Frikk Nesje

News

• "Beliefs, evidence, and climate action" has been accepted for publication in Energy Economics.

• "Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems" has been cited in the Dutch and German guidelines on cost benefit analysis.

• I have upcoming presentations of "Intergenerational discounting and inequality" at SURED and the World Congress. I recently presented it at the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Sussex, the University of Gothenburg, Jönköping University, and the European Institute on Economics and the Environment. 

• I was called to the Danish Parliament for a session on climate policy and a meeting with the Minister in the fall. This effort influenced the climate targets in Denmark. 

• "Designing carbon pricing policies across the globe" has been published in Environmental and Resource Economics.

• I presented "Does axiological longtermism require deontic shorttermism?" at the International Conference on Normative Economics and Philosophy at Tokyo University of Science.

• "Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems", published in Science, has been awarded a Frontiers Planet Prize.

Bio

I am an Associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen. I am also Co-director of the Environmental Economics Group. I became a Distinguished affiliate member of the CESifo Research Network after receiving the Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award. For my research, I have also received a Frontiers Planet Prize. My research and teaching interests are primarily within resource and environmental economics. I am also interested in welfare economics and game theory. 

I hold a PhD in economics from the University of Oslo and was previously Research fellow at Heidelberg University. For my PhD dissertation, I received H.M. The King’s Gold Medal and the Best Dissertation Award from the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 

I have published in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Energy Economics and Nature Climate Change, presented at the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings and visited the London School of Economics, Northwestern University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Toulouse School of Economics. My research has influenced public guidance in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New York State, New Zealand, Norway, the UK and the US, targets in Denmark, and is also referred to in public documents by the European Union, Denmark, the Dasgupta Review, the FAO, the IPCC, the IPBES, the OECD, the Office for National Statistics, Ontario, Sweden, the UNDP, the UNFCCC and the World Bank. 

My CV is available here and I can be reached on frikk.nesje@econ.ku.dk. 

For BA and MA thesis supervision.