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

2. 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  

3. 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 

4. 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 

5. 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 

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

7. 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 

8. Sustainable growth Social Choice and Welfare 49 (2017) 825–848

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

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

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

12. 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)

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

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

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

16. Intergenerational equity Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 197–222

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

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

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

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

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

22. 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

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

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

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

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

27. 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)]

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. Unjust intergenerational allocations Journal of Economic Theory 54 (1991) 350–371

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

36. 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) 91–110

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