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Prof. Karine Nyborg Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné

The Pitfalls of Relying on Moral Motivation for Public Good Provision

Karine Nyborg is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oslo. She has served as President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Chair of the Scientific Board of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, academic expert member of Denmark’s Council of Environmental Economics, member of several Norwegian Government-appointed expert commissions, and as a regular op-ed writer in major Norwegian newspapers. She is a recipient of the Erik Kempe Prize, a member of Academia Europaea, and is also a fiction writer. Her research, while covering a broad range of topics, focuses on environmental economics and economic analysis of social and moral norms.

Dura Lex Sed Lex? A Second Look At Environmental Compliance

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné is Professor of Economics at Skema Business School, and a member of GREDEG at Université Côte d’Azur. He holds a PhD from Yale University. His main research areas are environmental economics, the economics of organization, the economics of risk and uncertainty, and the management of innovation. His publications can be found in major journals such as Econometrica, Management Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, and the Journal of Law, Economics & Organization. His recent work focuses on incentive compensation and responsible business, the environmental goods and services industry, CSR and artificial intelligence, and innovation-support systems. He is currently an Associate Editor at the Journal of Public Economic Theory, and a Co-Editor of the International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. In 2004, he was elected a Fellow of the European Economic Association. In 2006, he won (with co-author Pauline Barrieu of the London School of Economics) the Finance and Sustainability European Research Award for the article “On Precautionary Policies” published in Management Science. In 2021, he was made a Fellow of the Louis Bachelier Institute.

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