Recent Posts Tagged With research paper

• The "Bhudda Mushroom"

  Posted on Wednesday January 27th, 2010 at 04:59 am in research paper

  I apologise for this post but some paper titles prove irrestible to me. As someone who spends hours on each paper title this appeals to me on many levels although I am not sure why.The paper is also interesting from an environmental economics perspe...

• Economists, time to team up with the ecologists!

  Posted on Wednesday January 27th, 2010 at 04:49 am in research paper

  Note the exclamation mark at the end of this new "lead" commentary from Ecological Economics. I suspect that Hilde Karine has a point but most economists still shy away from the word "interdisciplinary" as it tends to be associated with "low quality...

• On the Origin of Mass Extinctions: Darwin’s Nontrivial Error

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 07:35 am in research paper

  This is certainly one of the best abstracts I have read for many a month. I even had to read it twice (which certainly helped).This particular quote still has been scatching my head a little. I think the only solution is to read the paper.This prob...

• "Peak Globalisation" and Peak Oil

  Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 02:41 am in research paper, non-renewables

  A new paper by Fred Curtis in Ecological Economics introduces us to the term "Peak Globalisation". Always one who enjoys a new movement peak globalisation is right up my street.I am not sure I believe this story but I expect I will need to read the ...

• How fast is "pollution" moving East?

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 10:01 am in research paper

  Nicole Andréa Mathys and Jean-Marie Grether have a series of interesting papers using concepts from physics to look at the "centre" of different variables. CO2 is the new target and not surprisingly the trend is a dramatic shift east.Some great pic...

• Does trade openness improve environmental quality?

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 05:29 pm in trade, globalisation, Environmental Economics, research paper

  A perfect "globalisation and the environment" paper that I need to read. Another one on the ever growing list.The results appear plausible and the methods appropriate.Does trade openness improve environmental quality?Shunsuke Managia, Akira Hibikic ...

• Environmental Economics Survey

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 02:05 pm in research paper

  Apologies - original post edited at request of the survey designers - to be posted again once the results are known.My thoughts on this survey could potentially bias the results.. ...

• Elinor Ostrom research papers

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 08:55 am in research paper

  I am afraid I opted out of all the "Ostrom" fever that has been keeping the blogosphere busy in recent days. It is sad to admit that the majority of "environmental economists" that I know including experts on the "commons" had little recognition of ...

• Environmental crises: past, present, and future

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 11:11 am in Environmental Economics, research paper

  Scott Taylor gave this paper at the 2009 European Association of Environmental Economists conference in Amsterdam this year. It was an excellent talk and is a great paper.I buy the story and the model. The increase in CO2 can be viewed as a crisis ...

• On Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Compliance Costs

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 03:59 am in research paper

  A must read paper. All of Randy Becker's papers are excellent and show off the quality of data in the US. I have been trying to look at this issue using other country data but any paper is always going to be of a lower quality due to data issues (a...

• Potato Economics

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 03:01 am in Other, research paper

  Always on the look out for new branches of economics come an unmissable paper from Nathan Nunn and Nabcy Qian from British Columbia and Yale respectively.The abstract reveals the enormous impact of the Solanum tuberosum on world population growth and...

• Who Pays a Price on Carbon?

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 03:04 am in research paper, carbon trading

  Given the proposed US legislation the following paper is a timely piece of research.The distributional effects of a carbon tax are worthy of further research.Who Pays a Price on Carbon?Corbett A. GraingerUniversity of California, Santa Barbara - Depa...

• Climate Policy Options and the World Trade Organization

  Posted on Monday September 7th, 2009 at 03:25 am in trade, Environmental Economics, research paper

  A good summary article of the WTO - environmental position.It is going to get very messy in my opinion especially with the US proposal to tax carbon imports. The authors of this article are correct to point out the almost certain challenges that wil...

• "Social Ecological Economics"

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 04:04 am in Environmental Economics, research paper

  I think I agree with the abstract from the following paper. In fact I think I always thought like this.Ecological economics = heterodoxEnvironmental economics = mainstreamI think I had better read the paper before commenting any more although I am no...

• Spatially disaggregated analysis of pollution

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 03:24 am in Environmental Economics, research paper

  A must read paper for the pile. Apologies for using this blog as an online repository of papers I need to read but it helps me keep a record.The abstract does not make for very interesting reading I am afraid. It is the techniques that are importan...

• Pigs in Space

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 05:25 am in wildlife, research paper

  The geographical location of hog farms in the US and the impact of environmental regulations led to this inevitable blog title. I can only apologise.However, the abstract does draw you in. What is the answer? Which of the three options won out? Now...

• The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: assessment and outlook

  Posted on Monday June 8th, 2009 at 03:10 am in Environmental Economics, research paper, carbon trading

  After setting this question to my Econ 211 students as part of their assessment I was interested to come across an academic answer to the question. I hope this paper does not "too" closely resemble the answers given by my students for their sakes.Th...

• "Pollution, Health, and Avoidance Behavior: Evidence from the Ports of Los Angeles"

  Posted on Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 09:01 am in Environmental Economics, Air pollution, research paper

  I have a forthcoming paper the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty looking at the relationship between pollution exposure and wages.Dirty Money: Is there a Wage Premium for Working in a Pollution Intensive Job? [PDF old working paper version]This paper i...

• "Economists in the Pits?"

  Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 02:57 am in Other, research paper

  Apologies for the low posting rate - academics occasionally have to take a holiday and when that location is "internetless" even the most ardent blogger has to admit defeat.In UK academia the pressure to publish in "A" journals is immense. However, ...

• "Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity"

  Posted on Wednesday May 13th, 2009 at 03:48 pm in biodiversity, research paper

  Call for papers:"Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity"The Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, in association with Conservation International, DEFRA, Department of Land Economy of Cambridge University and Euro...

• "Pollution and International Trade in Services"

  Posted on Monday May 11th, 2009 at 02:17 pm in trade, Environmental Economics, research paper

  Arik Levinson and his latest trade and the environment paper.The bottom line is that services are relatively small polluters so Arik was never going to find much of real economic significance. Good to cover all bases though. "Pollution and Internati...

• Foreign Direct Investment and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis"

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 06:14 pm in research paper

  Having written extensively on the pollution haven hypothesis I need to keep up to speed. This looks like a promising approach but for a single sector (one that is most likely to result in a positive effect."Agglomeration Effects in Foreign Direct In...

• "Discounting for Climate Change"

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 06:03 pm in climate change, research paper

  Discounting remains controversial.David Anthoff, Tol, Richard and Gary Yohe provide a good summary of the problem.The bottom line is that the social cost of carbon could be pretty much anything.Discounting for Climate ChangeDate: 2009By: Anthoff, D...

• "An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture"

  Posted on Saturday May 2nd, 2009 at 05:43 pm in climate change, research paper

  New paper from Jeffery Frankel. It is interesting to see how many mainstream economists are turning their hand to environmental issues.This plan might have legs if taken seriously.An Elaborated Global Climate Policy Architecture: Specific Formulas a...

• "Controversies in the Economics of Climate Change." Geoffrey Heal at the LSE 6th May 2009

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 10:12 am in climate change, research paper

  From the inbox:I am delighted to invite you to a Grantham Research Institute public lecture, to be given by Professor Geoffrey Heal on Wednesday 6 May 2009. The lecture is entitled Controversies in the Economics of Climate Change. The Stern Review st...

• Blogs are dead - long live the blog

  Posted on Sunday March 15th, 2009 at 04:15 pm in Other, research paper

  Why do people blog? It is a good question. Recent advice from Wired magazine rings true. Most importanly, blogs ARE so 2004 as the design of this blog instantly gives away.There is something faintly amusing about blogs being "old tech" when most aca...

• “I don’t want to be selling my soul”

  Posted on Sunday February 15th, 2009 at 07:13 am in research paper

  Interesting titles for environmental economics papers are always to be encouraged however tenuous the link. There is something about the English in this title that I do not like but cannot put my finger on.The results of the paper - people care abou...

• An Economic View of the Environment - Stavins

  Posted on Monday February 9th, 2009 at 10:29 am in Other, research paper

  The environmental economics blogosphere welcomes Robert Stavins. This blog is sure to provide a rich stream of blogging material for globalisation and the environment.As always, the crunch will come in six months time when we will know if Professor ...

• Economists "do" climate change predictions

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 06:32 am in climate change, research paper

  The scientists don't like it when economists move onto their patch.I suspect in many cases economists can do it as well if not better than "real scientists".The results tell us little more than common sense - uncertainty makes it hard to make exact p...

• Institutionalized pollution havens

  Posted on Friday January 30th, 2009 at 05:26 am in trade, Environmental Economics, Air pollution, research paper, environmental regulations

  Hot off the press - a plug for two previous co-authors new paper just out in Ecological Economics.Institutionalized pollution havensMatthew A. ColePer G. FredrikssonAbstractA multiple-principal, multiple-agent lobby group model suggests that the effe...