Eskeland, Gunnar S.

E-mail:

Gunnar.Eskeland@nhh.no

Telephone:

+47 55 95 96 99

Fax:

+47 55 95 96 47

Title:

Professor, dr. oecon., NHH 2001

Date of birth:

27.12.1959 

Nationality:

Norwegian

Teaching languages:

Norwegian, English

Teaching areas:

Environmental Economics, Public Finance, Climate Change 

• Richer and healthier, but not Greener? Choices concerning household energy use in India, Energy Policy, 2009, 37(8), 3009-3019 (with Heidi Elizabeth Mestl).

• Autonomy, Participation and Learning: Findings from Argentine Schools, and Implications for Decentralization, Education Economics, 2007, 15(1), 103-127 (with Deon Filmer).

• Green electricity market development: Lessons from Europe and the US, Energy Policy, 2007, 35(1), 144-155 (with Lin Gan and Hans H. Kolshus).

• Primary health care in practice: is it effective? Health Policy, 2004, 70(3), 303-325 (with Maureen Lewis and Ximena Traa-Valerezo).

• Institutions Needed for More than Growth, Finance & Development, 2003, 40(2), 42-43 (with Christian Eigen-Zucchi and Zmarak Shalizi).

• Moving to greener pastures? Multinationals and the pollution haven hypothesis, Journal of Development Economics, 2003, 70(1), 1-23 (with Ann E. Harrison).

• Policy Instruments for Pollution Control in Developing Countries, in Environmental economics and development, 1999, 383-407, Elgar Reference Collection. Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy, vol. 5. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass. (with Emmanuel Jiminez).

• Acting Globally while Thinking Locally: Is the Global Environment Protected by Transport Emission Control Programs? Journal of Applied Economics, 1998, 1(2), 385-411 (with Jian Xie).

• Prices that Clear the Air: Energy Use and Pollution in Chile and Indonesia, Energy Journal, 1998, 19(3), 85-106 (with Emmanuel Jiminez and Lili Liu).

• Rationing Can Backfire: The 'Day without a Car' in Mexico City, World Bank Economic Review, 1997, 11 (3), 383-408 (with Tarhan N. Feyzioglu).

• Air pollution requires multipollutant analysis: The case of Santiago, Chile, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1997, 79(5), 1636-1641.

• Is demand for polluting goods manageable? An econometric study of car ownership and use in Mexico, Journal of Development Economics, 1997, 53(2), 423-445 (with Tarhan N. Feyzioglu).

• The Two Tasks of an Environmental Agency: An Illustration from Air Pollution Control in Santiago, in Effective financing of environmentally sustainable development: Proceedings of the Third Annual World Bank Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Development, 1996, 135-137.

• Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges. Directions in Development Series, World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA, 1996, 61 pp., and in Public economics and the environment in an imperfect world, 1995, 61-112, Natural Resource Management and Policy series. Boston; London and Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic (with Shantayanan Devarajan).

• A Presumptive Pigovian Tax: Complementing Regulation to Mimic an Emissions, World Bank Economic Review, 1994, 8(3), 373-394.

• Attacking air pollution in Mexico City, Finance & Development, 1992, 29(4), 28-30.

• Policy Instruments for Pollution Control in Developing Countries, World Bank Research Observer, 1992, 7(2), 145-69 (with Emmanuel Jiminez).

• Curbing Pollution in Developing Countries, Finance & Development, 1991, 28(1), 15-18 (with Emmanuel Jiminez).

• Gratis frokost fra lavutslippsutvalget? Økonomisk forum, 2007, 5, 10-13, Debatt.

• Fiscal Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints, Cambridge and London: MIT Press (with Jonathan Rodden and Jennie Litvack).

• Trading for the Future: Signaling in Permit Markets, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science, Discussion Papers, 2006, 1429 (with Bård Harstad).
  Presented at European Economic Association’s Annual Meetings, Vienna, August 2006. Revised 2008, submitted to Journal of Public Economics.

• Taxing Bads by Taxing Goods: Pollution Control with Presumptive Charges. Directions in Development Series, World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA, 1996, 61 pp., and in Public economics and the environment in an imperfect world, 1995, 61-112, Natural Resource Management and Policy series. Boston; London and Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic (with Shantayanan Devarajan).

• A broader palette: The role of technology in climate policy. Report to the Expert Group for Environmental Studies, 2007:1, Ministry of Finance, Sweden.