The economics of climate change

1. 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

2.  Destructive intergenerational altruism (coauthor: F. Nesje) Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 3 (2016) 957-984

3. A distributional argument for supply-side climate policies Environmental and Resource Economics 56 (2013) 239-254

4. Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism (coauthor: S. Dietz) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63 (2012) 321-335

5. Strategic use of environmental information Environmental and Resource Economics 46 (2010) 207-216

6. Renegotiation-proof climate agreements with full participation: conditions for Pareto-efficiency (coauthor: B. Holtsmark) Environmental and Resource Economics 43 (2009) 519-533

7. Regional versus global cooperation for climate control (coauthors: C. Bretteville Froyn, J. Hovi, F. C. Menz) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 51 (2006) 93-109

Intergenerational justice

1. 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  

2. 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 

3. 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 

4. 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 

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

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

7. Sustainable growth Social Choice and Welfare 49 (2017) 825-848

8. Evaluating intergenerational risks (coauthor: S. Zuber) Journal of Mathematical Economics 65 (2016) 104-117

9. Resource conservation across generations in a Ramsey-Chichilnisky model (coauthor: I. Ekeland) Economic Theory 61 (2016) 611-639

10. Escaping the repugnant conclusion: rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population (coauthor: S. Zuber) Theoretical Economics 9 (2014) 629-650

11. Characterizing the sustainability problem in an exhaustible resource model  (coauthors: T. Mitra, W. Buchholz, C. Withagen) Journal of Economic Theory 148 (2013) 2164-2182 (Supplementary material) (CESifo Working Paper No. 3758)

12. A complete and strongly anonymous leximin relation on infinite streams (coauthor: S. Zuber) Social Choice and Welfare 41 (2013) 819-834

13. Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach (coauthor: S. Zuber) Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 1572-1601

14. Sustainable recursive social welfare functions (coauthors: T. Mitra, B. Tungodden) Economic Theory 49 (2012) 267-292 (Supplement)

15. Intergenerational equity Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 197-222

16. Generalized time-invariant overtaking (coauthors: C. d´Aspremont, K. Banerjee) Journal of Mathematical Economics 46 (2010) 519-533

17. Sustainability and discounted utilitarianism in models of economic growth (coauthor: T. Mitra) Mathematical Social Sciences 59 (2010) 148-169

18. Infinite-horizon choice functions (coauthors: W. Bossert, Y. Sprumont, K. Suzumura) Economic Theory 43 (2010) 1-21

19. Fixed-step anonymous overtaking and catching-up (coauthor: K. Banerjee) International Journal of Economic Theory 6 (2010) 149-165

20. Paradoxical consumption behavior when economic activity has environmental effects Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 65 (2008) 529–546 (Mathematical appendix)

21. Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints (coauthors: W. Buchholz, J.M. Hartwick, T. Mitra, C. Withagen) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53 (2007) 213-229

22. Intergenerational ethics under resource constraints Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 141 (2005) 313-330

23. Resolving distributional conflicts between generations (coauthor: B. Tungodden) Economic Theory 24 (2004) 221-230

24. The malleability of undiscounted utilitarianism as a criterion of intergenerational justice (coauthor: W. Buchholz) Economica 70 (2003) 405-422

25. Maximin, discounting, and separating hyperplanes (coauthors: C. Withagen, W. Buchholz) Natural Resource Modeling 16 (2003) 213-217

26. On the sustainable program in Solow's model (coauthors: C. Withagen, W. Buchholz) Natural Resource Modeling 16 (2003) 219-231 [Erratum 20 (2007) 473-475; corrected version published as Chapter 12 of Asheim (2007)]

27. The Hartwick rule: Myths and facts (coauthors: W. Buchholz, C. Withagen) Environmental and Resource Economics 25 (2003) 129-150

28. Sustainability when capital management has stochastic consequences (coauthor: K.A. Brekke) Social Choice and Welfare 19 (2002) 921-940

29. Justifying sustainability (coauthors: W. Buchholz, B. Tungodden) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 41 (2001) 252-268

30. Characterizing sustainability: The converse of Hartwick's rule (coauthor: C. Withagen) Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23 (1998) 159-165

31. Ethical preferences in the presence of resource constraints Nordic Journal of Political Economy 23 (1996) 55-67

32. Sustainability - Ethical foundations and economic properties World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1302 (1994) 27 pp

33. Unjust intergenerational allocations Journal of Economic Theory 54 (1991) 350-371

34. Rawlsian intergenerational justice as a Markov-perfect equilibrium in a resource technology Review of Economic Studies 55 (1988) 469-483

35. Hartwick's rule in open economies Canadian Journal of Economics 19 (1986) 395-402 [Erratum 20 (1987) 177]

Game theory

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

2. Algorithms for cautious reasoning in games (coauthor: A. Perea) International Journal of Game Theory 48 (2019) 1241-1275

3. Epistemically robust strategy subsets (coauthors: M. Voorneveld, J. Weibull) Games 7 (2016), 7, 37 (10.3390/g7040037)

4. Coordinating under incomplete information (coauthor: S.H. Yoo) Review of Economic Design 12 (2008) 293-313

5. Majority voting leads to unanimity (coauthors: C.A. Claussen, T. Nilssen) International Journal of Game Theory 35 (2006) 91–11

6. Sequential and quasi-perfect rationalizability in extensive games (coauthor: A. Perea) Games and Economic Behavior 53 (2005) 15-42

7. Preference-based belief operators (coauthor: Y. Søvik) Mathematical Social Sciences 50 (2005) 61-82

8. Deductive reasoning in extensive games (coauthor: M. Dufwenberg) Economic Journal 113 (2003) 305-325 (Awarded the Royal Economic Society Prize for the best paper published in the Economic Journal in 2003)

9. Admissibility and common belief (coauthor: M. Dufwenberg) Games and Economic Behavior 42 (2003) 208-234

10. On the epistemic foundation for backward induction Mathematical Social Sciences 44 (2002) 121-144

11. Proper rationalizability in lexicographic beliefs International Journal of Game Theory 30 (2001) 453-478

12. Individual and collective time-consistency Review of Economic Studies 64 (1997) 427-443

13. Insurance monopoly and renegotiation (coauthor: T. Nilssen) Economic Theory 9 (1997) 341-354

14. Nondiscriminating renegotiation in a competitive insurance market (coauthor: T. Nilssen) European Economic Review 40 (1996) 1717-1736

15. Contestability in a resource market with non-convex costs Scandinavian Journal of Economics 94 (1992) 609-618

16. A unique solution to n-person sequential bargaining Games and Economic Behavior 4 (1992) 169-181

17. Extending renegotiation-proofness to infinite horizon games Games and Economic Behavior 3 (1991) 278-294

Green national accounting

1. Anomalies in green national accounting (coauthor: J.M. Hartwick) Ecological Economics 70 (2011) 2303-2307

2. Comparing the welfare of growing economies Revue d'Economie Politique 121 (2011) 59-72

3. Global welfare comparisons Canadian Journal of Economics 43 (2010) 1412-1432

4. Sectoral income (coauthor: T. Wei) Environmental and Resource Economics 42 (2009) 65–87

5. Can NNP be used for welfare comparisons? Environment and Development Economics 12 (2007) 11-31

6. A general approach to welfare measurement through national income accounting (coauthor: W. Buchholz) Scandinavian Journal of Economics 106 (2004) 361-384

7. Perspectives on Weitzman's stationary equivalent Japan and the World Economy 16 (2004) 331-335

8. Green national accounting with a changing population Economic Theory 23 (2004) 601-619

9. Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability: A taxonomy of assumptions and results Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50 (2003) 113-130

10. Does NNP growth indicate welfare improvement? (coauthor: M.L. Weitzman) Economics Letters 73 (2001) 233-239

11. Green national accounting: why and how? Environment and Development Economics 5 (2000) 25-48

12. Adjusting Green NNP to measure sustainability Scandinavian Journal of Economics 99 (1997) 355-370

13. Capital gains and 'net national product' in open economies Journal of Public Economics 59 (1996) 419-434

14. Net national product as an indicator of sustainability Scandinavian Journal of Economics 96 (1994) 257-265

Miscellaneous

1. 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 

2. Health insurance: Medical treatment vs. disability payment (coauthors: A.W. Emblem, T. Nilssen) Research in Economics 64 (2010) 137-145

3. Deductibles in health insurance: Pay or pain (coauthors: A.W. Emblem, T. Nilssen) International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 3 (2003) 253-266

4. Long-term union-firm contracts (coauthor: J. Strand) Journal of Economics / ZfN 53 (1991) 161-184

5. Properties of a system of currency baskets Journal of International Economics 16 (1984) 311-317