Geir Bjarne Asheim
Professor
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Department of Economics
Norwegian
Email
g.b.asheim@econ.uio.no
Phone
+47-22855498
Fax
+47-22855035
Username
Visiting address
Moltke Moes vei 31
Eilert Sundts hus
blokk B
0851 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1095 Blindern
0317 OSLO
Academic Interests
Game theory, intergenerational justice, green national accounting
Courses taught
- ECON2915 Growth and business structure
- ECON3/4200 Microeconomics and game theory
- ECON4230/35 Microeconomic Theory
- ECON4240 Game theory and economics of information
- ECON4260 Behavioral Economics
- ECON4820 Strategic Competition
- ECON5200 Advanced Microeconomics
- ECON5210 Topics in microeconomics
Background
Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979. Employed by the University of Oslo as Professor of Economics since 1994. Visitor at Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, and Stanford Universities.
Awards
- Recipient (joint with Martin Dufwenberg) of the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal in 2003.
Positions held
- Editor for Social Choice and Welfare (2008 –)
- Associate editor for Scandinavian Journal of Economics (2000 – 2011)
Curriculum Vitae
Personal website
Publications
- Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach (coauthor: S. Zuber) Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming) (DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.08.001)
- Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism (coauthor: S. Dietz) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (forthcoming) (DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2012.01.003)
- Sustainable recursive social welfare functions (coauthors: T. Mitra, B. Tungodden) Economic Theory 49 (2012) 267-292 (Supplement)
- Global welfare comparisons Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010) 1412-1432
- Intergenerational equity Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 197-222
- Infinite-horizon choice functions (coauthors: W. Bossert, Y. Sprumont, K. Suzumura) Economic Theory 43 (2010) 1-21
- Paradoxical consumption behavior when economic activity has environmental effects Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (2008) 529–546 (Mathematical appendix)
- Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability. Springer (2007)
- Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints (coauthors: W. Buchholz, J.M. Hartwick, T. Mitra, C. Withagen) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53 (2007) 213-229
- Regional versus global cooperation for climate control (coauthors: Camilla Bretteville Froyn, Jon Hovi, Fredric C. Menz) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51 (2006) 93-109
- The Consistent Preferences Approach to Deductive Reasoning in Games. Springer (2006)
- Sequential and quasi-perfect rationalizability in extensive games (coauthor: A. Perea) Games and Economic Behavior 53 (2005) 15-42
- Green national accounting with a changing population Economic Theory 23 (2004) 601-619
- Deductive reasoning in extensive games (coauthor: M. Dufwenberg) Economic Journal 113 (2003) 305-325 (Awarded the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal in 2003)
- Admissibility and common belief (coauthor: M. Dufwenberg) Games and Economic Behavior 42 (2003) 208-234
- Justifying sustainability (coauthors: W. Buchholz & B. Tungodden) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 41 (2001) 252-268
- Does NNP growth indicate welfare improvement? (coauthor: M.L. Weitzman) Economics Letters 73 (2001) 233-239
- Individual and collective time-consistency Review of Economic Studies 64 (1997) 427-443
- Net national product as an indicator of sustainability Scandinavian Journal of Economics 96 (1994) 257-265
- Unjust intergenerational allocations Journal of Economic Theory 54 (1991) 350-371
- Extending renegotiation-proofness to infinite horizon games Games and Economic Behavior 3 (1991) 278-294
- Rawlsian intergenerational justice as a Markov-perfect equilibrium in a resource technology Review of Economic Studies 55 (1988) 469-483
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2012). Discounting While Treating Generations Equally, In Robert W. Hahn & Alastair Ulph (ed.), Climate Change and Common Sense Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-969287-3. Kapittel 8.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Mitra, Tapan & Tungodden, Bertil (2012). Sustainable recursive social welfare functions. Economic Theory. ISSN 0938-2259. 49, s 267- 292 . doi: 10.1007/s00199-010-0573-7
- Dietz, Simon & Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2012). Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. ISSN 0095-0696. . doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2012.01.003
- Zuber, Stéphane & Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2012). Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach. Journal of Economic Theory. ISSN 0022-0531.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Comparing the welfare of growing economies. Revue d' Economie politique. ISSN 0373-2630. 121(1), s 59- 72
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Hartwick, John M. (2011). Anomalies in green national accounting. Ecological Economics. ISSN 0921-8009. 70(12), s 2303- 2307 . doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.06.020
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Global welfare comparisons. Canadian Journal of Economics. ISSN 0008-4085. 43(4), s 1412- 1432 . doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01619.x
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Intergenerational Equity. Annual Review of Economics. ISSN 1941-1383. 2, s 197- 222 . doi: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124440
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Strategic Use of Environmental Information. Environmental and Resource Economics. ISSN 0924-6460. 46(2), s 207- 216 . doi: 10.1007/s10640-010-9353-x
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). The relationship between welfare measures and indicators of sustainable development, In T Aronsson & Karl Löfgren (ed.), Handbook of Environmental Accounting. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781847203847. Chapter 10. s 237 - 256
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Banerjee, Kuntal (2010). Fixed-step anonymous overtaking and catching-up. International Journal of Economic Theory. ISSN 1742-7355. 6, s 147- 163 . doi: 10.1111/j.1742-7363.2009.00127.x
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Bossert, W.; Sprumont, Y. & Suzumura, Kotaro (2010). Infinite-horizon choice functions. Economic Theory. ISSN 0938-2259. 43(1), s 1- 21 . doi: 10.1007/s00199-008-0423-z
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; d'Aspremont, C & Banerjee, Kuntal (2010). Generalized time-invariant overtaking. Journal of Mathematical Economics. ISSN 0304-4068. 46(4), s 519- 533 . doi: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2010.03.005
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Emblem, Anne Wenche & Nilssen, Tore (2010). Health insurance: medical treatment vs. disability payment. Research in Economics. ISSN 1090-9443. 64, s 137- 145 . doi: 10.1016/j.rie.2010.02.004
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Mitra, Tapan (2010). Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth. Mathematical Social Sciences. ISSN 0165-4896. 59(2), s 148- 169 . doi: 10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2009.08.003
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Holtsmark, Bjart (2009). Renegotiation-Proof Climate Agreements with Full Participation: Conditions for Pareto-Efficiency. Environmental and Resource Economics. ISSN 0924-6460. 43(4), s 519- 533 . doi: 10.1007/s10640-008-9247-3
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Wei, Taoyuan (2009). Sectoral Income. Environmental and Resource Economics. ISSN 0924-6460. 42(1), s 65- 87 . doi: 10.1007/s10640-008-9204-1
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Paradoxical consumption behavior when economic activity has environmental effects. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. ISSN 0167-2681. 65(3-4), s 529- 546 . doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2005.11.005
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Representation of conditional preferences under uncertainty., In Mohammed Abdellaoui & John D. Hey (ed.), Advances in Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-68436-7. Kapittel. s 33 - 47
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Yoo, Seung Han (2008). Coordinating under incomplete information. Review of Economic Design. ISSN 1434-4742. 12, s 293- 313 . doi: 10.1007/s10058-008-0061-8
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Mitra, Tapan & Tungodden, Bertil (2007). A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian , In John Roemer & Kotaro Suzumura (ed.), Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability. Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. ISBN 0-230-00786-4. Kapittel 4.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons? . Environment and Development Economics. ISSN 1355-770X. 12(1), s 11- 31 . doi: 10.1017/S1355770X06003366
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Economic analysis of sustainability., In Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. ISBN 978-1-4020-6199-8. Chapter 1. s 1 - 15
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Buchholz, Wolfgang; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan & Withagen, Cees (2007). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. ISSN 0095-0696. 53 . doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2006.09.001
- Withagen, Cees; Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Buchholz, Wolfgang (2007). Erratum for "On the sustainable program in Solow's model" . Natural Resource Modeling. ISSN 0890-8575. 20(3), s 473- 475
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Claussen, Carl Andreas & Nilssen, Tore (2006). Majority voting leads to unanimity. International Journal of Game Theory. ISSN 0020-7276. 35(1), s 91- 110
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Froyn, Camilla Bretteville; Hovi, Jon & Menz, Fredric C. (2006). Regional versus global cooperation for climate control . Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. ISSN 0095-0696. 51 . doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2005.04.004
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Intergenerational ethics under resource constraints. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik. ISSN 0303-9692. 141(3), s 313- 330
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Buchholz, Wolfgang (2005). Can stock-specific sustainability constraints be justified? , In S. Kant & R. A. Berry (ed.), Sustainability, Economics, and Natural Resources: Economics of Sustainable Forest Management. Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 1-4020-3465-2. Kapittel 8. s 175 - 189
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Perea, Andres (2005). Sequential and quasi-perfect rationalizability in extensive games . Games and Economic Behavior. ISSN 0899-8256. 53, s 15- 42 . doi: 10.1016/j.geb.2004.06.015
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Søvik, Ylva Ingeborg (2005). Preference-based belief operators . Mathematical Social Sciences. ISSN 0165-4896. 50, s 61- 82
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Tungodden, Bertil (2004). Resolving distributional conflicts between generations . Economic Theory. ISSN 0938-2259. 24, s 221- 230 . doi: 10.1007/s00199-003-0412-1
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Green national accounting with a changing population . Economic Theory. ISSN 0938-2259. 23, s 601- 619 . doi: 10.1007/s00199-003-0385-0
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Perspectives on Weitzman�s Stationary Equivalent: Discussion of Kazuo Mino�s "Weitzman�s Rule with Market Distortions" . Japan and The World Economy. ISSN 0922-1425. 16, s 331- 335 . doi: 10.1016/j.japwor.2003.12.0
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Buchholz, Wolfgang (2004). A general approach to welfare measurement through national income accounting . The Scandinavian Journal of Economics. ISSN 0347-0520. 106, s 361- 384 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2004.00362
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2003). Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability: A taxonomy of assumptions and results . Scottish Journal of Political Economy. ISSN 0036-9292. 50(May), s 113- 130
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Justifying, Characterizing and Indicating Sustainability. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. ISBN 978-1-4020-6199-8. 296 s.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). The Consistent Preferences Approach to Deductive Reasoning in Games. Springer Publishing Company. ISBN 0-387-26235-0. 203 s.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2012). Characterizing the sustainability problem in an exhaustible resource model.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). A Complete and Strongly Anonymous Leximin Relation on Infinite Streams .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). A distributional argument for supply-side climate policies .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Can generations be treated equally? .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Combining sensitivity to the interests of the present with respect for the interests of the future .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Discounting While Treating Generations Equally .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Discounting while treating generations equally .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2011). Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Climate change and intergenerational equity.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Climate change and intergenerational equity.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Epistemically stable strategy sets.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Global welfare comparisons.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2010). Strategic use of environmental information.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Generalized time-invariant overtaking.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Intergenerational Equity - Combining sensitivity for the interests of the present with respect for the interests of the future.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Strategic use of environmental information.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2009). Strategic use of environmental information.
- Wei, Taoyuan; Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Brekke, Kjell Arne (2009). Accounting for the income of non-renewable resources - Four essays on new theoretical approaches. Dissertation.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Discounting the future under sustainable preferences and productivity risk.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Generalized time-invariant overtaking.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Generalized time-invariant overtaking.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Generalized time-invariant overtaking.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Global welfare comparisons.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Procrastination, partial naivete, and behavioral welfare analysis.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2008). Sustainable intergenerational preferences.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Procrastrination, partial naivete and behavioral welfare analysis.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Sectoral Income.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2007). Sustainable recursive social welfare functions.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Paradoxical consumption behavior when economic activity has environmental effects.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Procrastination: The welfare effects of partial naivete.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Representation of conditional preferences under uncertainty.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Sustainable recursive social welfare functions.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2006). Sustainable recursive social welfare functions.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Tungodden, Bertil (2005). A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). A new equity condition for infinite utility streams and the possibility of being Paretian.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons?.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons? .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Intergenerational ethics under resource constraints.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2005). Welfare comparisons between societies with different population sizes and environmental characteristics .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Buchholz, Wolfgang; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan & Withagen, Cees (2005). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Buchholz, Wolfgang; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan & Withagen, Cees (2005). Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Claussen, Carl Andreas & Nilssen, Tore (2005). Majority voting leads to unanimity .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Tungodden, Bertil (2004). Do Koopmans' postulates lead to discounted utilitarianism? .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Can stock-specific sustainability constraints be justified?.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Do Koopmans' postulates lead to discounted utilitarianism?.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Do Koopmans' postulates lead to discounted utilitarianism?.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Do Koopmans' postulates lead to discounted utilitarianism?.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2004). Majority voting leads to unanimity.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne & Sødal, Sigbjørn (2004). Genuine savings and comprehensive NNP with stochastic capital accumulation .
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2003). A general approach to welfare measurement through national income accounting.
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2003). Atferd, eksperimenter og økonomisk teori. Synspunkter i tilknytning til Nobelprisvinnerne Kahnemans og Smiths forskning..
- Asheim, Geir Bjarne (2003). Book review of "Rationality in Extensive Form Games" by A. Perea. Journal of Economics. ISSN 0931-8658. 78(3), s 273- 275
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