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Knut Einar Rosendahl

Knut Einar Rosendahl

Professor

  • School of Economics and Business

I am professor in Economics at the School of Economics and Business at NMBU. In addition, I have a part time position as researcher in Statistics Norway, where I had a full time position before I came to NMBU in 2013. I have a PhD (Dr.Philos) from the University of Oslo.

My research is mostly within environmental and energy economics, especially climate economics. Examples are studies of how the EU Emissions Trading System and other climate policies affect the economy, emissions, and energy markets. 

I have participated in several public commissions, including as chair of Teknisk beregningsutvalg for klima (2020-2023) and member of the Green Tax Commission (2015). I have previously been chair of the Norwegian Association for Energy Economists, and deputy chair of the labour union Samfunnsøkonomene (The economists). I am currently co-editor of the journal Resource and Energy Economics.

Here are links to my accounts on Google Scholar, LinkedIn and Bluesky.

  • Areas of Work
    • Environmental and Resource Economics
    • Energy Economics
  • Publications

    Academic profile and publications

    Articles in international journals (since 2017):

    See also my Google Scholar profile

    Böhringer, C., K.E. Rosendahl and H.B. Storrøsten (2025): Measures against Carbon Leakage – Combining Output-Based Allocation with Consumption Taxes, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/736753 

    Golombek, R., M. Hoel, S. Kverndokk, S. Ninfole and K.E. Rosendahl (2025): Competition for carbon storage, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 130, 103128.

    Andreassen, G.L., S. Kallbekken and K.E. Rosendahl (2024): Can Policy Packaging Help Overcome Pigouvian Tax Aversion? A Lab Experiment on Combining Taxes and Subsidies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 127, 103010.

    Roa, D., S. Navrud and K.E. Rosendahl (2023): Accounting for unintended ecological effects of our electric future: Optimizing lithium mining and biodiversity preservation in the Chilean High-Andean wetlands, Resource and Energy Economics 75, 101389.

    Hagem, C., S. Kverndokk, E. Nævdal and K.E. Rosendahl (2023): Policies for Electrification of Cars in the Short and Long Run, Transportation Research Part D 117, 103606.

    Nagel, N.O., C. Böhringer, K.E. Rosendahl and T.F. Bolkesjø (2022): Impacts of Green Deal policies on the Nordic power market, Utilities Policy 80, 101475.

    Andreassen, G.L. and K.E. Rosendahl (2022): One or two non-fossil technologies in the decarbonized transport sector? Resource and Energy Economics 69, 101314.

    Gerlagh, R., R.J.R.K. Heijmans and K.E. Rosendahl (2022): Shifting concerns for the EU ETS: Are carbon prices becoming too high? Environmental Research Letters 17, 054018.

    Böhringer, C. and K.E. Rosendahl (2022): Europe beyond Coal – An Economic and Climate Impact Assessment, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 113, 102658.

    Roa, D. and K.E. Rosendahl (2022): Policies for material circularity, the case of lithium, Circular Economy and Sustainability 3, 373–405.

    Bang, G., K.E. Rosendahl and C. Böhringer (2022): Balancing cost and justice concerns in the energy transition: Comparing coal phase-out policies in Germany and the UK, Climate Policy 22 (8), 1000-1015.

    Böhringer, C., C. Fischer, K.E. Rosendahl and T. Rutherford (2022): Potential Impacts and Challenges of Border Carbon Adjustments, Nature Climate Change 12, 22–29.

    Gerlagh, R., R.J.R.K. Heijmans and K.E. Rosendahl (2021): An Endogenous Emission Cap Produces a Green Paradox, Economic Policy 36, 485-522.

    Böhringer, C., K.E. Rosendahl and H.B. Storrøsten (2021): Smart hedging against carbon leakage, Economic Policy 36, 439-484.

    Abigaba, M., J. Bengtsson and K.E. Rosendahl (2021): How valuable is the option to defer Uganda’s crude oil production? Scientific African 13, e00868.

    Kaushal, K. and K.E. Rosendahl (2021): Optimal discounting of forest offsets in the carbon market, Land Economics 97 (2), 436-454.

    Gerlagh, R., R.J.R.K. Heijmans and K.E. Rosendahl (2020): COVID-19 tests the Market Stability Reserve, Environmental and Resource Economics 76, 855-865.

    Klemetsen, M.E., K.E. Rosendahl and A.L. Jakobsen (2020): The impacts of the EU ETS on Norwegian plants’ environmental and economic performance, Climate Change Economics 11(1), 2050006.

    Kaushal, K. and K.E. Rosendahl (2020): Taxing consumption to mitigate carbon leakage, Environmental and Resource Economics 75, 151-181.

    Grimsrud, K., H. Lindhjem, I. Vestre Sem and K.E. Rosendahl (2020): Public acceptance and willingness to pay cost-effective taxes on red meat and city traffic in Norway, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 9, 251-268.

    Rosendahl, K.E. (2019): EU ETS and the waterbed effect, Nature Climate Change 9, 734-735.

    Asheim, G.B., T. Fæhn, K. Nyborg, M. Greaker, C. Hagem, B. Harstad, M.O. Hoel, D. Lund and K.E. Rosendahl (2019): The case for a supply-side climate treaty. The Paris Agreement can be strengthened by a treaty limiting global fossil fuel supply, Science 365 (6451), 325-327.

    Rosendahl, K.E. and D.R. Rubiano (2019): How effective is lithium recycling as a remedy for resource scarcity? Environmental and Resource Economics 74, 985-1010. 

    Greaker, M., T-R. Heggedal and K.E. Rosendahl (2018): Environmental Policy and the Direction of Technical Change, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120, 1100-1138.

    Böhringer, C., K.E. Rosendahl and J. Schneider (2018): Unilateral emission pricing and OPEC’s behavior, Strategic Behavior and the Environment 7, 225-280.

    Fischer, C., M. Greaker and K.E. Rosendahl (2018): Strategic technology policy as a supplement to renewable energy standards, Resource and Energy Economics 51, 84-98.

    Aune, F.R., K. Grimsrud, L. Lindholt, K.E. Rosendahl and H.B Storrøsten (2017): Oil consumption subsidy removal in OPEC and other Non-OECD countries: oil market impacts and welfare effects, Energy Economics 68, 395-409.

    Böhringer, C., B. Bye, T. Fæhn and K.E. Rosendahl (2017): Targeted carbon tariffs: Export response, leakage and welfare, Resource and Energy Economics 50, 51-73.

    Aune, F.R., R Golombek, A. Moe, K.E. Rosendahl and H. Hallre Le Tissier (2017): The future of Russian gas exports, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy 6 (2), 111-135.

    Böhringer, C., K.E. Rosendahl and H.B. Storrøsten (2017): Robust policies to mitigate carbon leakage, Journal of Public Economics 149, 35–46.

    Aune, F.R., A.C. Bøeng, S. Kverndokk, L. Lindholt and K.E. Rosendahl (2017): Fuel efficiency improvements – feedback mechanisms and distributional effects in the oil market, Environmental & Resource Economics 68, 15–45.

    Fischer, C., M. Greaker and K.E. Rosendahl (2017): Robust technology policy against emission leakage: The case of upstream subsidies, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 84, 44-61.

    Böhringer, C., B. Bye, T. Fæhn and K.E. Rosendahl (2017): Output-based rebating of carbon taxes in the neighbor’s backyard. Competitiveness, leakage and welfare, Canadian Journal of Economics 50, 426-455.

    Fæhn, T., C. Hagem, L. Lindholt, S. Mæland and K.E. Rosendahl (2017): Climate policies in a fossil fuel producing country. Demand versus supply side policies, The Energy Journal 38 (1), 77-102.

  • Teaching

    ECN211: Intermediate Microeconomics - Institutions, Games and Market Failures

    ECN280: Energy Economics

    ECN372: Climate Economics

    Previously:

    ECN270: Natural Resource Economics