Bård Harstad

Professor, Political Economy

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Bård Harstad

Professor of Political Economy

Academic Area:

Political Economy

Research Interests

Political Economics
Environmental Economics
Economic Theory

Publications

Journal Articles

The Conservation Multiplier

Bård Harstad

Journal of Political Economy

May 2023 Vol. 131 Issue 5

Pledge-and-Review Bargaining: from Kyoto to Paris

Bård Harstad

The Economic Journal

April 2023 Vol. 133 Issue 651 Pages 1181–1216

The Certifier for the Long Run

Jacopo Bizzotto, Bård Harstad

International Journal of Industrial Organization

March 2023 Vol. 87

Pledge-And-Review Bargaining

Bård Harstad

Journal of Economic Theory

January 2023 Vol. 207

Contracts and Induced Institutional Change

Bård Harstad, Torben Mideksa

The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization

May 2022

Prices vs. Quantities for Self-Enforcing Agreements

Bård Harstad, Francesco Lancia, Alessia Russo

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

January 2022 Vol. 111

Technology and Time Inconsistency

Bård Harstad

Journal of Political Economy

July 2020 Vol. 128 Issue 7

The Political Economy of Weak Treaties

Marco Battaglini, Bård Harstad

Journal of Political Economy

February 2020 Vol. 128 Issue 2

Gridlock and Inefficient Policy Instruments

David Austen-Smith, Wioletta Dziuda, Bård Harstad, Antoine Loeper

Theoretical Economics

November 2019 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 1483–1534

The Case for a Supply-Side Climate Treaty

G. B. Asheim, T. Fæhn, K. Nyborg, M. Greaker, C. Hagem, Bård Harstad, M. O. Hoel, D. Lund, K. E. Rosendahl

Science

July 2019 Vol. 365 Issue 6451 Pages 325–327

Compliance Technology and Self-Enforcing Agreements

Bård Harstad, Francesco Lancia, Alessia Russo

Journal of the European Economic Association

February 2019 Vol. 17 Issue 1 Pages 1–29

Conservation Contracts and Political Regimes

Bård Harstad, Torben K. Mideksa

The Review of Economic Studies

October 2017 Vol. 84 Issue 4 Pages 1708–1734

Private Politics and Public Regulation

Georgy Egorov, Bård Harstad

The Review of Economic Studies

October 2017 Vol. 84 Issue 4 Pages 1652–1682

The Market for Conservation and Other Hostages

Bård Harstad

Journal of Economic Theory

November 2016 Vol. 166 Pages 124–151

The Dynamics of Climate Agreements

Bård Harstad

Journal of the European Economic Association

June 2016 Vol. 14 Issue 3 Pages 719–752

Participation and Duration of Environmental Agreements

Marco Battaglini , Bård Harstad

Journal of Political Economy

February 2016 Vol. 124 Issue 1

Book Review: Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach

Bård Harstad

Journal of Economic Literature

September 2015 Vol. 53 Issue 3 Pages 683–685

Experimentation in Federal Systems

Steven Callander, Bård Harstad

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

May 2015 Vol. 130 Issue 2 Pages 951–1002

Book Chapters

Improving Paris: Credibility, Technology, and Conservation

Bård Harstad

Coping with the Climate Crisis

January 2018

Political Treaties as Incomplete Contracts

Bård Harstad

The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics

January 2016 Pages 321–331

Games and Resources

Bård Harstad, M. Liski

Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics

2013 Pages 299–308

How to Negotiate and Update Climate Agreements

Bård Harstad

Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy

2009 Pages 273–299

Working Papers

Trade and Trees

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Bård Harstad December 2022

Informative Activism vs. Lobbying

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Georgy Egorov, Bård Harstad March 2021

Service to the Profession

Editor, Review of Economic Studies

In the Media

Pay Countries to Keep Their Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Financial Times October 08, 2020

Trade Deals Could Combat Brazil’s Amazon Deforestation

Financial Times August 22, 2019

Norwegian Op-Eds

DN and Aftenposten January 01, 2012

Trade Could Hold the Key to a Climate Deal

Financial Times December 03, 2009

Insights by Stanford Business

Steven Callander: How to Make States “Laboratories of Democracy”

May 19, 2015

A Stanford professor argues that state innovation needs a federal nudge.