Bård Harstad
Background
With a PhD from IIES, Harstad taught at MEDS/Kellogg 2004-12. He received an ERC Starting grant 2012 and a Consolidator grant 2016. He is an editor of JEEA and, from May, 2021, of RESTUD.■ Curriculum Vitae: CV (pdf).
Academic interests
Theory & political economics of the environment (link to survey):
♠ Conservation and supply-side environmental policy
♣ Dynamic games of emissions, technology, and treaties
♦ Political economics of agreements and federalism
♥ Political economics of regulation
Publications
♣ 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, Wiola 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.
Under review / R&Rs
♠ The Conservation Multiplier. October 2020.
♥ The Choice of Certifier in Endogenous Markets,
♦ w. J. Bizzotto. November 2020.
♠ Contracts and Induced Institutional Change,
♦ w. T. Mideksa. September 2020.
♠ Trade and Trees. October 2020.
♣ A Theory of Pledge-and-Review Bargaining. October 2020.
♣ Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: From Kyoto to Paris. June 2020.
♣ Policies and Instruments for Self-enforcing Agreements,
♦ w. F. Lancia and A. Russo. January 2021.
♥ Informative Activism vs. Lobbying, w. G. Egorov (coming soon).
♣ Commitment vs. Learning for Present-Biased Agents (coming soon).
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.
Popular (Financial Times)
♠ Trade deals could combat Brazil’s Amazon deforestation, FT, 2019
♠ Pay countries to keep their fossil fuels in the ground, FT, 2013.
♣ Trade could hold the key to a climate deal, FT, 2009.
Teaching
- Environmental Economics and Climate Change, MIT 2019.
- Dynamic Games in Environmental Economics, PhD Minicourse.
- Environmental Economics, MS course.
- Advanced Micro, PhD course.
Awards
- Erik Kempe Award 2019 (w. Mideksa)
- ERC Consolidator Grant 2016-21
- Erik Kempe Award 2013
- Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers 2013
- Named "one of the 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
- Nationalgaven til Chr. Michelsen, 2000