Matt Tarduno

Got into a friendly argument with a family member over whether California or the Midwest will be relatively worse for smoky days in the coming years.

Want to go on a journey with us? 1/n

@severinborenstein.bsky.social differentiates between demand reductions that save society's resources and demand reductions that are wasteful.

Our paper is officially out 🎉

We argue that climate clubs show promise:

- A climate club with coordinated penalties could curb 68% of excess emissions from free-riding

-Unilateral carbon tariffs? Not nearly as effective

Thanks to @lastweektonight.com for a great story on why work requirements are bad policy and for citing my research!

Never thought I’d see my name next to John Oliver’s face while he talks about my work!!

This is a slap in the face of all public finance economists out there

if I were a car manufacturer, I would just drop an EV drivetrain into one of these iconic body styles and sit back and profit. failures of capitalism abound.

Chicago lawmakers skeptical of proposal to legalize 'granny flats' Chicago lawmakers are divided on legalizing the construction of Accessory Dwelling Units, or ADUs.

@alexnitkin.bsky.social is doing a great job keeping Chicago’s very limited ADU policy visible.

My fave line: alderpeople are skeptical about allowing a housing type that doesn’t require getting permission from them

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Great paper just out in Real Estate Economics by Andrew Bibler, @kteltser.bsky.social, and Mark Tremblay on the effects of SF’s Airbnb registration requirement. Quantities fell by a quarter and, interestingly, the effects were largest among professional hosts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New NBER paper: Shifting from the gas tax to a vehicle-miles-traveled tax would disproportionately benefit rural/Republican parts of the US.

Reasons:
🔹 Higher EV uptake on the coasts (EV owners don't pay gas tax)
🔹 Gas cars in urban/Dem areas get better gas mileage

www.nber.org/system/files...

Yesterday, AB745 (Irwin) passed the CA Assembly unanimously.

It takes cap-and-trade funds from the climate credit & uses it to lower electricity prices during the summer, providing relief when needed most.

This addresses energy affordability & provides momentum for C&T renewal. 1/

#energysky

This is like a list of Wout Van Aert palmares

Chicago Cityscape - Chicago traffic crashes map Map of reported traffic crashes & fatalities in Chicago from September 2017 through today.

get a handle on the car crash data in your neighborhood, ward, or other political district in Chicago.

www.chicagocityscape.com/maps/chicago...

Real-time Air Quality Index showing Vatican City

Best way to keep track of papal news

We’re hiring a lawyer to help defend our public records work. Deets: energyandpolicy.org/public-recor...

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert:

www.restud.com/colluding-ag...

#EconSky #REStud
#pollution #regulation #collusion

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @juliaseither @juliaseither.bsky.social at Universidad del Rosario who works on topics related to experimental + behavioral economics
www.juliaseither.org/

Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy 1.  Coal-fired electricity generation is essential to ensuring that our Nation's grid is reliable and that electricity is affordable for the

Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS, so it seems like it’s time for a thread! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

A new map from @transalt.org shows exactly where the city's worst drivers are speeding through school zones.

Faculty Research Associate in Environmental Studies Department Environmental Studies Program Vassar College is dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and welcomes applications from individuals of all backg...

🔌💡 Come work with us at Vassar College! Vassar is hiring a 2-year Research Associate (postdoc) in Community-Engaged Macro-Energy Systems Modeling. Bring your energy-modeling skills, learn to deploy them in a local/regional context, and communicate your work to local policy-makers. Reach out with Qs!

STAT News is a trusted and timely source of information – to be named by this outlet as an influential scholar in the field is a tremendous honor.

Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

New @rff.org working paper dropped!

*** Power Flows, Part 2: Transmission Lowers US Generation Costs, But Generator Incentives Are Not Aligned ***

This follows an earlier MISO/SPP analysis I did - now incorporating info from across the lower 48.

www.rff.org/publications...

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Excited to see this paper coming out in JAERE! The idea for this came from casual conversations very early in the PhD, so it's nice to see it find such a wonderful home! JAERE's review process was super helpful.

Alternative title: "Why your recreation demand model probably needs a price instrument"

Trying again since the thread didn't appear correctly: today's cool young researcher #econsky is @pbiscaye.bsky.social at CERDI who works on topics related to development, labor + agriculture

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

To anyone who is not clear: The First Amendment protected Rumeysa Ozturk when she published her op-ed. The same way it has protected me.

Rule of law means that we should be treated equally.

Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:

so hard not to be a Ganna fan after yesterday

www.rouleur.cc/en-us/blogs/...

(to those who follow for econ, I apologize as this will primarily be a cycling account until august)

la classicissima di primavera 💙