Stochastic Trend

Here is my presentation for the ANU Economics Showcase - a two day event that presents the range of ANU research to potential students, memb...

Here are the slides for my presentation at ANZSEE in Darwin on Wednesday. I only have 20 minutes to talk including questions so I'm goi...

There is a stronger relationship between energy intensity of GDP and GDP per capita when you plot both of them using ordinary exchange rates...

Steven Levitt hits back at his critics in this new post in the NY Times . The post is a bit revisionist I think as to what exactly is in th...

I was visiting the World Values Survey website in the process of collecting more data for my EERH project .Thought I'd post this fascin...

The ARC has carried out an evaluation of the citation impact of the publications derived from ARC funded research. The main finding (full r...

At least anecdotally I think it is true that economics has a pedigree bias . Good departments tend to hire people from a limited subset of t...

My response to C S Norman questions' about yesterday's post was getting so long I decided to turn it into a blog post. The climate ...

I'm not surprised by the trend for recent research to come up with higher values of the climate sensitivity - the change in temperatur...

Around the blogosphere there seems to be quite a bit of freaking out about the about to be released book Superfreakonomics going on. Specif...

According to the paper I coauthored with Bob Costanza (and Chunbo Ma , Brendan Fisher , and Lining He). One of her papers published in the...

In the past not many foreign institutions advertised on the American Economic Association's jobs website JOE . But this seems to have ch...

Speaker: Richard Howarth, Pat and John Rosenwald Professor, Dartmouth College, Editor-in-Chief, Ecological Economics Topic: Uncertainty, E...

Paul Romer makes some interesting comments on Elinor Ostrom's Nobel Prize win . He points out that many or most economic theories depen...

After much speculation : "The 2009 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel goes to Elinor Ostrom ...

I have to write this for the grant applications I'm planning on filing early next year. Usually, in job applications you have to write ...

There has been a lot of discussion in the media and blogosphere of a supposed cooling of the global climate since 1998 that is being pounce...

Here is a prediction market for who will win the Nobel Prize in Economics. My original pick , Robert Barro, is marginally leading, and all ...

A New York Times article about an IEA report on future carbon emissions. They are lowering projections due to slower growth worldwide and C...

Back in August I discussed who might win the Nobel Prize in Economics to be awarded on Monday. My pick then was Robert Barro as the most ci...

As I previously blogged , the Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports are now included in RePEc. Each month RePEc calculate ho...

There doesn't seem to be much of relation between energy intensity and GDP per capita. But this chart shows that there is a relationshi...

I'm giving a seminar at the Fenner School on November 12th. It will be an expanded version of the presentation I'm giving at ANZSEE...

Cool graphics (via Climate Progress ) showing the relation between various emissions scenarios and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse ...

Yesterday I showed you a chart of energy intensity vs. GDP per capita. There didn't seem to be much relationship in that data. Today we...