Sitemap - 2007 - Knowledge Problem

Presidential Candidates Through the Lens of Wodehouse

Librivox

Girly Geek Chic

PJM Settles Market Monitoring Dispute, Bowring to Lead External Market Monitoring Unit

Justin Wolfers Writing on Prediction Markets and the Presidential Campaign for the Wsj

Nanotechnology Can Improve Energy Storage

T.C. Boyle's "I Dated Jane Austen"

Advanced Metering Gets Interoperable

Epa Ruling: States Can't Set Own Ghg Vehicle Standards

Retail Choice and Green Power: Informed Consumers

Ron Bailey's Bali Observations at Reason

How Do We Know the Laws of Physics Will Persist?

Rggi Auction Design Comments Available Online

Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007: Random Observations from Cafe to Smart Grids to Pool and Spa Safety

Some Holiday Electricity Frivolity

Does Release of Electric Market Offer Data Facilitate Collusion or Discourage It?

More on Pepco's Electricity Metering and Pricing Pilot

PJM's Capacity Market: A View from Chicago

Electric Power Restructuring: Notes from Texas and Washington, D.c.

Ethanol and the End of Cheap Food

Capacity Markets and Other Stories of Energy, Policy and Economy

Good Data from Online Ticket Sales and Resales Help Reveal Ticket Resale Market

Paging Dr. Tabarrok: Off the Fast Track at the Fda

NU Searle Center Research Roundtable on Innovation

Girls Dominate Siemens Science, Math, Technology Competition

Linking Wind Farms Can Help Average Away Problems with Intermittency

Alaska Gas Pipeline: Will the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act Get Construction Started?

Rggi Auction Design Flaw: Separate Sealed-bid Auctions for Substitute Goods Poses Needless Risks for Bidders

Lyric/Glyndebourne Production of Handel's Julius Caesar: Best.Opera.Ever

More on Airport Congestion

FCC Auction Design: An Assessment of 12 Years of Fcc Experimentation

Baking Soda for Carbon Sequestration?

Eu Disputes Allegation of Double Counting of Carbon Emission Permits

Separating Cheap Talk from Truly Held Beliefs

Methane-absorbing Microbes

Power Play: News Series Examines Texas Electric Power Industry Restructuring

Property Rights in "Californication"

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy That Fattening Food While You Can?

Happy Travels? Will Federal Policy Bring Economics to Airports?

Generation Shares by Fuel Type: Regulated and Deregulated States

Prices Aren't Always Property

High Gas Prices: Demand-driven

Making Use of Captured Carbon

Cap-And-Trade Characters: Hoarders, Speculators and Do-gooders

Prices Are Information Goods, and Information Wants to Be Expensive, Because It's So Valuable

Pjm, Its Market Monitoring Unit, and the Hotline Tipster's Allegation of Market Power

Gridlock! Drew Carey and Reason.tv on Road Pricing

Solar Panels and Recycled Silicon

Candy As A Gateway Drug

Nfl Wants to Support Secondary Market for Tickets, New England Patriots Want to Punish Ticket Resalers. Also Miley Cyrus Ticket Action.

Green Power Options for Retailed Consumers Described

He Gets Vaccinated So He Can Get Kissed

Electric Bikes in China Bring Costs and Benefits

Common Tragedies: Injecting a Little Substance into Blogging on Energy, Environment and Economics

Auction Design for Selling Co2 Emissions: Check out Their Annotated Bibliography

Industries Collide As Energy Prices Rise

$100 Oil In Our Imminent Future

China and India Energy Predictions From the Iea

Electricity Prices and Deregulation, Again

How Long Will the Writers' Strike Last?

Retail Electric Power Metering, the View from Houston

Who Are The Top Sugar Subsidy Recipients?

Another Technical Comment

House Renovation: Have We Got Concrete?

More Sugar Lobbying; Will It Ever End?

Smart Money on Enernoc and Comverge

Technical Update

Prediction Markets or Insider Trading Could Reveal Information Hidden from Upper Management

New Fashion Read

Economists Do Not Understand the Opposition to Congestion Pricing

Reason In Dc

How Important Will Plug-in Hybrids Be?

Sports Betting with Furniture, II

Blogger Vanity Posting

Zitzewitz Asks: Is Sports Betting Legal if You Bundle It with Furniture?

California Fires

Airlines Prefer Customers Take Delay Risks Rather Than Face Market Mechanisms to Allocate Capacity at Jfk, Other Congested Airports

News Story Blames Inadequate Regulation for Excess Commodity Speculation, Trading Losses, Higher Energy Bills

The Nobel Prize in Economics and the Usual Less Than Noble Complaints

Arnold Kling Imagines

Al Roth's "The Art of Designing Markets"

Economist Befuddled By Airline Industry

Conflicting Movements In Oil Markets

Reliability and Markets: New Reports Out from NERC, ISO-RTO Council

More On Mechanism Design

Nobel Award: Mechanism Design

A Couple More Radiohead Pricing Articles

Houston Chronicle Explores Texas Power Market Problems, Fixes

Case Involving Unilateral Modification to Power Contracts Heading to Supreme Court

Concert Review: Hot Hot Heat, Bedouin Soundclash, and De Novo Dahl

Bay & Environment Blog

The Regulatory Compact and Its Consequences for Innovation

Nuclear Energy's Rebirth: Good Economics, Some Environmental Credentials, and Great Subsidies

Arizona Commission's Negative Power Line, Round Ii

Unbundling Europe's Electric Utilities

Creative Small Scale Electric Power Generation

Prediction Markets and the Flow of Information Inside Organizations

Proprietary, Sweeter Tomates: Another Unintended Consequence of Ethanol Subsidies

Nuclear Power and the Death of Regulation (and the Rebirth of Nuclear Power)

Adler On Regulatory Barriers To Renewable Energy

Adler On Morriss On Energy Regulation

Where I've Been Lately

The New Demand For The Stylish Urban Bike

Good Climate Change Article From Ron Bailey

Cowen on Prizes Vs. Grants

Adler: Government-sponsored Prizes Would Be Better Than Subsidies

Capacity Market Costs Drive Utility to Want to Leave Pjm, Join Midwest Iso

Sean Casten Counters "Backlash Against Competitive Markets"

Newspaper Article Presents Dispute Between Pjm and Its Market Monitor

Is This Any Way to Do Energy Policy, Part Ii?

CFTC Holds Hearings on Oversight of Energy Trading

Is This Any Way to Do Energy Policy?

Technology Review on Plug-in Hybrids

Well-known Economist Advises Online World

Alex Tabarrok Airs the Dirty Laundry

Wsj Reports "Incentives Prove Powerful"

How Smart is Your Electric Meter?

Natural Gas Futures Trader Files Complaint Against Energy Transfer Partners

FERC Issues Report on Demand Response and Advanced Metering

It is Easy to Create a Prediction Market at Inkling - See My New Women's World Cup Prediction Market

Extending Copyright to Fashion Designs

Epsa Offers Comments on the Cato Electric Power Restructuring Editorial

Cato's Jerry Taylor Responds to My Provocation

More Energy News and Policy

Has Wholesale Power Competition Increased Efficiency at Generating Plants?

James Grimmelmann on Errors Published in the New York Times

Cato Institute Writers Lament the Unfortunate Loss of Vertical Integration in Electric Power Industry

David Eisenthal’s Final Look at His Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District Democratic Primary Prediction Market

A Little Music Reading for the Holiday Weekend

New Daedalus Blog

Data Center Power Use, Storage, and Smart Grid

Demand Response in the Recent East Coast Heat Wave

Would Perfectly Internalizing Motor Vehicle Externalities Make the Economy Less Efficient?

Vino Volo: An Oasis of Civilization Beyond Airport Security

Massive Storms Hit Chicago

Thomas Friedman on Energy Efficiency in the New York Times Today

More on Amr and Ami

Ami Not Amr: Getting the Right Kind of New Meter

A Paper Battery?

The Smart Grid and Renewable Energy

Phillipine Wholesale Power Market Operator Seeks to Improve Detection, Deterrence of Market Power Abuse

Judge Won't Block Whole Foods - Wild Oats Merger

Forbes Article on Smart Grid Technology and Dynamic Pricing

Small Jets Worsen Airport Delays, and the Faa Cannot/will Not Adapt

Ftc Accidently Reveals Whole Foods Trade Secrets: Wal-Mart a Target of Whole Foods Negotiating Strategy

Maryland Utilities Commission Asserts Itself

Home of the Groove: Internet Radio Not Dead Yet

Sally Satel on Incentives, Altruism, and Kidney Transplants

What Implications for Prediction Markets from the Nymex V. Intercontinentalexchange Case?

Baltimore Sun Columnist on Pjm: Let's See Why Grid Watchdog Barked

Greg Clark's "A Farewell to Alms"

What is a Price? The Courts Think They Know; The Courts Are Wrong.

Soundexchange, Lobbying, and the Nature of Bureaucracy

Jacoby and Roberts on Ticket Scalping

Biofuels Update

Another Day, Another Tyler Cowen Sighting

Nunes Proposes Market Subsidy to Displace Energy Policy

Nayan Chanda's Book On The History Of Trade

Parking Meter Pay-by-Phone

Another CFTC Energy Market Manipulation Charge - Marathon Oil Agrees to Pay $1 Million

The Most Active Inkling Market Ever?

Stubhub Becomes Major League Baseball's Official Online Ticket Resale Marketplace

Game Fixing Episode in World Cup Quidditch

PJM Wants to Reorganize Market Monitoring Unit, Move On

More on the Whole Foods/wild Oats Case

Some Silly Amusement

Big Organic Fishes in a Small Natural Pond?

Supreme Court Patent Decision Trickles Down Into Precedent

Competition + Technology = Business Model Innovation

How Competitive Are Pjm's Markets? Maryland Wants to Know

FERC Presents Natural Gas Market Manipulation Claims Against Amaranth

Toyota's New Plug-in Hybrid Vehicles

CFTC Files Suit: "Defendents Intended to Create Artificial Natural Gas Prices..."

Economics, Energy, and the Environment

Fed Official Says Market Adjustments Have Allowed Economic Growth Despite Higher Energy Prices

PJM's Newly Ex-CEO: PJM Never Really Wanted a Market Monitor

Steve Chapman on Energy Efficiency

Finished Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Anyone Else Reading Harry Potter?

Oil Industry: Moving Toward Alternate Fuels

(Somewhat Technical) Perils of Regulation: The Shrinking Proxy Group

Interview With Digg's Kevin Rose

Ice Storage As Cooling

Another Black Eye for Corn-Based Ethanol

Gasoline Rationing?

Zappo's Redefines Online Retail Boundaries

Optimal Copyright Estimate: 14 Years

Internet Radio's Last Weekend? Maye Not

Auction Seeks to Provide Competitive Prices for the Discovery of Network Goods

U.S. Senator Weighs in on PJM Dispute with Market Monitor

What Do You Look For In Kp? Let Me Know

The Smart Grid and Sustainable It

Pricing and Technology Combine To Help Consumers Manage Energy Costs

Flightstats

How Biofuels Could Starve The Poor

Every Consumer Benefits from Small Reductions in Peak Demand

More on Prediction Market Manipulation

Senate Considers Expanding Regulatory Power to Counter 'excessive Speculation' in Gas Market

Mergers and Antitrust Policy

A Final Comment on the Police Concert and Stewart Copeland

Deep-pocketed Manipulators Are a Prediction Market’s Friend

Concert Report: The Police at Wrigley Field, First Show

Experimental Economics and Real-world Details

Applying Experimental Economics to Policy Design is Not About Duplicating Real World Conditions

Freakonomics Interviews Prediction Market Entrepreneur John Delaney

Amaranth Autopsy: The Views of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Excessive Speculation in the Natural Gas Market

Another Confused-But-Useful Newspaper Story on Hedge Funds

High Powered Blog on European Energy Policies

Tim Harford on Manipulation of Prediction Markets

Blackouts, Smart Grids, and Interoperability

The KP Icelandic Saga

Internet Radio Day of Silence

Reykjavik

Following Up: Perfecting Retail Markets, Pjm, Iceland

Still More on Secondary Ticket Markets: "Scalping Goes Upscale"

Not In Iceland, Yet ... Thanks to Icelandair

Off To Isnie Conference

Electricity Retail Choice: Pay-As-You-Go Service

A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Male-female Toilet Seat Behavior

Online Secondary Ticket Markets Can Be Good for Teams and Fans

One Difference Between Regulated and Unregulated Utility Companies

"Losers and Winners": The Gale of Creative Destruction, Captured on Film

Same As It Ever Was...

The Electric Power Retail Access Hard Core

Does Picking a Winner Lessen the Fun of Watching a Contest?

Banks and Exchange Rate Policies for Virtual Worlds

Bloggers' Free Investment Advice Worth Every Penny

Will Harry Potter Die? Don't Bet on It

U.S. Natural Gas Pipelines

Think About This: New Music Business Model From Lala

A Little Fun Frivolity

Two Articles on Maryland's Electricity Price Increase

N.y. Ends Scalping Laws

Market Design As Applied Hayekian Insight

More Exercise: Udder Century Bike Ride

Race Report: Tri-shark

Reconciling A Hayekian/organic Approach With "Designing" Markets

Markets for Kidney Transplants

Arizona Commission's Negative Power Line

NYT Story on Energy Efficiency, But Where Are The Prices?

Newshour Story on Illinois Electricity

Carbon Tax or Cap & Trade: Does It Matter Which One?

An Easy Introduction to Gasoline Prices

Outsourcing the Corn Lobby to the Hedge Fund Industry

Financially Exposed to Hurricane Risks?

A Blogger’s Reason for Trying the Shangri-la Diet

Some More Sensible Commentary on Gas Prices

House Passes "Price Gouging" Bill

Memorial Day Driving, Gas Prices, and Retail Sales

Prediction Markets Vs. the Pundits in the French Election

Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style, Ii

Auctioning the Airwaves, Google Style

Insider Trading on Capitol Hill?

Vernon Smith Podcast on Experimental Economics

Gas Prices: Mobility Cost As Percent of Household Budget Has Fallen

Glaeser on Environmentalism

Inkling & Surowiecki & Safeway at Bnet

Tim Haab on the Politics of Gas Prices: Get Over It

Cycling: Landis (kangaroo?) Trial in Full Swing

How Competitive Is Coal-to-liquids Conversion?

Senators As Stock Pickers

Price Gouging: Politicians Vs. Economists

Prediction Markets on Xm-sirius Merger: Maybe Next Year

A Few Random Chicago Spring Links

New Internal Combustion Engine Technology

The Supply and Demand for Socially Conscious Investments

Econoblogging As Gossip

Biodiesel Subsidy Splash and Dash

Politicians Praise Big Oil for High Gas Prices...

Michigan Politician Offers a Quid Pro Quo

Marathon Oil, Manipulation, Misplaced Concreteness and the Cheesy Strategy

Secrets of an Inkling Top Trader: Spotting Riskless Arbitrage Opportunities

Economists Seek Safe Harbor for Small Stakes Prediction Markets

The Challenge of Retail Electricity Restructuring: Dynamic Pricing and Enabling Technology

Is Falls Church the Harry-est Town in America?

"Record High" Gasoline Prices

Snipers, Shills, and Sharks

Another Round of "Are We Better Off Because of Power Industry Restructuring?"

Can Ferc Regulate Generation Resource Adequacy?

Internet Radio Royalty Math

Internet Radio and Royalty Payments

Are Big Box Stores "Music Tastemakers"?

The Good Doctor on the Evils of the Impending Satellite Radio Monopoly

What Do Hedge Funds Do?

Bookstaber on the Perils of Financial Innovation

Options Backdating Back Story

Greasing the Wheels of Capital

Texas Newspapers Asks, "When is Electricity Trading Illegal?"

Technology Makes Visiting London All the More Fun!

Schumpeter, Coase, and Hayek

State Lawmakers and Retail Electric Competition

Did the Court's Billion Dollar Result Rely on Invented Analysis by Commission Staff?

FERC Chairman: State Lawmakers to Blame for Retail Competition Failures

The Perils of Financial Innovation, or Not

Innovation: Using Animal Fat to Produce Biodiesel

Wisdom Worth Giving Up Bananas For

I'm Happy to Offer a Partial Retraction ...

Jerry Ellig on Electricity Choice in Virginia

Incandescent Bans and Dim Bulbs

Pjm Market Monitor Reports Interference from Management

The Mls is Growing Up

Market Share Math

Knowledge Problem Remark Becomes Corporate Blurb

Go Read Wsj's Energy Roundup Blog

Paradox of Choice: Jazzfest Edition

Supreme Court Mass. Vs. Epa Decision

Concert Tickets and the Beauty of Market Processes

Agenda Released for Ferc Conference on Market Monitoring

Ethanol and Corn Markets: The Unintended Consequences Are Starting to Show Up

Google's New Home Wireless Offering

Ex Post Market Monitoring in Electric Power Markets

The Kluge That We Need: Local Market Power Mitigation Measures

Musician Soccer Fans

Soccernomics: Mls's Growth Strategy

Where is Cinderella?

Wind Power & Water Power: So Happy Together

Why Do We Have Electric Power Market Monitors?

Manipulation of Illinois Wholesale Power Auction?

Still Here ...

Bibliography of Studies Assessing Wholesale Power Markets

Market-based Wholesale Power Rates in Court

Bruce Charlton is a Big, Fat Liar

Market Monitors in Electric Power Markets, Ii

The Role of Market Monitors in Electric Power Networks

Fundamentals of Spring Gasoline Price Increases

Updates: Radio, Energy Rant, Light Rail

Updates: Radio, Energy Rant, Light Rail

Locational Marginal Pricing, A Sore Point

"Markets for Reactive Power and Reliability"

Ethanol for Grown-ups

Forensic Financial Management

KP on the Road ...

Rival Bid for Txu? And What About the Politicians?

Duke Energy and Energy Efficiency: Nc Commission's Decision Could Have Been Better

Using Technology and Prices to Empower Electricity Consumers

Txu Going Private: Private Equity Buys Into Competitive Power Markets

Futurepundit on Co2 Emissions Reductions

Debunking Myths About Markets

Utility Competition Breaks out in Virginia

Retail Competition in Electric Power: The Chicago Cubs Go Shopping

Whole Foods-wild Oats Merger: An Antitrust Concern?

The Problem of Unconventional Oil

Personal Carbon Offsetting

Are Volatile Natural Gas Prices Unreasonable?

Wsj's Energy Roundup

Satellite Radio Merger: Antitrust Law in All Its Splendor to Be Revealed

Markets For Human Eggs

Congressional Patent Reform: I'll Believe It When I See It

Can't Make the Tour De California? Follow Csc Riders Using Google Earth

Self-assembling Nanotech Batteries

Property Rights Pefinition: A Chicago Parking Case Study

Welcome Instapundit Readers

The Costly Lesson Venezuela's Citizens Are Learning About Their Demagogue

Will Congestion Pricing of Highways Finally Happen?

The Perplexing Economics of US Capital Flowing Into the EPL: Lessons For Hockey?

Language, Metaphor, and Wine Writing

How Do I Love the Idea of a Police Reunion?

Wanted: Economic Analysis of Urban Rail Transportation

Grant Mccracken's the Final Word on Super Bowl Ads

Temperature, Oil Prices, and Weather Derivatives

A Potpourri of Interesting Things to Read

Bundling's Benefits

Milton Friedman, the Chicago School, and Austrian Economics

Commitment, Commitment

Randall Parker and David Victor on Ethanol Policy

Frivolous Fun on Friday

Good Things to Read This Morning

Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos' Food Book

Music Patrons or Pirates

Washington Post Summary of Energy Points in Sotu

Npr on Smart Meters

Should We Abolish the FCC?

The Financial Risk Associated With Inducing Yarn Frenzy in Knitters

Catching My Eye This Morning

California Freeze Drives Up Citrus Prices

Beinhocker Book on Wealth, Complexity, and Economic Theory

Tierneylab

Why Are Oil Prices Falling?

Some Site Updates

Governing the Commons: Roommates Sharing Milk

Steven Postrel at Organizations and Markets

Will the New Iraq Strategy Revive the Iraq Oil Trust Idea?

I Was So Right About Beckham!

Frank Self-Knowledge From A Chicago Politician

David Beckham to Mls?

NYT on Electricity: Metering and Asymmetric Information in Retail Markets

What I Did over Christmas Vacation

Austan Goolsbee on Energy Independence

Tri-Shark 2007

Housecleaning Complete, For Now

... And We're Back!