Eva Niesten
Jean Monnet Fellow
Research project: Regulation and Governance of Green Innovations in the European Electricity Industries
eva.niesten@eui.eu
Tel. [+39] 055 4685 803
Fax [+39] 055 4685 730
Office: Villa Malafrasca VM014
Biographical Note
Eva Niesten obtained her Ph.D. in economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and her master in economics at the University of Tilburg. She was an editor at the Dutch journal on economic policy (ESB) and held a postdoc position at the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). Her research interests include the regulation and governance of electricity industries, innovations in renewable energy, and new institutional economics.
Regulation and Governance of Green Innovations in the European Electricity Industries
An important and pressing challenge for the European electricity industries is to increase the amount of electricity that is produced with renewable energy sources.
The liberalization of these industries alters how investments and innovations in the production of green electricity are made.
This research focuses on identifying the efficient governance structures for innovations in green electricity, and the role of regulation in stimulating these innovations.