Biography
Mitchell Scott is a PhD student in the Department of Economics. His research interests lie at the intersection of innovation, directed technical change, and energy and environmental economics. He holds a Bachelor of Finance, Economics and Statistics with Honours and a Bachelor of Statistics with Honours, both from the Australian National University. His current work examines how climate information shapes firms? innovation decisions, the direction of technological change, and the transition towards cleaner technologies, as well as the implications for emissions and climate policy.
Current areas of research include:
- Climate beliefs and information: Bayesian updating from temperature shocks; Persistence and heterogeneity in climate beliefs; Natural disasters as information and preference shocks; Climate signals and expectations of future policy.
- Environmental innovation and firm dynamics: Green and brown patenting; Innovation by entrants and incumbents; Multi-technology patent portfolios; Firm responses to competition, trade policy and environmental regulation.
- Directed technical change and climate policy: Models of clean technology transitions; Substitutability between clean and dirty technologies; Carbon taxes and R&D subsidies under learning; Emissions and welfare consequences of delayed transition.
