Stochastic Trend

Google Scholar Citations has only been public for 10 days but already an analysis has appeared . I hadn't thought of searching by insti...

Over the weekend I attended the 2011 PhD Conference in Economics and Business at the University of Queensland. This is an annual event held...

I was featured along with Frank Jotzo and others in this blogpost on DotEarth by Andy Revkin. I'm still confused about why people want ...

Advice from Daron Acemoglu - editor of Econometrica and Clark Medal winner - on how to write papers and get published.

See Tom Stanley's presentation on meta-analysis . There is also a commentary by Randall Rosenberger and a free "virtual issue"...

Google Scholar Citations is a new academic profile service that is very similar to Researcher ID but using Google Scholar citations instead...

A new journal from Elsevier with an http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/726921/editorialboard">editorial...

My paper From Correlation to Granger Causality has been added to the Crawford School Research Papers series on RePEc. I'm now working...

Every few months Google Scholar seems to undergo a rebuild of their database and housekeeping exercise. Before the exercise, lists of refere...

Three Danish researchers, including famous time series econometrician Soren Johansen , recently http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstr...

My paper with Jack Pezzey and Ross Lambie: "Where in the world is it cheapest to cut carbon emissions?" has been accepted for pub...

Only two Future Fellowships were awarded in economics. Benno Torgler (QUT) got one for "The role of moral sentiments and emotions in h...

The Johansen cointegration procedure is one of the most popular methods of testing for cointegration . The tests and estimation are carried ...

I often post about our CCEP Working Paper series . We also have a new Crawford School Research Paper series that unifies the previous paper...

PLoS ONE has a high impact factor despite publishing 70% of submitted papers. It is, of course, the best known open access journal. Does op...

This fact is at the moment only supported by the data from Sweden and so isn't much of a fact. In Sweden the share of costs represented ...

Though energy use has generally increased over time it has grown more slowly than has GDP. Globally it grew at about half the rate of GDP i...

I've blogged about the energy capital ratio before . Here is a snapshot for 85 non-oil producing countries in 2007: There is a much stro...

As you can see from the chart this claim is only partially true. Energy intensity (energy per dollar of GDP) does seem somewhat higher in th...

I first reported on this issue a couple of years ago . The trend continues: As RePEc membership and the number of items online continues to...

Because energy is used to transform and transport matter and energy must be extracted from the environment and then returned to it in waste ...

Yesterday, Max Corden gave a public lecture on the topic "The Dutch Disease in Australia: Policy Options for a Three-Speed Economy...

It turns out that the ARC only made 26 Discovery Outstanding Researcher Awards in this funding round. The consultation paper that the ARC ...

This was a great month for CCEP Working Papers with a large number of downloads and abstract views . In fact, we had the highest number of d...

There is a video of my "foundation seminar" now available here . Slides are available here .