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Overview

Jon Hovi is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of economics and energy, with special attention to climate change policy and environmental issues. Their work contributes to multiple fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Energy, particularly within subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Computer Networks and Communications, Global and Planetary Change, and Strategy and Management.

Their research encompasses several main topics, with significant publications in Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, Policy Transfer and Learning, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Economic Policies and Impacts.

Jon Hovi has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including Tatjana Stankovic, Tora Skodvin, Vegard Tørstad, Håkon Sælen, and Jonas Nahm.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of academic journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Environmental Science & Policy, New Political Economy, Energy Research & Social Science, and Resource and Energy Economics.

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Paris Agreement's inherent tension between ambition and compliance, 2023, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • How US withdrawal might influence cooperation under the Paris climate agreement, 2020, Environmental Science & Policy
  • Would my driving pattern change if my neighbor were to buy an emission-free car?, 2020, Resource and Energy Economics
  • Economic recessions and decarbonisation: analysing green stimulus spending in Canada and the US, 2023, New Political Economy
  • Regulating production rather than consumption? Comparing the challenges of supply-side and demand-side climate agreements, 2024, Energy Research & Social Science

Jon Hovi's body of work contributes to understanding the dynamics of climate agreements, economic impacts of environmental policy, and behavior change related to sustainability. Their research combines theoretical and empirical approaches within the broader framework of environmental economics and energy policy.

Best Publications

  • Regional versus global cooperation for climate control

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

  • Implementing Long-Term Climate Policy: Time Inconsistency, Domestic Politics, International Anarchy

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz;Arild Underdal

  • The Oslo-Potsdam Solution to Measuring Regime Effectiveness: Critique, Response, and the Road Ahead

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz;Arild Underdal

  • The Persistence of the Kyoto Protocol: Why Other Annex I Countries Move on Without the United States

    Jon Hovi;Tora Skodvin;Steinar Andresen

  • Why the United States did not become a party to the Kyoto Protocol: German, Norwegian, and US perspectives:

    Jon Hovi;Detlef Friedrich Sprinz;Guri Bang

  • When Do (Imposed) Economic Sanctions Work

    Jon Hovi;Robert Huseby;Detlef F. Sprinz

  • Games, Threats and Treaties: Understanding Commitments in International Relations

    Jon Hovi

  • The Paris Agreement: Short-Term and Long-Term Effectiveness

    Guri Bang;Jon Hovi;Tora Skodvin

  • US presidents and the failure to ratify multilateral environmental agreements

    Guri Bang;Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz

  • Hope or Despair? Formal Models of Climate Cooperation

    Jon Hovi;Hugh Ward;Frank Grundig

  • Climate change mitigation: a role for climate clubs?

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F Sprinz;Detlef F Sprinz;Håkon Sælen;Arild Underdal

  • A climate agreement with full participation

    Camilla Bretteville Froyn;Jon Hovi

  • Cap-and-trade or carbon taxes? The feasibility of enforcement and the effects of non-compliance

    Jon Hovi;Bjart Holtsmark

  • The United States and international climate cooperation: International “pull” versus domestic “push”

    Guri Bang;Camilla Bretteville Froyn;Jon Hovi;Fredric C. Menz;Fredric C. Menz

  • Climate Clubs: a Gateway to Effective Climate Cooperation?

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz;Håkon Sælen;Arild Underdal

  • Institutional and environmental effectiveness: Will the Paris Agreement work?

    Radoslav Dimitrov;Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz;Håkon Sælen

  • Can conditional commitments break the climate change negotiations deadlock

    Arild Underdal;Jon Hovi;Steffen Kallbekken;Tora Skodvin

  • Regime Effectiveness and the Oslo-Potsdam Solution: A Rejoinder to Oran Young

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz;Arild Underdal

  • The effectiveness of climate clubs under Donald Trump

    Detlef F. Sprinz;Håkon Sælen;Arild Underdal;Jon Hovi

  • Emission trading: Participation enforcement determines the need for compliance enforcement

    Stine Aakre;Jon Hovi

  • The Limits of the Law of the Least Ambitious Program

    Jon Hovi;Detlef F. Sprinz

  • Can Climate Change Negotiations Succeed

    Jon Hovi;Tora Skodvin;Stine Aakre

Frequent Co-Authors

Geir B. Asheim
Geir B. Asheim University of Oslo
Hugh Ward
Hugh Ward University of Essex
Todd L. Cherry
Todd L. Cherry University of Wyoming
Steinar Andresen
Steinar Andresen Fridtjof Nansen Institute

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