Articles
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...
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...
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...
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)
Is Free Trade Good for the Environment (with Werner Antweiler and Brian R. Copeland), American Economic Review (2001)
This paper investigates how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a...
Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment (with Brian R. Copeland), Journal of International Economics (1999)
We develop a simple two-sector dynamic model to show how pollution can provide a motive...
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...
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...
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...
The Trade Induced Degradation Hypothesis (with Brian R. Copeland), Resource and Energy Economics (1997)
This paper develops a simple two-sector dynamic model to examine the effects of international trade...
Trade and Transboundary Pollution (with Brian R. Copeland), American Economic Review (1995)
This paper examines how national income and trading opportunities interact to determine the level and...
Trade and the Environment: A Partial Synthesis (with Brian R. Copeland), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (1995)
This paper provides a simple exposition and extension of some recent work that explains the...
North-South Trade and the Environment (with Brian A. Copeland), Quarterly Journal of Economics (1994)
A simple static model of North-South trade is developed to examine linkages between national income,...
'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...
Trips, Trade, and Growth, International Economic Review (1994)
A two country model of endogenous growth is employed to assess the importance of intellectual...
'Quality ladders' and Ricardian trade, Journal of International Economics (1993)
A Model of endogenous growth and trade is developed that extends the continuum Ricardian model...
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...
Books
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....
Contributions to Books
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...
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...
Trade and Trade Policy in Endogenous Growth Models, Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, International Economics Association Round Table Conference (1999)
Technology Choice, Overtaking and Comparative Advantage: A comment on Jones and Ohyama , New Directions in Trade Theory (1995)
Popular Press
Blame Europeans for buffalo slaughter?, Newspaper Rock - Where Native America meets Pop Culture (2007)
American Buffalo Wiped Out to Serve European Market of the 1880s , Environmental News Service (2007)
Globalization: The Great Amplifier, The Century Foundation (2007)
The potentially brutal effects of globalization—which the dazzling rise of India in information technology and...
Working Papers
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 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...
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...
Presentations and Popular Press
Environmental Crises: Past, Present and Future, Innis Lecture (2009)
A presentation on the economics of environmental crises.
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, Venice International University (2007)
Trade, Resources, and Sustainability, Venice International University, European Association for Environmental Economics Summer School (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, Department of Economics, Heidelberg, Germany seminar (2007)
Internationa Trade, Resources and the Environment, University of Basel, Department of Economics (2007)
A series of lectures based on a new book I am writing.
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, University of California, Riverside, Distinguished Visitors Series (2007)
International Trade and the Environment, Statistics Canada, Socio-economics Policy Conference Keynote Address (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, York University and Univ. of Montreal April (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, University of Montreal, McGill, UQUAM Symposium (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, Stanford University, Department of Economics (2007)
Documentation for GAMS Files, Global Trade and Analysis Conference 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Address (2007)
GAMS Code for CGE versions of book chapters, Global Trade and Analysis Conference 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Address (2007)
International Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence, Global Trade and Analysis Conference 10th Anniversary Conference, Keynote Address (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, York University, Department of Economics (2007)
Growth, Trade and the Environment: In Search of Sustainability, Keynote address for the Société canadienne de science économique and l'Association des économistes du Québec (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, University of Ottawa/Carleton joint seminar (2007)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, NBER International Trade and Investment meetings selected paper (2006)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, UBC, Department of Economics (2006)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, NBER Summer Institute, Environment, Energy, and Economics Program selected paper (2006)
Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison, SURED II Conference (2005)
Economic Growth and the Convergence in Carbon Emissions Across Countries, Pacific Institute for Mathematical Studies (2005)
Other
Trade, Development and the Environment (2003)
Debates over the merits of trade liberalization have been going on for some time, but...