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M. Scott Taylor

University of Calgary

• Professor of Economics
• Research Associate, NBER
• Canada Research Chair I
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M. Scott Taylor is the Canada Research Chair in International, Energy and
Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary, Alberta. He is also a Research
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in both the International Trade and
Investment, and Energy and Environmental Economics working groups and a fellow of the
Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Taylor has a PhD (1991) from Queens University
in Kingston, Ontario and a BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Taylor is currently
an Associate Editor of the Journal of International Economics, and on the Board of the
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Previously he was a Co-Editor
(1999-2000) and member of the Editorial Council of the Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management (2000-2005), and served on the Editorial Boards of the American Economic
Review (1999-2005) and the Journal of Economic Literature (2006-2010). Prior to his
current position, Taylor was a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison
(1998-2004), and an Assistant, Associate and Full Professor at the University of British
Columbia (1992-1998). He has also been a Visiting Scholar in the Princeton Department of
Economics (1991, 2003), and a Kil- lam Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sauder Business School
at the University of British Columbia (1991). From 1995 to 1998 he was a Scholar in the
Economic Growth Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He is also the
recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel(2010). Professor
Taylor's research focuses on the interaction of international markets, economic
growth and environmental outcomes. His most in uential works examine how the level of
pollution concentrations in major cities is affected by changes in industrial production
brought about by international trade or economic growth. Other important work connects
the health of biological resources such as fish and forest stocks to the pressures
brought about by globalization. He has investigated the role natural resource collapses
have played in the rise and fall of prehistoric societies, how growth and trade jointly
determine environmental outcomes, and how access to international markets affects
research and development and long run growth. A marked feature of his research is the use
of novel methods allowing him to confront testable hypotheses with empirical evidence.
His publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of
Economics, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Journal of
International Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Canadian
Journal of Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics. In 2004, his Princeton
University Press book,International Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence (joint
withBrian Copeland) won the Doug Purvis Prize for its outstanding contribution to
Canadian economic policy. In his spare time Taylor enjoys skiing, mountain climbing and
thinking. 

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