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Geir B. Asheim

Geir B. Asheim

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
38
Citations
4930
World Ranking
2574
National Ranking
15

Overview

Geir B. Asheim is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and works primarily within the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans a variety of economic and policy-related topics, with a particular focus on theoretical and applied aspects of sustainability and economic growth.

They have contributed to several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, and Cognitive Neuroscience. Their main topics of work comprise:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Geir B. Asheim has a number of recent publications in well-regarded academic venues. Selected examples include:

  • "Characterizing sustainability in discrete time," 2020, Economic Theory
  • "Investment rules and time invariance under population growth," 2020, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
  • "Infinite Population Utilitarian Criteria," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Maximal sensitivity under Strong Anonymity," 2022, Journal of Mathematical Economics
  • "What Should We Agree on about the Repugnant Conclusion?", 2021, Utilitas

The venues where Geir B. Asheim frequently publishes include SSRN Electronic Journal, Economic Theory, Utilitas, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Journal of Mathematical Economics.

Their frequent co-authors reflect collaboration across related research domains. These collaborators include Stéphane Zuber, Tapan Mitra, Kohei Kamaga, John M. Hartwick, and Rintaro Yamaguchi.

Best Publications

  • Net National Product as an Indicator of Sustainability

    Geir B. Asheim

  • Regional versus global cooperation for climate control

    Geir B. Asheim;Camilla Bretteville Froyn;Jon Hovi;Fredric C. Menz

  • Does NNP Growth Indicate Welfare Improvement

    Geir B. Asheim;Martin L. Weitzman

  • Green national accounting: why and how?

    Geir B. Asheim

  • The Hartwick Rule: Myths and facts

    G. Asheim;W. Buchholz;C.A.A.M. Withagen

  • Hartwick’S Rule in Open Economies

    Geir B. Asheim

  • Adjusting Green NNP to Measure Sustainability

    Geir B. Asheim

  • Justifying social discounting: the rank-discounted utilitarian approach

    Stéphane Zuber;Geir Bjarne Asheim

  • The case for a supply-side climate treaty.

    G. B. Asheim;T. Fæhn;K. Nyborg;M. Greaker

  • Capital gains and net national product in open economies

    Geir B. Asheim;Geir B. Asheim

  • Individual and Collective Time-Consistency

    Geir B. Asheim

  • Characterizing sustainability : the converse of Hartwick's rule

    Caam Cees Withagen;GB Asheim

  • Intergenerational Equity

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  • Resolving Distributional Conflicts Between Generations

    Geir B. Asheim;Bertil Tungodden

  • Unjust intergenerational allocations

    Geir B Asheim

  • Sustainable recursive social welfare functions

    Geir Asheim;Tapan Mitra;Bertil Tungodden;Bertil Tungodden

  • Constant savings rates and quasi-arithmetic population growth under exhaustible resource constraints

    Geir B. Asheim;Wolfgang Buchholz;John M. Hartwick;Tapan Mitra

  • Sustainable recursive social welfare functions

    Geir Bjarne Asheim;Tapan Mitra;Bertil Tungodden;Bertil Tungodden

  • Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism

    Simon Dietz;Geir Bjarne Asheim

  • Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank-discounted utilitarianism with variable population

    Geir Bjarne Asheim;Stéphane Zuber

  • The Hartwick Rule: Myths and Facts

    Geir B. Asheim;Wolfgang Buchholz;Cees Withagen

Frequent Co-Authors

Tapan Mitra
Tapan Mitra Cornell University
Bertil Tungodden
Bertil Tungodden Norwegian School of Economics
Martin Dufwenberg
Martin Dufwenberg University of Arizona
Walter Bossert
Walter Bossert University of Montreal
Jörgen W. Weibull
Jörgen W. Weibull Stockholm School of Economics
Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics
Knut Einar Rosendahl
Knut Einar Rosendahl Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Kotaro Suzumura
Kotaro Suzumura Waseda University
Simon Dietz
Simon Dietz London School of Economics and Political Science
Claus Vögele
Claus Vögele University of Luxembourg

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