Publications
Safeguarding development aid against climate change: evaluating progress and identifying best practice
Nicola Ranger, Alex Harvey and Su-Lin Garbett-Shiels. Forthcoming.
Effects of carbon taxes in an economy with large informal sector and rural-urban migration
I build an equilibrium search and matching model of an economy with an informal sector and rural-urban migration to analyse the effects of budget-neutral green tax … read more »
Climate change policies and the UK business sector: overview, impacts and suggestions for reform
The UK has a complex system of energy taxes which affect the business sector. Overlaps between taxes mean that carbon prices are uneven across sectors and fuels, and … read more »
Designing the future: the role of smart green cities’
Presentation for the Cleantech City, Oct. 23 2013 Conference – Link to presentation
A simple model of income, aggregate demand and the process of credit creation by private banks
Forthcoming in Empirica External link to article External link to working paper Abstract This paper presents a small macroeconomic model describing the main mechanisms of the process of credit creation … read more »
Private-sector adaptation to climate risk
Reference Surminski, S. October 2013. Private-sector adaptation to climate risk. Nature Climate Change, v.3, pp.943-945.
Flood insurance schemes and climate adaptation in developing countries
Risk transfer, including insurance, is widely recognized as a tool for increasing financial resilience to severe weather events such as floods. The application of this mechanism varies widely across … read more »
Who will win the green race? In search of environmental competitiveness and innovation
Fankhauser, Samuel, Bowen, Alex, Calel, Raphael, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Grover, David, Rydge, James and Sato, Misato (2013) Who will win the green race? In search of environmental competitiveness and innovation. Global … read more »
Environmental finance and investments
Environmental finance and investments Chesney, M., Gheyssens, J., and Taschini, L. 2013. Springer: UK. This book is intended to provide students and practitioners the knowledge and theoretical tools they need … read more »
Recent and future changes in the global and UK climate
The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most comprehensive assessment of the physical science basis of climate change that has ever been written. … read more »
