Lans Bovenberg
Professor Lans Bovenberg won the Spinoza prize (the Dutch Nobel prize) in 2004 as the second social scientist since the Spinoza premia were instituted (in 1994). With this prize he founded Netspar (Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement). Lans Bovenberg is one of the most-cited Dutch economists in the international academic literature. At the same time, he has been the most cited Dutch economist in Dutch language journals aimed at practitioners and policymakers for more than ten years now. He has published extensively in the leading international journals on a wide variety of topics; public economics, tax policy, environmental economics, institutional economics, pensions and aging, international macroeconomics and labor economics.
