Submitted my Main Hub Paper

I finally submitted the main report on my Environmental Economics Research Hub project to a journal. It took a while because I wanted to approach the paper fresh in order to hack out around 5,000 words to get it down below 10,000 words. And I've been busy working on completing a bunch of other projects, as you may have noticed. I blogged about the paper when I finished the working paper back in

Seminar at Lund

If you are going to be in southern Sweden or eastern Denmark, you may be interested that I will be giving a seminar on 15th September at the Department of Economic History at Lund University. Topic: "The Role of Energy in Long-Run Economic Growth". I don't know the time or exact location yet but I'm sure the department can help out on that. For those of you in Canberra I will be speaking on the

Turnbull on the NBN

Turnbull argues that the NBN essentially is the re-nationalization of Telstra (link requires registration but is free) just like the original RSPT was the partial nationalization of the mining industry.

ANU Speed Test

Yesterday, I blogged about internet speeds within Australia and between Australia and the US from our home in Canberra. Today, as promised I'm presenting the results of the same test conducted from my office at ANU:Within Australia, ANU has access to NBN-like speeds (at least before the new 1GBs announcement). Between, Australia and the US the speed is much lower, though much faster than what we

Internet Connectivity

Joshua Gans has been discussing internet speeds between different parts of the world and running some tests. So I ran my own tests from home and speeds are pretty low just between my home and a server in Canberra:Our ISP sucks apparently, but most of the time I find our internet service to be adequate. Except when it isn't. Here's the test to San Jose, CA:Only a bit slower... What I should do

Ecological Economics Reviews

A while back I did a series of posts that serialized a paper I was revising on energy and growth, starting with this post. The paper has now been accepted for publication in the 2011 issue of Ecological Economics Reviews, which is a special annual issue of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences edited by Bob Costanza and Karin Limburg (Rated B by the ARC BTW). I just now have to switch my

George Fane Seminar @ Arndt-Corden Division of Economics

I went to George Fane's seminar yesterday on "The Taxation of Rents from Mineral Resources". It was well-attended by both people from ANU and the public service. The seminar might have provided the answer to http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2010/05/royalties-vs-rent-taxes.html">my confusion about why the Henry Review and most economists discussing it argue that royalties are inefficient, while

Interfuel Substitution: A Meta-Analysis - Accepted for Publication

My paper on the meta-analysis of interfuel substitution has been accepted for publication at the Journal of Economic Surveys (an A-rated journal).

Peter May's Review of "Prosperity without Growth"

I don't remember seeing this before, except in the form of a special review section - Two reviews of the same book in the same journal. http://stochastictrend.blogspot.com/2009/11/review-of-prosperity-without-growth.html">You've seen my version. Now here is Peter May's version.

Change of Date for Seminar

Change of date for my forthcoming seminar. It will now be on 9th November. All the other details remain the same.

EERH Research Reports: July 2010

EERH Research Reports continued to enjoy an uptrend in downloads last month. Peter Wood's paper Climate Change and Game Theory was the most downloaded. Globally, RePEc crossed the 25,000 barrier in terms of the number of members with registered publications. I highly recommend all economists who aren't registered yet to register and make themselves more visible to the economics research community.

University Websites

There is a lot of discussion going on about this cartoon. I find that university websites vary a lot in usability. Usually I am looking for either a page about a specific faculty member and what they research and teach and a list of their publications and maybe a CV. Other times I want an overview of a department or research centre. But a lot of websites are only geared to either selling the

Joseph Stiglitz Speaks at ANU

I went to see the "Crawford School Oratory" today given by Joseph Stiglitz - just one of the stops on his Australian tour. As you probably know he is a Nobel Prize winning economist who was chief economist at the World Bank and since then has been critical of both the Bank and the IMF and increasingly of other financial institutions and free market oriented capitalism in general. The talk was

Switching from html to pdf

Since 1995 I have had a file called sterncv.html on the web. It was created by Laura Guild at Boston University and has followed me around the world till eventually it settled on sterndavidi.com. But now I have deleted it and switched to a pdf CV only. I still have all my publications listed on two webpages with links to RePEc or journal websites. The reason I made this change are:1. Most other