Stochastic Trend

Just a reminder that next Tuesday 9th November at 2:00pm I will be giving a seminar at the Arndt Corden Division of Economics on the role of...

Yesterday, CCEP: Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at ANU was launched. The Centre has around 30 associates . The majority are from o...

The EEN Symposium will take place between 22nd and 24th November at the Crawford School at ANU. The symposium will showcase the results of ...

The Australian Research Council announced it's decisions on applications for Discovery and Linkage grants today. Congratulations to Fra...

I blogged about the development of hybrid cars by BMW and Mercedes when I was visiting Munich. My point was that fuel economy standards wer...

It took more than 25 years since the discovery of cointegration for someone to come up with general tests of cointegration in nonlinear reg...

If you are looking for a nice survey paper on estimating static consumer demand systems (I was) Apostolos Serletis and William Barnett put o...

(if you are an academic) The vast majority of hits on my website that originate with Google are from people entering keywords closely relat...

This post gets even more technical than the last. I'm just blogging about what I'm reading in the course of my research. I read a wh...

There are many formulae for the index numbers used to compute price and quantity indices, such as a consumer price index or a volume index ...

The launch of the new Centre for Climate Economics and Policy at ANU will be on 27th October following the Asian Climate Change Policy Foru...

Very good advice (almost all of which I follow myself) from Nature on writing and publishing. My only caveat is that there is a real trade-...

Oded Galor has made many contributions to growth theory and population economics and the connections between them. A http://ideas.repec.org...

Reading through the report they seem to come to ">similar conclusions to me on Australia's track record on energy efficiency. ...

The report of this group commissioned during Kevin Rudd's period as prime minister was released about a week ago. I gave a presentation...

For those of you interested in meta-analysis , the Atlantic has an interesting article on John Ioannidis (needs subscription I think?). I...

I'm having a harder time than usual in deciding on a title for our latest paper. For some reason none of the alternatives I have seem go...

Peter Wood pointed out this story in the New Yorker , which chronicles the history of the so far failed attempts by the Obama Administratio...

As you can see from the above graph, after a long period of standing at about 50% capacity, Canberra's dams are now at around 80% capaci...

I'm finally back from my trip to Europe (mainly work) and Asia (mainly family visit/vacation). As an Australian the only country we visi...

I attended a meeting of the LEGS Platform who are funding my visit to Lund. LEGS stands for Long-term Energy Growth and Sustainability. As ...

Peter Martin reports on a generosity index . It combines data on charitable giving (which is highest in the US) with volunteering of time, a...

Back in June when Rudd was ousted I suggested that in the long-term that move could help push Australia towards adopting an executive presi...

Another potential issue with the Tsao and Waide and Tsao et al. work on demand for lighting is that the price of lighting services is to so...

Following up yesterday's post I looked at the study that provided the background for the paper studied there: Jeffrey Y. Tsao and Paul ...