Bård Harstad

Professor, Political Economy

Bård Harstad

The David S. Lobel Professor in Business and Sustainability and Professor of Political Economy

Professor, Doerr School of Sustainability
Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
Academic Area:

Research Interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Political Economics
  • Economic Theory

Bio

Harstad held the Max McGraw Chair in Management & Environment, Kellogg School of Management, and was a professor at the University of Oslo, before coming to Stanford in 2023. He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, and Toulouse School of Economics.

Awards and Honors

  • HumSam Prize, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, 2023
  • Advanced Grant, European Research Council (ERC), 2022
  • Elected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2021
  • Elected Fellow, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, 2021
  • Consolidator Grant, ERC, 2016–21
  • Erik Kempe Award (with Torben Mideksa), European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019
  • Fellow, Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi, 2019
  • Starting Grant, ERC, 2012–16
  • Erik Kempe Award, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2013
  • Fridtjof Nansen Award for Young Researchers, 2013
  • Morgenbladet’s top ten young scholars in Norway, 2012
  • Sandmo Junior Visiting Fellowship, NHH, 2008
  • Arnbergska Prize, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2006
  • Nasjonalgaven til Chr. Michelsen, 2000

Publications

Journal Articles

Bård Harstad
Journal of Political Economy
July 2023 Vol. 131 Issue 7 Pages 1731–1771
Bård Harstad
The Economic Journal
April 2023 Vol. 133 Issue 651 Pages 1181–1216
Jacopo Bizzotto, Bård Harstad
International Journal of Industrial Organization
March 2023 Vol. 87
Bård Harstad
Journal of Economic Theory
January 2023 Vol. 207
Bård Harstad, Torben Mideksa
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization
May 2022
Bård Harstad, Francesco Lancia, Alessia Russo
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
January 2022 Vol. 111
Bård Harstad
Journal of Political Economy
July 2020 Vol. 128 Issue 7
Marco Battaglini, Bård Harstad
Journal of Political Economy
February 2020 Vol. 128 Issue 2
David Austen-Smith, Wioletta Dziuda, Bård Harstad, Antoine Loeper
Theoretical Economics
November 2019 Vol. 14 Issue 4 Pages 1483–1534
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
Bård Harstad, Francesco Lancia, Alessia Russo
Journal of the European Economic Association
February 2019 Vol. 17 Issue 1 Pages 1–29
Bård Harstad, Torben K. Mideksa
The Review of Economic Studies
October 2017 Vol. 84 Issue 4 Pages 1708–1734
Georgy Egorov, Bård Harstad
The Review of Economic Studies
October 2017 Vol. 84 Issue 4 Pages 1652–1682
Bård Harstad
Journal of Economic Theory
November 2016 Vol. 166 Pages 124–151
Bård Harstad
Journal of the European Economic Association
June 2016 Vol. 14 Issue 3 Pages 719–752
Marco Battaglini , Bård Harstad
Journal of Political Economy
February 2016 Vol. 124 Issue 1
Bård Harstad
Journal of Economic Literature
September 2015 Vol. 53 Issue 3 Pages 683–685
Steven Callander, Bård Harstad
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
May 2015 Vol. 130 Issue 2 Pages 951–1002
Bård Harstad
The Review of Economic Studies
October 2012 Vol. 79 Issue 4 Pages 1527–1557
Bård Harstad
Journal of Political Economy
February 2012 Vol. 120 Issue 1
Bård Harstad, Jakob Svensson
American Political Science Review
February 2011 Vol. 105 Issue 1 Pages 46–63
Bård Harstad, Gunnar S. Eskeland
Journal of Public Economics
October 2010 Vol. 94 Issue 9–10 Pages 749–760
Bård Harstad
Journal of Public Economics
February 2010 Vol. 94 Issue 1 Pages 102–113
Bård Harstad
Journal of the European Economic Association
May 2008 Vol. 6 Issue 2-3 Pages 468–477
Bård Harstad
Journal of Labor Economics
July 2007 Vol. 25 Issue 3 Pages 581–611
Bård Harstad
American Economic Review
June 2007 Vol. 97 Issue 3 Pages 871–889
Bård Harstad
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
2006 Vol. 108 Issue 4 Pages 683–702
Bård Harstad
Quarterly Journal of Economics
November 2005 Vol. 120 Issue 4 Pages 1535–1568

Book Chapters

Bård Harstad
Coping with the Climate Crisis
January 2018
Bård Harstad
The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics
January 2016 Pages 321–331
Bård Harstad, M. Liski
Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics
2013 Pages 299–308
Bård Harstad
Post-Kyoto International Climate Policy
2009 Pages 273–299

Working Papers

Bård Harstad, Kjetil Storesletten August 25, 2023
Bård Harstad June 2, 2023
Bård Harstad June 2023
Georgy Egorov, Bård Harstad March 2021

Teaching

Degree Courses

Executive Education & Other Non-Degree Programs

Anticipate and develop strategies to address critical beyond-market forces, from legislation and regulation to activism and the media.

Other Teaching

Programs and Non-Degree Courses

Service to the Profession

  • Editor, Review of Economic Studies

Insights by Stanford Business

December 05, 2023
New ideas never go out of season.
November 03, 2023
Bård Harstad proposes a way to get past the trade-off between commerce and conservation.
October 12, 2023
A domino effect can lead politicians to rapidly deplete natural resources — or commit to conservation.
May 19, 2015
A Stanford professor argues that state innovation needs a federal nudge.

School News

May 31, 2023
Bolstered by a partnership with Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford GSB increases support for resources catalyzing climate solutions.