Biography

Mitchell Scott is a PhD student in the Department of Economics, LSE. He holds a Bachelor of Finance, Economics and Statistics with Honours and a Bachelor of Statistics with Honours, both from the Australian National University. Mitchell's research interests lie at the intersection of growth, innovation, and environmental economics. His work focuses on the role of household preferences in the firm's decisions to innovate green, and what shapes these preferences. He is working on a project investigating the response of attitudes towards the environment after individuals experience natural disasters. He has previously modelled the interactions between investors and entrepreneurs, seeking to understand how new projects receive funding, and has developed panel data methodology.

Current areas of research include:

• Environmental preferences: Updating beliefs towards climate change; Natural disasters as a preference shock; Models of persistent beliefs
• Green innovation: Role of competition in innovation; Path dependency; Trade policy and green innovation; Preference shocks and innovation