GDP

A new article in ‘The Australian’ exposes once again the hypocrisy of the newspaper’s editor, John Lehmann, and the shameless... Read more

Putting a cost on investing in mitigating climate change Economists continue to model the costs of investment to reduce global... Read more

Original article posted on UNDP Human Development Reports Imagine for a moment that you are a baker. Now what would... Read more

CO2 emissions and GDP move together over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would agree with this statement despite the absence of a study that formally analyzes the relationship between emissions and GDP at business cycle frequencies. The paper provides a rigorous empirical analysis of this relationship in a comprehensive cross-country panel by decomposing the emissions and GDP series into their growth and cyclical components using the HP filter. Read more

Working Paper 116 Abstract This empirical paper focuses on the relationship between changes in GDP and CO2 emissions as a... Read more

Working Paper 78 Abstract CO2 emissions and GDP are positively correlated over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would... Read more