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. Taylor has a PhD (1991) from Queens University in Kingston Ontario and a BA and MA from the University of Calgary. Taylor is currently on the board of the Journal of Economic Literature, and an Associate Editor for the Journal of International Economics. He is a former 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 Board of the American Economic Review (1999-2005). Previous 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), a Visiting Scholar in the Princeton Department of Economics (1991), and a Killam 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. Taylor’s research focuses on the interaction of international markets and environmental outcomes. In the area of climate change he has investigated the role of international markets in affecting strategic interaction across countries, the role world price changes play in altering incentives, and the interaction between goods and permit trade. In the area of natural resources, he has investigated how property rights regimes affect trade flows, how trading opportunities affect the degree of resource exploitation, and how trade and technology affects the incentives to protect natural resources. In the area of growth he has investigated the role natural resource collapses have played in the rise and fall of prehistoric societies, and how growth and trade jointly determine environmental outcomes. 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 2003 his book International Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence (joint with Brian Copeland) was published by Princeton University Press. In his spare time Taylor enjoys skiing, mountain climbing and thinking.
I. The Environmental Consequences of International Trade
Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect (with Arik Levinson), International Economic Review (2008)
This paper uses both theory and empirical work to examine the effect of environmental regulations...
Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2005)
The “Pollution Haven Hypothesis” (PHH) is one of the most contentious and hotly debated predictions...
Free Trade and Global Warming: a Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol (with Brian R. Copeland), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2005)
This paper demonstrates how several important results in environmental economics, true under mild conditions in...
II. Trade, Resources, and Sustainability
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons (with Brian R. Copeland), Revised version is forthcoming in the American Econmic Review (2009)
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the...
Open-Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a two-country model (with James A. Brander), Journal of International Economics (1998)
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the...
International Trade between Consumer and Conservationist Countries (with James A. Brander), Resource and Energy Economics (1997)
We consider trade between a Consumer country with an open access renewable resource and a...
International Trade and Open-Access Renewable Resources: the Small Open Economy Case (with James A. Brander), Canadian Journal of Economics (1997)
We examine a small open economy with an open-access renewable resource. Using a novel two-sector...
III. Economic Growth and the Environment
Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of theory and empirics (with William Brock), Handbook of Economic Growth (2006)
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is, and will always remain, controversial. Some...
The Green Solow Model (with William A. Brock), NBER Working Paper No. 10557 (2004)
We demonstrate that a key empirical finding in environmental economics - The Environmental Kuznets Curve...
Trade , Growth, and the Environment (with Brian R. Copeland), Journal of Economic Literature (2004)
For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a...
Economic Growth and the Environment: Matching the Stylized Facts (with William A. Brock) (2003)
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only...
The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth (with William A. Brock) (2003)
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only...
IV. Environmental History
Buffalo Hunt International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, Revised version is R&R at the American Economic Review (2008)
In the 16th century, North America contained 25-30 million buffalo; by the late 19th century...
The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use (with James A. Brander), The American Economic Review (1998)
We present a simple general equilibrium model of renewable resource and population dynamics that may...
V. Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights
Trips, Trade, and Growth, International Economic Review (1994)
A two country model of endogenous growth is employed to assess the importance of intellectual...
Trips, Trade, and Technology Transfer, The Canadian Journal of Economics (1993)
A North-South model of unintentional technology transfer is developed where the stringency of sountern patent...
VI. Books and Long Reviews
Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence (with Brian A. Copeland) (2003)
“Copeland and Taylor have opened the way to a better dialogue between economists and environmentalists....