Michael Hoel

Academic Interests

Energy and climate economics, environmental economics, resource economics

CV

Background

• Professor emeritus of economics, University of  Oslo, from 2017.
• Professor of economics, University  of Oslo, 1981-2017.
• Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Dept. of Economics) fall 1999 and fall 2001.
• Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics) fall 1995 and fall 1996.
• Senior Researcher at CICERO (Center for International Climate and Energy Research, Oslo) from August 1991 to December 1992.
• Consultant at OECD, June to August 1988.
• Special Consultant at Norges Bank (The Central Bank of Norway), August 1984 to July 1985.
• Special Consultant at The Ministry of Finance in Norway, January to September 1978.
• Visiting Associate Professor at Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, January to July 1982.
• Visiting Scholar at Department of Economics, M.I.T., 1976-1977

Positions held

• Scientific Advisor of the Frisch Centre of Economic Research
• Associate researcher at Vista Analyse
• Fellow at The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
• Fellow at EAERE
• Fellow at CESifo

Honororia

• The Sören Wibe Prize 2016 for the article in Journal of Forest Economics  (“Faustmann and the climate” , with  Bjart Holtsmark and Katinka Holtsmark, published in  2014).
• The SJE Prize for the best article published in 2011 in The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012.
• EAERE European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics, 2011 (from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).
• Honorary Doctor at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, 2009.
• The Eric Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics, 2000 (from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).
• The Research Prize of the University of Oslo, 1997.
• The 1996 Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession of Energy Economics and to its Literature (from the International Association for Energy Economics).

Selected publications

(see here for full publication list)

Hagem, Cathrine, Hoel, Michael and Sterner, Thomas (2020), " Refunding Emission Payments: Output‑Based Versus Expenditure‑Based Refunding”, Environmental and Resource Economics 77: 641–667.  

Hoel, Michael (2020), "The Rise and Fall of Bioenergy", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 101 (May).

Golombek, Rolf, Greaker, Mads and Hoel, Michael (2020), Should environmental R&D be prioritized? Resource and Energy Economics 60 (May).

Geir B. Asheim, Taran Fæhn, Karine Nyborg, Mads Greaker, Cathrine Hagem, Bård Harstad, Michael O. Hoel, Diderik Lund, Knut Einar Rosendahl (2019), “The case for a supply-side climate treaty”, Science 365 (6451), 325–327.

Hoel, Michael, Sverre A.C. Kittelsen and Snorre Kverndokk (2019), Correcting the Climate Externality: Pareto Improvements Across Generations and Regions, Environmental and Resource Economics 74, 449–472.

Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Golombek, Rolf (2019), “Global Impact of National Climate Policy in the Nordic Countries”. In Nordic Economic Policy Review: Climate Policies in the Nordics. Nordic Council of Ministers.

Hoel, Michael and Sletten, Thea Marcelia, “Climate and forests: The tradeoff between forests as a source for producing bioenergy and as a carbon sink”, Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 43, February 2016, pp 112-129.

Hoel, Michael, "Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox", In Pittel, K., van der Ploeg, R. and Withagen, C. (eds.): Climate Policy and Nonrenewable Resources. The Green Paradox and Beyond. MIT Press, 2014.

Greaker, Mads, Michael Hoel and Knut Einar Rosendahl, "Does a Renewable Fuel Standard for Biofuels Reduce Climate Costs?", Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 1, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 337-363.

Hoel, Michael, Bjart Holtsmark and Katinka Holtsmark, "Faustmann and the Climate", Journal of Forest Economics 20, 192-210 (2014).

Hoel, M. and de Zeeuw, A., “Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries”, in Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi and David McEvoy (editors): Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Routledge, 2014.

Holtsmark, B., M. Hoel and. K. Holtsmark, Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools – A comment, Journal of Forest Economics, Volume 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87–95 (2013).

Hoel,M.and Holtsmark, B.,  “Haavelmo on the climate issue”, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Volume 37(2012).

Hoel, Michael and Sletten, Thea Marcelia, “Climate and forests: The tradeoff between forests as a source for producing bioenergy and as a carbon sink”, Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 43, pp 112-129 (2016).

Hoel, Michael, "Supply Side Climate Policy and the Green Paradox", In Pittel, K., van der Ploeg, R. and Withagen, C. (eds.): Climate Policy and Nonrenewable Resources. The Green Paradox and Beyond. MIT Press, 2014.

Greaker, Mads, Michael Hoel and Knut Einar Rosendahl, "Does a Renewable Fuel Standard for Biofuels Reduce Climate Costs?", Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 1, pp. 337-363 (2014).

Hoel, Michael, Bjart Holtsmark and Katinka Holtsmark, "Faustmann and the Climate", Journal of Forest Economics 20, 192-210 (2014).

Hoel, M. and de Zeeuw, A., “Technology Agreements with Heterogeneous Countries”, in Todd L. Cherry, Jon Hovi and David McEvoy (editors): Toward a New Climate Agreement: Conflict, Resolution and Governance. Routledge, 2014.

Publisert 18. mars 2021 14:06 - Sist endret 6. nov. 2020 09:30