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Patrick Bayer

Professor of Political Economy

University of Glasgow

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I am Professor of Political Economy and Lead of the “International Political Economy and Development” Subject Group in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. I am affiliated with the Global Sustainable Development theme at Glasgow's Advanced Research Centre (ARC) and the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. I serve as a Steering Group Member of the Environmental Politics and Governance (EPG) network and was Conference Chair for EPG's 9th Annual Conference in Glasgow in 2023. I was recently appointed as Associate Deputy Editor for the journal Climatic Change.

My research focuses on international cooperation and the political economy of environmental regulation and energy policy. I am particularly interested in how the domestic and international political economy and political incentives shape governments’, firms’, and individuals’ responses to climate change and the global energy transformation.

Currently, I study the politics of carbon markets, firms’ commitments to corporate decarbonisation, and the distributional effects of climate policy. I also lead an ESRC-funded project on the role of science in international climate cooperation. I received the Emerging Young Scholar Award of APSA's Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP) section in 2021 and successfully obtained funding from the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust, and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Among other outlets, my work was published in the Journal of Politics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Energy Economics, PNAS, Science Advances and with MIT Press. My teaching regularly involves classes on international organizations and global energy/climate policy and politics.

My contact details can be found in my CV here.

Latest Publications

Government Participation in Virtual Negotiations: Evidence from IPCC Approval Sessions

The Covid-19 pandemic challenged global governance in unprecedented ways by requiring intergovernmental meetings to be held online. For …
Patrick Bayer, Lorenzo Crippa, Hannah Hughes, Erlend Hermansen

Distributional Consequences Shape Public Support for the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: Evidence from four European countries

A carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) is a policy that increases the cost of carbon-intensive imports from countries with no or …
Patrick Bayer, Lena Schaffer

Foreignness as an Asset: European Carbon Regulation and the Relocation Threat among Multinational Firms

A central claim in the environmental regulation literature is that, in a globalized world economy, governments are willing to offer …
Patrick Bayer
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Work in progress

  • Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics and Backlash against International Cooperation (with Federica Genovese, revise and resubmit).

  • Energy Transition, Financial Markets and New EU Interventionism (with Lorenzo Crippa and Federica Genovese, under review).

  • Mapping Engagement Levels of Governments in IPCC Approval Meetings by Topic from Text (with Lorenzo Crippa, Hannah Hughes, and Erlend Hermansen, under review).

  • Carbon Disclosure and Government Support in Export Credit Finance (with Jonas Bunte, under review).

  • Government Influence in Information Production of International Organizations (with Lorenzo Crippa).

  • The Politics of Personal Ties in International Climate Science Production (with Lorenzo Crippa).

  • Climate Risks and Migration Intentions (with Aykut Ozturk and Sergi Pardos-Prado).

  • Compliance with International Environmental Regulation: Installation-level Evidence from European Carbon Markets.