Stochastic Trend

Tabulating journals' h-indices is a simple but effective way it seems of ranking them. At least this list makes a lot of sense to me. T...

Peter Martin links to the most recent HSC and VCE exams in economics . HSC is the high school diploma level exam in New South Wales. Looking...

Slides for a presentation I will be giving on Tuesday on putting Australia's level of energy efficiency into context. Here's a quic...

The only people who like them are some mainstream environmental economists who use stated preference methods, I think. I have a semi-coheren...

It's either Melbourne or ANU . You'd have to think that good potential grad students are now using the RePEc ranking as a major inpu...

Check out the top Australian departments in RePEc's global ranking . All but QUT have lower ranks based on their citation scores alone t...

The Economic Society of Australia put out its own list of ranked journals last year . Both this list and the ERA list have 37 journals rank...

I remembered Mick Common mentioning this book and I saw that it was referred to by http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2009/08/allen-britis...

Roger Pielke has a working paper about the potential or rather the lack of potential for decarbonization of the Australian economy. He says...

I think that John Tisdell (now at U. Tasmania) and myself are the only two people who attended both the ANZSEE meeting in Darwin and the AAR...

The ARC (Australian Research Council) has finally released the ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) ranked journal list that will be ...

Greetings from Adelaide! My first time in South Australia. I just put up a draft paper for our presentations at the AARES meeting here in A...

Detailed information is now available for the ERA (Excellence in Research for Australia) 2010 exercise to be carried out by the ARC (Austral...

My paper on energy quality was accepted by Ecological Economics . Since returning to academia in November 2008 I've been trying to get ...

I just realised that the elasticity reported in my slides for the Hub workshop for the effect of the purchasing power parity variable on en...

Here are the slides for my presentation at the Environmental Economics Research Hub 2010 workshop in Adelaide on Tuesday. They have a lot o...

I've put up some slides that I'm planning on using at a forum with some people from the Chinese government here at ANU this week th...

I just got a "revise and resubmit" for my paper on energy quality . I think the comments should be easy to deal with by putting in...

Gapminder have produced one of those cool animated bubble graphs from my sulfur data , you can play with it here . They also have an intera...

Because of spam comments from this this guy and others I'm turning on comment moderation for older posts...

According to this new study Swedish social scientists are more likely to vote for the right wing parties than left wing parties. This is of...

The Obama administration is acting to do something about the too big too fail phenomenon, which I flagged as a possible policy direction . ...

There's been discussion lately about how "liberal" professors are (at least in North America). For example, this blogpost and...

I've been doing more work on my upcoming ARC proposal including meeting with ANU's pro-VC for research (who used to work at the ARC ...

A while ago, I mentioned that I signed up for an EU database of experts . I've now been contacted twice through being a member of this d...