Recent and upcoming talks, seminars, & conference attendance
2024
Keynote address, the SURED conference at Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland, June 2-6th, 2024. Title TBA.
Global Development & Sustainability Speakers’ Series, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, U.S., Friday, February 16, 2024. “International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales”
2023
Visiting Professor University of Zurich, 2023-2024
Visiting Professor Yale University, September 2023
Macroeconomics and International Trade Research Seminar, University of Zurich, October 25, “International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales”
Geneva School of Economics and Management (GSEM), Université de Genève, Geneva Switzerland, October 23rd, 2023, “International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales”
ENRE seminar, Yale University, September 20, 2023, “International Trade, Noise Pollution, and Killer Whales”
June 29-30, 2023: Keynote Address to Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics Meetings, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, “The Simple Economics of Mass Extinctions”
February 16, 2023: UCSB, Department seminar, “Is Noise Pollution Killing Killer Whales?”
February 10, 2023: Carleton University Ottawa, Carleton Economics Department seminar, “Is Noise Pollution Killing Killer Whales?”
January 24, 2023: UCSB resource conference “How to price underwater noise pollution: An Application to Killer Whales”.
2022
September 28-30, 2022: Keynote Address to Environmental Protection and Sustainability Forum 2022, University of Graz, Austria, Graz, Austria
August 25-26, 2022: Keynote Address: Is Globalization Environmentally Friendly? (video of presentation), the Danish Environmental Economic Conference 2022 hosted by the Secretariat of the Danish Environmental Economic Council, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2022: Research Seminar, The University of Basel, Switzerland
January 12, 2022: A Greener Labor Market: Employment, Policies, and Economic Transformation, IMF, Washington, DC, USA.
2021
December 3, 2021: Globalization and the Environment, London School of Economics, London, UK.
November 17, 2021: Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, IMF, Washington, DC, USA. Extra Slides.
November 9, 2021: Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. Extra Slides.
June 4, 2021: Presidential Address at the 2021 CEA General Annual Meeting, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.
April 20, 2021: Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, Economics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
April 13, 2021: Trade, Competitive Exclusion, and the Slow-Motion Extinction of the Southern Resident Killer Whales, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
March 13, 2021: Globalization and the Environment, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
2020
All talks cancelled.
2019
September 26, 2019: Lecture, World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA. Presenting “Is Free Trade Bad for Resources”.
July 8-11, 2019: NBER Summer Institute: International Trade and Investment Workshop, Cambridge, USA
May 31-June 3, 2019: CEA Conference, University of Calgary, Banff Centre, Canada. Attending as President-elect of the CEA.
May 8, 2019: Research Seminar, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. Presenting “Is Free Trade Bad for Resources”.
April 30, 2019: Research Seminar, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Presenting “Is Free Trade Bad for Resources”.
February 11-15, 2019: Departmental Seminar, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA. Presenting “Is Free Trade Bad for Resources”.
2018
December 12-13, 2018: The New Malthusianism: A Symposium, Cambridge, UK.
December 10, 2018: Trade and Environment Seminar, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France.
November 26, 2018: Statistisch-Volkswirtschaftliche Gesellschaft (SVG), Basel, Switzerland.
July 8-13, 2018: NBER Summer Institute: International Trade and Investment Workshop, Cambridge, USA.
April 21-May 21, 2018: University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. The Basel Lectures: Trade. Resources, and Sustainability.
March 15-18, 2018: NBER Trade and Geography Conference, Cambridge, USA.
February 19-March 3, 2018: Sao Paulo School of Economics, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Six Lectures on International Trade, Resource Use and the Environment. Lecture 1 slides.
2017
July 15, 2017: National Bureau of Economic Research Environment and Energy Economics Meeting, Cambridge, USA.
May 12, 2017: Scientific Conference - Celebrating 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
February 28, 2017: Public and Environmental Economics Workshop, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
March 31, 2017: Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
2016
November 22, 2016: Economics Seminar, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
April 25-29, 2016: Basel Seminar, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
April 11, 2016: Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, USA.
2015
October 23, 2015: Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies, BUEC Seminar, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
June 24-27,2015: 21st Annual EAERE Conference, Helsinki, Finland
June 3, 2015: The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Era? Keynote Address, AERE Summer Conference, San Diego, USA.
April 28, 2015: The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Era? Public Lecture, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Photos of the event can be found here.
April 22, 2015: Food, Fuel and the Spatial Economy, The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland.
April 18 - May 2, 2015: Lectures in Trade, Growth and the Environment, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
March 13, 2015: Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies, The Bank of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Presentations
Buffalo Hunt - International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison
Innis Lecture: Environmental Crises: Past, Present, and Future
Energy and the Location of Economic Activity
An Energy-centric Theory of Agglomeration
Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies
The Beginning of the End of the Fossil Fuel Era?
Food, Fuel, and the Spatial Economy
International Trade, Resources, and the Environment: Basel Lecture
Trade, Growth, and the Environment
Discussion of "Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment, Sorting out the Causality"
In Search of Sustainability: Trade, Growth, and the Environment
International Trade and Renewable Resource Use
Is Free Trade the Great Destroyer of Biological Resources?
Economic Growth, Trade, and the Environment
Pollution and Trade in a Small Open Melitz Economy
Trade and The Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results
A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Environmental Regulations and International Competitiveness: A Review of Recent Evidence
Can Green Power Save us from Climate Change?
ZEW Lecture - Introduction: International Trade and Resource Use
ZEW Lecture - Regulation is Rigid Hypothesis
ZEW Lecture - Regulation is Everything Hypothesis
ZEW Lecture - Resource Overuse Hypothesis: The Theory
Chapter 2: Pollution in a Small Open Economy
Chapter 3: Growth and Pollution in a Small Open Economy
Chapter 4: Trade Liberalisation and Environmental Quality
Chapter 5: Pollution Haven Models of International Trade
Chapter 6: Factor Endowments, Policy Differences and Pollution
Chapter 7: Is Free Trade Good for the Environment? An Empirical Assessment
Climate policy, trade and carbon Leakage: lessons from Kyoto
Are Trapped Energy Resources so Bad for Growth?
Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons
The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use
Economic Growth and the Convergence in Carbon Emissions Across Countries
all publications
Buffalo Hunt
Taylor, M. Scott. "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison." American Economic Review 101.7 (2011): 1-36.
Environmental Catastrophes
Taylor, M. Scott. "Innis Lecture: Environmental Crises: Past, Present, and Future." Canadian Journal of Economics 15.2 (2020): 127-153.
Brander, J. and M. Scott Taylor. "The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use." American Economic Review 88.1 (1998): 119-138.
Energy and Agglomeration
Cruz, J.M. and M. Scott Taylor. "An Energy-Centric Theory of Agglomeration." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 84 (2017): 153-172. [APPENDIX].
Cruz, J.M. and M. Scott Taylor. "A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics: Theory, Measurement and Empirics." CESifo Working Paper No: 4845 (2014).
Taylor, M. Scott. "Can Green Power Save Us from Climate Change." Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 150.1 (2014): 23-31.
Cruz, J.M. and M. Scott Taylor. "A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics." The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No: 18908 (2013).
Cruz, J.M. and M. Scott Taylor. "Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies." The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No: 18236 (2012).
Trade and Industrial Pollution
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Environmental and Resource Economics: A Canadian Retrospective." Canadian Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
Levinson, A. and M. Scott Taylor. "Unmasking the Pollution Haven Effect." International Economic Review 49.1 (2008): 223-254.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Free Trade and Global Warming: A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49.2 (2005): 205-234. [APPENDIX].
M. Scott Taylor. "Unbundling the Pollution Haven Hypothesis." Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy 4.2 (2004): 1-26.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. Trade and the Environment: Theory and Evidence. Princeton University Press, eds. Gene M. Grossman and Oliver Gourinchas, Princeton, (2013).
Antweiler, W., B. Copeland, and M. Scott Taylor. "Is Free Trade Good for the Environment." American Economic Review 91.4 (2001): 877-908. [APPENDIX].
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade, Spatial Separation, and the Environment." Journal of International Economics 47.1 (1999): 137-168.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "The Trade-induced Degradation Hypothesis." Resource and Energy Economics 19.4 (1997): 321-344.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade and Transboundary Pollution." American Economic Review 85.4 (1995): 716-737.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade and the Environment: A Partial Synthesis." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 77.3 (1995): 765-771.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "North-South Trade and the Environment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 109.3: 755-787.
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "International Trade and the Environment: A Framework for Analysis." The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No: 8540 (2001).
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "A Simple Model of Trade, Capital Mobility, and the Environment." The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No: 5898 (1997).
Cherniwchan, J., B. Copeland, and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade and the Environment: New Methods, Measurements, and Results."* The Annual Review of Economics 9 (2017): 59-85.
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Growth and the Environment
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Environmental and Resource Economics: A Canadian Retrospective." Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 50(5), December 2017, 1381-1413.
Brock, W. and M. Scott Taylor. "The Green Solow Model." Journal of Economic Growth 15.2 (2010): 127-153.
Brock, W. and M. Scott Taylor. "Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of Theory and Empirics." Handbook of Economic Growth eds. S. Durlauf and P. Aghion (2005).
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade, Growth, and the Environment." Journal of Economic Literature 42.1 (2004): 7-71.
Taylor., M. Scott. "Trade and Trade Policy in Endogenous Growth Models." Trade Policy and the Pacific Rim, International Economics Association Round Table Conference, McMillan Press, eds. A. Woodland and J. Piggott, (1999).
Brock, W. and M. Scott Taylor. "The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth." The National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No: 9597 (1997).
Taylor, M. Scott. "'Once-off' and Continuing Gains from Trade." The Review of Economic Studies 61.3 (1994): 589-601.
Taylor, M. Scott. "'Quality Ladders' and Ricardian Trade." Journal of International Economics 34.3-4 (1993): 225-243.
Resource Overuse and Trade
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Environmental and Resource Economics: A Canadian Retrospective." Canadian Journal of Economics (forthcoming).
Taylor, M. Scott. "Innis Lecture: Environmental Crises: Past, Present, and Future." Canadian Journal of Economics 15.2 (2020): 127-153.
Brander, J. and M. Scott Taylor. "Open Access Renewable Resources: Trade and Trade Policy in a Two-Country Model." Journal of International Economics 44.2 (1998): 181-210.
Brander, J. and M. Scott Taylor. "International Trade and Open-Access Resources: The Small Open Economy Case." Canadian Journal of Economics 30.3 (1997): 526-552.
Property Rights
Copeland, B. and M. Scott Taylor. "Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons." American Economic Review 99.3 (2009): 725-749.
Brander, J. and M. Scott Taylor. "International Trade between Consumer and Conservationist Countries." Resource and Energy Economics 19.4 (1997): 267-297.
Taylor, M. Scott. "TRIPS, Trade, and Growth." International Economic Review 35.2 (1994): 361-381.
Taylor, M. Scott. "TRIPS, Trade, and Technology Transfer." Canadian Journal of Economics 26.3 (1993): 625-637.
Simulations
The Economics of Easter Island: Modeling Resource Sustainability in Flash
Brander and Taylor Easter Island Simulation
The Green Solow Model: Complete Older Version (2004) - Part 1, Part 2, and Appendix
Miscellaneous
Emptying the Tank: Getting the most out of Limited Data
M. Scott Taylor
NBER Working Paper No. 24855, issued in July 2018
All empirical researchers know that having more sources of variation in a dataset is valuable. What is not known is how valuable, and if the marginal value of adding another source of variation diminishes or increases. This note provides explicit answers to these questions. It defines "valuable" as the number of independent questions the data can potentially answer, and provides a surprisingly simple and useful rule that tells the researcher not only when they have "emptied the tank" of their data's valuable implications, but also the marginal value of further data collection. An illustration using home heating costs is provided.
The Basel Lectures: Trade, Resources and Sustainability
M. Scott Taylor
University of Basel, 21 April 2018
Forthcoming book.
Comments on the "The Main Contribution of the Ricardian Trade Theory" by Ronald W. Jones.
M. Scott Taylor
Chapter 7 in R. Weder and R. Jones (eds.), 200 Years of Ricardian Trade Theory: The Challenges of Globalization, Springer, 2017, p. 117-128.
These are comments on the link between Ricardian trade theory circa 1960 and its new incarnation in the 2000s reflected in the work of Eaton and Kortum. I argue that the two-good, two-country, model had three serious problems limiting its application, and then ask how the profession has tried to solve these problems over time. It discusses a limiting many country, many good efficiency result due to Jones 1961; discusses three of the most cited applications of the continuum model introduced by Dornbusch, Fischer and Samuelson 1977; and concludes with thoughts for the future and exclusions from the analysis. The comments are an almost verbatim translation of the comments I gave in Basel in May of 2017.