Recent working papers

• The dilemma between repugnancy and sadism extends beyond Critical-Level Utilitarianism (coauthor: S. Cato) 7 SEP 2025

• Comprehensive national accounting for CO2 emissions (Appendices) (coauthor: R. Yamaguchi) 31 AUG 2025 Conditionally accepted for publication in JAERE (Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists)

• Complementary climate policies for supply and demand (co-author: B. Harstad) 20 MAY 2025

• Evaluating intergenerational consequences by the Pareto principle: Efficiency when future identities are unobservable (coauthors: K. Kamaga, S. Zuber) 14 DEC 2024

• Accounting for CO2 emissions when emitters pay (co-author: R. Yamaguchi) 30 JAN 2024

Recent publications

• Exploring infinite population utilitarianism under strong anonymity (coauthors: K. Kamaga, S. Zuber) Economic Theory (2025) 80:39–85 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-024-01620-6 

• Hartwick's rule. In: Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Economics, Second Edition (T. Lundgren, M. Bostian, S. Managi, Eds.) Elsevier Science (2025) https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-91013-2.00010-1 

• Epistemic foundation of the backward induction paradox (coauthor: T. Brunnschweiler) Games and Economic Behavior 141 (2023) 503–514 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2023.07.007 

• Sustainable per capita consumption under population growth (coauthors: J. Hartwick, R. Yamaguchi) Resource and Energy Economics 73 (2023) 101363 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2023.101363  

• Maximal sensitivity under Strong Anonymity (coauthors: K. Kamaga, S. Zuber) Journal of Mathematical Economics 103 (2022) 102768 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2022.102768 

• Rank-discounting as a resolution to a dilemma in population ethics (coauthor: S. Zuber). In: The Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (G. Arrhenius, K. Bykvist, T. Campbell, E. Finneron-Burns, Eds.) Oxford University Press (2022) ISBN: 9780190907686

• How stationarity contradicts intergenerational equity (coauthors: K. Banerjee, T. Mitra) Economic Theory 72 (2021) 423–444 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-020-01296-8 

• What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion? (coauthors: S. Zuber, N. Venkatseh, C. Tarsney, T. Tännsjö, H.O. Stefánsson, K. Steele, D. Spears, K. Sebo, M. Pivato, T. Ord, Y.-K. Ng, M. Masny, W. MacAskill, N. Lawson, K. Kuruc, M. Hutchinson, J. Gustafsson, H. Greaves, L. Forsberg, M. Fleurbaey, D. Coffey, S. Cato, T. Campbell, M.B. Budolfson, J. Broome, A. Berger, N. Beckstead) Utilitas 33 (2021) 379–383 https://doi.org/10.1017/S095382082100011X 

• Characterizing sustainability in discrete time (coauthor: T. Mitra) Economic Theory 71 (2021) 461–481 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00199-020-01250-8

• Investment rules and time invariance under population growth (coauthors: J.M. Hartwick, T. Mitra) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 123 (2021) article 104048 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2020.104048 

• The measurement of resilience (coauthors: W. Bossert, C. D'Ambrosio, C. Vögele) Journal of Economic Theory 189 (2020) article 105104 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2020.105104 

• The case for a supply-side climate treaty (coauthors: T. Fæhn, K. Nyborg, M. Greaker, C. Hagem, B. Harstad, M.O. Hoel, D. Lund, K.E. Rosendahl) Science 365 (2019) 6451:325–327