Sheffield Urban, International Trade and Environmental Economics (SUITE)
The group brings together all researchers working in topics related to urban and regional economics, international economics and trade, and environmental economics. Part of the activities of the group include the development of new research ideas, common projects, knowledge exchange initiatives and grants applications, the discussion of novel theoretical and empirical contributions in these fields, and the organisations of seminars and conferences.
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Academic staff
PhD students
Representative publications
Lim, F., Carrasco, R., Edwards, D. and Jolian McHardy (2023) Market responses to oil palm intensification could exacerbate deforestation in Indonesia, Conservation Biology.
Owen G, Chen Y, Birabi T, Gwilym Pryce, Song H & Wang B (2023) Residential segregation of migrants: Disentangling the intersectional and multiscale segregation of migrants in Shijiazhuang, China. Urban Studies.
Jolian McHardy, Reynolds M & Trotter S (2023) A consumer surplus, welfare and profit enhancing strategy for improving urban public transport networks. Regional Science and Urban Economics
Foureaux-Koppensteiner, M., Jesse Matheson and R. Plugor (2023) The impact of improving access to support services for victims of domestic violence on demand for services and victim outcomes, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Pinchbeck E, Roth S, Szumilo N & Enrico Vanino (2023) The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Risk Maps and the Housing Market. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Casadei P., Lee N. and Enrico Vanino (2023) Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialisation in the UK. Regional Studies.
Andrew Burlinson, Davillas A & Law C (2022). Pay (for it) as you go: Prepaid energy meters and the heat-or-eat dilemma. Social Science & Medicine, 315, 115498.
Bryan M, Bryce A, Rice N, Roberts J & Cristina Sechel (2022) Exploring mental health disability gaps in the labour market: the UK experience during COVID-19. Labour Economics.
Davillas A, Andrew Burlinson & Liu H. H. (2022). Getting warmer: fuel poverty, objective and subjective health and well-being. Energy Economics, 106, 105794.
Cuadros A, Antonio Navas & Paniagua J (2022) Moving ideas across borders: Foreign inventors, patents and FDI. World Economy.
Varvarigos D & Eleni Stathopoulou (2022) On the relation between corruption and market competition. Economic Inquiry.
Adetutu M, Odusanya K, Eleni Stathopoulou & Weyman-Jones T (2022) Environmental regulation, taxes, and activism. Oxford Economic Papers.
Corradini C. and Enrico Vanino (2022) Path dependency, regional variety and the dynamics of new firm creation in rooted and pioneering industries. Journal of Economic Geography.
Espinola-Arredondo A, Eleni Stathopoulou & Munoz-Garcia F (2022) Regulators and environmental groups: better together or apart? Environment and Development Economics.
Guven G., Inci E. and Antonio Russo (2022) Competition, Concentration and Percentage Rents in Retail Leasing. Real Estate Economics.
Williams R, Bell A, Garratt E & Gwilym Pryce (2022) Understanding the effect of universal credit on housing insecurity in England: a difference-in-differences approach. Housing Studies.
Zhang, M., Gwilym Pryce et al. (2022) Effects of social housing regeneration schemes on employment: The case of the Glasgow Stock Transfer. Urban Studies.
Adetutu MO & Eleni Stathopoulou (2021) Information asymmetry in voluntary environmental agreements: theory and evidence from UK climate change agreements. Oxford Economic Papers.
Andrew Burlinson, Giulietti M, Law C & Liu H. H. (2021). Fuel poverty and financial distress. Energy Economics, 102, 105464.
Adler M., F. Liberini, Antonio Russo and J. van Ommeren (2021) The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit. Evidence from Rome. Journal of Economic Geography.
Antonio Navas and Nocco A. (2021) Trade Liberalisation, Selection and technology adoption with vertical linkages. Review of International Economics.
De Fraja G., Jesse Matheson and J. Rockey (2021) Zoomshock: The geography and local labour market consequences of working from home. Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers.
Beltrami F., Andrew Burlinson, Giulietti M, Grossi L, Rowley P & Wilson G. (2020). Where did the time (series) go? Estimation of marginal emission factors with autoregressive components. Energy Economics, 91, 104905.
Antonio Navas, Serti F. and Tomasi C. (2020) The role of gravity forces on firm’s trade. Canadian Journal of Economics.
Foureaux Koppensteiner M. and Jesse Matheson (2020) Secondary Schools and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from the School Expansion in Brazilian Municipalities. The World Bank Economic Review.
Funded research projects
Uncovering Hidden Innovators: using big data to develop comprehensive measures of firm innovation and regional tech specialisation (British Academy Innovation Fellowships 2023 – Enrico Vanino)
Towards Net Zero and Sustainable Cities with Resource Optimisation, Circular Economy and Research Network (WUN Research Development Fund 2022 - Eleni Stathopoulou)
Centre for Care (ESRC 2022 - Gwilym Pryce)
Recensus of Malua Liana Cutting Experiment (NERC 2022 - Jolian McHardy).
Renewable energy transition and the local economic development of lagging-behind regions (Regional Studies Association 2022 – Enrico Vanino).
Gas price volatility: distributional impacts and mitigations (UKERC Flexible Research Fund 2022 – Andrew Burlinson).
Smart Value Generation by Building Efficiency and Energy Justice for Sustainable Living (EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network 2021 – Eleni Stathopoulou).
Social, economic, and cultural impacts of land-use strategies (White Rose Collaboration Fund 2020 - Jolian McHardy).
COVID-19 urban density mapping project (Regional Studies Association 2020 – Enrico Vanino, Jesse Matheson).
Life at the Frontier Director (ESRC/Nordforsk 2020 - Gwilym Pryce).
Knowledge Exchange Initiatives
Explore the impact of unpaid care on social mobility and employment trajectories, with Carers UK (Gwilym Pryce).
COVID-19 Places Economic Recovery Index (CoPERI), with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (Enrico Vanino, Jesse Matheson).
Pilot correspondence study of housing discrimination against ethnic minorities, with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (Gwilym Pryce).
Project 360 Domestic Violence Intervention, with Ministry of Justice (Jesse Matheson).
Road Congestion and Economic Policy, with the University of Barcelona Institute of Economics (Antonio Russo).
The environmental and welfare implications of parking policies, with the OECD (Antonio Russo).
Towards the implementation of a regional skills policy framework, with South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority and the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce (Enrico Vanino).
Statutory consultation on domestic consumer standards, Ofgem (Andrew Burlinson).
Energy, Environment and Transport Forum, Westminster (Andrew Burlinson).
Media
Barnsley’s betrayal exposes ‘levelling up’ political partisanship - The Yorkshire Post
Beyond “Zoomshock”: The death and life of the British high street - The New Statesman
Breathing rooms: pollution and the property market - Financial Times
Brexit: UK's smallest firms divert £10bn in exports away from EU - The Guardian
Drop in EU nationals after Brexit could cause loss of nearly 120,000 jobs in London, study shows - Independent
Household location in English cities - Vox-EU
Identifying Industrial Renewal Paths of Places for Levelling Up - Productivity Institute
Immigration: there is a gaping hole in the debate over how it affects everyone’s job prospects - Conversation
Research grants boost jobs and growth - BBC News
The Impact Of Remote Working On Towns Across England - Forbes
Why the Energy Security Strategy won’t control soaring household bills - The New Statesman
Zoomshock: how is working from home affecting cities and suburbs? - Economics Observatory