Stochastic Trend

I am one of the two recipients (one is Belgian and one international) of a Francqui Chair at Hasselt University. This sounds like an academ...

Now and then it's time to give up on a project. In September 2018, I attended a climate econometrics conference at Frascati near Rome....

Alejandro Puerto is a 20 year old who lives in Cuba. He has written: "Western Cycles: United Kingdom" a book that covers t...

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. ...

I'm honored that Stochastic Trend has made it into a list of the top 100 economics blogs , albeit at position 99. It's a good lis...

This will slow things down for a while :) Noah was born two days ago. He is a very large baby - 4.71kg and 55cm long. If he was a t-stati...

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...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the working paper: " Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agree...

Since it was introduced in late 2004, Google Scholar has rapidly grown to become a widely used tool for finding and assessing the impact of ...

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

And there is a special issue to celebrate. You can find the introductory article from the editors here . One of my tasks as a post-doc at ...

Back in 1990-91 when I started my PhD I was introduced to esoteric ideas like Energy Return on Investment and Peak Oil in classes given b...

I haven't been blogging much lately - things have been very busy (started teaching, trips etc.) so I haven't had time to blog on pa...

This is how I feel today: The positives are that: I'm not a PhD student, we won't waste time on doing the research, and it must ...

The reason many academics start their own websites is the usually very slow pace at which profiles on official university websites are upda...

I haven't blogged much recently as things have been very busy, teaching, admin, service (reviewing things), and lots of research proje...

I know I have seen this image and data before (in a book we got for free at a geography conference) but I ">just saw it again and n...

Bob Costanza is visiting the Crawford School at ANU and giving a public lecture: ‘Ecosystem services come of age: Linking science, policy, ...

The main paper from my Environmental Economics Research Hub project has just been accepted for publication in Energy Economics . It is titl...

My homepage from the relatively early days of the World Wide Web . A lot of the links do work. My first web page would have been in 1995 but...