Saturday, November 23, 2024

Chinese Carbon Emissions in 2023 vs. 2024

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A couple of days ago I posted an update to my 2023 article on the trend in carbon emissions in China after the pandemic. That blogpost comp...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

China’s Carbon Emissions Trend after the Pandemic: An Update

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Last year, I published an article in The Conversation followed by a paper in Environmental Challenges with Khalid Ahmed on the trend in c...
Thursday, December 28, 2023

Annual Review 2023

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I've been doing these annual reviews since 2011. They're mainly an exercise for me to see what I accomplished and what I didn't...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

My Climate Change Policy Assumptions and Expectations

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Matthew Kahn posted a list of his working assumptions on climate change. I think it is really enlightening to see these laid out rather th...
Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Are the Benefits of Electrification Realized Only in the Long Run? Evidence from Rural India

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  I have a new working paper coauthored with my master's student Suryadeepto Nag on the impact of rural electrification in India. Surya...
Monday, July 10, 2023

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China is pumping out carbon emissions as if COVID never happened. That’s bad news for the climate crisis David Stern , Crawford School o...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Video from Arndt-Corden Seminar

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Today, I gave a seminar in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics Seminar Series, titled: " Electricity Markets with Speculative Stor...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Changes in Authorship, Networks, and Research Topics in Ecosystem Services

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I have a new paper , coauthored with Ida Kubiszewski, Bob Costanza, and Luke Concollato, which investigates the development of the field of ...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Annual Review 2022

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I've been doing these annual reviews since 2011. They're mainly an exercise for me to see what I accomplished and what I didn'...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

What Changed in the World Bank's Adjusted Net Saving Measure?

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In August, I showed that using the World Development Indicators ' current Adjusted Net Saving (ANS) data there is no relationship betwe...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Do Mining Economies Save Too Little?

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I'm currently teaching Agricultural and Resource Economics for the first time. This week we started covering non-renewable resources foc...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Trends in RePEc Downloads and Abstract Views

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For the first time in a decade , I updated my spreadsheet on downloads and abstract views per person and per item on RePEc. The downward tre...
Thursday, June 2, 2022

Confidence Intervals for Recursive Journal Impact Factors

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I have a new working paper coauthored with Johannes König and Richard Tol . It's a follow up to my 2013 paper in the Journal of Econom...
Monday, March 28, 2022

Video of My Presentation on Asymmetric Carbon Emissions

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I recently gave a seminar in Italy (virtually) on our paper on asymmetric carbon emissions over the business cycle. Here is the video:
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Typo in Directed Technical Change and the British Industrial Revolution

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I hate reading my papers after they're published as there is usually some mistake somewhere. Unfortunately, I have to read them to do mo...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

Annual Review 2021

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I've been doing these annual reviews since 2011. They're mainly an exercise for me to see what I accomplished and what I didn'...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Estimating the Effect of Physical Infrastructure on Economic Growth

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I have a new working paper coauthored with Govinda Timilsina of the World Bank and my PhD student Debasish Das . It is a panel data study ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: 2021 Edition

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The second encyclopedia chapter. First one is here . Introduction  The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship be...