Stochastic Trend

We have two new CCEP working papers on RePEc: Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change by Alessandro Tavon...

I previously submitted comments on the ARC's ranked journal list for the 2012 ERA research assessment exercise. You can also http://www...

Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy (EEEP), is a new journal published by the International Association for Energy Economics , f...

Even the Chinese government has suspended it's nuclear power construction program to learn more about what has gone wrong in Japan, but ...

I'm preparing a lecture on environmental economics for both my course "Economic Way of Thinking 1" at the Crawford School and...

Actually this very readable article is titled: "The New Kaldor Facts: Ideas, Institutions, Population, and Human Capital". Kaldor...

Academia often seems like a small world where everyone knows everyone else. But http://www.linkedin.com/profile/edit?trk=hb_tab_pro_top...

As an alumnus of LSE I got an e-mail this morning announcing that the Director had stepped down. Here is the full announcement . Here is mor...

I spent most of yesterday at a workshop sponsored by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism on establishing an energy efficiency f...

In July 2010 ABARES was formed by the merger of ABARE (Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics) and BRS (Bureau of Rural S...

Torgler and Piatti have written a massive paper on the American Economic Review with heaps of tables, graphs, and regression analyses. Thi...

The Australian government http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2011/02/era-report-released.html">recently released the ERA Report , w...

My new office is just across the corridor from my old one in Room 2.83 JGC (Crawford Buidling #132). My new phone number is 6125-3366. This ...

Saw this article on John List linked at Marginal Revolution and decided to link from here too. List has contributed to both environmental ...

Xinhua, the Chinese official news agency released the following item yesterday (I deleted points that are not relevant to this blog DS): Feb...

As a follow up to my post on consumer price inflation in the US here are trends in the last couple of years in China: Credit: CEIC . Wherea...

A US firm called Joule has bioengineered cyanobacteria to secrete diesel or ethanol . The picture above is from the Washington Post version ...

The graph shows the increase in consumer prices over the last decade for the eight subcategories in the consumer price index (CPI) in the US...

I finally added a profile to IAmScientist , which I mentioned a long time ago in what turned out to be my most popular post . I was impress...

The 2011 edition Ecological Economics Reviews has been published. Ecological Economics Reviews is an annual special issue of the Annals of...

I submitted some comments to the consultation . Of course, I recommended JEEM and the Energy Journal both be ranked A* and that the Energy...

The Australian Research Council (ARC) has opened public consultation on the list of journals for the 2012 ERA exercise. A lot of people wer...

The 19th century economist William Jevons suggested that improvements in the efficiency of energy use devices could increase energy use rath...

That's the title of a paper published last year by Breecker et al. in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Also see the...

The Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency has released projections of Australian GHG emissions till 2020-30 . They project that...