Professor of Political Economy, Stanford University.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/bard-harstad
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- 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. - 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. - 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. - Climate Contracts (♠), MIT Press.
- 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-.
- 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).
- 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.
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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