Econometric Modeling of Climate Change
Research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark 2017-2022 (extensions based on paternity leave and corona situation)
The announcement by DFF can be found here.
Selected Activities
May 22: Sebastian Jensen, Mikkel Bennedsen, and Jingying Zhou Lykke to present at EGU 22
Mar 22: Call for papers for EMCC-VI is out: Toulouse School of Economics Aug 25&26
Mar 22: EH gives presentation at Time Series Workshop Zaragoza, Spain
Dec 21: Call for papers out for special issue of Energy Economics on the Econometrics of Climate, Energy, and Resources, guest edited by EH, Hilde Bjørnland (Oslo) and Christiane Baumeister (Notre Dame)
Dec 21: EC^2 conference on Econometrics of Climate, Energy, and Resources organized by EH in Aarhus
Oct 21: EH gives presentation at NBER-NSF conference (virtual)
Sep 21: Asbjørn Kaufmann starts as PhD student on project
Aug 21: Jingying Zhou Lykke gives presentation at EMCC-V conference held online
Jul 21: EMCC group to host EC^2 conference Dec 10-11, 2021 in Aarhus. Call for papers
Apr 21: Jingying Zhou Lykke gives vPICO talk on "A State Space Representation of a Two-Component Energy Balance Model" at EGU virtual conference
Apr 21: EH gives vPICO talk on "A Statistical Model of the Global Carbon Budget" at EGU virtual conference
Mar 21: Call for papers for EMCC-V (virtual) is out
Mar 21: EH gives talk on "A Statistical Model of the Global Carbon Budget" at Dynamic Econometrics virtual conference
Feb 21: EH gives talk on "A Statistical Model of the Global Carbon Budget" at CREST virtual seminar
Jan 21: Our paper Bennedsen, M., Hillebrand, E., Koopman, S.J., "Modeling, forecasting, and nowcasting U.S. CO2 emissions using many macroeconomic predictors" has been accepted for publication at Energy Economics
15 Dec 2020: EH gave talk on "A Statistical Model of the Global Carbon Budget" in the Climate Econometrics Virtual Seminar, Nuffield College, Oxford University
Dec 20: Our paper Bennedsen, M., Hillebrand, E., and S.J. Koopman, A Statistical Model of the Global Carbon Budget, has been posted as a CREATES Working Paper 2020-18
Nov 20: Our paper Hillebrand, E., Johansen, S. and T. Schmith, 2020, Data Revisions and the Statistical Relation of Global Mean Sea Level and Temperature, Econometrics 8(4), 41, has been published open access here
Oct 20: Mikkel Bennedsen was awarded a grant by the Independent Research Fund Denmark under the title "Statistical analysis of climate data and climate models" to the amount of 2.8 million DKK
Oct 20: Jingying Zhou Lykke started as PhD student on the project in 2020
2 May 2020: This year's EMCC-V conference has been postponed to 2021, as a consequence of the continued uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus situation.
The call for papers for the EMCC-V conference is out.
24 Jan 2020: EH gave talk at the IWEEE 2020 on trend analysis of the airborne fraction and sink rate of anthropogenically released CO2
Jan 20: Mikkel Bennedsen's working paper "Designing a sequential testing procedure for verifying global CO2 emissions" has been posted as CREATES Working Paper 2020-01
Journal of Econometrics Annals Issue: Econometric Models of Climate Change is out
4 Dec 2019: EH gave talk on The Global Carbon Cycle and the Macroeconomy at Leibniz University, Hannover, Department of Economics
New working paper on Modeling, Forecasting, and Nowcasting U.S. CO2 Emissions Using Many Macroeconomic Predictors, by Mikkel Bennedsen, Eric Hillebrand, and Siem Jan Koopman: CREATES Working Paper 2019-21
EMCC-V conference website is online. Mark your calendars for Aug 27-28 in Victoria, Canada
Mikkel Bennedsen gave talk on "Forecasting CO2 emissions using macroeconomic data" at the 4th EMCC conference in Milan
Our paper Bennedsen, M., Hillebrand, E., Koopman, S.J.: "Trend analysis of the airborne fraction and sink rate of anthropogenically released CO2" appeared in Biogeosciences 16(18): 3651-3663
EH served as "case maker" for the 2019 edition of the Econometric Game on the subject of "Climate Econometrics"
Sebastian Mathias Jensen started as PhD student on the project in 2018
Mikkel Bennedsen started as assistant professor on the project in 2018