Professor Matthew Cole

Business School
Professor of Environmental Economics
Deputy Dean 麻豆精选 Business School

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 6639
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 7377
Email: m.a.cole@bham.ac.uk

Address: Birmingham Business School
Department of Economics
University House
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Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Professor Matt Cole is an environmental economist whose research examines the relationships between economic development and the natural environment, with a particular focus on issues relating to international trade, air pollution, health and biodiversity. He has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous book contributions. His work has received over 12,500 career citations on Google Scholar and has an h-index of 46. Matt is a Co-Editor of one of the leading international journals in his field, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the ESRC Peer Review College.

Qualifications

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

Biography

Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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Teaching

Current teaching:

ECON110B Sustainable Development

ECONG46D Environmental Economics

Postgraduate supervision

Research

Matthew's research interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Economics, Development Economics and International Economics. Current topics include pollution offshoring, pollution and health, the economics of biodiversity, and environmental inequality.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Carneiro, J, Cole, M & Strobl, E 2024, '', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.

Liu, B, Bryson, JR, Sevinc, D, Cole, M, Elliott, R, Bartington, S, Bloss, W & Shi, Z 2023, '', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 86, no. 1-2, pp. 203-231. ,

Song, C, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Cole, MA, Dai, Q, Elliott, RJR & Shi, Z 2023, '', Environmental Science and Technology.

Lui-Farrer, G, Green, A, Ozgen, C & Cole, M 2023, '', Asian and Pacific Migration Journal.

Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR & Strobl, E 2021, '', Land Economics, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 281-304.

Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR, Okubo, T & Zhang, L 2021, '', Energy Economics, vol. 103, 105562.

Carneiro, J, Cole, M & Strobl, E 2021, '', Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 1051-1077.

Cole, M, Ozgen, C & Strobl, E 2020, '', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 581鈥�610.

Cole, MA, Elliott, RJR & Liu, B 2020, '', Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 553-580.

Cole, M, Elliott, R, Okubo, T & Strobl, E 2019, '', Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 373鈥�408.

Cole, M, Maddison, D & Zhang, L 2019, '', Climatic Change.

Cole, M & Zhang, L 2019, '', Economics Letters, vol. 180, pp. 11-14.

Commissioned report

Bandyopadhyay, S, Karavias, Y, Menezes, L, Taylor, J, Apena Rogers, S, Kane, E, Burton, A, Evans, E, Abramovaite, J, Montgomery, P, Chandan, J, Martin, J, Banerjee, A, Cole, M & Chaudhuri, K 2024, . Youth Endowment Fund. <>

Cole, M, Elliott, R & Zhang, L 2023, 2023 edn, Asian Development Bank, Philippines.

Other report

Shi, Z, Liu, B, Cheng, K, Elliott, R, Cole, M & Bryson, J 2022, . University 麻豆精选. ,