Stochastic Trend

Following a request for our estimation code we have now completed a full replication package for our 2016 Energy Journal paper and uploade...

My colleague Matt Dornan asked me about the distribution of the journal impact factors SNIP and SJR . Crawford School has used SNIP to co...

I'll be giving a presentation in the "distinguished speakers series" at ICAT, Autonomous University of Barcelona on 5th Dece...

I've long been curious about what students in my classes think about my political position. So, I finally decided to ask them. I added ...

I'm doing quite a bit of background work for our School Review , a review of the Future of Asia-Pacific Economics etc. The following ta...

As part of our self-evaluation for the upcoming review of the Crawford School, I have been doing some bibliometric analysis. One thing I hav...

Millar and Allen have an article in the Guardian explaining what their paper really says. They say that existing ESMs assume too little cu...

An article in Nature Geoscience by Millar et al . on carbon budget s has attracted a lot of attention and debate.* A blogpost by the lead...

Is the Poisson distribution a short-cut to getting standard errors for journal impact factors? The nice thing about the Poisson distributio...

Alejandro Puerto is a 20 year old who lives in Cuba. He has written: "Western Cycles: United Kingdom" a book that covers t...

I hate looking at my published papers because there are often typos in them which I didn't catch at the proofs stage...This time my coa...

I think that robots/artificial intelligence and the future of work is a hugely important topic. This is a very active research field but...

A new short working paper about how accurate projections of future energy intensity are. It's an extension of comments I made at Ener...

Following up on my post on our paper about the Industrial Revolution , I thought some more context would be useful. The traditional view o...

We have finally posted our long-promised paper on the Industrial Revolution as a CAMA Working Paper . This is the final paper from our ARC...

I'm working on a new bibliometrics paper with Richard Tol . We are using Glenn Ellison's data set on economists at the top 50 U.S....

We have just posted two new working papers: Technology Choices in the U.S. Electricity Industry before and after Market Restructuring ...

Just realized that we are already in the third month of the year and I haven't posted anything here yet! Things have been very busy w...

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'...