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Bjart Holtsmark

Degree
Dr. philos.
Position
Senior Researcher
Phone
+4798836198
Mobile
+47 98836198
E-mail
Bjart.Holtsmark@ssb.no
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About Bjart Holtsmark

In a recent work ( On the effects of linking permit markets), co-authored with Martin L. Weitzman (Economics Department, Harvard University) who very sadly died 27August last year, we investigate whether international emissions trading within an international climate treaty of the Paris-agreement-design will increase or reduce total emissions. The conclusion is that it is a risk that emissions trading within the Paris-agreement could weaken this already quite weak agreement.

Another recent work published in Climatic Change, (Forest harvesting and the carbon debt in boreal east-central Canada), co-authored with Jay R. Malcolm and  Paul W. Piascik (Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto), studies the effects on accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere of conversion of carbon-rich, primary boreal landscapes in Canada to managed ones. Estimated payback periods ranged from 92 to 757 years.

Within public economics, I am working on two papers, both on the theory of taxation and the question of the size of the marginal cost of public funds. One of these papers is a joint work with Åsmund Sunde Valseth (Norwegian Ministry of Finance) and Katinka Holtsmark (Economics Department, University of Oslo).  In this paper we  provide a new and improved measure of the marginal costs of public funds.  The other paper is single authored and is a response to recent claims that the marginal cost of public funds is one.

Selected publications

  1. On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions. Environmental & Resource Economics (forthcoming)
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark, Martin L. Weitzman,
  2. Forest harvesting and the carbon debt in boreal east-central Canada, Climatic Change 2020
    Authors
    Jay Malcolm, Bjart Holtsmark, Paul W. Piascik
  3. Europe's Renewable Energy Directive Poised to Threaten the World's Forests. Nature Communications. September 2018
    Authors
    T. Searchinger, T. Beringer, B. Holtsmark, D. Kammen, E. Lambin, W. Lucht, P.H. Raven, and J.P. van Ypersele
  4. The marginal cost of puclic funds in the presence of inequality
    Authors
    Å. S. Valseth, B. Holtsmark, K. Holtsmark
  5. Is the marginal cost of public funds equal to one?
    Authors
    B. Holtsmark
  6. Quantifying the global warming potential of CO2-emissions from wood fuels. GCB Bioenergy (2015) 7, 195-206.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  7. A comparison of the global warming effects of wood fuels and fossil fuels taking albedo into account. GCB Bioenergy (2015) 7:984-997.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  8. Is Increased Use of Biofuels from Forests a Good Idea? In P. E. Stoknes and K. Eliassen (ed): Science Based Activism. Festschrift to Jorgen Randers (2015), Ch 15, p 293-309.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  9. The Norwegian support and subsidy policy of electric cars. Environmental Science and Policy (2014) 42: 160-168.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark and Anders Skonhoft
  10. Faustmann and the Climate. Journal of Forest Economics (2014),20, 192-210.
    Authors
    Michael Hoel, Bjart Holtsmark, Katinka Holtsmark
  11. Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools - a comment, Journal of Forest Economics 19 (2013): 87-95
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark, Michael Hoel, Katinka Holtsmark
  12. Boreal forest management and its effect on atmospheric CO2, Ecological Modelling 248 (2013): 130-134.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  13. Response: complexities of sustainable forest use, GCB Bioenergy 5 (2013) :1-2
    Authors
    Helmut Haberl, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Christian Körner, Beverly E. Law, Bjart Holtsmark, Sebastiaan Luyssaert
  14. The outcome is in the assumptions: analyzing the effects on atmospheric CO2 levels of increased use of bioenergy from forest biomass , GCB Bioenergy 5 (2013) 5: 467-473.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  15. Elbilpoltikken - fungerer den etter hensikten? Samfunnsøkonomen nr 5/2012
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  16. Haavelmo on the Climate Issue, Nordic Journal of Political Economy 37 (2012):1-26
    Authors
    Michael Hoel, Bjart Holtsmark
  17. International emissions trading: Good or Bad?, Economics Letters 117 (2012):362-364.
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark, Dag Einar Sommervoll
  18. Harvesting i boreal forests and the biofuel carbon debt, Climatic Change 112 (2012): 415—428
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark
  19. A credible compliance enforcement system for the climate regime, Climate Policy 12 (2012): 741-754.
    Authors
    Jon Hovi, Mads Greaker, Cathrine Hagem, Bjart Holtsmark
  20. Mechanism design for refunding emissions payment. , Discussion Papers 705 (2012)
    Authors
    Cathrine Hagem, Bjart Holtsmark, Thomas Sterner
  21. Emissions trading: Merely an efficiency neutral redistribution from climate change victims? , Scandinavian Journal of Economics 113 (2011): 784–797.
    Authors
    Odd Godal, Bjart Holtsmark
  22. Renegotiation-proof climate agreements with full participation – conditions for Pareto-efficiency, Environmental and Resource Economics 43 (2009), 519-533
    Authors
    Geir B. Asheim, Bjart Holtsmark
  23. Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Taxes? The Feasibility of Enforcement and the Effects of Non-Compliance. , International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 6 (2006): 137 - 155
    Authors
    Jon Hovi, Bjart Holtsmark
  24. PPP Correction of the IPCC Emission Scenarios: Does It Matter? Climatic Change 68 (2005): 11-19.
    Authors
    Bjart J. Holtsmark, Knut H. Alfsen
  25. Emission trading under the Kyoto Protocol – effects on fossil fuel markets under alternative regimes. , Energy Policy 30 (2002): 207-218
    Authors
    Bjart Holtsmark, Ottar Mæstad

Research field

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