Bård Harstad

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

Background

With a PhD from IIES 2003, Harstad taught at MEDS/Kellogg 2004-12, was chaired in 2010, received an ERC Starting grant 2012 and a Consolidator grant 2016. He is an associate at TSE and Frisch centre.

Current academic interests

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

Working Papers

Technology and Time Inconsistency, R&R, JPE

Contracts and Induced Institutional Change
with Torben Mideksa, to be resubmitted to RAND

Compliance Technology and Self-enforcing Agreements
with Francesco Lancia and Alessia Russo, to be resubmitted to JEEA

The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
with Marco Battaglini, June '18.

Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments
with David Austen-Smith, Wiola Dziuda, and Antoine Loeper, June '18.

The Conservation Contradiction and Political Remedies.

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining, coming soon

Publications

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

Book in progress

Climate Contracts, in progress (MIT Press).

Book chapters

Three recent articles are reprinted in books (see ○ above)

Political Treaties as Incomplete Contracts
The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics (Aghion et al., Eds.)

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

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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 June 28, 2018 1:06 PM

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