Fully funded Ph.D. position in economics open - please apply and/or inform your promising students! Application deadline 28 February. www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-... This is an open-topic fellowship, with research proposals aligned with the economics group's research interests being given priority.

Very disappointing: Germany & Italy force the EU to reverse course on the 2035 internal combustion engine ban. We need strong signals, of the green transition being rapid and irreversible, to redirect investment (inc. innovation) towards green technologies. This climbdown sends the opposite message.

Vi har sett oss lei på regjeringens påstander om at norgespris ikke gir mest til de rikeste, eller påvirker strømforbruket. Isabel Hovdahl og jeg gikk inn i dataene, og skriver i Aftenposten om hva data og forskning faktisk forteller oss. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Hvorfor det da, @vg.no? Ikke plass til et eneste ord om hvorfor?

Det var en gang klima og natur skulle være rammen for all politikk. Nå nevnes det ikke en gang i Støres nye plan for Norge www.vg.no/nyheter/i/bO...

Tidligere tysk visekansler i strupen på norsk kabelavgjørelse: – Det er idiotisk www.altinget.no/klima/artikk...

Godt fra @martinbholm.bsky.social Bech Holte forholder seg ikke til faglig kritikk- svarer jo aldri på den. Men vet likevel best ved å tegne grafer på frihånd. Det kunne jo vært fristende å stemple han som er sjarlatan. www.dn.no/innlegg/okon...

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Official policy document (Not a speech, tweet,…). Norway (having the US as closest ally via NATO): absolutely sure you don’t want to ask the EU out for a second date…?

See para 3 richardtol.substack.com/p/kotz-wenz-...

We're pleased to announce vacancies in PhD specialisation in Economics. We are mainly looking for candidates in Industrial organisation, Macroeconomics, Behavioural economics and Labour economics. Application deadline is 15 January 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Nature retracts the Kotz paper for all the wrong reasons retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/a...

This paper applies to much of the current empirical climate impacts literature - interested to dive in more and see proposed solution

In this week's Energy Institute blog, Max Auffhammer's highly entertaining and also very serious take on redesigning electricity bills so customers can actually understand them. An important step in enabling demand flexibility. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/a...

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Legalizing recreational marijuana reduces suicides among older white Americans.

Do you have some kids that want to learn about climate change? Or perhaps you want to learn some more, but in a more accessible language? Then check out this Special Collection... kids.frontiersin.org/collections/... 1/

The costs of Direct Air Capture will not fall as much as hoped. "Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore* continue at pace, says the research team." *Therefore is problematic here, as it implies that if DACCS was cheap less reductions are needed. No, no, no. ethz.ch/en/news-and-... 1/

Anders Opedal (CEO of Equinor) said something wrong here. He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong. The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been. 1/

Når man bygger ut og gjør det lettere å sykle, ja da tør flere å velge sykkelen i hverdagen. Fine tall fra Oslo kommune! Vil du ha bedre kår for syklende i din kommune? Meld deg inn i Syklistforeningen! Vi jobber for bedre sykkelveier i hele landet. blimedlem.syklistforeningen.no

Fra oljebud til oljemyter I dag gjør jeg comeback som spaltist i @altinget.bsky.social www.altinget.no/klima/artikk...

It's time to remove laptops from classrooms. 24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images. The pen is mightier than the keyboard.

The atmospheric increase of CH4 has returned to "normal" levels in the last couple of years, after big increases in 2020-2022. The 2020-2022 increases were likely anomalies (COVID, weather), and not a change in trend. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_...

📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁 of #JAERE! 📢 "Measures Against Carbon Leakage: Combining Output-Based Allocation with Consumption Taxes" by Christoph Böhringer, Knut Einar Rosendahl, and Halvor Briseid Storrøsten. Read it here: buff.ly/3Koxe0R 📈📉 #Econsky

I 2005 syklet 5 prosent daglig. Totalt 26 000 daglige syklister. I 2024 gjorde 7 prosent det samme. Totalt 50 000 daglige syklister. 24 000 flere daglige syklister.

I 2005 valgte 34 prosent av Oslos innbyggere daglig å sette seg bak rattet. Totalt 180 000 daglige sjåfører. I 2024 valgte 18 prosent det samme. Totalt 129 000 daglige sjåfører. 51 000 færre daglige bilsjåfører.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!

Get your fill of Global Carbon Budget 2025 figures and associated data here, released today: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:

Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline? Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit. This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame. Here’s why: 3 reasons.

Did you know that Econ4UA has compiled answers to FAQs about the war in #Ukraine, providing direct and accessible information? Our page covers questions about the origins of the war, the Russian government & how to help, amongst others. Learn more at:

Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!

Experience curves indicate that successful technologies reduce in cost by ~20% for each doubling of cumulative production. However, we find that past learning rates are not very predictive of future learning rates, throwing many energy tech cost projections into doubt. doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

Parkeringsnormen i Oslo er i spill. Og NRK gjør seg til hendig talerør for Høyre og den nye bilvennlige ledelsen i handelsstanden. Men altså her gjelder det å holde tungen rett i munnen: for hva handler p-normen om? Dette må bli en tråd. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...

Energy and climate workshop in Groningen 24-25 March submit paper by 12 Jan www.rug.nl/cenber/event...

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

We are hiring! Two positions: - candidates with expertise in RCTs and interest in contributing to large-scale RCTs in Synapse Lab UiS. www.uis.no/en/synapselab - candidates working in environmental and resource economics, public economics, or labor economics. econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

#GDRI_rep Update 9: We have been waiting a couple of months to make two announcements. A few journals were in the process of retracting GDRI article. The editors informed the authors and then lawyers got involved. Who knows how long it will take.

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring tenure-track assistant/associate professors in Economics at the University of Oslo. Fields: macro, micro theory, international trade, development Application deadline: November 30! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

September 2025 was the third warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. But this downplays how anomalous it was; without 2023 and 2024 this year would have been well above any prior records and well above the long-term trend:

RIP Betty are.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

I am not sure the NRK Debatten on costs of climate policy was that helpful... tv.nrk.no/serie/debatt... In simplified terms, the IPCC is clear, mitigation costs less than impacts, & more mitigation leads to more benefits (with high confidence). The IPCC text is hard to pass, so a thread... 1/

The car crisis tops today’s EU summit but leaders keep staring at the wrong problem The issue isn’t the 2035 engine ban - it’s demand falling off a cliff today With @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social, we show why flipping regs won’t help - and what the EU can do instead.

Apropos oljeskattepakken og oljeselskapene som ikke oppfyller avtalen om å halvere utslippene - og politikerne våre som bare sier "OK" ⬇️