Stochastic Trend

Last week I was a panelist at an ANU webinar on assessing students during the current pandemic conditions. You can watch just my part wher...

I think that robots/artificial intelligence and the future of work is a hugely important topic. This is a very active research field but...

It's the first official day of winter today here in Australia, though it has felt wintry here in Canberra for about a week already. ...

Three and a half years ago, I wrote a post about PhD applications . Since then, I have received a huge number of enquiries from prospectiv...

Donglan Zha is visiting Crawford School for the next year. She is an associate professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astrona...

Yesterday we heard the surprising news that Brian Schmidt would be the next vice-chancellor (president) of the ANU. Here at Crawford there...

Back in 2010 I reported on the speed of the internet at home in Canberra and from my office on the ANU campus . I just moved house and b...

I am giving a seminar at Arndt-Corden on Tuesday 17th March at 2pm (Seminar Room B, Coombs Building, ANU) titled: " Directed Technical...

Arik Levinson will be presenting at the Arndt Corden Seminar at 2pm on 24th February (Seminar Room B in the Coombs Building). The Freako...

Come along to the information evening next week at University House. At 6:30pm in the Common Room, Frank Jotzo, Amanda Smullen, Paul Bu...

ANU researchers are now required to submit all published research outputs to our institutional open access repository. Details of the polic...

Ed Prescott (Nobel Laureate in Economics) will give the Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture at ANU on 13th August . The lecture will be tit...

After seeing that Alison Booth's paper from the Quarterly Journal of Economics was the most downloaded paper from ResearchGate at C...

Chunbo Ma will be visiting ANU from Monday for a couple of weeks to work with me on our ARC project . On 10th April he is giving a semin...

I am giving a presentation to the Canberra Branch of AARES. It is at 6:30pm on Wednesday 19th March on Level 3 at UniPub on University Ave/...

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) Special issue on Resources and Energy Commodity Cycles: Maximising the B...

This is just for faculty at level C (senior lecturer) and above. We have a lot of post-docs and junior faculty with ANU PhDs. If we inclu...

That's the message I get from this interview with the head of the ARC, Aidan Byrne (formerly a science dean at ANU) in the Australian. ...

An interesting new working paper tries to define whether economics departments are "saltwater" or "freshwater" based...

Paper by Lisa Cameron and Lata Gangadharan of Monash, Nisvan Erkal of U. Melbourne, and Xin Meng of ANU on the effects of the one chil...