BA(Hons) Economics, MA Economics, PhD Economics (Nottingham)

Head of the Department of Economics

Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

My Google Scholar profile.

Current teaching:

ECON110B Sustainable Development

ECONG46D Environmental Economics

Globalisation and the environment. More specifically, the impact of trade, economic growth and investment flows on the environment and the role played by differences in environmental regulations. Of particular interest are firm and industry level studies of economy-environment interactions, often in developing countries. 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Cole, M.A., Elliott, R.J.R., Okubo, T. and Strobl, E. (forthcoming). Natural Disasters and Spatial Heterogeneity in Damages: The Birth, Life and Death of Manufacturing Plants. Journal of Economic Geography

Cole, M.A., Elliott, R.J.R. and Zhang, L. (2017), Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 42.

Cole, M.A., Elliott, R.J.R. and Strobl, E. (2015). Climate Change, Hydro-dependency and the African Dam Boom. World Development, 60, pp. 84-98.

Albornoz, F.A., Cole, M.A., Elliott. R.J.R. and Ercolani, M. (2014), The environmental actions of firms: Examining the role of spillovers, networks and absorptive capacity, Journal of Environmental Management, 146, 150-163.

Cole, M.A., Elliott, R.J.R., Okubo, T. (2014), International Environmental Outsourcing, Review of World Economics, 150, 4, pp. 639-664.

Cole, M.A., Elliott, R.J.R., Okubo, T. and Zhou, Y. (2013). The Carbon Dioxide Emissions of Firms: A Spatial Analysis. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 65, 2, pp. 290-309.