Stochastic Trend

Recently, Stephan Bruns published a paper with John Ioannidis in PLoS ONE critiquing the p-curve.  I've blogged about the p-curve pr...

It's the first official day of winter today here in Australia, though it has felt wintry here in Canberra for about a week already. ...

A student from Cuba asked me: "I want to apply the DOLS methodology... I have read several books and research works about DOLS but n...

I'm honored that Stochastic Trend has made it into a list of the top 100 economics blogs , albeit at position 99. It's a good lis...

My previous post discussed Doug Keenan's climate contest. I wondered how accurate we could actually expect to be in such a situation. I...

My colleague Robert Kaufmann got an e-mail from Doug Keenan inviting him to participate in his " climate change contest " withou...

After a very long process our original paper on the growth rates approach was rejected by JEEM about a month ago. I think the referees s...

Myles Allen has a new interesting paper in Nature Climate Change :"Drivers of Peak Warming in a Consumption-Maximizing World", wh...

I have just posted another working paper in the Trends and Drivers series, this time coauthored with recent Crawford masters student Jere...

The Stern Review of the REF (Research Excellence Framework) is the latest British government review of research assessment in the UK, foll...

A new working paper coauthored with Donglan Zha , who is visiting the Crawford School, which will be published in a special issue of Envir...

Terence Mills has a " white paper " on the Global Warming Policy Foundation Website. It predicts little future increase in tempe...

This will slow things down for a while :) Noah was born two days ago. He is a very large baby - 4.71kg and 55cm long. If he was a t-stati...

Three and a half years ago, I wrote a post about PhD applications . Since then, I have received a huge number of enquiries from prospectiv...

So, apparently my impression that anti-vax was a right wing cause (anti-government mandates/one-world government or whatever) was unusual a...

My paper with my former master's student Luis Sanchez has been accepted by Ecological Economics . This is one of the papers in the seri...

A new working paper coauthored with Chunbo Ma on estimating long-run elasticities. This is one of the major parts of our ARC DP12 project ...

Our paper on the changes over the last decade in patterns of influence in ecological economics has been accepted for publication. Not very...

The Australian reported a couple of days ago that the University of Wollongong gave a PhD for a thesis by an anti-vaccination activist, Jud...

This will be obvious to anyone with a good understanding of econometrics, but it is quite stunning really to think that all the information ...

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the working paper: " Environmental Impacts of a North American Free Trade Agree...

I've been doing these annual reviews since 2011. They're mainly an exercise for me to see what I accomplished and what I didn...

I just submitted the final report for this funded project which has been running since 2012 to the research office. We achieved most of th...

What I mean is, why do we need a new government network in urban areas? We just got a "set top box" for streaming Chinese TV chan...

I started writing this on Twitter but it got too long :) Peter Martin proposes taxing superannuation contributions at ordinary income tax...