Felix Pretis

Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Plz share + apply!
seedfunding.stanford.edu/apply/U5N4

The preliminary programme for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change at the University of Victoria, 2025 is now available online! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Victoria in August! #EconSky tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

How much did the carbon tax actually impact inflation?

My latest for @TheHubCanada: thehub.ca/2025/05/22/... #cdnecon #cdnpoli

Interesting meta analysis on the social cost of carbon - quite surprising to see authors themselves be variables in a regression!

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

Only 4 more days to submit! The abstract submission deadline for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change is coming up on April 17th! #EconSky

This chart from Australia allows for some optimism though...

The carbon tax in British Columbia (BC), Canada.

Carbon pricing and the elasticity of CO2 emissions Using newly constructed sector-specific carbon price data, we study the response of CO2 emissions to carbon pricing policies for a cross-country panel…

Today the BC carbon tax has been removed. It's unfortunate that a simple climate policy had become so politicized.

Talk about ironic timing: our paper on the CO2 response to carbon pricing just came out in the April issue of Energy Economics. Hot off the press, cold in the policy grave. #Econsky

Heads (and elbows) up: The call for abstracts for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (University of Victoria, BC, Canada – Aug. 27-28, 2025) is open until April 17th! #Econsky

Looking forward to seeing you in August!

More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Thanks to the Canadian New Frontiers in Research Fund for supporting our Solid Carbon project on offshore geological carbon storage solidcarbon.ca! @uvic.ca

Many open economic questions to be explored - reach out if you're working on the economics of carbon storage and removal! #EconSky

In Nature Climate Change, @chrisbataille.bsky.social and I describe three common situations when energy/economic models are detrimental to climate policymaking efforts 🧵
rdcu.be/ecSMX

Like Vincent says, this is a big release with a shedload of new features. Same small footprint, though ;-)

Here’s quick rundown of some of my favourites...

#rstats #dataviz

{tinyplot} 0.3.0 is out! 🚨

It's a lightweight #Rstats 📦 to draw beautiful and complex plots, using an ultra-simple and concise syntax.

This is a massive release! @gmcd.bsky.social @zeileis.org and I worked hard to add tons of new themes and plot types.

Check it out!

grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/

Gridded GDP estimates over time - looks like a very useful dataset!

Developing innovative ways to bring data to life can be a catalyst for global impact.When Professor Max Roser started bringing together a library of datasets... Our World in Data: Transforming data into global impact

Check out this great new video about Our World in Data from @socsci.ox.ac.uk featuring our founder, @maxroser.bsky.social!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCz6EIcSFQ8

The 2025 EMCC conference is generously supported by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). pics.uvic.ca

We're looking for papers that use new econometric and statistical methods to study climate impacts (socio-economic, environmental), climate processes, climate policy, or climate finance. We also encourage submitters to the IJF special issue (shorturl.at/7dHKj) on forecasting to present their papers!

Call for papers now open! The 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change will take place at the University of Victoria, BC, Canada on Aug. 27-28th 2025. Submit your abstracts by April 17th! #econsky

Looking forward to seeing you in Victoria!

More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Sea level rise risks, adaptation strategies, and real estate prices in Singapore"

By Sumit Agarwal, Yu Qin, Tien Foo Sing, & Changwei Zhan

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have the privilege of presenting some of my work at the CWEC/CFÉC brown bag tomorrow. Presenting a synthetic control study of the socio-economic impacts of the Inuvik-Tuktoyktuk Highway.

Inference with a single treated cluster www.restud.com/inference-wi...

Time for that most blessed of annual traditions - counting the number of days until Daron Acemoglu’s annual citation count exceeds one’s lifetime count.

How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔
In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does) All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.

"Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)" Everything David Spiegelhalter writes is worth reading. In this case though he does imply that other things definitely do exist, which remains to be proved.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A great resource for a regression-based (and my favourite) solution to staggered treatment!

I 💕 that my favorite newspaper @derstandard.at used content from @instrumenthull.bsky.social's
iconic meme page for their interview with @dacemoglumit.bsky.social.

Read the full interview here:
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Formal call and more information will be on conference website in early 2025 sites.google.com/view/emcccon...

Two days of conference should leave ample time for hiking, whale watching, or wine tasting....

Save the date: 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (EMCC) will be at the University of Victoria BC, Canada, Aug. 27-28, 2025.

Come if you want to learn about climate and econometrics (or just want to visit Vancouver Island...) Formal call for papers to follow in 2025. #EconSky

Behavioral economics: people cannot add or subtract

Macroeconomics: *maybe* people cannot deal with the fact that the entire cross sectional distribution is a state variable