Bård Harstad

Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University.

Research agenda

Theory & political economics of the environment (survey):
♠ ♠ Dynamic games of emissions, technology, and treaties,
♣ ♠ Conservation and supply-side environmental policy,
♦ ♠ Political economics of agreements and federalism,
♥ ♠ Political economics of regulation.

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Publications

• The Certifier for the Long Run (♥)
  with Jacopo Bizzotto.
  International Journal of Industrial Organization, accepted.
• Pledge-and-Review Bargaining (♠)
  Journal of Economic Theory, accepted.
• Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris (♠)
  Economic Journal, accepted.
• The Conservation Multiplier (♣)
  Journal of Political Economy, accepted.
• Contracts and Induced Institutional Change (♣)
  with Torben Mideksa.
  Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, accepted.
• Prices vs. Quantities for Self-Enforcing Agreements (♠)
  with Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo.
  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 111 (January), 2022.
• Technology and Time Inconsistency (♠)
  Journal of Political Economy 128(7), 2020: 2653-89.
• The Political Economy of Weak Treaties (♦)
  with Marco Battaglini
  Journal of Political Economy 128(2), 2020: 544–90.
• Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments (♥)
  with David Austen-Smith, Wioletta Dziuda, Antoine Loeper
  Theoretical Economics 14(4), 2019: 1483–1534.
• The Case for a Supply-Side Climate Treaty (♣)
  w. Asheim, Fæhn, Nyborg, Greaker, Hagem, Hoel, Lund, Rosendahl
  Science Policy Forum 365(6451), 2019.
• Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements (♠)
  with Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo
  Journal of the European Economic Association 17(1), 2019: 1-30.
• Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes (♣)
  with Torben Mideksa
  Review of Economic Studies 84(4), 2017: 1708-34.
• Private Politics and Public Regulation (♥)
  with Georgy Egorov
  Review of Economic Studies 84(4), 2017: 1652-82.
• Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements (♠)
  with Marco Battaglini
  Journal of Political Economy 124(1), 2016: 160-204.
• The Dynamics of Climate Agreements (♠)
  Journal of the European Economic Association 14(3), 2016: 719-52.
• The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages (♣)
  Journal of Economic Theory 166(November), 2016: 124-51.
• Experimentation in Federal Systems (♦)
  with Steve Callander
  Quarterly Journal of Economics 130(2), 2015: 951-1002.
• Buy Coal! A Case for Supply-Side Environmental Policy (♣)
  Journal of Political Economy 120(1), 2012: 77-115
  ○ Reprinted in Copeland (Ed.) Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment.
• Climate Contracts: A Game of Emissions, Investments, Negotiations, and Renegotiations (♠)
  Review of Economic Studies 79(4), 2012: 1527-57
  ○ Reprinted in Finus & Caparros (Eds.) Game Theory and International Environmental Cooperation: Essential Readings.
• Bribes, Lobbying, and Development (♥)
  with Jakob Svensson
  American Political Science Review 105(1), 2011: 46-63
  ○ Reprinted in Dutta and Aidt (Eds.), Corruption and Economic Development. The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics.
• Trading for the Future: Signaling in Permit Markets (♥)
  with Gunnar Eskeland
  Journal of Public Economics 94(9-10), 2010: 749-60.
• Strategic Delegation and Voting Rules (♦)
  Journal of Public Economics 94(1-2), 2010: 102-113.
• Do Side Payments Help? Collective Decisions and Strategic Delegation (♦)
  Journal of the European Economic Association P&P 6(2-3), 2008: 468-77.
• Harmonization and Side Payments in Political Cooperation (♦)
  American Economic Review 97(3), 2007: 871-89.
• Organizational Form and the Market for Talent
  Journal of Labor Economics 25(3), 2007: 581-611.
• Flexible Integration? Mandatory and Minimum Participation Rules (♦)
  Scandinavian Journal of Economics 108(4), 2006: 683-702.
• Majority Rules and Incentives (♦) 
  Quarterly Journal of Economics 120(4), 2005: 535-68.

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Book chapters/review

• 3 recent articles are reprinted in books (see CV).
• Improving Paris: Credibility, Technology, and Conservation (♣)
  Coping with the Climate Crisis (Arezki et al., Eds.), 2018, Columbia University Press.
• Political Treaties as Incomplete Contracts (♠)
  The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics (Aghion et al., Eds.), 2016, Oxford University Press.
• Games and Resources (♠)
  with Matti Liski. Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics 2013, vol. 2: 299-308.
• How to Negotiate and Update Climate Agreements (♠)
  Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy (Aldy and Stavins, Eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Book review of Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach 
  (by Anderson and Libecap).
  Journal of Economic Literature 53(3), 2015.

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Working papers

• Conservation by Lending (♣), with Kjetil Storesletten. CESifo Working Paper No. 10533. First version: Dec., 2020.
• Trade and Trees (♣), June 2023: This paper presents a dynamic game where the South depletes in order to trade with the North. Contingent trade agreements can postpone deforestation, and motivate full conservation if export subsidies are permitted.
• Contingent Trade Agreements (♣), June 2023: This static trade model can allow for many products, countries, and collaborators, and it can be calibrated in order to estimate the effects of contingent trade agreements on environmental depletion.
  
• Informative Activism vs. Lobbying (♥)
  with Georgy Egorov. Under revision.

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Book in progress...

• Climate Contracts (♠), MIT Press.

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Popular (Financial Times)

• Trade deals could combat Brazil’s Amazon deforestation (♣), 2019.
• Pay countries to keep their fossil fuels in the ground (♣), 2013.
• Trade could hold the key to a climate deal (♠), 2009.
• Norwegian Op-Eds in DN and Aftenposten, 2012-.

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Teaching

• Environmental Economics (PhD), Stanford University, 2023 (scheduled).
• Environmental Economics (PhD), Harvard University, 2022.
• Contract Theory (PhD), Harvard University, 2022.
• Dynamic Games in Environmental Economics (PhD Minicourse).
• Environmental Economics and Climate Change (PhD), MIT, 2019.
• Environmental Economics (master course).
• Advanced Micro (PhD).

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Awards

• HumSam-prisen, 2023-.
• ERC Advanced Grant, 2022-.
• Elected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2021.
• Elected Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2021.
• Erik Kempe Award, 2019, with Torben Mideksa.
• Medlem, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi 2019-.
• ERC Consolidator Grant, 2016-21.
• Erik Kempe Award, 2013.
• Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers, 2013.
• En av de 10 fremste forskerne under 40, ifølge Morgenbladet, 2012.
• ERC Starting Grant, 2012-16.
• Sandmo junior visiting fellowship, 2008, from NHH (first recipient).
• Arnbergska Prize, 2006, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• Nasjonalgaven til Chr. Michelsen, 2000.

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