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Svenn Jensen
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Environmental Economist at Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University @oslomet.bsky.social. https://sites.google.com/site/svennjensen
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Svenn Jensen @svennjensen.bsky.social · Mar 17
@ctraeger.bsky.social & I have a chapter in the new Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change (Eds: Lint Barrage & Sol Hsiang, Elsevier)!

We synthesize insights from 2+ decades of research on how uncertainty shapes optimal climate policies and affects the SCC. Our main takeaways:

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Screenshot of title and abstract of handbook chapter "Uncertainty in climate-economic modeling" by Svenn Jensen and Christian Traeger in the Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 2d
The world can now produce more than three times as much cereal from a given area of land as it did in 1961 (i.e., an increase in yield of 214%).

In the same period, land used for cereal has only increased by 14%.
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Knut Einar Rosendahl @rosendahlke.bsky.social · 2d
Hva koster det å nå klimamålet for 2035?
@angelsen.bsky.social, Ståle Navrud og jeg skriver om dette i @energiogklima.no, med utg.pkt i debatten siste uka.
Svært sprikende kostnadsanslag skyldes dels ulikt "nullalternativ" og dels ulike kostnader per tonn utslipp
www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-...
www.energiogklima.no
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d
Quite the turnaround.
Graph with from https://www.globalccsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Global-Status-of-CCS-2025-report-9-October.pdf title "Global capture capacity pipeline trending higher since 2017"
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Olve Wold @olvew.bsky.social · 6d
– Ingenting tyder på at folk responderer på incentiver, sier kjendisøkonom hvis jobb avhenger av å komme i media.
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Tommy Andersson @proftommyandersson.bsky.social · 18d
Specialized in microeconomic theory and on the job market? If you are interested in topics such as mechanism and market design, consider working with me at Lund University. For info about the tenure-track position, see 👇

econjobmarket.org/positions/11821
EJM - Econ Job Market
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Erlend Eide Bø @erlendebo.bsky.social · 18d
Teori og empiri tilsier at skattekutt i stor grad kapitaliseres i boligpriser. Dvs. at lavere eiendomsskatt gir høyere boligpriser. Et kutt er dermed ikke en fordel for de som skal kjøpe bolig i fremtiden, kun en gevinst for de som allerede eier de 34% dyreste boligene. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 21d
This is the primary contributor to the acceleration in global warming in recent years. Cutting air pollution saves lives and is unequivocally worth doing, but it is also driving about a quarter (~0.14C) of the approximately 0.5C warming the world has experienced between 2007 and 2024.
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David Bauer @davidbauer.ch · 23d
In the first seven days since I launched this new game, almost ten thousand people from 82 countries have played it. (Top cities so far: New York City, Zurich, Toronto, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm)

What topics would you like me to add next?

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Dataguessr
Update your knowledge of the world. One quiz at a time.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 21d
As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...
Line graph time series showing global land surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a red line and global mean (land+ocean) surface temperatures (90°S to 90°N) in a blue line. Temperatures are averaged annually from 1900 through 2024. Linear least squares trends are also shown from 1990 to 2024. The land is warming faster than the global mean.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 24d
Important new paper from
@marshallburke.bsky.social
on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in
@nature.com

"climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Kevin Mueller @kevin-e-mueller.bsky.social · 24d
yes, the economic arguments for regulating air pollution are strong
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 24d
Cool new AER paper uses data from Clean Air Act offset markets to assess the efficiency of air pollution regulation. The analysis finds that marginal benefits of abatement exceed mean offset prices more than ten-fold, across most regions and pollutants.
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Simon Galle @simongalle.bsky.social · 25d
Extremely useful resource.
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Stephen Redding @reddingecon.bsky.social · 25d
Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | Volume 6, Issue 1: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com
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Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · 25d
Det här är otroligt, jag trodde inte det skulle bli så 2015.
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Kjell Rautio @kjellrautio.bsky.social · 25d
”Tio år efter flyktingkrisen 2015 har 82 procent av de ensamkommande barnen och ungdomarna som stannat i Sverige en sysselsättning, enligt SCB. Den siffran är högre än bland inrikes födda i samma ålder, där motsvarande andel är 73 procent.”
www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/hog-...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 26d
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
adaptationatlas.org
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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 27d
All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
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Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · Sep 12
New publication: “A simple growth model of open economies”

Small twist to Solow model, aligns it better to open economies.
Contribution:
1: Organizes many empirical observations under simple framework.
2: Enables teaching open-economy growth at undergrad.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
A simple growth model of open economies
This paper makes a small twist to a seemingly simple assumption in the Solow model: instead of agents saving a fraction of their entire income, as in the classic Solow model, they here save a fractio....
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Simon Galle @simongalle.bsky.social · Sep 11
BI is hiring PhD candidates in economics.

We offer:
- a friendly and collegial department
- strong faculty support during your PhD
- access to very rich Norwegian microdata
- a competitive salary
- a strong track record in PhD placements.

Please share #EconSky 🙏🙏

bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3539...
Handelshøyskolen BI Programområdet - Doktorgrad - PhD Candidate in Economics
PhD Candidate in Economics
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Jørgen Modalsli @modals.li · Sep 9
Her er noen "hva om"-utregninger etter stortingsvalgresultatet 2025. Alt med forbehold om feil, og at resultatene heller ikke er helt klare ennå (foreløpige tall er lastet ned fra valg.no). Mandatfordelingen med disse tallene er altså:
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Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · Sep 8
New paper: We provide an analytical microfoundation for how much externalities firms will internalize.
#econsky

We started the project thinking one thing and then learnt we were (partly) wrong. That is why we write theory papers.

ps. @tckwok.bsky.social is on the job market and he is brilliant!
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Tsz Chun Kwok @tckwok.bsky.social · Sep 8
🚨NEW working paper! In our new research, @danielspiro.bsky.social, Arthur van Benthem and I study how ownership influences pollution outcomes.🧵
nber.org/papers/w34203
We provide a theoretical micro foundation for how much pollution (negative externalities) a firm will internalize based on the ownership distribution of its shareholders. Small shareholders, compared to large ones, want the firm to spend more on avoiding pollution since they suffer less profit loss for the same environmental benefit. In particular, if a shareholder holds a share of 1/N, where N is the population in society, that shareholder’s preferences align with a social planner’s. Three theoretical predictions arise. First, small shareholders will systematically vote for a greener corporate profile. Second, firms with a smaller weighted median shareholder will pollute less. Third, countries with concentrated corporate wealth holdings and/or more individualized firm ownership pollute more. This implies that standard models of externalities in environmental economics and macroeconomics containing representative agents are either internally inconsistent or not fully specified.
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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · Sep 6
New estimates of the national social cost of carbon ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers...
National social cost of carbon: An application of FUND
This paper presents a refined country-level integrated assessment model, FUND 3.9n, that extends the regional FUND 3.9 framework by incorporating sector-specific climate impact functions and parametri
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Svenn Jensen @svennjensen.bsky.social · Sep 5
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 4
I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.

Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
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Helene Onshuus @heleneonshuus.bsky.social · Sep 4
Skattelotteriet kan føre til at noen velger å jobbe mindre: www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/far-vi...
(+) Får vi snart vite prisen på fritiden vår?
Hvis Jens Stoltenbergs skattelotteri blir en realitet, vil vi endelig få svar på hvordan nordmenn verdsetter fritiden sin, skriver Helene Onshuus.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · Sep 4
Its not just climate science that's wrong in DOE's dreadful climate report - the economics is terrible too!

salatainstitute.harvard.edu/environmenta...
Environmental economists respond to Trump administration climate report - The Salata Institute
The economists tell the Department of Energy that its findings are “woefully out of date” and rely on “an array of fallacies.”
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