiting Fellow, School of Business and Economics, Spatial Economics

Personal information

Leon is a postdoc at the department of Spatial Economics. He applies econometric methods to empirically answer questions in the domains of innovation, energy efficiency investments, the EU ETS, and water savings.

Research

Leon's research revolves around environment-related innovation and technology adoption, and water consumption. His empirical work uses patent data, firm-level microdata, surveys, and household-level consumption data with the goal of understanding the drivers and barriers of innovation, technology adoption and energy- or water-saving decisions. His research covers topics like induced innovation, the Porter hypothesis, the pollution haven hypothesis, the energy efficiency paradox, the EU ETS, and behavioral changes in water consumption.

Education

MPhil Economics at Tinbergen Institute.

MSc Economics at Tilburg University.

Teaching

Leon has been the tutor of the following bachelor and master courses at the VU and Tinbergen Institute.

Environmental and Resource Economics (MSc STREEM) (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Geo Data (BSc minor) (2023, 2024)
Grand Challenges for Sustainability (BSc minor) (2023, 2024)
Economics of Environmental Policy Instrument Design (MSc STREEM) (2023)
Inclusive Growth and Sustainability (BSc) (2019, 2020, 2021)
Acedemic Skills (BSc Economics and Business Economics) (2019, 2020, 2021)
Microeconomics IV: Behavioral Economics (MPhil Economics) (2019)

Further Leon is since 2019 involved with supervision of research projects and theses of master students in the MSc STREEM and MSc Economics programs.

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