Arthur van Benthem
· Professor of Business Economics and Public PolicyUniversity of Pennsylvania · Business Economics and Public Policy
Active 2005–2025
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About
Arthur van Benthem is a Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton. His research specializes in environmental and energy economics. His recent work studies the unintended consequences of environmental legislation and the economic efficiency of energy policies. His current research focuses on markets for transportation, renewable energy, carbon markets, and policies to protect biodiversity. Arthur is one of the Faculty Co-Directors of the Wharton Climate Center, and a faculty adviser of the MBA major and undergraduate concentration in Business, Environment, Energy and Sustainability. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 2012, a masters degree in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford, and his undergraduate degree from the University of Amsterdam. Before pursuing his doctoral studies at Stanford, he worked in corporate strategy at Royal Dutch Shell as an energy economist in the Long-Term Energy Scenarios Team. During his undergraduate studies, Arthur enjoyed working as an evening stock trader at IMC Trading in Amsterdam.
Research topics
- Economics
- Political Science
- Business
- Natural resource economics
- Finance
- Engineering
- Market economy
- Microeconomics
- Econometrics
- Mathematics
Selected publications
The effect of climate risks on the interactions between financial markets and energy companies
Nature Energy · 2022 · 151 citations
1st authorCorrespondingWhat Policies Address Both the Coronavirus Crisis and the Climate Crisis?
Environmental and Resource Economics · 2020 · 69 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingConsumer Myopia in Vehicle Purchases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 2021 · 55 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingA central question in the analysis of fuel economy policy is whether consumers are myopic with regards to future fuel costs. We provide the first evidence on the consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment that provides exogenous variation in fuel economy ratings. We examine the short-run equilibrium effects of a restatement of fuel economy ratings that affected 1.6 million vehicles. Using the implied changes in willingness to pay, we find that consumers act myopically: consumer…
The environmental impacts of protected area policy
Regional Science and Urban Economics · 2023-11-28 · 18 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingRegulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
National Bureau of Economic Research · 2022-12-01 · 18 citations
reportOpen accessSenior author
Frequent coauthors
- 98 shared
Mark R. Jacobsen
- 83 shared
Christopher R. Knittel
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 82 shared
James Sallee
- 16 shared
Kenneth Gillingham
- 14 shared
Johannes Stroebel
- 12 shared
Mathias Reynaert
Toulouse School of Economics
- 11 shared
Daniel Spiro
- 10 shared
Joseph Shapiro
University of California, Berkeley
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