Richard Tol

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Full Name	Richard Tol
Occupation	Professor
Date Of Birth	Dec 2, 1969(1969-12-02)
Age	55
Birthplace	Hoorn
Country	Netherlands
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Richard Tol Biography

Richard Tol is one of the most popular and richest Professor who was born on December 2, 1969 in Hoorn, Netherlands.

Tol obtained an MSc in econometrics & operations research in 1992 and a PhD in economics in 1997 at the VU University Amsterdam. His doctoral thesis was titled, A decision-analytic treatise of the enhanced greenhouse effect. In 1998, he contributed with some nineteen other academics to a joint project of the United Nations Environment Programme at his home university.

Tol specialises in energy economics and environmental economics, with a particular interest in climate change, such as the economics of global warming. Previously, Tol was a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute. Before that, Tol was the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change and director of the Center for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and board member of the Center for Marine and Climate Research at the University of Hamburg. Tol was a board member of the International Max Planck Research Schools on Earth System Modeling and Maritime Affairs and the European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment. From 1998 to 2008 he was an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Engineering and Public Policy, and from 2010 to 2011 an adjunct professor at Trinity College, Dublin’s Department of Economics.

Richard Tol Net Worth

Richard Tol is one of the richest Professor from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Tol 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Richard S. J. Tol (born 2 December 1969, Hoorn, the Netherlands) is a professor of economics at the University of Sussex. He is also professor of the economics of climate change at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a member of the Academia Europaea.

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In 2009, Tol published an influential paper that combined data from several earlier studies, concluding that at least some amount of global warming could lead to economic gains. In 2014, he published an update, correcting missing minus signs that had turned economic costs into benefits and adding data overlooked before; the mistakes he attributed to “gremlins”. According to Tol, the old and new results were not significantly different. The degree to which the corrected, more pessimistic results alter the original conclusions and their policy implications was hotly debated. In 2015 it was reported that a second round of corrections to the paper was necessary.

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