Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen

Ph.D. Research Fellow in Economics
School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Research

Research interests

Environmental economics. Risk and uncertainty. Catastrophic risk. Policy decision making. Wicked problems

PhD project

Title: "The optimal management of catastrophic risk". My work explores methodological challenges, policy decision making and welfare consequences of catastrophic risk.

Supervisor Eirik Romstad.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

"Too green to be good - The Norwegian electric vehicle policy" Aurland-Bredesen, K.J., (2017)
Journal of Environemntal Economics and Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2017.1325408

Work in progress

The benefit-cost ratio as a decision criteria when managing catastrophes
Expected utility, non-expected utility and catastrophic risk
The welfare cost of consumption uncertainty: Cross-country evidence
Adaptation and mitigation: Catastrophic climate change and other disasters

Other publications

"Vi maa tenke nytt i mote med klimaendringer og terrorisme" Debate article. Forskning.no (2017)
"Elbilpolitikken: Hva koster den samfunnet?" Debate article. Aftenposten (2017)

Presentations in conferances and workshops

2018: EAERE-ETH European Winter School. World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists.
2017: Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD) - PHD/POST DOC seminar Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics Conference (NAERE), Bergen Economics of Energy and Environment Research Conference (BEEER) and 39th Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists (Forskermotet)
2016: Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD) - PHD/POST DOC seminar

Other

Working with CERAD (Centre for Environmental Radioactivity).
Part of the resarch group KREM (Climate, resources, energy and environment)

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