Globalisation and the Environment
Abstract
For many countries, the race to net zero interacts in complicated ways with trade policy. There has long been research on how globalisation and international economic policy affect the environment: How do tariffs affect greenhouse gas emissions? Does globalisation cause a “race to the bottom” in environmental policy? Increasingly however researchers are also asking how environmental policy affects globalisation. When does environmental policy constitute protectionism? How do carbon border adjustments and climate clubs affect the economy? Joe Shapiro will introduce us to the state of research on globalisation and the environment.
This lecture was initially presented as part of the IEA Lecture Series on Environmental Economics.
About the Speaker
Joseph Shapiro is an Associate Professor in the Agricultural & Resource Economics Department and the Economics Department at UC Berkeley. He is a Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas, serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research agenda focuses on three general questions: (1) How do international trade policy and environmental policy interact? (2) What are the costs, benefits, and incidence of water pollution and other environmental policy? (3) How important are the investments that people make to protect themselves against air pollution and climate change?
Shapiro has received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship and Marshall Scholarship, and funding from the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Yale. Shapiro holds a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, a Master’s degree from Oxford and LSE, and a BA from Stanford.
About the Moderator
Kathryn Baragwanath is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics at University of Melbourne. She is also an affiliate with the SoDa Labs at Monash University and the SPIRES Lab at the Yale School of the Environment. She was previously a Harvard Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies (AY 23/24). Kathryn received her PhD in political science from the University of California, San Diego in 2021. Her research lies at the intersection of political economy, environmental economics and development economics. Read More
