Bård Harstad

@Stanford economist:
Professor of Political Economy; Business and Sustainability.
GSB, SDSS, NBER, CEPR, UiO, TSE, 3ERCs, REStud editor for R&Rs only :)

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

I have started as professor of Political Economy at @Stanford
Three factors made the offer impossible to refuse:

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Please circulate our Call for Papers for the
POLITICAL ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE
@Stanford, Nov 11-12.
Submission deadline: Aug 31.
Jointly organized with @AllanHsiao
https://t.co/co879ESXNM

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

Conserving tropical forests is extremely valuable.
It would thus be disastrous if wealthy countries are discouraged from financing conservation in the future because they try and fail with a flawed scheme, especially when better alternatives exist, I argue
https://t.co/CY3zpzj0hS

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EFTA-avtalen kan gi nok et eksempel på at den gulroten som handelsliberalisering faktisk kunne vært ikke har blitt brukt effektivt nok.
I tillegg til forskningsartiklene skrev jeg en lettere tilgjengelig artikkel her:
https://t.co/a4uAxYemvN

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

Ny handelsavtale? De fleste vet kanskje ikke at i dag, 2. juni (for dere som er i Norge), skal Stortinget behandle (og trolig ratifisere) frihandelsavtalen mellom Efta og Mercosur.

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EFTA kunne også krevd en slik modifikasjon som ville gitt økt motivasjon til skogvern heller enn avskoging. Vi har alt en troverdig forskningslitteratur som viser at handelsavtaler gir økt avskoging.

[Marta Troya Martinez @Marta_TroyaM]

12th Workshop on Relational Contracts comes to Barcelona!
BSE Summer Forum, June 15–16
Keynotes: Catherine Wolfram (MIT Sloan) & Bård Harstad (Stanford GSB).
Spotlight on climate change — where self-enforcing cooperation matters most.
https://t.co/qFyBsUpaXL

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Gass konkurrerer med både kull og fornybare energikilder.
Våre forskningsresultater om det grønne energiskiftet har likevel provosert noen.
Takk @Minervanett for at syv helt gale påstander om forskningen blir tilbakevist i et åpent tilgjengelig innlegg:
https://t.co/vKVFfwntbH

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

Once in a while, academic research uncovers good news for some of us.
Happy new year!

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This will be interesting (for me) because the project is still very much in progress...

[POLECONUK Webinar @poleconuk_w]

Our last talk this calendar year is on Monday, 15 December 2025. We host Bård Harstad (@BardHarstad Stanford), who will present new research titled "Political Commitment Bonds". See the abstract in the thread below.

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If you read French, I hope you can confirm:
I point to security, the importance of independence of Russian gas, Norway’s relatively clean extraction technology, how it can be transferred to others,
and how all of this relates to The Gas Trap.
Thx @Bapt_Langlois @LEXPRESS

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

When @FT & @simonmundy refer to:
-my criticism of forest financing plans
-why payments should be forest-linked loans
I'll add:
de Resende's concern about indebtedness is addressed since FLLs:
-can & will replace existing debt
-aren't supposed to be repaid
https://t.co/ElKrlnDnQF

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Now on YouTube:
An important econ & climate conference by Norway's NBIM&NB.
@algore @Lagarde @NicolaiTang1 etc
At 1:25, I explained why policy and finance decisions are coordination games and expectations self-fulfilling --
and what consequences this has
https://t.co/CXbGMqpE58

[Bård Harstad @BardHarstad]

What's the future of carbon pricing?
To answer, one must understand political economics.
More than 800 scholars have realized this and signed up for the 9/9 Webinar by @EAERE_envecon on this exact topic.
You can still do it:
https://t.co/0axyzmTyE0