Dirk Rübbelke TU Freiberg   Freiberg, 09599 Germany   dirk.ruebbelke@vwl.tu-freiberg.de   http://tu-freiberg.de/fakult6/avwl/team/prof-dr-dirk-ruebbelke   Biographical Sketch: Prof. Dr. Dirk T.G. Rübbelke is Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Before he joined Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, he was IKERBASQUE Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (2008-2010) and Juniorprofessor at Chemnitz University of Technology (2002-2008). He is also Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, and Fellow Member in the CESifo Research Network, Munich. Prof. Rübbelke did research and taught at internationally renowned universities and research centres. These are, inter alia, Australian National University in Canberra, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and University of Nottingham.   Primary Research Focus: environmental and resource economics, public economics   JEL Areas: Q5 : Environmental Economics: General H0 : Public Economics: General