Stochastic Trend

Chunbo Ma will be visiting ANU from Monday for a couple of weeks to work with me on our ARC project . On 10th April he is giving a semin...

I just agreed to give a presentation in a dual plenary session at the IAEE Asia Conference in Beijing in September. The topic of the se...

Yingying Lu , my post-doc on our ARC project, and myself have a new working paper on our research on the effects of assumptions about subst...

I am giving a presentation to the Canberra Branch of AARES. It is at 6:30pm on Wednesday 19th March on Level 3 at UniPub on University Ave/...

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) Special issue on Resources and Energy Commodity Cycles: Maximising the B...

Senior Research Fellow in Innovation and Energy Demand SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research School of Business, Management and Eco...

I haven't been blogging much lately - things have been very busy (started teaching, trips etc.) so I haven't had time to blog on pa...

Interesting blogpost on the differences . These are of course the extreme poles between someone doing solo-authored work in economic theory...

It can be hard to understand how interpret global climate data sets in the way they are usually presented. This new Google Earth based inte...

I am giving a presentation at AARES in Port Macquarie next week. Thursday afternoon to be precise. It's titled "Rethinking the ...

Following up from my post on Power to the People , Astrid was interviewed on the radio about her book. The interview starts at minute 37. ...

I have a very short chapter on the environmental Kuznets curve in this book which will be published later this year (June or July) by R...

This document provides a helpful list of changes from ERA 2012 to ERA 2015. The changes are minor. A good one, is a clampdown on abuse of ...

Power to the People - authored by Astrid Kander ( my collaborator ), Paolo Malanima, and Paul Warde is now available from Princeton Un...

This is how I feel today: The positives are that: I'm not a PhD student, we won't waste time on doing the research, and it must ...

The ARC released the funding rules for the current grant round. A single document now also includes the rules for the DECRA, Laureate fell...

This is an interesting effort to assess the complexity of production and the level of local production knowledge across the countries of t...

A new paper by Kalimeris et al . is the third meta-analysis of the energy GDP causality literature. The previous two studies are Chen et al...

A new paper in Climate Change Economics by Paltsev and Capros lays out the different metrics one can use to assess the costs of climate ch...

This was a year of further consolidation and was less eventful academically than 2012, which I also reported was more of a following throu...

As I've already had a couple of requests for the data, I have posted the data from our forthcoming paper in Climatic Change on my webs...

In yesterday's mid-year budget update, the Australian government announced cuts to ARC funding . $103 million will be cut over a 4 year...

Americans won't appreciate this, but I just realised while signing my name that today is the last day this century where the date can b...

If downloading papers from Springer = working then this paper by Wang et al has fascinating evidence on when researchers are working aroun...

" Blunt Instruments: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Identifying the Causes of Economic Growth" by Samuel Bazzi and Michael Clemens...