Advanced technologies and innovation are essential for promoting sustainable food systems (SFSs) because these technologies can be used to answer some of the critical questions …
M Battaglini, B Harstad - Journal of Political Economy, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
We analyze participation in international environmental agreements in a dynamic game in which countries pollute and invest in green technologies. If complete contracts are feasible …
B Harstad - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This paper analyzes a framework in which countries over time pollute and invest in green technologies. Without a climate treaty, the countries pollute too much and invest too little …
D Hémous, M Olsen - Annual Review of Economics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
It is increasingly evident that the direction of technological change responds to economic incentives. We review the literature on directed technical change in the context of …
B Harstad - Journal of Political Economy, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
Policy makers have time-inconsistent preferences if they fear losing power or are endowed with hyperbolic discount factors. Politicians may thus seek to influence future policy choices …
S Proost - Journal of Air Transport Management, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the different climate policies that are used by the EU in the aviation sector. Using a simple model, we study their effects on welfare as well as on their …
B Harstad - The Economic Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A tractable dynamic model of international climate policies is analysed. The choice of bargaining game influences participation levels, emission quotas and technology …
B Harstad - Journal of Political Economy, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
Every government that controls an exhaustible resource must decide whether to exploit it or conserve it and thereby let the subsequent government decide whether to exploit or …
E Kováč, RC Schmidt - Journal of Public Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
We introduce a novel framework for analyzing coalition formation, applied to climate cooperation. Our model allows for multiple rounds of negotiations and is able to explain the …