Introduction: Energy and Growth

So you know where this paper is going, here is the introduction as it currently stands:IntroductionIs energy an important driver of economic growth and development and if so what factors affect the strength of the relationship between energy and growth? Toman and Jemelkova (2003) argue that most of the literature on energy and economic development discusses how development affects energy use

Serializing Energy and Growth Review Paper

I'm updating my 2004 working paper on energy and economic growth to submit to the annual Ecological Economics Reviews published in the Annals of New York Academy of Sciences. I did publish a short version of the working paper as a chapter in the Encyclopedia of Energy but I didn't submit it to a journal because some of my fundamental ideas about energy and growth began to change just after I

Krugman on Climate Change Economics

Paul Krugman has an article on climate change economics in the New York Times Magazine. He agrees with Weitzmann that we should think about avoiding catastrophic impacts rather than trying to finesse a standard cost-benefit analysis based on the expected impacts and argues that CGE models that find the cost of mitigation to be low are probably overstating the costs.

Progress on China's 2005-2010 Energy Intensity Target

Stephen Howes provides an update on China's progress on its energy intensity goal. This goal was always very ambitious just like China's goal of reducing emissions intensity by 40-45% by 2020 is very ambitious. The modest progress made so far on the energy intensity goal does not bode well for China meeting the emissions intensity goal either, though they could surprise us. This was one of my

How Much Should an Online Product Cost?

Chris Guillebeau asks readers how much he should charge for his products. Could he have learned from the contingent valuation literature? :)

EERH Working Papers Statistics for March 2010

The http://logec.repec.org/scripts/seriesstat.pf?item=repec:een:eenhrr">RePEc report for March is now out:Abstract views and downloads for the EERH Research Reports seems to have stabilized around 300 and 120 a month respectively. Follow this link for details of individual papers. We still need to get details for the most recent 12 papers onto RePEc. You can download those papers from the EERH

Legal Origin Strikes Again

http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4817">van Ewijk and van Leuvensteijn have an article in VoxEU arguing for the EU to reduce taxes on residential mobility. What struck me was this chart:The highest transactions costs are in French legal origin countries, moderate costs are seen in German and Scandinavian legal origin countries and the UK has the lowest costs. Ireland is stuck in the middle of