May 1, 2014

Morris Adelman, CEEPR Faculty Affiliate since its Founding in 1977, Passes Away at 96

Morris Albert Adelman, a giant in the field of energy economics and a faculty member in the MIT Department of Economics for 40 years, died on May 8 at the age of 96.

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April 24, 2014

Calculating the Costs of Pollution

In a column in the Los Angeles Times, CEEPR faculty Michael Greenstone, with Francesca Dominici and Cass Sunstein of Harvard University commented on the recent decision by a US Court of Appeals over the EPA

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February 5, 2014

Dr. John Parsons joins the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the CFTC

CEEPR’s Executive Director, Dr. John Parsons, was recently appointed to the Global Markets Advisory Committee of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The CFTC is the US government agency responsible for supervising most derivatives trading in the US, including the energy and agriculture commodity derivatives markets.

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December 10, 2013

Study: Ethanol not a major factor in reducing gas prices

If you have stopped at a gas station recently, there is a good chance your auto has consumed fuel with ethanol blended into it. Yet the price of gasoline is not substantially affected by the volume of its ethanol content, according to a paper co-authored by an MIT economist.

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October 19, 2013

An experiment puts auditing under scrutiny

The structure of the auditing business appears problematic: Typically, major companies pay auditors to examine their books under the so-called

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September 15, 2013

Climate Change Policy: What do the Models Tell Us?

Professor Robert Pindyck has a new working paper (CEEPR-WP-2013-007) that has attracted a good share of attention since it steps into the highly charged debate on the reliability of research related to climate change.

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