Who is Professor Eric Strobl?

Professor Eric Strobl is currently a Professor of Climate and Environmental Economics at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He has been appointed as an Honorary Professor of Empirical Climate and Environmental Economics at the University of the West Indies, Mona and attached to the Department of Economics. His research mainly focuses on the intersection of environmental, development, and climate economics. He has published his research in very reputable economics and non-economics journals, the results of which have been featured in the media and have proven to be very useful to policymakers.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

1. F. Barry, E. Strobl and P.P. Walsh, (1998). "The Aggregate Job Creation, Destruction and Turnover Rate in Irish Manufacturing", the Economic and Social Review, 29, pp. 55-71.
2. M.J. Harrison, E. Strobl and PP. Walsh (1998). "The Impact of Social Security Reforms on Unemployment Compensation Claimants in Ireland", European Journal of Law And Economics, Vol. 6, pp. 263-284.
3. E. Strobl and C. Tucker, (2000). "The Dynamics of Competition among Artists in the UK Pre-Recorded Popular Music Industry", Journal of Cultural Economics. 24, pp. 113-134. Republished in Recent Developments in Cultural Economics (2007), Towse, R. (ed.), Edward Elgar Publishing.
4. H. Görg, F. Ruane and E. Strobl, (2000). "Determinants of Firm Start-Up Size: An Application of Quantile Regressions for Ireland", Small Business Economics, 14, pp. 211-222
5. Meyler and E. Strobl, (2000). "Regional Industrial Policy and Job Generation in Ireland", Economic and Social Review. Vol. 31.
6. H. Görg and E. Strobl (2001). "Capital Structure and Labour Demand: Further Evidence" Applied Economics Letters, 8, pp. 719-723.
7. H. Görg and E. Strobl (2002), " Multinational Companies and the Development of Firm Start-Up Size: Evidence from Quantile Regressions for Ireland", Review of Industrial Organisation, 20, pp.15-31
8. S. Barrios and E. Strobl (2002), "FDI Spillovers in Spain", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 138, pp. 459-481.
9. M. Cassidy, E. Strobl, and B. Thornton (2002), "Gender Pay Differentials and Equality Legislation in the Republic of Ireland", Canadian Public Policy, 28, pp. 149-169.
10. H. Görg and E. Strobl (2003). "Footlose Multinationals?", Manchester School, 71, pp. 1-19.
11. H. Görg and E. Strobl (2003), "The Incidence of Underemployment: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago", Journal of Development Studies, 39, pp. 81-100.
12. S. Bourgheas, H. Görg, and E. Strobl (2003), "Are R&D Firms Financially Constrained? Evidence from Irish Manufacturing", Review of Industrial Organisation, 22, pp. 159-174.
13. M. Marcelle and E. Strobl (2003). "Do Smaller Firms Pay Less in the Caribbean? The Case of Trinidad and Tobago", Journal of Development Studies, 39, pp. 181-198.
14. F. Barry, H. Gorg, and E. Strobl (2003). "Foreign Direct Investment, Agglomerations and Demonstration Effects: An Empirical Investigation", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 139, pp. 583-600.
15. S. Barrios, H. Görg, and E. Strobl (2003). "Multinational Enterprises and New Trade Theory: Evidence for the Convergence Hypothesis", Open Economies Review, 14, pp. 397-418.
16. F. Barry, H. Görg, and E. Strobl (2004). "Training and FDI in Ireland", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 51, pp. 49-61.
17. E. Strobl (2004). "Does Education act as Signal to Employers in Developing Countries?", Applied Economics Letters, 11, pp. 259-261.
18. M. Cassidy and E. Strobl (2004). "The Role of Grant Provision in Sectoral Employment Growth in Irish Manufacturing", Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, pp. 95-107.
19. E. Strobl and B. Thornton (2004). "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa", Journal of Economic Development, 29, pp. 137-161.
20. S. Barrios, S. Demilis, H. Lourie, and E. Strobl (2004), "Foreign Direct Investment and Efficiency Spillovers in the EU Periphery: A Comparative Study of Greece, Ireland and Spain", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv., 140.
21. F. Barry, H. Goerg, and E. Strobl (2005)," Foreign Direct Investment and Wages in Domestic Firms in Ireland: Productivity Spillovers versus Labour-Market Crowding Out", International Journal of the Economics of Business, 12, pp. 67-84.
22. S. Barrios, L. Bertinelli and E. Strobl (2005), "Multinationals and Local Indigenous Development", at Annals of Regional Science, 39, pp. 149-166.
23. H. Goerg and E. Strobl, (2005) "Employment Dynamics in Foreign and Domestic Plants: Evidence from Irish Manufacturing", International Review of Applied Economics, 19, pp. 163-178.
24. S. Barrios and E. Strobl (2005). "Learning by Doing in Spanish Manufacturing", Review of Industrial Organisation., 19, pp. 163-178.
25. S. Barrios, H. Goerg, and E. Strobl (2005). "The Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution and Nationality of Ownership", Economics Bulletin, 12, pp. 1-11.
26. M. Cassidy, H. Görg, and E. Strobl (2005). "Knowledge accumulation and productivity: Evidence from plant level data for Ireland", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 52, pp. 344-358.
27. H. Goerg and E. Strobl, (2005). "Subsidising Training: Does it Work?", Southern Economic Journal, 72, pp. 860-876.
28. E. Strobl, S. Barrios, and H. Goerg, (2006). "Multinational Location Choice, Agglomeration Economies, and Public Incentives", International Regional Science Review, 29, pp. 81-107.
29. S. Dobson, C. Ramalogan, and E. Strobl, (2006). "Why do Rates of Convergence Differ? A Meta Regression Analysis", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 53, pp. 153-173.
30. L. Bertinelli, O. Cardi, T. Pamukçu, and E. Strobl (2006). "The Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution: Evidence from Luxmbourg", Small Business Economics, 27, pp. 301-311.
31. L. Bertinelli and E. Strobl (2007). "Urbanization, Urban Concentration and Economic Growth in Developing Countries", Urban Studies, 44, pp. 2499-2510.
32. H. Görg, E. Strobl, and F. Walsh (2007). "Why do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of OnThe-Job-Training", Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 143, pp. 464-482.
33. M. Cole, R. Elliott, and E. Strobl (2007). "Multinationals and Environmental Spillovers: The Role of Ownership, Training and Experience in Ghana", Ecological Economics, 65, pp. 538-546.
34. O. Ouattara and E. Strobl (2008). "Aid, Policy, and Growth: Does Aid Modality Matter",
35. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 144, pp. 347-365.
36. S. Sookram and E. Strobl (2008). "The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago", Economics of Education Review., 28, pp. 1-10.
37. E. Blanc, P. Querion, and E. Strobl (2008). "The Climatic Determinants of West African Cotton Yields", Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, 148, pp. 1093-1100.
38. S. Barrios, O. Outtara, E. Strobl (2008). "The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Production in Sub-Saharan Africa", Food Policy, 33, pp. 287-298.
39. E. Strobl and A. Murphy (2008). "Employer-Employee Ignorance in Trinidad and Tobago", Review of Development Economics, 12, pp. 339-353.
40. L. Bertinelli and E. Strobl (2008). "Sustainable Economic Development Across the World and Over Time: A Stochastic Dominance Test with Focus on the Caribbean", Journal of Business, Finance and Economics in Emerging Economies, 3, pp. 191-213.
41. O. Outtara and E. Strobl (2008). "Foreign Aid Inflows and the Real Exchange Rate in the CFA Zone", Economie Internationale, 116, pp. 35-58
42. S. Barrios, L. Bertinelli, E. Strobl, and A. Texeira (2009). "Spatial Distribution of Manufacturing Activity and its Determinants: in Three Small European Countries", Regional Studies, 43, pp. 721-738.
43. L. Bertinelli, O. Cardi, T. Pamukçu, E. Strobl, and B. Thornton (2009). "The Dynamics of Churning: Evidence from Luxmbourg", International Journal of Manpower, 30, pp. 253-268.
44. E. Strobl and F. Walsh (2009). "The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry", Economics Bulletin, 29, pp. 3059-3066.
45. E. Strobl and Frank Walsh (2009). "Recent Trends in Trade Union Membership", Economic and Social Review, 40, pp. 117-138.
46. L. Bertinelli, E. Strobl, and B. Zou (2010). "Polluting Technologies and Sustainable Economic Development", International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 10, pp. 63-83.
47. R. Breathnach, S. Fanning, G. Mulcahy, F. Bassett, E. Strobl, and B. Jones. (2010). "Cutaneous infiltrates and peripheral blood immune responses in dogs with immunomodulatory-responsive lymphocytic– plasmacytic pododermatitis", Veterinary Dermatology, August, pp. 383-292.
48. S. Girma, H. Görg, A. Hanley, and E. Strobl (2010). "The effect of grant receipt on start-up size: Evidence from plant level data", Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 8, pp. 371-391.
49. R. Breathnach, P.J. Quinn, K.P. Baker, T. McGeady, B.R. Jones, E. Strobl. (2011). "Association between skin surface pH, temperature and Staphylococcus intermedius in dogs with chronic idiopathic pododermatitis", Veterinary Dermatology, March, pp. 312-318.
50. Mohammed and E. Strobl (2011). "Good Governance and Growth in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Telecommunications", Journal of Industry Competition and Trade, 11, pp. 91-107.
51. H. Goerg, A. Henley, and E. Strobl (2011). "Encouraging Foreign Multinationals to Source Locally: Does it Work?", Review of International Economics., 19, pp. 254-259.
52. S. Dobson, C. Ramalogan, and E. Strobl (2011). "Convergence or Divergence in Cross-Country Growth?", International Review of Applied Economics., 25, pp. 1465-1486.
53. Schuhmacher and E. Strobl (2011). "Economic development and losses due to natural disasters: the role of risk", Ecological Economics, 73, pp. 122-132.
54. L. Bertinelli, E.Strobl and B. Zou, (2012). "Economic Growth and Sustainable Economic Development: Theory and Evidence", Energy Economics, 34, pp. 1105-1114.
55. Strobl, E. (2012)"The Impact of Hurricane Strikes on the Agricultural Sector: A Study of the Carribbean" Natural Hazards Review, 13, 132–138.
56. Ouattara, O. and Strobl, E. (2013). "The Fiscal Implications of Hurricane Strikes in the Caribbean", Ecological Economics, 85, pp. 105-115.
57. Mohan, P. and Strobl, E. (2013). "The Economic Impact of Hurricanes in History: Evidence from Sugar Exports in the Caribbean from 1700-1960", Weather, Climate and Society, 5, pp. 5-13.
58. Lepine, A. and Strobl, E. (2013). "The effect of women's empowerment on child nutrition in rural Senegal", World Development, 45, pp. 17-30.
59. Amegashi, J., Ouattara, B., and Strobl, E. (2013). "Moral hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Cross-Border Transfers", Economics of Governance, 14, pp. 279-301.
60. Blanc, E. and Strobl, E. (2013). "The Impact of Climate Change on Cropland Productivity: Evidence from Satellite Based Products at the River Basin Scale in Africa", Climatic Change, 117, pp. 873-890.
61. C. Granvorka and E. Strobl. (2013). "The impact of Hurricane strikes on the Tourism within the Caribbean", Tourism Economics, 19, pp. 1401-1409.
62. Blanc, E. and E. Strobl. (2014)"Water Availability and Crop Growth at the Crop Plot Level in South Africa Modelled from Satellite Imagery", The Journal of Agricultural Science, 153, pp. 306-321.
63. Cole, M., Elliott, R., and Strobl, E. (2014). "Climate Change, Hydro-Dependency, and the African .
64. Goerg, H. and Strobl, E. (2015). ""Does corporate taxation deter multinationals? Evidence from a historic event in Ireland", World Economy, 38, pp. 788-804.
65. Blanc, E., Lepine, A., and Strobl, E.(2016). "The determinants of family farms efficiency in the Senegal River Valley", ExperimeDam Boom", World Development, 60, pp. 84-98ntal Agriculture, 52, pp. 110-136.
66. (with L. Bertinelli, P. Mohan). "Hurricane Damage Risk Assessment in the Caribbean: An Analysis using Synthetic Hurricane Events and Nightlight Imagery", Ecological Economics, 124, pp. 135-144.
67. Spencer, N., Polacheck, S., and Strobl, E. (2016). "How do Hurricanes Impact Scholastic Achievement? A Caribbean Perspective", Natural Hazards, 84, pp. 1437-1462.
68. Mohan, P. and Strobl, E. (2017). "A Hurricane Risk and Loss Assessment of Caribbean Agriculture", Environment and Development Economics, 22, pp. 84-106.
69. Cole, M., Elliot, R., Okubo, T., and Strobl, E. (2017). "Pre-disaster planning and post-disaster aid:
70. Examining the impact of the great East Japan Earthquake", International Journal of Risk Reduction, 21, pp. 291-302.
71. Sealy, K., and Strobl, E (2017). "A Hurricane Loss Risk Assessment of Coastal Properties in the Caribbean: Evidence from the Bahamas", Ocean and Coastal Management, 149, pp. 42-51.
72. Kablan, S., and Strobl, E. (2018). "How do natural disasters impact the exchange rate: an investigation through small island developing states (SIDS)?", Economics Bulletin, forthcoming.
73. Martelli, S., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Paruolo, P., Brechet, T., Strobl, E., Guizzardi, D., Cerutti, A., Iancu, A. (2018). "Do Voters Support Local Commitments for Climate Change Mitigation in Italy?", Ecological Economics, 144, pp. 27-35.
74. Mohan, P., Ouattara, B., and Strobl, E., (2018). "Decomposing the Macroeconomic Effects of Natural Disasters: A National Income Accounting Perspective", Ecological Economics, 146, pp. 1-9.
75. Mohan, P., Strobl, E., and Watson, P. (2018). "In-firm Training, Innovation and Productivity: The Case of Caribbean Small Island Developing States", Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, forthcoming.