Marten Ovaere
Welcome! I am an assistant professor (docent) at the Department of Economics of Ghent University. My research interests lie in energy and environmental economics, with a focus on the energy transition, electricity markets, electricity demand flexibility, carbon pricing, and renewable energy (solar and wind), using empirical analysis of public and private data.
My research is currently supported by the following grants:
Climate regulation and firms: Evidence from the European Union emissions trading system (Research Foundation Flanders, 2023-2027)
Climate Regulation, Local Policy Measures, and Firms’ Investment Behavior (National Bank of Belgium, 2023-2024)
INTERFLEX - Unlocking the barriers to accelerate and scale up residential flexibility in Belgium (Federal Energy Transition Fund, 2023-2026)
SEA2SOCKET - Short Chain from Sea to Socket (Federal Energy Transition Fund, 2022-2025)
FLEXSYS - Flexible Energy Systems for Security of Supply (Federal Energy Transition Fund, 2021-2024)
I am also a fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Previously, I was a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO), a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University (School of the Environment) and visiting scholar at Toulouse School of Economics.
I have a PhD in economics, a MSc in economics, and a MSc in Energy Engineering from KU Leuven.
Data and code: Github
