Stochastic Trend

We started working on this paper when I visited Sweden in September 2010 . It took a while till we were both happy with the paper. Then we ...

A recent paper by Jakob et al . (2012) finds that there is decoupling between growth in energy use and growth in GDP in developed countries...

The Climate Colab at MIT is running a competition for innovative climate policy proposals . Richard Hobbs is a local contender in this com...

Kevin Staub presented this paper today at ANU. They download data on all papers in fifty core economics journals over the decades of the 1...

Frank has an op ed in today's Australian Financial Review - responding to Danny Price's op-ed last Wednesday which I also commente...

I'm planning on tweeting all my blogposts from now on, so you can follow me on Twitter. My username is sterndavidi. I've had a Twi...

ANU researchers are now required to submit all published research outputs to our institutional open access repository. Details of the polic...

There was an op-ed in yesterday's Australian Financial Review by Danny Price criticising the 59 economists including me who agreed to s...

There aren't that many field journals in environmental, resource, and energy economics in the Journal Citation Reports : REEP and ...

The 2013 edition of Journal Citation Reports has been released. I don't like the new interface that was recently introduced and it was...

Ed Prescott (Nobel Laureate in Economics) will give the Trevor Swan Distinguished Lecture at ANU on 13th August . The lecture will be tit...

At the workshop in A Toxa I attended in late June, Richard Schmalensee presented findings of a yet to be released MIT report on the ...

This book, which I contributed an entry on the EKC to, is now available from Routledge . There are some nice blurbs from well-known people...

Sofia has posted her dissertation to Academia.edu . It includes the data. She studied in Lund with Astrid Kander and is now at the Univ...

Elsevier have released the latest edition of their journal metrics - SNIP and SJR. There is also a new metric - Impact per Publication (IPP...

The website with links to recordings of all the presentations at the 6th Atlantic Workshop in A Toxa is now up. I presented our paper on mo...

The call for papers has been released for the 38th International Conference of the IAEE in Antalya, Turkey in May 2015 (25th-27th). The c...

Another slide from Wednesday's opening lecture. It shows the tight correlation between the annual global economic growth rate and the...

Some slides from my upcoming introductory lecture for my Energy Economics course: This slide uses CDIAC data on the top twenty countr...

Some interesting blogposts from Nick Szabo on the Malthusian trap and the breakout to economic growth. Follow the link in the post back to...

I don't think our book will be big in Japan even, but it's nice to see a flyer for it in Japanese :)   I am now back in Canb...

My name is included in the list of economists supporting a statement on carbon pricing released by WWF Australia . The statement is a littl...

Pun intended :) A bit off the beaten path for this blog, but I did warn you it would be a random walk. Faruk Kececi is an online friend ...

We have put out a news story on my paper about predicting future citations.

I am, like almost 1200 other participants, at the WCERE in Istanbul. Yesterday there was an interesting panel session on climate change ...