Bård Harstad

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Background

Curriculum Vitae: CV (pdf).
MEDS/Kellogg/Northwestern 2004-13.
ERC grants: Institutions 2012; Conservation 2016.
Editor: JEEA 2019-21; REStud 2021-.

Research agenda

Theory & political economics of the environment (survey)

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R&Rs

The Conservation Multiplier (♣)
Journal of Political Economy.
A Theory of Pledge-and-Review Bargaining (♠)
Journal of Economic Theory.
Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris (♠)
Economic Journal.
Contracts and Induced Institutional Change (♣)
with Torben Mideksa.
Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization.
Conditionally accepted.

Working papers

The Choice of Certifier in Endogenous Markets (♥)
with Jacopo Bizzotto. March 2021.
Informative Activism vs. Lobbying (♥)
with Georgy Egorov. Under revision.
Conservation Contracts for Exhaustible Resources (♣)
with Nils Chr. Framstad. Under revision.
Trade and Trees (♣)
March 2021.

Publications

Prices vs. Quantities for Self-Enforcing Agreements (♠)
with Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming.
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.

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.

Book in progress...

Climate Contracts (♠), MIT Press.

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, 2012-2021.

Teaching

Dynamic Games in Environmental Economics, PhD Minicourse.
Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MIT 2019.
Environmental Economics, Master course.
Advanced Micro, PhD course.

Awards

Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, 2021.
Erik Kempe Award, 2019, with Torben Mideksa.
ERC Consolidator Grant, 2016-21.
Erik Kempe Award, 2013.
Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers, 2013.
One of 10 foremost Norwegian scholars below 40, Morgenbladet.
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.

Tags: Economics, Applied Theory, Political Economics, Economic Policy, Public Economics, Resources Energy and Environment

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