Stochastic Trend

As I previously wrote , my "foundation seminar" is this Tuesday, 1st November at Crawford School at 12:30pm (yes, Melbourne Cup Da...

The NYT has special section on energy . It's a mixed picture with stories about technological breakthroughs mixed with stories about re...

The journal accepts 70% of papers, so how come it has an ISI impact factor of more than 4? The journal accepts all papers that are technical...

"Unconventional" shale gas obtained through hydraulic fracturing or fracking has been very controversial recently. Local residents...

Some republican candidates for president are saying that they would create jobs by cutting regulation, and in particular environmental regul...

The US Energy Information Administration has http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/#resources">released the 2010 Annual Energy ...

As I am a new professor and continuing academic staff member in the Crawford School I am scheduled to give what is called a "Foundation...

A guest post written by me appeared today on the blog " The Oil Drum ". It's a summary and commentary on my paper " The ...

A little while ago I blogged about van Vuuren et al.'s paper that provides an overview of the new emissions scenarios - called RCPs - t...

Mercedes Pascual and colleagues have written a response to our paper in PLoS ONE . Our paper is largely a response to the Pascual and coll...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/business/american-economists-share-nobel-prize.html">Sims and Sargent were announced as winners o...

Now we know why the low income tax offset wasn't completely abolished on "Carbon Sunday" . It was so Wayne Swan could announce...

We have some new working papers from CCEP. The latest is from Zhongxiang Zhang who will be an associate in the CCEP network . It is titled ...

A journalist wrote to me for help. They are writing a popular book on the effects of energy scarcities on our economy, wealth and way of liv...

This week, I was a respondent to a choice modeling survey for the first time. The purpose of the survey was to find out about reliability of...

The Journal of Economic Surveys will be holding an online conference from 16th to 18th November. Keynote speakers are Tom Stanley, David ...

This morning I was interviewed by Clement Paligaru on the Breakfast Show on Radio Australia. This is Australia's international broadcast...

Recently, I wrote about Tatu Westling's paper on "male organ" length and economic growth. I argued that it was likely a case ...

In my IPCC AR5 chapter writing group we have been told to think of "iconic figures" we could use in the chapter. In http://stochas...

Our article: "Temperature and Malaria Trends in Highland East Africa" is published today in PLoS ONE. I've noted some of the ...

An Energy Change Institute public seminar . Program: Introduction by Energy Change Institute Director Ken Baldwin Andrew Blakers , ANU Colle...

Econometrics for Grumblers is the title of a recent paper in the Journal of Economic Surveys by Markus Eberhardt and Francis Teal ( Workin...

We put up several new papers and so got quite a lot of downloads this month . Papers tend to get a lot of downloads when they first appear ...

I hate looking at my published papers because there are often typos in them which I didn't catch at the proofs stage... One of our PhD ...

A rough draft of a new paper so don't cite it but comments are welcome. I have posted a couple of sections already on the blog. It...