Thursday, December 30, 2021

Annual Review 2021

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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'...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Estimating the Effect of Physical Infrastructure on Economic Growth

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I have a new working paper coauthored with Govinda Timilsina of the World Bank and my PhD student Debasish Das . It is a panel data study ...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

The Environmental Kuznets Curve: 2021 Edition

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The second encyclopedia chapter. First one is here . Introduction  The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) is a hypothesized relationship be...

Energy and Development

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The first of two book chapters for Elgar encyclopedias I recently wrote. What is the Role of Energy in Economic Activity? The economic syst...
Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Our COVID-19 Paper

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Publishing papers on COVID-19 is very popular:  and we couldn't resist joining the bandwagon. Late last year, Xueting Jiang, my PhD ...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

How Large is the Economy-Wide Rebound Effect in Middle Income Countries? Evidence from Iran

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  We have a new working paper in our rebound effect series. Previous papers reviewed the literature on the economy-wide rebound effect, esti...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Data for "Interfuel Substitution: A Meta-Analysis"

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I've long thought that there was an error in the way I calculated the shadow elasticity of substitution (SES) in my 2012 paper on interf...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Do Energy Efficiency Improvements Reduce Energy Use? Empirical Evidence on the Economy-Wide Rebound Effect in Europe and the United States

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We have just posted a new working paper on RePEc and SSRN extending our structural vector autoregression methodology for estimating the ec...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Fifth Francqui Lecture: Econometric Modeling of Climate Change

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The video of my fifth and final Francqui lecture on the econometric modeling of climate change is now on Youtube:   The lecture begins...

Public Policy Schools in the Asia-Pacific Ranked

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I have a new paper with my Crawford School colleague Bjoern Dressel published in Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies (open access). The ...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Fourth Franqui Lecture: Energy and the Industrial Revolution

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The video of my fourth Francqui lecture on the energy and the industrial revolution is now on Youtube:   The opening graph of population...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Third Francqui Lecture: The Rebound Effect

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The video of my third Francqui lecture on the rebound effect is now on Youtube: The first part of the presentation – "What is the...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Second Francqui Lecture: Energy and Economic Growth and Development

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The video of my second Francqui lecture on energy and economic growth is now on Youtube: The first part of the presentation comes from ...
Friday, March 12, 2021

Inaugural Francqui Lecture: Economic Growth and the Environment

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The video of my inaugural Francqui lecture on economic growth and the environment is now on Youtube:   The first part of the presentation ...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

Energy and Economic Growth: Updated Animation

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Almost seven years ago, I posted an animation of a series of Excel graphs showing the relationship between energy use and GDP per capita o...