Ergs and Equilibrium

February 3, 2023

Episode 10: Intermittency is More Complicated than you Thought

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.

January 26, 2023

Episode 9: Hitting the (Bench)mark when Forecasting the Price of Oil

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.

January 19, 2023

Episode 8: Disclosure and Learning from your Neighbours in the US Shale Boom

Richard Sweeny 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.

January 12, 2023

Episode 7: Weather and International Trade

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”

January 5, 2023

Episode 6: Counter-intuitive Fuelwood Collection Behaviour

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.

August 18, 2022

Episode 5: What’s your VoLL

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.

August 11, 2022

Episode 4: Flying Over the Trap Door

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

August 4, 2022

Episode 3: Pipeline Constraints and Price Differentials

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.

July 28, 2022

Episode 2: Echoes of Energy Prices Past

Katherine Wagner, assistant professor at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, discusses her working paper “Technology Lock-in and Optimal Carbon Pricing”, co-authored with Jonathan Hawkins-Pierot.

July 21, 2022

Episode 1: Utility-Scale Batteries in the Real-world

Mario Samano, Associate Professor at HEC Montreal, discusses his recent paper “Large-scale battery storage, short-term market outcomes, and arbitrage”, co-authored with Stefan Lamp.