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• Nyborg, K. (2012): The Ethics and Politics of Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis. Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics. London/NewYork: Routledge.
• Nyborg, K., T. Zhang (2012): Is corporate social responsibility associated with lower wages? Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming.
• Jacobsen, K.J., K.H. Eika, L. Helland, J.T. Lind, K. Nyborg (2011): Are nurses more altruistic than real estate brokers? Journal of Economic Psychology 32 (5), 818-831.
• Brekke, K.A., K.E. Hauge, J.T. Lind, and K. Nyborg (2011): Playing with the Good Guys: A Public Good Game with Endogenous Group Formation, Journal of Public Economics 95, 1111-1118.
• Nyborg, K. (2011): I Don’t Want to Hear About it: Rational Ignorance among Duty-Oriented Consumers, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 79, 263-274.
• Brekke, K.A., and K. Nyborg (2010): Selfish Bakers, Caring Nurses? A Model of Work Motivation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 75, 377-394.
• Brekke, K.A., G. Kipperberg, and K. Nyborg (2010): Social Interaction in Responsibility Ascription: the Case of Household Recycling, Land Economics 86(4), 766-784.
• Nyborg, K. (2010): Will Green Taxes Undermine Moral Motivation? Public Finance and Management 10(2) (special issue on Public Finance and the Environment), 331-351.
• Brekke, K. A., and K. Nyborg (2008): Attracting Responsible Employees: Green Production as Labor Market Screening, Resource and Energy Economics 39, 509-526.  
• Brekke, K. A., K. Nyborg, and M. Rege (2007): The Fear of Exclusion: Individual Effort when Group Formation is Endogenous, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 109 (3),531-550.
• Nyborg, K., R. B. Howarth, and K. A. Brekke (2006): Green Consumers and Public Policy: On Socially Contingent Moral Motivation, Resource and Energy Economics 28 (4), 351-366
• Nyborg, K., and K. Telle (2006): Firms’ Compliance to Environmental Regulation: Is there Really a Paradox? Environmental and Resource Economics 35 (1), 1-18.
• Bruvoll, A. and K. Nyborg (2004): The Cold Shiver of Not Giving Enough: On the Social Cost of Recycling Campaigns, Land Economics 80 (4), 539-549.
• Nyborg, K. and K. Telle (2004): The Role of Warnings in Regulation: Keeping Control with Less Punishment, Journal of Public Economics 88 (12), 2801-2816.
• Nyborg, K. and M. Rege (2003): On Social Norms: The Evolution of Considerate Smoking Behavior Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 52 (3), 2003, 323-340.
• Nyborg, K. and M. Rege (2003): Does Public Policy Crowd Out Private Contributions to Public Goods? Public Choice 115 (3), 397-418.
• Nyborg, K. (2003): The Impact on Policy of Social and Moral Norms: Some Examples, Journal of Consumer Policy 26 (3), 259-277.
• Brekke, K. A., S. Kverndokk, and K. Nyborg (2003): An Economic Model of Moral Motivation, Journal of Public Economics 87 (9-10), 1967-1983.
• Brekke, K. A., R. B. Howarth, and K. Nyborg (2003): Status-Seeking and Material Affluence: Evaluating the Hirsch Hypothesis, Ecological Economics 45 (1), 29 - 39.
• Bye, B., and K. Nyborg (2003): Are Differentiated Carbon Taxes Inefficient? A General Equilibrium Analysis, Energy Journal 24 (2), 95-112 (earlier version available here).     
• Medin, H., K. Nyborg and I. Bateman (2001): The Assumption of Equal Marginal Utility of Income: How Much does it Matter? Ecological Economics 36 (3), 397-410.
• Nyborg, K. (2000): Homo Economicus and Homo Politicus: Interpretation and Aggregation of Environmental Values Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 42/3, 305-322.
• Nyborg, K. (2000): Project Analysis as Input to Public Debate: Environmental Valuation versus Physical Unit Indicators, Ecological Economics 34 (3), 393- 408.
• Nyborg, K. (2000): Voluntary Agreements and Non-Verifiable Emissions, Environmental and Resource Economics 17 (2), 125-144.

• Nyborg, K., and I. Spangen (2000): Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Democratic Ideal, Nordic Journal of Political Economy 26 (1), 83-93.