Matthew McGinty

  • Professor, Economics

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • MA, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • BA, Michigan State University

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets Syllabus
ECON 301-001 Intermediate Microeconomics TR 11:30am-12:45pm
ECON 803-001 Advanced Microeconomic Theory II TR 2:30pm-3:45pm

Research Interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Game Theory
  • Industrial Organization

Current Projects

  • "International Environmental Agreements"
  • "Conjectures in Public Goods Games"

Selected Publications

"International Climate Agreements Under the Threat of Solar Geoengineering” (with David McEvoy, Todd L. Cherry, and Stephan Kroll), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2024), 11(4), 853-886.
“The Problem of Financing Global Public Goods” (with David McEvoy), European Economic Review, (2023), 153 (April).
“Ownership Shares and Choosing the Best Leader” (with Gabriel Courey and John S. Heywood), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2021), 191, 482-500.
“Leadership and Free riding: Decomposing and Explaining the Paradox of Cooperation in International Environmental Agreements.” Environmental and Resource Economics (2020), 77(2), 449-474.
“The Anti-paradox of Cooperation: Diversity May Pay!” (with Michael Finus), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2019), 157, 541-559.
“Negotiating a Uniform Emissions Tax in International Environmental Agreements” (with David McEvoy), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2018), 90, 217-231.
“International Environmental Agreements with Consistent Conjectures” (with Alejandro Gelves), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2016), 78, 67-84.

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