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Journal Article
Putting a price on carbon
To address global warming, most economists favor a focus on prices, not quantities.
Journal Article
Ethanol: economic gain or drain?
Corn-based ethanol can make a dent in demand for oil, but at what price? Food costs go up. Environmental damage worsens. If oil prices fall, ethanol production will probably collapse-as it did 20 years ago.
Journal Article
Amber waves of biodiesel
Though growing, renewable fuel isn?t likely to help save rural economies or kick an oil habit.
Speech
Energy and the U.S. macro economy
Wilmington Club, Wilmington, Del., July 24, 2007
Journal Article
Run over by gas
E85 is losing the battle with cheap gas, but promise for ethanol might lurk in other blends.
Newsletter
Household energy expenditures, 1982–2005
While energy's share of total expenditures has risen in recent years, it remains below the shares seen in the early and mid-1980s. Furthermore, the impact of the price increases on a household differs, based on the household's specific energy consumption patterns.
Journal Article
Oil and gas rises again in a diversified Texas
The oil and gas industry has been a driver of the Texas economy for the past 40 years. Its contribution declined with the oil-led recession of 1986 and appeared to slip further in the 1990s as the high-tech industry boomed. But oil and natural gas prices have risen since 1999, reaching record highs in 2008. This resurgence has boosted energy activity and factored into the recent economic recovery in Texas, affirming the industry?s long-held prominence in the state. ; An econometric model developed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas documents the state?s evolving energy fortunes since the ...
Journal Article
Energy and the economy
Journal Article
Energy markets and the Midwest economy
This article examines the effects of fuel prices on the Midwest economy. As a region that is still disproportionately reliant on manufacturing, the Midwest would be expected to feel the brunt of high energy costs. However, is this still the case, or has the impact been mitigated over time by the restructuring of the region?s economy? The author finds that the Midwest has followed the national pattern of decreasing reliance on energy to produce regional output, but still has a relatively high concentration of energy-intensive industries that, when combined with unfavorable weather conditions, ...
Speech
Energy and the economy
a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois