Research

Working papers and work-in-progress

1. Labor Market Impacts of the Green Transition: Evidence from a Contraction in the Oil Industry.  (with Cloé Garnache and  Maria Nareklishvili). CESifo Working Paper. (Previously circulated as "Employment and earnings losses in a green transition: Lessons from the oil industry"). 

2. Peer effects in green technology adoption: Evidence from electric vehicles (with Bjørn G. Johansen and Oddbjørn Raaum). First version: Jan 2021.  Slides Oct 2022. Abstract

3. A green wage premium? (with Anna Godøy). 

4.  Carbon taxes, emissions, and labor demand (with Maren H. Hedne)

5. Carbon pricing and jobs (with Raphael Calel, Lutz Sager, Geoffry Barrows, Axel Cronert, Hélène Ollivier) 

6. Household response to an electricity price shock  (with Cloé Garnache)

Published/Accepted work

1. Carbon pricing, compensation, and competitiveness: Lessons from UK manufacturing (with Misato Sato and Pier Basagliai). Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM).  Working paper (Feb 2024). 

2. Congestion pricing with electric vehicle exemptions: Car-ownership effects and other behavioral adjustments (with Bjørn G. Johansen). Forthcoming in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM). Accepted version and online appendix. First version: May 2021. SSRN version (Nov 2023). Previously circluated as "Congestion pricing, air pollution, and individual-level behavioral responses".

3. Local incentives and electric vehicle adoption (with Askill Halse, Karen Hauge, Bjørn G. Johansen and Oddbjørn Raaum),  Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists  (JAERE), 2025.  Accepted version. Online supporting material.    SSRN version (2023)

4. Have international pollution protocols made a difference?, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), 2020  [Online Appendix]

5. Positive framing does not solve the tragedy of the commons (with Kjell Arne Brekke and Andries Richter),  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), 2019  [Online Appendix] [Preprint]

6. Tragedy, property rights, and the commons: investigating the causal relationship from institutions to ecosystem collapse (with Andries Richter), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists  (JAERE), 2019 [Online Appendix] [Data] [Preprint]

Pre-doctoral publications (papers started before my PhD)

7. A carbon footprint proportional to expenditure - a case for Norway? (with Patrick Narbel), Ecological Economics, 2017 [Preprint]

8. Diffusion of Climate Technologies in the Presence of Commitment Problems (with Taran Fæhn), The Energy Journal, 2016

Reports

1. MSG-TECH: Analysis and documentation of a general equilibrium model with endogenous climate technology adaptation (with Fæhn, Jacobsen and Strøm), 2013.

Reports written in Norwegian

1. Indikatorer for å måle omstillingstempo i norsk økonomi (with Røed and Zhang), 2022

2. Kostnadseffektive tilpasninger til togradersmålet i Norge og EU fram mot 2050 (with Fæhn and Rosnes), 2013. 

3. Oljeselskapenes kunderegistre som kilde i petroleumsstatistikken (with Høie  and Flugsrud ), 2012.

4. Energiindikatorer for Norge 1990-2009 (with Bøeng, Jama, and Stalund), 2011.

Popular writing

1. Elbilsuksessen kommer med en bismak, Aftenposten 14.09.2022 (with Halse, Hauge, Johansen, and Raaum)

2. Misvisende om Regjeringens ambisjonsnivå i klimapolitikken, Aftenposten 26.06.2017 (with Ingrid Hjort)

3. En utfordrende vei mot klimamålene, Samfunnsøkonomen 3/2017 (with Ingrid Hjort)

4. Forskermøtet 2017, Samfunnsøkonomen 1/2017 (with Ingrid Hjort)

Resting papers

• The environmental and distributional consequences of emissions markets: evidence from the Clean Air Interstate Rule (with Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi). SSRN version here. More updated version here.