Project name	Description	Research field	Contact
Alternatives to the Kyoto Protocol - The nature, design and feasibility of robust climate treaties	In this project we study the design of future alternative climate agreements and analyze how they can be design to achieve broad participation and deep emissions cut.	Climate policy and economics Energy and environmental policy	Cathrine Hagem
Gender and partnership dynamics	The main goal of this project is to study various patterns of gender-equality attitudes and practices among Norwegian couples and to analyse how such patterns and other factors drive the changes in gender relations and partnership dynamics. The project will use a new survey (LOGG) which include both individual and contextual data.	Fertility and changes in family structure	Randi Kjeldstad, Trude Lappegård
Multiple instruments	Standard economic theory provides simple and clear advice of how cost efficiency may be attained in the presence of imperfect markets and externalities. However, industry interests, concerns for regional settlement, income distribution and public revenue aspects imply political conflicts. Contradictory interests and unclear policy effects weaken the instruments.	Climate policy and economics Energy and environmental policy Power markets	Annegrete Bruvoll
Potential for energy savings in Norwegian households	The main aim of the project is to analyse the potential for energy savings in Norwegian households and the effects of policy measures to reduce household energy consumption.	Consumer behaviour Energy and environmental policy Household energy use	Bente Halvorsen
Recycling and natural resources	Recycling affects both extraction of new resources as well as the need for energy and inputs to production of new goods. To evaluate whether recycling is a cost-effective instrument, sources for market failure underlying recycling as a political instrument must be indentified. Which markets failures recycling is meant to prevent are in general vaguely expressed in public documents.	Energy and environmental policy	Sana Hasane
Sustainable development indicators (SDI) in the context of the precautionary principle	The project aims at strengthening the sustainable development indicators by establishing early warnings based on expert opinions on uncertainty and critical developments and the need for immediate action. The objective is to integrate the precautionary principle into sustainable development analysis in situations where there are uncertain and potentially serious consequences for the environment and other societal concerns.	Sustainable development	Iulie Aslaksen
Volatility in exchange rates: Statistical analyses and economic interpretations		Econometric methods and microeconometrics	Arvid Raknerud