Publications
Vulnerability to weather disasters: the choice of coping strategies in rural Uganda
When a natural disaster hits, the affected households try to cope with its impacts. A variety of coping strategies may be employed, from reducing current consumption … read more »
Does industry concentration matter for pollution haven effects?
This paper focuses on the role of firm’s market power and industry concentration in a still debated issue of pollution haven effects or carbon ‘leakage’, represented … read more »
Is there an environmental benefit to being an exporter? Evidence from firm level data
One concern over globalisation is its impact on the environment. We analyse the consequences of becoming an exporter on a firm’s energy consumption. We show theoretically and empirically with … read more »
Discussion: Great expectations: the psychodynamics of ecological debt
In: Weintrobe, S. (ed) ‘Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives’. Routledge, UK, p.109-113.
The roles of public and private actors in the governance of adaptation: the case of agricultural insurance in India
Climate change adaptation is an increasingly important field and will involve a range of actors from national governments to private companies, communities and households. There is … read more »
Policy indexes – what do they tell us and what are their applications? The case of climate policy and business planning in emerging markets
The last two decades have witnessed an explosion in the publication of country indexes that measure and rank the relative policy performances of governments. Whilst there … read more »
Knowledge versus technique in SO2-saving technological change: a comparative test using quantile regression with implications for greenhouse gas compliance
Greenhouse gas emission limits are a major source of technical and policy uncertainty for electric power industry professionals. This paper tries to reduce some of this uncertainty by investigating … read more »
The new energy-industrial revolution and an international agreement on climate change
Nicholas Stern and James Rydge, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy V.1, pp.1-1, 2012.
Domestic politics and the formation of international environmental agreements
The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple … read more »
Climate Policy Foundations: Science and Economics with Lessons from Monetary Regulation
Review of William Whitesell’s for the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning. 2012. Full proof available.
