Bård Harstad

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Email bard.harstad@econ.uio.no
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Curriculum vitae

Current research interests

Theory, political economy, and the environment (link to survey)

Publications

Technology and Time Inconsistency
Journal of Political Economy, accepted.

Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments 
with David Austen-Smith, Wiola Dziuda, Antoine Loeper
Theoretical Economics, accepted.

The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
with Marco Battaglini
Journal of Political Economy, accepted.

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: 719-752.

The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages
Journal of Economic Theory 166(November), 2016: 124-151.

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: 749-760.

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: 468-477.

Harmonization and Side Payments in Political Cooperation
American Economic Review 97(3), 2007: 871-889.

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: 535-568.

Working papers

Contracts and Induced Institutional Change
with Torben Mideksa.

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining, February '19.

Book in progress

Climate Contracts, in progress (MIT Press).

Book chapters

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.

Teaching

Awards

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Tags: Economics, Applied Theory, Political Economics, Economic Policy, Public Economics, Resources Energy and Environment
Published Jan. 13, 2012 8:40 PM - Last modified May 27, 2019 10:01 AM

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