Research

Work in Progress

For papers directly related to the project "Spatial Inference on Oil and Economic Development", also see separate project page (under the tag "Ongoing projects")

Declining Oil Production Leads to More Democratic Governments (CGD Working Paper).

With Jonas Hveding Hamang (BI) and Michael Ross (UCLA)

Quantifying Supply-Side Climate Policies.

With Lassi Ahlvik, Jonas Hveding Hamang and Torfinn Harding

Revision requested by The Review of Economic Studies

Buying Rural Jobs: Intergovernmental Grants and Local Employment.

With Rune Jørgen Sørensen.

Publications

The Zero Rent Society: Evidence from Hydropower Rich Norwegian Local Governments

With Rune Jørgen Sørensen

Journal of Public Economics 209, 2022.

Online Appendix

Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts.

With Niels Johannesen and Bob Rijkers

Journal of Political Economy 130(2), 2022.

Media (among others): [The Economist] [Financial Times] [Frankfurter Allgemeine] [Le Monde] [Vox] [Dagens Næringsliv (Norwegian)]

Oil Price Shocks and Conflict Escalation: Onshore vs. Offshore.

With Frode Martin Nordvik and Andrea Tesei.

Journal of Conflict Resolution 66(2), 2022.

[Building on our previous working paper: Oil and Civil Conflict: On and Off (Shore).]

Media: [VOX CEPR]

Political Rents and Voter Information in Search Equilibrium.

With Tom-Reiel Heggedal.

Games and Economic Behavior 114, 2019.

Emission Trading with Fiscal Externalities: The Case for a Common Carbon Tax for the Non-ETS Emissions in the EU.

With Mads Greaker.

Environmental and Resource Economics 71(3), 2018.

Petro Rents, Political Institutions, and Hidden Wealth: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts.

With Niels Johannesen, David Dreyer Lassen, and Elena Paltseva.

Journal of the European Economic Association 15(4), 2017.

ONLINE APPENDIX

Voting When the Stakes Are High.

With Jon H. Fiva and Gisle Natvik.

Journal of Public Economics 110, 2014.

The Big Oil Change: A Closer Look at the Haber-Menaldo Analysis.

With Michael Ross.

Comparative Political Studies 47, 2014.

Oil and Political Survival.

With Silje Aslaksen.

Journal of Development Economics 100(1), 2013.

The Dutch Disease and Intergenerational Welfare.

Applied Economics 45(4), 2013.

Costs of Taxation and the Size of Government.

Public Choice 153 (1-2), 2012.

The Form of Government and Fiscal Dynamics.

European Journal of Political Economy 27(2), 2011.

Constitutions and the Resource Curse.

With Silje Aslaksen.

Journal of Development Economics 87, 2008.

PhD-Thesis: Natural Resources, Political Institutions and Economic Policy.

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 2008.