Stochastic Trend

Following up on my post on our paper about the Industrial Revolution , I thought some more context would be useful. The traditional view o...

We have finally posted our long-promised paper on the Industrial Revolution as a CAMA Working Paper . This is the final paper from our ARC...

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. ...

A new working paper coauthored with Chunbo Ma on estimating long-run elasticities. This is one of the major parts of our ARC DP12 project ...

I just submitted the final report for this funded project which has been running since 2012 to the research office. We achieved most of th...

Two of our papers have just been accepted for publication. One is my paper with Yingying Lu on sensitivity analysis of climate policy com...

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

Astrid Kander and coauthors at Lund and the University of New South Wales have a paper in Nature Climate Change that proposes a new way ...

My paper with Zsuzsanna Csereklyei and Mar Rubio: "Energy and Economic Growth: The Stylized Facts" has been accepted for publicat...

You may have heard about the Three Minute Thesis . Now we have the Five Minute Paper. Actually, it's called Elsevier Audioslides. Auth...

I am giving three seminars in Europe in October and November. First up is 28th October at 1pm at the Grantham Research Institute on Clim...

We started working on this paper when I visited Sweden in September 2010 . It took a while till we were both happy with the paper. Then we ...

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

Some interesting blogposts from Nick Szabo on the Malthusian trap and the breakout to economic growth. Follow the link in the post back to...

It seems that everyone loves the animation of energy use per capita and GDP per capita that I am showing as part of my presentations on Ene...

The annual BP Statistical Review was just released. It shows that world energy use increased by 2.3% in 2013. According to the IMF , the w...

I contributed an article to the IAEE Energy Forum as part of their report on the New York City conference of IAEE. The topic of our paper ...

First preview of the paper that I will be presenting at the IAEE meeting in New York in a couple of weeks. Using Penn World Table 7 data ...

I've spent the last couple of days trying to replicate results in RATS that Chunbo produced using STATA . In the process we found a lo...

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...