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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 (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. 

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