Archives

2008.07.03: United States Association for Energy Economics working paper series
2008.07.02: Up the Yangtze: A meditation on change in China
2008.06.30: No, speculation does not explain oil prices
2008.06.28: Pigou and the "bad things"
2008.06.28: Responding to higher energy costs, the home building version
2008.06.26: Wind power and real-time pricing: Mutual benefits
2008.06.25: Electricity market pricing and how to think about it
2008.06.25: Cheaper solar power?
2008.06.21: KP vacation: biking the Lewis & Clark Trail
2008.06.20: $4 gas is changing consumer behavior
2008.06.19: On the morality of raising prices in an emergency
2008.06.18: Current and future state of regional wholesale electricity markets
2008.06.18: Can you spot the attitude difference?
2008.06.18: The importance of energy storage for integrating renewables
2008.06.17: Radical ignorance and Knightian uncertainty: Bryan's thinking too hard ...
2008.06.13: Climate change roundable at Reason
2008.06.13: Toyota's long-term vehicle strategy: move beyond petroleum
2008.06.12: Fairness reasoning in the abstract and the concrete
2008.06.11: The demand for gasoline is downward sloping, how about that?
2008.06.11: Economist on intelligent appliances and energy efficiency
2008.06.11: Will dynamic retail power prices help the environment?
2008.06.09: Ron Bailey, Fred Smith, and I discuss climate change at Reason
2008.06.09: Use operations research to maximize value in a train network
2008.06.04: Interesting solar developments
2008.06.03: Government hurricane reinsurance :headdesk: :headdesk:
2008.06.03: My book's on Amazon, so it must be true
2008.06.03: How to automate your home
2008.06.02: New economics blog: Market Urbanism
2008.06.02: The smart grid/dynamic pricing synergy
2008.06.01: Conservation of resources: Prices change everything
2008.05.31: Making JSTOR into a public treasure
2008.05.31: Price gouging laws: emotions, economics, and policy
2008.05.30: A cool interactive regional produce map
2008.05.30: The L Prize: A prize for lighting innovation
2008.05.29: Ocean thermal power systems back under development
2008.05.27: September 9: Release date for Neal Stephenson's new book
2008.05.27: Some anecdotal data on driving behavior change
2008.05.27: Are oil prices going higher?
2008.05.26: Real-time feedback promotes efficient use of energy
2008.05.24: Stanley Cup finals (you know what's next ...)
2008.05.23: Why we will never reach our Smart Grid goals
2008.05.21: Alaska natural gas line ready to take off, just as soon as politicians get things sorted
2008.05.21: Google's renewable energy investments
2008.05.19: Wind power's growth in the U.S.
2008.05.18: Go Penguins!
2008.05.18: Triathlon training update at the beginning of the season
2008.05.16: FERC proceedings continue for alleged gas market manipulator
2008.05.14: Are oil prices too high?
2008.05.14: Why are food prices so high?
2008.05.12: Parents, talk to your kids about petroleum
2008.05.12: IP alert: BBC threatens Dr. Who knitters
2008.05.10: What good are prediction markets? asks the CFTC
2008.05.08: Would making insider trading restrictions optional for corporations suffice?
2008.05.06: Fishing for red snapper in the Gulf: Quotas and derbies
2008.05.05: Meat(t1) = (grain(t0))^3
2008.05.05: TV technology, economics, and my rediscovered love of hockey
2008.05.05: A sheepy, woolly weekend, and some economics of it
2008.05.02: Stupidity, or political expediency?
2008.04.30: "Farmer Johnson, plant more corn"
2008.04.29: Piling on the criticism of a summer gas tax holiday
2008.04.28: Thrills! Chills! High Oil Prices! A Roller-Coaster Ride of Excitement!
2008.04.25: "There's no such thing as a free carbon cap"
2008.04.25: No gouging or other manipulation found in study of Washington state gasoline prices
2008.04.24: A longer view of the retail gasoline experience in Vermont
2008.04.23: More on ethanol policy and food prices
2008.04.22: The crescendo of the biofuels/food interaction
2008.04.21: Who would you back: the market consensus or book-writing pundits?
2008.04.19: "Decade of deregulation felt in climbing bills": Costs by category
2008.04.18: Paying higher electric bills under "deregulation" for past choices by regulators and regulated utilities
2008.04.15: EZ-Zone? FreeFlow? Would congestion pricing by another name, smell sweeter?
2008.04.14: Lobbying for wind and solar power tax credits: Hurry "we're looking at 116,000 jobs at risk"
2008.04.14: Becker and Posner on food prices and the new Neo-Malthusians
2008.04.13: New York Post on gambling on politics
2008.04.12: Collusion in ascending price auctions: RGGI auction designers respond to comments
2008.04.10: The price of rice in Vietnam
2008.04.08: Latest farmer vs. rancher epic from Texas centers on ethanol
2008.04.07: Speaking of jobs...
2008.04.07: Do utilities love cap-and-trade?
2008.04.07: The Environmental Economics 'lost green jobs challenge'
2008.04.05: Viet Nam seeks to develop competitive power industry
2008.04.04: The one small silver lining in $100/barrel oil and other stories of energy, economy, and policy
2008.04.03: The Kansas coal carbon tax caper
2008.04.01: American Wind Power Center in Lubbock, Texas
2008.03.31: It's moving day chez KP
2008.03.27: How is changing a government mandate "killing" the electric car?
2008.03.27: Reliable power: the winds of West Texas vs. a maintenance worker mistake in Florida
2008.03.26: Price gouging: At the intersection of emotions, ethics, and economics
2008.03.26: A day in Savannah
2008.03.24: Energy efficient homes appealing to buyers in Texas
2008.03.24: "Why are gasoline prices so high?"
2008.03.19: FCC spectrum auction ends
2008.03.19: Sad Socket: Galvin Electricity Initiative's new ad
2008.03.19: Energy from animal waste
2008.03.18: Peel-and-stick solar panels for Phoenix convention center
2008.03.18: Think Alan Greenspan--only in Battlestar Galactica
2008.03.17: RGGI picks uniform-price sealed-bid auction design for first regional CO2 auction in US
2008.03.16: Foreseeing $105/barrel oil: a reason to love an economist
2008.03.14: Alternative energy: John Doerr calls it the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century
2008.03.14: Xcel will make Boulder Colorado its first "Smart Grid City"
2008.03.13: "The first widespread pocket desktop computer"
2008.03.13: Turning cattle, swine and poultry waste into electric power
2008.03.11: KEMA's retail forum
2008.03.10: Analysis out of the Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center
2008.03.10: A couple of interesting climate change articles
2008.03.10: Smart grid podcast
2008.03.09: Update on NIN album release
2008.03.07: IP rights and complementary products: the economics of Apple's iPhone SDK
2008.03.07: Whatever happened to the FCC's big spectrum auction?
2008.03.06: How can Arizona become a solar power exporter if it opposes building interstate power lines?
2008.03.05: NIN for free, $5, $10, $75, or $300: that's price discrimination! Or bundling. Whatever; it's value-creating!
2008.03.04: Why should the state own Wrigley Field?
2008.03.04: Clean tech: nanotech lithium energy storage
2008.03.04: This day in bridge engineering history
2008.03.04: ERCOT broke rules during wind emergency...
2008.03.04: Kling on Kurzweil on solar power, with an aside on politics
2008.03.02: Undergraduate energy business program at Houston recognized by Business Week
2008.03.02: Firm planning a coal-fired power plant hopes for federal greenhouse gas law
2008.02.29: Update on Florida substation fire
2008.02.29: Meanwhile, in Texas, a brief lull in the wind
2008.02.28: The obstacles to the smart grid are regulatory
2008.02.27: Career advice from Hal Varian
2008.02.26: Texas does carbon big, and that's not all...
2008.02.26: Power outage in Florida
2008.02.26: "Bourgeois commitments to virtue" reduce collective action problems
2008.02.26: Can Arizona become the "Persian Gulf of Solar Energy"?
2008.02.24: Welcome to the new Knowledge Problem!
2008.02.23: Texas wind power: Gets by with a little help from tax credits
2008.02.15: CBO report on carbon emission policies
2008.02.15: Carbon sequestration using amine sponges
2008.02.15: Electricity Deregulation, Texas-Style: AEI conference available on video
2008.02.11: Movable Type migration glitches
2008.02.11: Biofuels and carbon: changing land use makes ethanol increase carbon concentrations
2008.02.10: Welcome to the new-ish Knowledge Problem!
2008.02.08: College hockey: #1 Miami vs. #2 Michigan
2008.02.07: Will Wilkinson on Hume and the refinement of tastes
2008.02.05: Three cheers for gridlock
2008.02.05: Tyler sums up my cynicism about politics
2008.02.01: The $86 ticket to the Super Bowl
2008.01.31: Research roundtable on innovation
2008.01.29: Am I a pathetic late adopter, or just a curmudgeon?
2008.01.28: How do you know if a prediction market is any good?
2008.01.28: What institutional framework for electric power transmission?
2008.01.28: Texas electric choice: The power is yours. Use it.
2008.01.23: Deregulation, Innovation, and Market Liberalization: Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment
2008.01.23: Lysander Spooner Bicentennial
2008.01.22: Market power in Maryland power, and other economics stories in the news
2008.01.18: Geeky Friday fun: chocolate chips are distributed Poisson
2008.01.18: Upcoming AEI Conference: Texas Electricity Restructuring
2008.01.18: Tacit Knowledge and Prediction Markets
2008.01.17: Yes, this is real congestion pricing for airports*
2008.01.16: Making Cooler Computer Chips
2008.01.16: More Coverage of the GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project and Smart Grid
2008.01.16: Pre-auction jitters at the FCC
2008.01.15: Congestion fees coming to airports?
2008.01.15: Regulation of networks when networks cross political borders
2008.01.14: Programmable Thermostat Regulations in California: Big Brother or Control Freaks?
2008.01.14: Folly of pursuing energy independence
2008.01.13: Package bidding auction design for the FCC’s upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction
2008.01.10: A Quick Music Recommendation: Jukebox the Ghost
2008.01.10: GridWise Olympic Peninsula Project final report: prices to people and their devices lead to savings and reliability
2008.01.09: At the intersection of prediction markets and basketball tournaments
2008.01.09: Arizona utility proposes to ramp up peak rates
2008.01.08: Alaska natural gas pipeline, one of five proposals advances
2008.01.07: Disk Failure, Lost Comments
2008.01.07: More From the CES
2008.01.07: Consumer Electronics Go Green
2008.01.07: Prediction Markets at Google
2008.01.04: Project Kill Day
2008.01.04: Jerry Taylor on $100 Oil
2008.01.02: What will futurists do in the future?
2008.01.01: Music Favorites From 2007
2008.01.01: NHL Winter Classic
2008.01.01: Happy New Year!
2007.12.31: Presidential Candidates Through the Lens of Wodehouse
2007.12.31: LibriVox
2007.12.31: Girly Geek Chic
2007.12.31: PJM settles market monitoring dispute, Bowring to lead external market monitoring unit
2007.12.31: Justin Wolfers writing on prediction markets and the presidential campaign for the WSJ
2007.12.27: Nanotechnology Can Improve Energy Storage
2007.12.25: T.C. Boyle's "I Dated Jane Austen"
2007.12.21: Advanced metering gets interoperable
2007.12.20: EPA Ruling: States Can't Set Own GHG Vehicle Standards
2007.12.19: Retail Choice and Green Power: Informed Consumers
2007.12.18: Ron Bailey's Bali Observations at Reason
2007.12.18: How Do We Know the Laws of Physics Will Persist?
2007.12.18: RGGI auction design comments available online
2007.12.18: Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Random observations from CAFE to smart grids to pool and spa safety
2007.12.17: Some Holiday Electricity Frivolity
2007.12.17: Does release of electric market offer data facilitate collusion or discourage it?
2007.12.13: More on Pepco's Electricity Metering and Pricing Pilot
2007.12.12: PJM's capacity market: A view from Chicago
2007.12.12: Electric power restructuring: Notes from Texas and Washington, D.C.
2007.12.11: Ethanol and the End of Cheap Food
2007.12.11: Capacity markets and other stories of energy, policy and economy
2007.12.10: Good data from online ticket sales and resales help reveal ticket resale market
2007.12.07: Paging Dr. Tabarrok: Off the Fast Track at the FDA
2007.12.06: NU Searle Center Research Roundtable on Innovation
2007.12.06: Girls Dominate Siemens Science, Math, Technology Competition
2007.12.05: Linking wind farms can help average away problems with intermittency
2007.12.03: Alaska gas pipeline: Will the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act get construction started?
2007.11.30: RGGI auction design flaw: Separate sealed-bid auctions for substitute goods poses needless risks for bidders
2007.11.29: Lyric/Glyndebourne Production of Handel's Julius Caesar: Best.Opera.Ever
2007.11.29: More on airport congestion
2007.11.29: FCC Auction Design: An assessment of 12 years of FCC experimentation
2007.11.28: Baking Soda for Carbon Sequestration?
2007.11.27: EU disputes allegation of double counting of carbon emission permits
2007.11.26: Separating cheap talk from truly held beliefs
2007.11.26: Methane-Absorbing Microbes
2007.11.25: Power Play: News series examines Texas electric power industry restructuring
2007.11.23: Property Rights in "Californication"
2007.11.22: Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy That Fattening Food While You Can?
2007.11.21: Happy Travels? Will Federal Policy Bring Economics to Airports?
2007.11.21: Generation Shares by Fuel Type: Regulated and Deregulated States
2007.11.21: Prices Aren't Always Property
2007.11.20: High Gas Prices: Demand-Driven
2007.11.20: Making Use of Captured Carbon
2007.11.20: Cap-and-trade characters: Hoarders, speculators and do-gooders
2007.11.18: Prices are information goods, and information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable
2007.11.16: PJM, its Market Monitoring Unit, and the hotline tipster's allegation of market power
2007.11.16: Gridlock! Drew Carey and Reason.tv on Road Pricing
2007.11.15: Solar Panels and Recycled Silicon
2007.11.15: Candy As A Gateway Drug
2007.11.14: NFL wants to support secondary market for tickets, New England Patriots want to punish ticket resalers. Also Miley Cyrus ticket action.
2007.11.13: Green power options for retailed consumers described
2007.11.12: He Gets Vaccinated So He Can Get Kissed
2007.11.10: Electric bikes in China bring costs and benefits
2007.11.09: Common Tragedies: Injecting a little substance into blogging on energy, environment and economics
2007.11.09: Auction design for selling CO2 emissions: Check out their annotated bibliography
2007.11.08: Industries Collide As Energy Prices Rise
2007.11.07: $100 Oil In Our Imminent Future
2007.11.07: China and India Energy Predictions From the IEA
2007.11.07: Electricity prices and deregulation, again
2007.11.05: How long will the writers' strike last?
2007.11.01: Retail electric power metering, the view from Houston
2007.10.31: Who Are The Top Sugar Subsidy Recipients?
2007.10.31: Another Technical Comment
2007.10.31: House Renovation: Have We Got Concrete?
2007.10.31: More Sugar Lobbying; Will It Ever End?
2007.10.31: Smart Money on Enernoc and Comverge
2007.10.31: Technical Update
2007.10.29: Prediction markets or insider trading could reveal information hidden from upper management
2007.10.29: New Fashion Read
2007.10.29: Economists do not understand the opposition to congestion pricing
2007.10.26: Reason In DC
2007.10.26: How Important Will Plug-In Hybrids Be?
2007.10.26: Sports betting with furniture, II
2007.10.26: Blogger Vanity Posting
2007.10.24: Zitzewitz asks: Is sports betting legal if you bundle it with furniture?
2007.10.24: California Fires
2007.10.24: Airlines prefer customers take delay risks rather than face market mechanisms to allocate capacity at JFK, other congested airports
2007.10.23: News Story Blames Inadequate Regulation for Excess Commodity Speculation, Trading Losses, Higher Energy Bills
2007.10.20: The Nobel prize in economics and the usual less than noble complaints
2007.10.19: Arnold Kling Imagines
2007.10.19: Al Roth's "The Art of Designing Markets"
2007.10.18: Economist Befuddled By Airline Industry
2007.10.18: Conflicting Movements In Oil Markets
2007.10.17: Reliability and Markets: New Reports Out from NERC, ISO-RTO Council
2007.10.16: More On Mechanism Design
2007.10.15: Nobel Award: Mechanism Design
2007.10.11: A Couple More Radiohead Pricing Articles
2007.10.10: Houston Chronicle Explores Texas Power Market Problems, Fixes
2007.10.09: Case Involving Unilateral Modification to Power Contracts Heading to Supreme Court
2007.10.08: Concert review: Hot Hot Heat, Bedouin Soundclash, and De Novo Dahl
2007.10.08: Bay & Environment Blog
2007.10.08: The Regulatory Compact and Its Consequences for Innovation
2007.10.08: Nuclear Energy's Rebirth: Good Economics, Some Environmental Credentials, and Great Subsidies
2007.10.05: Arizona Commission's Negative Power Line, Round II
2007.10.04: Unbundling Europe's Electric Utilities
2007.10.03: Creative Small Scale Electric Power Generation
2007.10.03: Prediction markets and the flow of information inside organizations
2007.10.02: Proprietary, Sweeter Tomates: Another Unintended Consequence of Ethanol Subsidies
2007.09.29: Nuclear Power and the Death of Regulation (and the Rebirth of Nuclear Power)
2007.09.28: Adler On Regulatory Barriers To Renewable Energy
2007.09.27: Adler On Morriss On Energy Regulation
2007.09.27: Where I've Been Lately
2007.09.27: The New Demand For The Stylish Urban Bike
2007.09.27: Good Climate Change Article From Ron Bailey
2007.09.26: Cowen on Prizes vs. Grants
2007.09.25: Adler: Government-Sponsored Prizes would be Better than Subsidies
2007.09.25: Capacity Market Costs Drive Utility to Want to Leave PJM, Join Midwest ISO
2007.09.24: Sean Casten Counters "Backlash Against Competitive Markets"
2007.09.20: Newspaper Article Presents Dispute between PJM and its Market Monitor
2007.09.19: Is This Any Way to Do Energy Policy, Part II?
2007.09.19: CFTC Holds Hearings on Oversight of Energy Trading
2007.09.18: Is this any way to do Energy Policy?
2007.09.17: Technology Review on Plug-In Hybrids
2007.09.17: Well-Known Economist Advises Online World
2007.09.11: Alex Tabarrok Airs the Dirty Laundry
2007.09.11: WSJ Reports "Incentives Prove Powerful"
2007.09.11: How Smart is Your Electric Meter?
2007.09.09: Natural Gas Futures Trader Files Complaint Against Energy Transfer Partners
2007.09.09: FERC Issues Report on Demand Response and Advanced Metering
2007.09.07: It is Easy to Create a Prediction Market at Inkling - See my new Women's World Cup Prediction Market
2007.09.07: Extending Copyright to Fashion Designs
2007.09.06: EPSA Offers Comments on the Cato Electric Power Restructuring Editorial
2007.09.05: Cato's Jerry Taylor Responds to My Provocation
2007.09.05: More Energy News and Policy
2007.09.05: Has Wholesale Power Competition Increased Efficiency at Generating Plants?
2007.09.03: James Grimmelmann on Errors Published in the New York Times
2007.09.01: Cato Institute Writers Lament the Unfortunate Loss of Vertical Integration in Electric Power Industry
2007.09.01: David Eisenthal’s Final Look at His Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District Democratic Primary Prediction Market
2007.08.31: A Little Music Reading for the Holiday Weekend
2007.08.30: New Daedalus Blog
2007.08.28: Data Center Power Use, Storage, and Smart Grid
2007.08.27: Demand Response in the Recent East Coast Heat Wave
2007.08.27: Would Perfectly Internalizing Motor Vehicle Externalities Make the Economy Less Efficient?
2007.08.25: Vino Volo: An Oasis of Civilization Beyond Airport Security
2007.08.24: Massive Storms Hit Chicago
2007.08.22: Thomas Friedman on Energy Efficiency in the New York Times Today
2007.08.22: More on AMR and AMI
2007.08.22: AMI Not AMR: Getting the Right Kind of New Meter
2007.08.21: A Paper Battery?
2007.08.20: The Smart Grid and Renewable Energy
2007.08.18: Phillipine Wholesale Power Market Operator Seeks to Improve Detection, Deterrence of Market Power Abuse
2007.08.17: Judge Won't Block Whole Foods - Wild Oats Merger
2007.08.16: Forbes Article on Smart Grid Technology and Dynamic Pricing
2007.08.15: Small Jets Worsen Airport Delays, and the FAA Cannot/Will Not Adapt
2007.08.15: FTC Accidently Reveals Whole Foods Trade Secrets: Wal-Mart a Target of Whole Foods Negotiating Strategy
2007.08.13: Maryland Utilities Commission Asserts Itself
2007.08.12: Home of the Groove: Internet Radio Not Dead Yet
2007.08.11: Sally Satel on Incentives, Altruism, and Kidney Transplants
2007.08.10: What Implications for Prediction Markets from the NYMEX v. IntercontinentalExchange Case?
2007.08.10: Baltimore Sun Columnist on PJM: Let's see why grid watchdog barked
2007.08.10: Greg Clark's "A Farewell to Alms"
2007.08.10: What is a Price? The Courts Think They Know; The Courts are Wrong.
2007.08.09: SoundExchange, Lobbying, and the Nature of Bureaucracy
2007.08.09: Jacoby and Roberts on Ticket Scalping
2007.08.09: Biofuels Update
2007.08.08: Another Day, Another Tyler Cowen Sighting
2007.08.07: Nunes Proposes Market Subsidy to Displace Energy Policy
2007.08.06: Nayan Chanda's Book On The History Of Trade
2007.08.06: Parking Meter Pay-By-Phone
2007.08.04: Another CFTC Energy Market Manipulation Charge - Marathon Oil Agrees to Pay $1 Million
2007.08.04: The Most Active Inkling Market Ever?
2007.08.03: StubHub Becomes Major League Baseball's Official Online Ticket Resale Marketplace
2007.08.02: Game Fixing Episode in World Cup Quidditch
2007.08.02: PJM Wants to Reorganize Market Monitoring Unit, Move On
2007.08.01: More on the Whole Foods/Wild Oats Case
2007.08.01: Some Silly Amusement
2007.08.01: Big Organic Fishes in a Small Natural Pond?
2007.07.31: Supreme Court Patent Decision Trickles Down Into Precedent
2007.07.31: Competition + Technology = Business Model Innovation
2007.07.28: How Competitive are PJM's Markets? Maryland Wants to Know
2007.07.27: FERC Presents Natural Gas Market Manipulation Claims Against Amaranth
2007.07.26: Toyota's New Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles
2007.07.26: CFTC Files Suit: "Defendents Intended to Create Artificial Natural Gas Prices..."
2007.07.25: Economics, Energy, and the Environment
2007.07.25: Fed Official Says Market Adjustments Have Allowed Economic Growth Despite Higher Energy Prices
2007.07.24: PJM's Newly Ex-CEO: PJM Never Really Wanted a Market Monitor
2007.07.24: Steve Chapman on Energy Efficiency
2007.07.22: Finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2007.07.21: Anyone Else Reading Harry Potter?
2007.07.20: Oil Industry: Moving Toward Alternate Fuels
2007.07.20: (Somewhat Technical) Perils of Regulation: The Shrinking Proxy Group
2007.07.19: Interview With Digg's Kevin Rose
2007.07.19: Ice Storage as Cooling
2007.07.17: Another Black Eye for Corn-based Ethanol
2007.07.17: Gasoline Rationing?
2007.07.14: Zappo's Redefines Online Retail Boundaries
2007.07.14: Optimal Copyright Estimate: 14 Years
2007.07.13: Internet Radio's Last Weekend? Maye Not
2007.07.13: Auction Seeks to Provide Competitive Prices for the Discovery of Network Goods
2007.07.12: U.S. Senator Weighs in on PJM Dispute with Market Monitor
2007.07.11: What Do You Look For In KP? Let Me Know
2007.07.11: The Smart Grid and Sustainable IT
2007.07.11: Pricing and Technology Combine To Help Consumers Manage Energy Costs
2007.07.11: FlightStats
2007.07.11: How Biofuels Could Starve The Poor
2007.07.11: Every Consumer Benefits from Small Reductions in Peak Demand
2007.07.11: More on Prediction Market Manipulation
2007.07.10: Senate Considers Expanding Regulatory Power to Counter 'Excessive Speculation' in Gas Market
2007.07.09: Mergers and Antitrust Policy
2007.07.09: A Final Comment on the Police Concert and Stewart Copeland
2007.07.07: Deep-Pocketed Manipulators are a Prediction Market’s Friend
2007.07.06: Concert Report: The Police at Wrigley Field, First Show
2007.07.06: Experimental Economics and Real-World Details
2007.07.06: Applying Experimental Economics to Policy Design is Not About Duplicating Real World Conditions
2007.07.05: Freakonomics Interviews Prediction Market Entrepreneur John Delaney
2007.07.05: Amaranth Autopsy: The Views of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Excessive Speculation in the Natural Gas Market
2007.07.04: Another Confused-but-Useful Newspaper Story on Hedge Funds
2007.07.04: High Powered Blog on European Energy Policies
2007.07.01: Tim Harford on Manipulation of Prediction Markets
2007.06.28: Blackouts, Smart Grids, and Interoperability
2007.06.26: The KP Icelandic Saga
2007.06.26: Internet Radio Day of Silence
2007.06.22: Reykjavik
2007.06.21: Following Up: Perfecting Retail Markets, PJM, Iceland
2007.06.20: Still More on Secondary Ticket Markets: "Scalping Goes Upscale"
2007.06.20: Not In Iceland, Yet ... Thanks to Icelandair
2007.06.19: Off To ISNIE Conference
2007.06.19: Electricity Retail Choice: Pay-As-You-Go Service
2007.06.18: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Male-Female Toilet Seat Behavior
2007.06.15: Online Secondary Ticket Markets can be Good for Teams and Fans
2007.06.14: One Difference between Regulated and Unregulated Utility Companies
2007.06.14: "Losers and Winners": The Gale of Creative Destruction, Captured on Film
2007.06.12: Same as it ever was...
2007.06.11: The Electric Power Retail Access Hard Core
2007.06.11: Does Picking a Winner Lessen the Fun of Watching a Contest?
2007.06.11: Banks and Exchange Rate Policies for Virtual Worlds
2007.06.09: Bloggers' Free Investment Advice Worth Every Penny
2007.06.09: Will Harry Potter Die? Don't Bet on It
2007.06.08: U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines
2007.06.07: Think About This: New Music Business Model From Lala
2007.06.07: A Little Fun Frivolity
2007.06.06: Two Articles on Maryland's Electricity Price Increase
2007.06.05: N.Y. Ends Scalping Laws
2007.06.04: Market Design as Applied Hayekian Insight
2007.06.04: More Exercise: Udder Century Bike Ride
2007.06.04: Race Report: Tri-Shark
2007.06.04: Reconciling A Hayekian/Organic Approach With "Designing" Markets
2007.06.04: Markets for Kidney Transplants
2007.06.02: Arizona Commission's Negative Power Line
2007.06.01: NYT Story on Energy Efficiency, But Where Are The Prices?
2007.06.01: Newshour Story on Illinois Electricity
2007.06.01: Carbon Tax or Cap & Trade: Does It Matter Which One?
2007.06.01: An Easy Introduction to Gasoline Prices
2007.05.30: Outsourcing the Corn Lobby to the Hedge Fund Industry
2007.05.29: Financially Exposed to Hurricane Risks?
2007.05.27: A Blogger’s Reason for Trying the Shangri-La Diet
2007.05.25: Some More Sensible Commentary on Gas Prices
2007.05.25: House Passes "Price Gouging" Bill
2007.05.25: Memorial Day Driving, Gas Prices, and Retail Sales
2007.05.25: Prediction Markets vs. the Pundits in the French Election
2007.05.24: Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style, II
2007.05.23: Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style
2007.05.23: Insider Trading on Capitol Hill?
2007.05.22: Vernon Smith Podcast on Experimental Economics
2007.05.21: Gas Prices: Mobility Cost as Percent of Household Budget Has Fallen
2007.05.21: Glaeser on Environmentalism
2007.05.17: Inkling & Surowiecki & Safeway at BNET
2007.05.17: Tim Haab on the Politics of Gas Prices: Get Over It
2007.05.17: Cycling: Landis (Kangaroo?) Trial in Full Swing
2007.05.17: How Competitive Is Coal-To-Liquids Conversion?
2007.05.16: Senators as Stock Pickers
2007.05.16: Price Gouging: Politicians vs. Economists
2007.05.15: Prediction Markets on XM-Sirius Merger: Maybe Next Year
2007.05.14: A Few Random Chicago Spring Links
2007.05.14: New Internal Combustion Engine Technology
2007.05.14: The Supply and Demand for Socially Conscious Investments
2007.05.13: Econoblogging as Gossip
2007.05.11: Biodiesel Subsidy Splash and Dash
2007.05.11: Politicians Praise Big Oil for High Gas Prices...
2007.05.11: Michigan Politician offers a Quid Pro Quo
2007.05.10: Marathon Oil, Manipulation, Misplaced Concreteness and the Cheesy Strategy
2007.05.08: Secrets of an Inkling Top Trader: Spotting Riskless Arbitrage Opportunities
2007.05.08: Economists Seek Safe Harbor for Small Stakes Prediction Markets
2007.05.08: The Challenge of Retail Electricity Restructuring: Dynamic Pricing and Enabling Technology
2007.05.08: Is Falls Church the Harry-est Town in America?
2007.05.08: "Record High" Gasoline Prices
2007.05.08: Snipers, Shills, and Sharks
2007.05.04: Another Round of "Are We Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?"
2007.05.03: Can FERC Regulate Generation Resource Adequacy?
2007.04.29: Internet Radio Royalty Math
2007.04.27: Internet Radio and Royalty Payments
2007.04.27: Are Big Box Stores "Music Tastemakers"?
2007.04.26: The Good Doctor on the Evils of the Impending Satellite Radio Monopoly
2007.04.25: What Do Hedge Funds Do?
2007.04.25: Bookstaber on the Perils of Financial Innovation
2007.04.25: Options Backdating Back Story
2007.04.24: Greasing the Wheels of Capital
2007.04.24: Texas Newspapers Asks, "When is electricity trading illegal?"
2007.04.18: Technology Makes Visiting London All the More Fun!
2007.04.18: Schumpeter, Coase, and Hayek
2007.04.18: State Lawmakers and Retail Electric Competition
2007.04.18: Did the Court's Billion Dollar Result Rely on Invented Analysis by Commission Staff?
2007.04.18: FERC Chairman: State Lawmakers to Blame for Retail Competition Failures
2007.04.17: The Perils of Financial Innovation, or Not
2007.04.16: Innovation: Using Animal Fat to Produce Biodiesel
2007.04.13: Wisdom Worth Giving Up Bananas For
2007.04.09: I'm Happy to Offer a Partial Retraction ...
2007.04.09: Jerry Ellig on Electricity Choice in Virginia
2007.04.09: Incandescent Bans and Dim Bulbs
2007.04.07: PJM Market Monitor Reports Interference from Management
2007.04.05: The MLS is Growing Up
2007.04.05: Market Share Math
2007.04.04: Knowledge Problem Remark Becomes Corporate Blurb
2007.04.04: Go Read WSJ's Energy Roundup Blog
2007.04.03: Paradox of Choice: Jazzfest Edition
2007.04.03: Supreme Court Mass. vs. EPA Decision
2007.04.03: Concert Tickets and the Beauty of Market Processes
2007.04.03: Agenda Released for FERC Conference on Market Monitoring
2007.04.01: Ethanol and Corn Markets: The Unintended Consequences are Starting to Show Up
2007.04.01: Google's New Home Wireless Offering
2007.03.31: Ex Post Market Monitoring in Electric Power Markets
2007.03.27: The Kluge That We Need: Local Market Power Mitigation Measures
2007.03.23: Musician Soccer Fans
2007.03.23: Soccernomics: MLS's Growth Strategy
2007.03.22: Where is Cinderella?
2007.03.22: Wind Power & Water Power: So Happy Together
2007.03.21: Why do we have Electric Power Market Monitors?
2007.03.20: Manipulation of Illinois Wholesale Power Auction?
2007.03.20: Still Here ...
2007.03.15: Bibliography of Studies Assessing Wholesale Power Markets
2007.03.15: Market-Based Wholesale Power Rates in Court
2007.03.14: Bruce Charlton is a Big, Fat Liar
2007.03.13: Market Monitors in Electric Power Markets, II
2007.03.12: The Role of Market Monitors in Electric Power Networks
2007.03.12: Fundamentals of Spring Gasoline Price Increases
2007.03.12: Updates: Radio, Energy Rant, Light Rail
2007.03.09: Locational Marginal Pricing, A Sore Point
2007.03.07: "Markets for Reactive Power and Reliability"
2007.03.07: Ethanol for Grown-Ups
2007.03.05: Forensic Financial Management
2007.03.05: KP on the Road ...
2007.03.04: Rival Bid for TXU? And What About the Politicians?
2007.03.02: Duke Energy and Energy Efficiency: NC Commission's Decision Could Have Been Better
2007.02.28: Using Technology and Prices to Empower Electricity Consumers
2007.02.26: TXU Going Private: Private Equity Buys Into Competitive Power Markets
2007.02.26: FuturePundit on CO2 Emissions Reductions
2007.02.26: Debunking Myths About Markets
2007.02.24: Utility Competition Breaks out in Virginia
2007.02.23: Retail Competition in Electric Power: The Chicago Cubs Go Shopping
2007.02.22: Whole Foods-Wild Oats Merger: An Antitrust Concern?
2007.02.22: The Problem of Unconventional Oil
2007.02.21: Personal Carbon Offsetting
2007.02.21: Are Volatile Natural Gas Prices Unreasonable?
2007.02.20: WSJ's Energy Roundup
2007.02.20: Satellite Radio Merger: Antitrust Law in All Its Splendor to be Revealed
2007.02.19: Markets For Human Eggs
2007.02.16: Congressional Patent Reform: I'll Believe It When I See It
2007.02.16: Can't Make the Tour de California? Follow CSC Riders Using Google Earth
2007.02.16: Self-Assembling Nanotech Batteries
2007.02.16: Property Rights Definition: A Chicago Parking Case Study
2007.02.15: Welcome Instapundit Readers
2007.02.12: The Costly Lesson Venezuela's Citizens Are Learning About Their Demagogue
2007.02.12: Will Congestion Pricing of Highways Finally Happen?
2007.02.12: The Perplexing Economics of US Capital Flowing Into the EPL: Lessons For Hockey?
2007.02.12: Language, Metaphor, and Wine Writing
2007.02.12: How Do I Love the Idea of a Police Reunion?
2007.02.07: Wanted: Economic Analysis of Urban Rail Transportation
2007.02.06: Grant McCracken's the Final Word on Super Bowl Ads
2007.02.06: Temperature, Oil Prices, and Weather Derivatives
2007.02.01: A Potpourri of Interesting Things to Read
2007.02.01: Bundling's Benefits
2007.01.29: Milton Friedman, the Chicago School, and Austrian Economics
2007.01.26: Commitment, Commitment
2007.01.26: Randall Parker and David Victor on Ethanol Policy
2007.01.26: Frivolous Fun on Friday
2007.01.25: Good Things to Read This Morning
2007.01.24: Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos' Food Book
2007.01.24: Music Patrons or Pirates
2007.01.24: Washington Post Summary of Energy Points in SOTU
2007.01.24: NPR on Smart Meters
2007.01.20: Should We Abolish the FCC?
2007.01.19: The Financial Risk Associated With Inducing Yarn Frenzy in Knitters
2007.01.18: Catching My Eye This Morning
2007.01.17: California Freeze Drives Up Citrus Prices
2007.01.17: Beinhocker Book on Wealth, Complexity, and Economic Theory
2007.01.17: TierneyLab
2007.01.17: Why Are Oil Prices Falling?
2007.01.15: Some Site Updates
2007.01.15: Governing the Commons: Roommates Sharing Milk
2007.01.11: Steven Postrel at Organizations and Markets
2007.01.11: Will the New Iraq Strategy Revive the Iraq Oil Trust Idea?
2007.01.11: I Was SO Right About Beckham!
2007.01.10: Frank Self-Knowledge From A Chicago Politician
2007.01.10: David Beckham to MLS?
2007.01.10: NYT on Electricity: Metering and Asymmetric Information in Retail Markets
2007.01.08: What I Did Over Christmas Vacation
2007.01.08: Austan Goolsbee on Energy Independence
2007.01.08: Tri-Shark 2007
2007.01.08: Housecleaning Complete, For Now
2007.01.04: ... And We're Back!
2006.12.26: Texas PUC Issues Electric Markets Competition Report
2006.12.26: The Death of Competitive Wholesale Power Markets?
2006.12.20: James Surowiecki on Sugar Tariffs and Ethanol
2006.12.19: Black Gold Movie Half Baked, But That's Better Than I Expected
2006.12.18: CO2 Policy in Europe and the US
2006.12.18: Induction and Flexible Electronics for Wireless Power
2006.12.18: The Regulation of Prostitution
2006.12.15: Transmission, Congestion Charges, and the Smart/Modern/Intelligent Grid
2006.12.15: He's ba-a-ack! Another NYT Article on Electric Industry Restructuring
2006.12.14: Plug-In Hybrid Autos Could Put Off-Peak Power Generators to Good Use
2006.12.14: Are Blonds More Fun? Scientists Want to Know
2006.12.13: Mozart Sheet Music Available Online
2006.12.12: Landfill Gas and Bovine Flatulence: New Energy Supplies
2006.12.12: "Trade Deficit", Oil Prices, and Other Items of Interest
2006.12.11: Are You In the Holiday Spirit Yet?
2006.12.11: Romancing the Supply Chain
2006.12.05: Are Texans Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?
2006.12.05: Keepin' It Real: Realistic Football Videogame Wins Fans for NFL
2006.12.05: Are Texans Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?
2006.12.05: Keepin' It Real: Realistic Football Videogame Wins Fans for NFL
2006.12.04: Are We Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?
2006.12.02: "Drive Less!" Campaign is Working
2006.12.01: Personal Good News and Bad News
2006.11.30: Couple of New Links
2006.11.30: EPA Climate Change Case Before Supreme Court
2006.11.29: CA PUC Chairman Peevey to Illinois: Don't Continue the Rate Freeze
2006.11.29: Residential Real-time Pricing in Illinois in 2007 and Beyond
2006.11.29: Gasoline Price Manipulation for Political Gains?
2006.11.28: Powerful Opportunity for Demand Response in Northern Virginia
2006.11.28: CERA Sees Undulating Plateau - Not Oil Peak
2006.11.27: A Better NYT Article on Electricity Restructuring, But Still Not A Good One
2006.11.27: A Better NYT Article on Restructuring
2006.11.23: Adam Smith on Government Spending on Public Spectacles
2006.11.23: Milton Friedman's Wisdom and the Impending London Olympics
2006.11.23: Digital Camera Carnival: Pentax Optio W10
2006.11.22: Happy Turkey Day
2006.11.21: Texas State Government Takes Own Advice, Goes Energy Shopping
2006.11.19: Department Store Rebound?
2006.11.16: Milton Friedman Dies at 94
2006.11.16: PUHCA Repeal Yet to Produce Utility Powerhouse
2006.11.15: Discounted Gasoline Garners Grocery Retailer $1.4 million Lawsuit
2006.11.15: The Use of Videoclips in Society
2006.11.14: Iain Murray on Electricity Infrastructure Investment
2006.11.14: Ken Maize's Energy Blog
2006.11.09: One Small Political Observation
2006.11.07: JetBlue Comes To O'Hare, But UA and AA Don't Roll Out the Welcome Wagon
2006.11.07: Solar Power Without Silicon
2006.11.02: A Toast to Red Wine - Uh, How Many?
2006.11.01: Regulating Hedge Funds
2006.10.31: Intellectual Property and Viral Marketing
2006.10.31: What's So Great About Tacit Knowledge?
2006.10.31: Buy A Contract on Lance's Marathon Time
2006.10.25: Here Comes the Sun?
2006.10.24: Transplant Group Slow to Discipline Poor Quality Transplant Centers
2006.10.23: Power Company Executives on Carbon Emission Policy
2006.10.23: Some Interesting Oil Market Articles
2006.10.19: Allegations of Gas Market Manipulation in Texas Don't Impress
2006.10.18: Illinois State Legislators Say "Freeze"
2006.10.16: Samuel Alito: Rockin' Steady?
2006.10.16: Cellphone Gives India's Traditional Sardine Fishermen Bargaining Power
2006.10.15: A Newspaper Peeks at Power Industry and Restructuring
2006.10.15: Thanks to Adam Smith Institute and Trust But Verify
2006.10.12: The Floyd Landis Case: Distributed Knowledge, Transparency, and the Wisdom of Crowds
2006.10.12: Moneyball in the MLB Playoffs
2006.10.12: Making Clean Energy Pay
2006.10.11: A Message Brought to You By...
2006.10.11: Does Renewable Energy Require Endless Subsidies?
2006.10.10: Another Music Note, Another Psychological Mystery
2006.10.10: WOXY Relaunch Today
2006.10.09: Here's An Interesting Psychology Question
2006.10.09: Edmund Phelps, Nobel Laureate
2006.10.09: Stampeding to the Vapid and Meddling Middle in Pennsylvania Politics
2006.10.06: Colorado Wind Power and Regulatory Logic
2006.10.06: I, For One, Welcome Our New Ticket Overlords
2006.10.05: Shikha Dalmia to Vinod Khosla: Why Is An Entrepreneur Advocating Government Intervention?
2006.10.05: Mike Munger: Why Politicians Can't Judge Innovation
2006.10.04: Lower than Low Gas Prices
2006.10.03: U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force's Final Report
2006.10.03: Ach! Spinach without Spin
2006.10.02: RIP, KP Dad
2006.10.02: An Education in Wind Energy
2006.09.29: A Wind Power Giant Arises in India
2006.09.29: The Sports Economist on Freakonomics vs. Moneyball
2006.09.28: Teamgeist Ball No Nightmare for MLS Goalkeepers
2006.09.27: Warsh on An Engine, Not a Camera
2006.09.26: Why anxiety? The NYT Editorializes for Hedge Fund Regulation
2006.09.24: Least Surprising Sentence in Today's Washington Post
2006.09.21: Inter-Agency Task Fo