- University of Gothenburg
- School of Business, Economics and Law
- Department of Economics
- Staff
- Professors
- Johansson-Stenman Olof
Olof Johansson-Stenman
Professor of Economics,
Vice-Dean of The School of Business, Economics and Law
Address: P.O.Box 640, SE 405 30 Gothenburg
Visiting address: Vasagatan 1
Tel: +46 (0)31-786 25 38
Fax: +46 (0)31-786 10 43
Email: Olof.Johansson@economics.gu.se
Room: E-601C
Research Interests
My current research interest is largely about behavioral, environmental and public economics, and about exploring deviations from the purely selfish, rational and atomistic "homo economicus." I am also interested in the economics of risk and uncertainty, health economics, transport economics, welfare economics, happiness research, ethics and normative economics more generally.
Working papers
"Are Men Really More Overconfident Than Women? A Natural Field Experiment on Exam Behavior. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/23021/1/gupea_2077_23021_1.pdf
"Positional Preferences in Time and Space: Implications For Optimal Income Taxation" with Thomas Aronsson. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/21819/1/gupea_2077_21819_1.pdf
"Cost benefit rules when nature counts" Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/2724/1/gunwpe0198update.pdf
"Animal welfare and social decisions" Revise and resubmit, Land Economics. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/2725/1/gunwpe0197update.pdf
Journal Articles
Forthcoming
"Trust, trust games and stated trust: Experimental evidence from rural Bangladesh", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, with Peter Martinsson and Minhaj Mahmus, Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/21265/1/gupea_2077_21265_1.pdf
"Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter" Scandinavian Journal of Economics, with Thomas Aronsson. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/20093/1/gupea_2077_20093_1.pdf
2012
“Are most people consequentialists?” Economics Letters, 2012, 115, 225-228.
2011
Saving Lives Versus Life-Years in Rural Bangladesh: An Ethical Preferences Approach", with
"Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes without Engines? On the need for an Envronmental Social Science" with Henk Folmer, Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011, 48(3), 337-361.
2010
"Positional Concerns in an OLG Model: Optimal Labor and Capital Income Taxation" with Thomas Aronsson. International Economic Review, 51(4), 1071-1095. Download
"Why Do Yoy Vote and Vote as You Do?" with
"Risk Aversion and Expected Utility of Consumption over Time", Games and Economic Behavior, 68, 208-219. Download
"Fair Air: Distributional Justice and Environmental Economics" with James Konow, Environmental and Resource Economics, 46, 147-166.(Invited paper for a special issue on Behavioral Environmental Economics.) Download
"Internalized Contribution Norms and Learning in a Public Goods Experiment in Ghana" with Wisdom Akpalu. Public Finance and Management , 10(2), 352-378. (Invited paper for a special issue on Public Finance and the Environment.) Download
"Scale Factors and Hypothetical Referena: A Clarifying Note" with
2009
"Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bngladesh" with
"Keeping up with the Vaishias: Caste and relative standing" with
2008
"The Behavioral Economics of Climate Change" with Kjell Arne Brekke. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24(2), 280-297. Download
"Emotions, morality and public goods: the wta-wtp disparity revisited" with
"Veblen's theory of the Leisure Class Revisited: Implications for Optimal Income Taxation" with Thomas Aronsson. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/23211/1/gupea_2077_23211_1.pdf
Who are the trustworthy, we think?" Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68, 456-465. Download
"When the Joneses' consumption hurts: Optimal public good provision and nonlinear income taxation" with Thomas Aronsson. Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92(5-6), 986-97. Download.
"Anonymity, reciprocity and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a natural park in Costa Rica" with Francisco Alpizar and
"Measuring hypothetical bias in choice experiments: The role of cognitive consistency" with Henrik Svedsäter. B-E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1), topics, article 41. Download
"Are some lives more valuable? An ethical preferences approach." With
"Mad Cows, terrorism and junk food: Should public policy reflect subjective or objective risks?" Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 234-48. Download
"Do You Enjoy Having More than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods" with F. Carlsson and P. Martinsson, Economica, 2007, 74, 586-98. Download
2006
"Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?" with Peter Martinsson, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 60, 129-46. Download
"Optimal environmental road pricing" Economics Letters, 2006, 90, 225-29.Download
2005
"Does stake size matter in trust games" with Peter Martinsson and Minhaj Mahmud. Economics Letters, 2005,88(3), 365-69, Download
"Distributional Weights in Cost Benefit Analysis - Should we forget about them?" Land Economics, 2005, 81(3), 335-52. Preliminary version downloadable at: Download
"Are people inequality averse or just risk averse?" with Fredrik Carlsson and Dinky Daruvala, Economica, 2005, 72, 375-96. Download
"Anyone for higher speed limits? Self-interested and adaptive political preferences" With Peter Martinsson, Public Choice, 2005, 122(3-4), 319-31. Download
"How Much do We Care About Absolute Versus Relative Income and Consumption?", with Francisco Alpizar and Fredrik Carlsson, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, 56(3), 405-21. Download
"Global environmental problems, efficiency and limited altruism" Economics Letters, 2005, 86(1), 101-106. Download
2004
"Is Transport Safety More Valuable in the Air?" with Fredrik Carlsson and Peter Martinsson, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2004, 28(2), 147-63. Download
"The value of risk-free cigarettes - Do smokers underestimate the risk?", Health Economics, 2004, 13(1), 59-71, with Henrik Hammar. Download
2003
"Choosing from behind a veil of ignorance in India" with Fredrik Carlsson and Gautam Gupta, Applied Economics Letters, 2003, 10, 825-27. Download
"Goal Conflicts in Political Decision Making: A Survey of Municipality Politicians´ Views of Road Pricing", Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2003, 21(4), 615-24, with Lars-Olof Johansson, Gunnar Falkemark, Tommy Gärling, Mathias Gustafsson. Download
"Costs and Benefits of Electric Vehicles - A 2010 Perspective", Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2003, 37(1), 1-28, with Fredrik Carlsson. Download
2002
"Measuring Future Grandparents - Preferences for Equality and Relative standing", with Fredrik Carlsson and Dinky Daruvala, Economic Journal, 2002, vol. 112, pp. 362-83. Download
"Estimating Individual Driving Distance by Car and Public Transport Use in Sweden". Applied Economics, 2002, vol. 34, pp. 959-67. Download
"A Conceptual Analysis of the Impact of Travel Demand Management on Private Car Use" with Tommy Gärling, Daniel Eek, Peter Loukopoulos, Satoshi Fujii, Ryuichi Kitamura, Ram Pendyala and Bertil Vilhelmson, Transport Policy, 2002, 9(1), 59-70. Download
2000
"On the Value of Life in Rich and Poor Countries and Distributional Weights Beyond Utilitarianism", Environmental and Resource Economics, 2000, vol. 17, 299-310. Download
"Willingness to pay for improved air quality in Sweden", with Fredrik Carlsson. Applied Economics, 2000, vol. 32, pp. 661-69. Download
1998
"On the problematic link between fundamental ethics and economic policy recommendations", Journal of Economic Methodology, 1998, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 263-97. Download
"The importance of ethics in environmental economics with a focus on existence values", Environmental and Resource Economics, 1998, vol 11, Nos. 3-4, pp. 429-42. Download
1997
"Measuring long-run automobile fuel demand; Separate estimations of Vehicle Stock, Mean Fuel Intensity, and Mean Annual Driving Distance." Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 1997, 31(3), pp. 277-92, with Lee Schipper. Download preliminary version
"Is there a future for PRT systems? Evidence from a Swedish benefit-cost analysis", Urban Transportation Monitor, 1997, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 4, 16.
"Optimal road-pricing: simultaneous treatment of time losses, increased fuel consumption, and emissions." Transportation Research D, 1997, vol. 2, pp. 77-87. Download
"Optimal Pigouvian taxes with regard to altruism." Land Economics, 1997, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 297-308. Download
"Optimal road pricing with respect to accidents in a second-best perspective." International Journal of Transport Economics, 1997, vol 24, no. 3, pp. 343-65.
More popular papers in Swedish
"Sök svaren - inte bara frågorna" krönika i GU-Journalen juni 2008 där jag bl a kritiserar extrem kunskapsrelativism. Download
"EU:s klimatpolitik från ett välfärdsperspektiv - kostnadseffektivitet, fördelningseffekter och upplevd rättvisa" med Åsa Löfgren, i EU och den globala klimatfrågan, Europoaperspektiv 2008, Santerús förlag, pp. 163-188. Download
"Om nationalekonomisk imperialism och idéutveckling" Ekonomisk Debatt, 2007, 35(2), 68-78. Download
"De rika är miljöbovar" Debattartikel i Göteborgs-Posten, maj 2007. Download
"Så får vi fler fotbollsmål" Debattartikel i Göteborgs-Posten, juli 2006. Download
"Bör Göteborgs Universitet verkligen arbeta på sin image och varumärke?" Debattartikel i GU-Journalen december 2004 där jag bl a kritiserar vad jag anser vara universitetets överdrivna fokus på image- och varumärkesfrågor, samt dess i mitt tycke lågt prioriterade kvalitetsarbete. Download Replik av mig i nummer 1 2005 samt understöd av matematikprofessor Bo Berntsson efter svar från Lennart Weibull, ordförande i Rådet för identitets och imagefrågor, samt slutreplik av Weibull. Download
"Användbar grundbok i ekonomi miljö- och naturvetenskap" bokrecension av Tore Söderqvist, Ing-Mari Gren och Monica Hammer: Samverkan för människa och natur: En introduktion till ekologisk ekonomi. Studentlitteratur, 2004. Download
"Fördelning, effektivitet och hederlighet" Ledarartikel Ekonomisk Debatt, 2003, nr 2. Download
"På spaning efter den välfärd som flytt" Ledarartikel i Ekonomisk Debatt, 2002, nr 4. Download
Book contributions
"Health Investements under Risk and Ambiguity" in the The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy, Edited by Jason Lusk, Jutta Roosen and Jayson Shogren, Oxford University Press, 2011. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/bitstream/2077/22322/4/gupea_2077_22322_4.pdf
"Political Acceptance of Road Pricing: Goal Conflicts in Municipality Decision Making" with Lars-Olof Johansson, Gunnar Falkemark, Tommy Gärling, Mathias Gustafsson, in Jens Schade (ed.) Acceptability of transport pricing strategies, Elsevier, 2003, pp. 269-78.
"What should we do with inconsistent, non-welfaristic, and undeveloped preferences?" in Bromley and Paavola (eds.) Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices, Blackwell, 2002, pp. 103-19. Preliminary version downloadable at: Http://swopec.hhs.se/gunwpe/abs/gunwpe0034.htm
"Regulating Road Transport Externalities: Pricing Versus Command-and-Control" in Sterner, T. (ed.) The Market and the Environment: The Effectiveness of Market-Based Policy Instruments For Environmental Reform, 1999, Edward Elgar, pp. 134-57.
"What is the scope for environmental road pricing?" in Button, K.J. and E. Verhoef (eds.) Road Pricing, Traffic Congestion and the Environment: Issues of Efficiency and Social Feasibility. Edward Elgar, Aldershot, pp. 150-70, 1998, with Thomas Sterner.
"Ekonomiska styrmedel" i Thoresson, S. (Ed.) Luftvård, pp. 146-58, Göteborg, with Thomas Sterner, 1997.
"Economic policy instruments" in Tengström E. (Ed.) Environmental strategies for a sustainable Balticum, with Thomas Sterner, 1997. The True Cost of Road Transport, Blueprint 5, CSERGE, London: Earthscan, with D. Maddison, D. Pearce, E. Calthrop, T. Litman, and E. Verhoef, 1996.
The True Cost of Road Transport, Blueprint 5, CSERGE,
"Trust, trust games and stated trust: Evidence from rural
"Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter" with Thomas Aronsson. Preliminary version downloadable at: http://gupea.ub.gu.se/dspace/bitstream/2077/20093/1/gupea_2077_20093_1.pdf