Rate My Professor Lassi Ahlvik

Lassi Ahlvik is Professor in Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. He is also affiliated with Helsinki GSE and serves as Adjunct Professor in Resource Economics at the University of Stavanger, Department of Economics and Finance. Appointed Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki in environmental and resource economics in August 2020, Ahlvik previously held the position of Assistant Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. His research centers on environmental and resource economics, encompassing environmental cost-benefit analysis, optimal design of climate policies, carbon pricing mechanisms, emissions trading schemes, and green tax reforms. Key areas include the distributional impacts of climate policies, household responses to energy crises, supply-side climate interventions, promotion of active transport through health information, and distributional impacts of conservation policies such as the Natura 2000 network.

In 2023, Ahlvik was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for his project "Green Tax Reform for a Just Climate Transition" (GRETA), which analyzes the effects of climate policy on various societal groups, perceptions of fairness, and mitigation strategies through taxation, employing mechanism design theory and Finnish administrative data, including identification from the 2022 energy price shock. Additional honors include the EAERE Award for ERC Grant Laureates in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics in July 2024, the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry Research Act of the Year in 2023, and Teaching Act of the Year in 2022. Ahlvik has published in leading journals such as Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review: Insights, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and Land Economics. Select publications are "Quantifying supply-side climate policies" (Review of Economic Studies, forthcoming 2026), "Household-Level Responses to the European Energy Crisis" (American Economic Review: Insights, forthcoming 2026), "Resource Investments and the Timing of Tax Deductions" (Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025), "Distributional Impacts of Conservation: Evidence from the Natura 2000 Network" (Land Economics, 2025), "Screening Green Innovation through Carbon Pricing" (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024), and "Global Externalities, Local Policies, and Firm Selection" (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022). His research garners over 589 citations per Google Scholar.