Curso: International Trade, Resource Use and the Environment

Visiting Professor: *M. Scott Taylor - University of Calgary
Credits: 1 (15 hours of lectures)
19th to 02/28/2018 - 9:00 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.

Registrations: 12/11/2017 to 02/09/2018

This short series of six lectures will address three questions.  First, how important are renewable resources to the world economy, and what is about these resources that makes their management difficult?  Second, how does international trade affect our ability to manage and maintain healthy and sustainable resource stocks in the long run?  And third, what trade or resource policies should be adopted to ensure the benefits of an international trading system are realized while preserving the natural environment?   

These questions are addressed and answered in a series of lectures.  I will introduce a very simple general equilibrium model of resource use and employ it, and its variations, throughout.  It will be used initially to discuss just how differently an economy with existing externalities can behave and respond to shocks such as technological progress or the ability to trade internationally.  Next, I will discuss the conditions under which trade can harm resources and present two case studies – one historical and one ongoing – where trade has been identified as key to resource overuse. 

While international trade can create difficulties it also provides opportunities for countries to improve resource management given the income gains its provides.  Here I will discuss conditions under which property rights enforcement can be expected to be improved by changes in technologies or the value of resources, and end with an empirical paper evaluating whether trade improves or worsens the state of resources across many countries.

The strength of the lectures comes from employing one unifying framework within which to discuss the issues, and the integration of empirical work directly on point to help answer the key questions left unresolved by theory.

Values and Payment:

R$ 2.885,82*  to each credit for external applicants and alumni which were not graduates;
R$ 1.442,91*  to each credit for alumni graduates;

More Information: cmcd.economia@fgv.br

Lecture: Brazil Lecture Outline

*M. Scott Taylor is the Canada Research Chair in International, Energy and Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary, Alberta. In 2014, he was named fellow to the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honor that can be attained by scholars, artists and scientists in Canada. Prior to his current position, Professor Taylor was a Full Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of British Columbia.

Professor Taylor is a leading scholar worldwide in the area of international trade, the environment, renewable resources, and economic growth. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, among others. He currently has over 11,000 Google citations.