Episodes

  • Episode 10: Intermittency is More Complicated than you Thought
    Feb 3 2023

    Paige Weber, assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses her paper “Intermittency or Uncertainty? Impacts of Renewable Energy in Electricity Markets,” co-authored with Matt Woerman.

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    36 mins
  • Episode 9: Hitting the (Bench)mark when Forecasting the Price of Oil
    Jan 26 2023

    Stephen Snudden and I discuss his paper “The New Benchmark for Forecasts of the Real Price of Crude Oil.” This research is co-authored with Amor Aniss Benmoussa and Reinhard Ellwanger.

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    39 mins
  • Episode 8: Disclosure and Learning from your Neighbours in the US Shale Boom
    Jan 19 2023

    Richard Sweeney and I discuss his paper “Secrecy Rules and Exploratory Investment: Theory and Evidence from the Shale Boom.” This research is co-authored with Thomas Covert.

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    38 mins
  • Episode 7: Weather and International Trade
    Jan 12 2023

    Leanne Cass, Part of the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment based in the London School of Economics, discusses her recent paper "Weather Shocks and International Trade"

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    32 mins
  • Episode 6: Counter-intuitive Fuelwood Collection Behaviour
    Jan 5 2023

    Martino Pelli, Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Economics of the Université de Sherbrooke, discusses his paper "The Effect of Forest Access on the Market for Fuelwood in India", co-authored by Branko Boskovic, Ujjayant chakravorty, and Anna Risch.

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    41 mins
  • Episode 5: What's your VoLL?
    Aug 18 2022

    David Brown, Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, discusses his working paper "The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from Battery Adoption", co-authored with Lucija Muehlenbachs.

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    50 mins
  • Episode 4: Flying Over the Trap Door
    Aug 11 2022

    Maya Papineau, associate professor in the Department of Economics at Carleton University, discusses her Journal of Environmental Economics and Management paper "Experimental evidence on heat loss visualization and personalized information to motivate energy savings" co-authored with Nicholas Rivers.

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    41 mins
  • Episode 3: Pipeline Constraints and Price Differentials
    Aug 4 2022

    Henry Thille, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Guelph, discusses his Canadian Journal of Economics paper "Pipeline capacity and the dynamics of Alberta crude oil price spreads", co-authored with Gregory Galay.

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    33 mins