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Karine Nyborg

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Postal address Postboks 1095 Blindern 0317 Oslo

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Academic Interests

Environmental economics, economic analysis of social and moral norms, behavioral economics.

Curriculum vitae

Courses taught

Background

  • Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo, 2007-d.d.
  • Senior research fellow, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, 2001-2007
  • Senior research fellow and research fellow, Statistics Norway, Research Department, Division for Environmental and Resource Economics, 1988-2001
  • 1988 Cand. Oecon., University of Oslo.
  • 1996 Dr. Polit., University of Oslo, title of dissertation: «Information Requirements for Environmental Policy Making
  • Visiting scholar, Department of Economics, Stanford University, 1996-1997
  • Regular op-ed writer in Dagsavisen (2004), Dagens Næringsliv (2008-2011), Aftenposten (2011-2013), Agenda Magasin (2016 -).
  • Fiction writer. 

 Appointments

  • President, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2012-2013. Vice President 2002-2003. Council Member 2010-2015.
  • Chair of Scientific Advisory Board, Beijer Institute for Ecological Econonomics (under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), 2015-2017 (Board Member (2011-2017).
  • Member, Academia Europaea.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009-2011.
  • Editorial Board Member, Resource and Energy Economics, 2007-2011.
  • Editorial Board Member, Review of Behavioral Economics, 2013 -.
  • Editorial Board Member, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2015 -.
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016-.
  • Member of the Commission for integrating sustainability concerns in public decision-making, Government-appointed expert commission, 2008-2009.
  • Member of the Commission for Sustainable Development Indicators (Indikatorutvalget), Government-appointed expert commission, 2003-2005.
  • Editor of Økonomisk forum/ Sosialøkonomen and Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift, 2000-2001.
  • Member of the Petroleum Tax Commission, Government-appointed expert commission, 1999-2000.
  • Member of Commission for Cost Calculations (Kostnadsberegningsutvalget), Government-appointed expert commission, 1994-1999.
  • Member of the Petroleum Tax Commission, Government-appointed expert commission, 1999-2000.
  • Member of «Modellutvalget», expert committee appointed by the Ministry of Finance, 1997-1999.

Awards

  • Erik Kempe Award of 2002, for Nyborg, K. (2000):  Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus: Interpretation and Aggregation of Environmental Values, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 42/3, 305-322. The Erik Kempe Award is awarded biannually by the University of Umeå, Sweden, in collaboration with the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, to the best paper within environmental and resource economics written by an author affiliated with a European institution and published in a refereed journal during the preceeding two years.
  • Artikkelprisen 2003, Samfunnsøkonomenes Forening (Award for best paper in the Norwegian Economists’ Association’s journals Økonomisk Forum and Norsk Økonomisk Tidsskrift in 2003) for Nyborg, K. (2003): Fra tørt, men korrekt – til kreativt, men slurvete? Norske økonomer som fortellere, Økonomisk forum 6.
  • Member, Academia Europaea
  • Fellow of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
  • Honorary Member of the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Tags: Economics, Resources Energy and Environment, Income Employment and Welfare, Behaviour Information and Strategy, Economic Policy

Publications

  • Grossman, Z., T. Hua, J.T. Lind, K. Nyborg (2026): Unwillingly informed: the prosocial impact of third-party informers, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 138, 103330.
  • Hoven, N.Z., and K. Nyborg (2025): The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable, Environmental and Resource Economics 88 (10), 2645-2661.
  • Segerson, Kathleen, Stephen Polasky, Marten Scheffer, U. Rashid Sumaila, Juan Camilo Cárdenas, Karine Nyborg, Eli P. Fenichel, John M. Anderies, Scott Barrett, Elena M. Bennett, Stephen R. Carpenter, Beatrice Crona, Gretchen Daily, Aart de Zeeuw, Joern Fischer, Carl Folke, Nils Kautsky, Claire Kremen, Simon A. Levin, Therese Lindahl, Malin L. Pinsky, Alessandro Tavoni, Brian Walker, and Elke U. Weber (2024): A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability, Science 386, 28-30.
  • Carlsen, B., J.T. Lind, K. Nyborg (2020): Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms, Health Economics 29(7), 778-789.
  • Nyborg, K. (2020): No Man is an Island: Social Coordination and the Environment, Environmental and Resource Economics 76(1), 177-193.
  • Asheim, G.B., T. Fæhn, K. Nyborg, M. Greaker, C. Hagem, B. Harstad, M.O. Hoel, D. Lund, K.E. Rosendahl (2019): The Case for a Supply-Side Climate Treaty, Science 365 (6451), 325-327.
  • Hauge, K.E., K.A. Brekke, K. Nyborg, J.T. Lind (2019): Sustaining cooperation through self-sorting: The good, the bad, and the conditional, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 116 (12), 5299-5304.
  • Nyborg, K. (2018): Reciprocal Climate Negotiators. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 92, 707-725.
  • Nyborg, K. (2018): Social Norms and the Environment, Annual Review of Resource Economics 10, 405-423.
  • Brekke, K.A., J. Konow, K. Nyborg (2017): Framing in a Threshold Public Goods Experiment with Heterogeneous Endowments, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 138, 99-110.
  • Nyborg, Karine, John M. Anderies, Astrid Dannenberg, Therese Lindahl, Caroline Schill, Maja Schlüter, W. Neil Adger, Kenneth J. Arrow, Scott Barrett, Stephen Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin III, Anne-Sophie Crépin, Gretchen Daily, Paul Ehrlich, Carl Folke, Wander Jager, Nils Kautsky, Simon A. Levin, Ole Jacob Madsen, Stephen Polasky, Marten Scheffer, Brian Walker, Elke U. Weber, James Wilen, Anastasios Xepapadeas, Aart de Zeeuw (2016): Social Norms as Solutions, Science, 07 Oct 2016, Vol. 354, Issue 6308, 42-43 (DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf8317).
  • Nyborg, K. and T. Zhang (2013): Is Corporate Social Responsibility Associated with Lower Wages?. Environmental and Resource Economics 55, 107-117.
  • Nyborg, K. (2012): The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics. London/NewYork: Routledge.
  • Jacobsen, K.J., K.H. Eika, L. Helland, J.T. Lind, K. Nyborg (2011): Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers? Journal of Economic Psychology 32, 818–831.
  • Brekke, K.A., K.E. Hauge, J.T. Lind, and K. Nyborg (2011): Playing with the Good Guys: A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation, Journal of Public Economics 95, 1111-1118.
  • Nyborg, K. (2011): I Don’t Want to Hear About it: Rational Ignorance among Duty-Oriented Consumers, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (79), 263-274.
  • Brekke, K.A., and K. Nyborg (2010): Selfish Bakers, Caring Nurses? A Model of Work Motivation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 75, 377-394.
  • Brekke, K.A., G. Kipperberg, and K. Nyborg (2010): Social Interaction in Responsibility Ascription: the Case of Household Recycling, Land Economics, forthcoming.
  • Brekke, K. A., and K. Nyborg (2008): Attracting Responsible Employees: Green Production as Labor Market Screening, Resource and Energy Economics 39, 509-526.
  • Brekke, K. A., K. Nyborg, and M. Rege (2007): The Fear of Exclusion: Individual Effort when Group Formation is Endogenous, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 109 (3),531-550.
  • Nyborg, K., R. B. Howarth, and K. A. Brekke (2006): Green Consumers and Public Policy: On Socially Contingent Moral Motivation, Resource and Energy Economics 28 (4), 351-366
  • Bruvoll, A. and K. Nyborg (2004): The Cold Shiver of Not Giving Enough: On the Social Cost of Recycling Campaigns, Land Economics 80 (4), 539-549.
  • Nyborg, K. and K. Telle (2004): The Role of Warnings in Regulation: Keeping Control with Less Punishment, Journal of Public Economics 88 (12), 2801-2816.
  • Brekke, K. A., S. Kverndokk, and K. Nyborg (2003): An Economic Model of Moral Motivation, Journal of Public Economics 87 (9-10), 1967-1983.
  • Nyborg, K., and M. Rege (2003): Does Public Policy Crowd Out Private Contributions to Public Goods? Public Choice 115 (3), 397-418
  • Nyborg, K. and M. Rege (2003): On Social Norms: The Evolution of Considerate Smoking Behavior , Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 52 (3), 2003, 323-340.

 

  • Nyborg, Karine (2026). Adam in the Perfectly Competitive Market. Revista de Economía Institucional. ISSN 0124-5996. 28(54), p. 179–196. doi: 10.18601/01245996.V28N54.08. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grossman, Zachary; Hua, Tony; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2026). Unwillingly informed: the prosocial impact of third-party informers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. ISSN 0095-0696. p. 103330–103330. doi: 10.1016/j.jeem.2026.103330. Full text in Research Archive
  • Grossman, Zachary; Hua, Tony; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2025). Unwillingly Informed: the Prosocial Impact of Third-Party Informers. Memorandum from Department of Economics, University of Oslo. ISSN 0809-8786. 02(2025). Full text in Research Archive
  • Hoven, Noel Zigrand & Nyborg, Karine (2025). The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable. Environmental and Resource Economics. ISSN 0924-6460. 88, p. 2645–2661. doi: 10.1007/s10640-025-01032-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Segerson, Kathleen; Polasky, Stephen; Scheffer, Marten; Sumaila, U. Rashid; Cardenas, Juan Camilo & Nyborg, Karine [Show all 24 contributors for this article] (2024). A cautious approach to subsidies for environmental sustainability. Science. ISSN 0036-8075. 386(6717), p. 28–30. doi: 10.1126/science.ado2615. Full text in Research Archive
  • Walker, Brian; Crépin, Anne-Sophie; nyström, magnus; Anderies, John M.; Andersson, Erik & Elmqvist, Thomas [Show all 26 contributors for this article] (2023). Response diversity as a sustainability strategy. Nature Sustainability. 6, p. 621–629. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-01048-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Levin, Simon; Anderies, John M.; Adger, Neil; Barrett, Scott; Bennett, Elena M. & Cárdenas, Juan Camilo [Show all 22 contributors for this article] (2021). Governance in the Face of Extreme Events: Lessons from Evolutionary Processes for Structuring Interventions, and the Need to Go Beyond. Ecosystems. ISSN 1432-9840. doi: 10.1007/s10021-021-00680-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Barrett, Scott; Dasgupta, Aisha; Dasgupta, Partha; Adger, William Neil; Anderies, John M. & Bergh, Jeroen van den [Show all 26 contributors for this article] (2020). Social dimensions of fertility behavior and consumption patterns in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). ISSN 0027-8424. 117(12), p. 6300–6307. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909857117. Full text in Research Archive
  • Carlsen, Benedicte; Lind, Jo Thori & Nyborg, Karine (2020). Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms. Health Economics. ISSN 1057-9230. 29(7), p. 778–789. doi: 10.1002/hec.4019. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nyborg, Karine (2020). No man is an island: Social coordination and the environment. Environmental and Resource Economics. ISSN 0924-6460. 76, p. 177–193. doi: 10.1007/s10640-020-00415-2. Full text in Research Archive
  • Herrero, Mario; Thornton, Philip K.; Mason-D’Croz, Daniel; Palmer, Jeda; Benton, Tim G. & Bodirsky, Benjamin L. [Show all 48 contributors for this article] (2020). Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food system. Nature Food. 1, p. 266–272. doi: 10.1038/s43016-020-0074-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Lind, Jo Thori; Nyborg, Karine & Pauls, Anna (2019). Save the planet or close your eyes? Testing strategic ignorance in a charity context. Ecological Economics. ISSN 0921-8009. 161, p. 9–19. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.010. Full text in Research Archive
  • Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Fæhn, Taran; Nyborg, Karine; Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine & Harstad, Bård Gjul [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2019). The case for a supply-side climate treaty. Science. ISSN 0036-8075. 365(6451), p. 325–327. doi: 10.1126/science.aax5011. Full text in Research Archive
  • Nyborg, Karine; Harstad, Bård Gjul; Holden, Steinar; Nilssen, Tore & Storesletten, Kjetil (2019). Plan S and the Economics of Scientific Journal Publishing. Journal of Peer Production. ISSN 2213-5316. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fæhn, Taran; Asheim, Geir Bjarne; Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Harstad, Bård Gjul & hoel, michael [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2018). Parisavtalen og oljeeksporten. Samfunnsøkonomen. ISSN 1890-5250. 3, p. 39–50. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Brekke, Kjell Arne; Nyborg, Karine & Lind, Jo Thori (2018). Sustaining cooperation through self-sorting: The good, the bad, and the conditional. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). ISSN 0027-8424. 116(12), p. 5299–5304. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1802875115. Full text in Research Archive

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