Faculty - 2009 Summer School

Prof. Matthew TURNER

Department of Economics University of Toronto 150 St. George St. M5S 3G7 Toronto, Ontario Canada Ph.: +1 416 9785110 E-mail: mturner@chass.utoronto.ca Url: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~mturner/

Matthew Turner is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto. He is broadly interested in understanding the interaction between economic forces and the environment and is particularly interested in urban economics and the economics of land use. He holds a bachelors degree from the University of California, a Ph. D. in economics from Brown University, and has held post doctoral fellowships at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Hoover Institution. His research has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economic Studies, among others. His recent research on urban sprawl and land use has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Canada's Globe and Mail and Discover Magazine, among others.

This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.
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