Frikk Nesje

Destructive Intergenerational Altruism | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists: Vol 3, No 4 Abstract Are the probable future negative effects of climate change an argument for decreasing the discount rate to promote the interests of future generations? The analysis of the present paper sugge...

Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

In December this year, it is 10 years since my first academic publication. It was published in JAERE and asked when lowering the discount rate can be bad for future generations.

Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition by Mark Freeman, Ben Groom, Frikk Nesje, and Gernot Wagner

Some light Sunday reading to fill that post-Olympic void:

"Beliefs, evidence, and action towards the green energy transition" with Mark Freeman, @bengroom.bsky.social & @frikknesje.bsky.social

Updated working paper: gwagner.com/beliefs

TL;DR: both evidence & prior beliefs matter, a lot.

:)

Economics Departmental Seminar - Associate Professor Frikk Nesje Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality

Looking forward to holding the Department Seminar at @sussexunibusiness.bsky.social on Dec 10.

I will present the paper "Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality" (joint with @pgpiacquadio.bsky.social). A new version, with many new insights, will be ready soon!

shorturl.at/I58qN

Er det i desse dagar eg seier eg hadde same engelsklærar som Azar Karadas?

Eg er visst i ferd med å bli ein sånn ekspert. To invitasjonar til Folketinget i haust, for å snakke klimapolitikk for dei som styrer. Og dei som står imot. Den eine saman med Mogens Fosgerau. Det er litt rart. Men fint og.

New publication: Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe with Robert Schmidt and @moritzdrupp.bsky.social in Environmental and Resource Economics!

We present the largest international expert survey on carbon pricing design (400+ participants, ~40 countries). Some highlights.

Project summary: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/95kow...

Experts: Climate policy must be tailored to each individual country Researchers have asked over 400 international experts which climate policies work best. There is no single solution that everyone agrees on – except for border carbon adjustment on trade between count...

News item: news.ku.dk/all_news/202...

Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe - Environmental and Resource Economics This study presents a large-scale, multi-country assessment of expert recommendations on key policy design options for implementing carbon pricing schemes at a country level, for which there is no consensus in the literature. Based on a survey of more than 400 academic experts on carbon pricing across the globe, we find that almost twice as many favor a carbon tax over a cap-and-trade scheme for unilateral carbon pricing than vice versa, and three-quarters strongly recommend using border carbon adjustment to address competitiveness concerns. By contrast, guidance on the use of revenue from carbon pricing is much more nuanced, with considerably lower support for lump-sum transfers to households than reflected in academic and policy discussions. Furthermore, recommendations on instrument choice and revenue use vary considerably with country and expert characteristics, such as GDP per capita and academic discipline. Our findings can guide the search for suitable public policy approaches that combine environmental effectiveness with economic efficiency and fairness considerations.

Paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How to use CO₂ tax or quota revenues? Here opinions diverge — no clear consensus emerges among experts.

74% of experts – regardless of countries & background – support border carbon adjustments: import taxes tied to CO₂ pricing, plus compensation for CO₂-intensive exports.

Twice as many experts prefer a CO₂ tax over trading in CO₂ quotas (like the EU ETS). But: the figures mask significant geographical and economic differences.

New publication: Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe with Robert Schmidt and @moritzdrupp.bsky.social in Environmental and Resource Economics!

We present the largest international expert survey on carbon pricing design (400+ participants, ~40 countries). Some highlights.

Tysklands Olav H. Hauge.

Kvar nominerer eg til litteraturprisen?

Fraud and cover-up Fraud and cover-up

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky

Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

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Working paper alert!

I generalize discounted utilitarianism to endogenous population settings and avoid most drawbacks of existing welfare criteria.

Read more here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo....

Comments are welcome!

🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek.

See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here
👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

Cool stuff!

men jeg nærer dog det stille håb, at de vil bidrage en smule til samtalen. At få lov at forene sig med så lærde og forstandige herrer og damer i et fælles anliggende, må vist betragtes som en af de mest udsøgte fornøjelser, som fagligheden kan skænke.

Det er med den største fornøjelse, at jeg imødeser muligheden for at ytre nogle beskedne tanker ved den Miljøøkonomiske Konference senere i denne uge. Jeg tør ikke håbe, at mine betragtninger skulle bringe sand oplysning til et så distingveret selskab, ...

#JaneAusten

Great program 👇

My first "reply all" of the academic year.

🌱 Do you know early career (PhD/Postdoc) researchers that work on #EnvironmentalEconomics, #EcologicalEconomics,
#ClimateEconomics and/or #EnergyEconomics?

🦋 If yes, are they already on Bsky?

✔️ let me know, so I can add them

❌ encourage them to join Bsky and then let me know

#EconSky

Editor’s Choice Collection: Bard Harstad Thanks to all authors and referees: I have learned a lot from you and it is truly inspiring to see how the peer-review process contributes to the development of

Check out the virtual issue curated by former editor @bardharstad.bsky.social ‬- featuring papers - all with free access - on environmental economics, political economy and theory

Teaching material available!

academic.oup.com/jeea/pages/v...

@eeanews.bsky.social

By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season.

Let me explain.

I never listened much to Black Sabbath. I am more the folk type, I guess. But today I listened a bit for the obvious reasons… I have to say, it is quite good!