Gunnar S. Eskeland

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

• Environmental Economics

• Public Finance

• Climate Change

• ENE423 Environmental economics

• ENE426 Economics of Climate Change

• Public Finance

• Welfare Economics

• Climate Change

• Energy Sector

• Transportation Sector

• Eskeland, with a PhD in economics, has worked in developing countries in senior research positions at the World Bank. Applications include environmental protection, transport and air quality, energy economics, shipping markets, climate policy. Recent work on climate change has included energy sector analysis, European policy review, research on technological change and an R&D treaty. Eskeland is heavily involved in the new Master’s profile at NHH: Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment, with an international student body, and is directing the Energy and Climate research program.

• Europe’s climate goals and the electricity sector, Energy Policy, 2012, 41, 200-211 (with Nathan A. Rive and Torben K. Mideksa).

• The Impact of Climate Change on Nuclear Power Supply, Energy Journal, 2011, 32(1), 149-168 (with Kristin Linnerud and Torben K. Mideksa).

• Electricity demand in a changing climate, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2010, 15(8), 877-897 (with Torben K. Mideksa).

• Trading for the future: Signaling in permit markets, Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94(9/10), 749-760 (with Bård Harstad, Northwestern University).

• Technological change and the role of non-state actors, in Global Climate Governance Beyond 2012. Architecture, Agency and Adaptation, 2010, 208-219, Cambridge University Press (with Knut H. Alfsen and Kristin Linnerud).

• What can social science tell us about meeting the challenge of climate change? Five insights from five years that might make a difference, in Making Climate Change Work for Us: European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, 2010, 369-388, Cambridge University Press (with Anthony Patt, Diana Reckien, Richard J. T. Klein, Detlef P. van Vuuren, Markus Wrobel, Nico Bauer, and Thomas E. Downing).

• Transforming the European energy system, in Making Climate Change Work for Us: European Perspectives on Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies, 2010, 165-199, Cambridge University Press (with Patrick Criqui, Eberhard Jochem, and Henry Neufeldt).

• 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).

• 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.