Stochastic Trend

I made a submission to the Senate Inquiry on the changes to capital gains tax. Just very simple economics, nothing complicated. Seems that ...

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...

Myles Allen has a new interesting paper in Nature Climate Change :"Drivers of Peak Warming in a Consumption-Maximizing World", wh...

What I mean is, why do we need a new government network in urban areas? We just got a "set top box" for streaming Chinese TV chan...

I started writing this on Twitter but it got too long :) Peter Martin proposes taxing superannuation contributions at ordinary income tax...

A few days ago China and the US jointly announced emissions targets for 2030. China proposes that their carbon emissions will peak by not ...

The Climate Colab at MIT is running a competition for innovative climate policy proposals . Richard Hobbs is a local contender in this com...

Frank has an op ed in today's Australian Financial Review - responding to Danny Price's op-ed last Wednesday which I also commente...

There was an op-ed in yesterday's Australian Financial Review by Danny Price criticising the 59 economists including me who agreed to s...

My name is included in the list of economists supporting a statement on carbon pricing released by WWF Australia . The statement is a littl...

I am, like almost 1200 other participants, at the WCERE in Istanbul. Yesterday there was an interesting panel session on climate change ...

Our collection of classic papers, Climate Change and the World Economy , is now available via Elgar's website. For more information on ...

The blurb for our forthcoming book is below. Thanks to those who suggested papers that we included in the book! Previous posts on this pr...

Yingying Lu , my post-doc on our ARC project, and myself have a new working paper on our research on the effects of assumptions about subst...

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

A new paper in Climate Change Economics by Paltsev and Capros lays out the different metrics one can use to assess the costs of climate ch...

Jack Pezzey and Frank Jotzo have a new short piece in Nature Climate Change on carbon taxes with free emissions thresholds. Jack Pezze...

Martin Weitzman has a new NBER working paper on whether negotiating a common global carbon price will be more likely to succeed than negot...

Most of the papers for the first issue of the Crawford School's flagship journal are now online in "early view" . All of the ...

I have a new working paper coauthored with Frank Jotzo and Leo Dobes up on RePEc titled: The Economics of Global Climate Change: A Histori...