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 (NBER) in both the International
Trade and Investment, and Energy and Environmental Economics working groups and a fellow
of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. In addition, he is the co-leader and
principle investigator of Environment Canada's Economic and Environmental Policy
Research Network. Taylor has a Ph.D. (1991) from Queens University and a B.A. and M.A.
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 Econometrics. Previously, he was a Co-Editor (1999-2000) and a member of
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 in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(1998-2004), and an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor in the Department of
Economics 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 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. In 2004, Professor Taylor’s book International Trade and the
Environment: Theory and Evidence (joint with Brian Copeland) won the Doug Purvis Prize
for its outstanding contribution to Canadian Economic Policy. In 2010, he was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate by the University of Basel, Switzerland for his pioneering work on
trade, the environment, and renewable resources. 

Professor Taylor's research focuses on the interaction of international markets,
economic growth, and environmental outcomes. His most influential works examine how the
level of pollution concentrations in major cities is affected by changes in industrial
production brought about by international trade and/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, development, and long run growth. A marked feature of his research is the use
of novel methods allowing him to confront testable hypothesis with empirical evidence.
Professor Taylor's 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 his
spare time Taylor enjoys skiing, mountain climbing, and thinking. 

I. The Environmental Consequences of International Trade

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Environmental Crises: Past, Present ad Future, Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009 as the Innis Lecture (2009)

Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol, Appendix Proofs (with Brian R. Copeland), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2005)
 

II. Trade, Resources, and Sustainability

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Environmental Crises: Past, Present ad Future, Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009 as the Innis Lecture (2009)

Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

III. Economic Growth and the Environment

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Environmental Crises: Past, Present ad Future, Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009 as the Innis Lecture (2009)

Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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'Once-off' and Continuing Gains from Trade, Review of Economic Studies (1994)

Most Economists are familiar with the static or once-off welfare gains created by opening an...

 

IV. Environmental History

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Environmental Crises: Past, Present ad Future, Forthcoming in the Canadian Journal of Economics, November 2009 as the Innis Lecture (2009)

Environmental crises are distinguished by rapid and largely unexpected changes in environmental quality that are...

 

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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...

 

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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

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Trips, Trade, and Growth, International Economic Review (1994)

A two country model of endogenous growth is employed to assess the importance of intellectual...

 

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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

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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....

 

VII. Presentations and Popular Press

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Environmental Crises: Past, Present and Future, Innis Lecture (2009)

A presentation on the economics of environmental crises.

 

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Wie der Welthandel die Bisons, Zeit Online (2011)
 

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Documentation for GAMS Files, Global Trade and Analysis Conference 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Address (2007)
 

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GAMS Code for CGE versions of book chapters, Global Trade and Analysis Conference 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Address (2007)
 

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Economic Growth and the Convergence in Carbon Emissions Across Countries, Pacific Institute for Mathematical Studies (2005)