Stochastic Trend

Back in 2010 I posted that the RePEc ranking of economics institutions needed to be adjusted by size. Better quality institutions do tend...

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've been asked to make some brief comments on the 2016 World Energy Outlook just published by the IEA at the ANU Energy Change Institu...

Third excerpt ( previous excerpts ): Most studies of global climate change using econometric methods have ignored the role of the oce...

Another excerpt from our literature review: Estimates of the climate sensitivity have been the focus of ongoing debate with widely diffe...

From the draft of the literature review of a paper I am writing with Zsuzsanna Csereklyei and Stephan Bruns . Stephan will be presenting so...

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago , we are working on a new climate modeling paper. We just started estimating models. This graph shows ...

This graph shows the value of electricity divided by GDP for 130 countries in 2013 plotted against GDP per capita. I used the 2015 price ...

A lot of fuss is often made about adjustments to estimates of global temperature . But here is the key figure from the paper by Karl et al ...

I don't like looking at my published papers because I hate finding mistakes. Today I saw that there is a missing coefficient in Table 2...

I got a request for the data in our 1997 paper in Nature on climate change. I didn't think I'd be able to send the actual data we ...

Introduction The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship between various indicators of environmental degradation ...

Just finished writing a survey of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics . ...

I wrote a long comment on this blogpost by Ludo Waltman but it got eaten by their system, so I'm rewriting it in a more expanded form ...

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...