My interests include all things at the intersection of macroeconomics and the environment, particularly climate change and the developing world.
I work with Matt Burgess, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Wyoming.
Working Papers
Curtin, Finbar, and Matthew G Burgess. 2026. “The empirically inscrutable climate-economy relationship”. SocArXiv.
Public discussion includes The Wall Street Journal, ProMarket, Foreign Policy, Marginal Revolution, and Fox Business.
Works in Progress
Carbon Pricing and Development Bottlenecks
Structural Transformation and Subsistence Agriculture: Is There a Climate Poverty Trap?
Precaution vs. Preparedness under Climate Uncertainty