Still your grandfather’s boiler
Through a study of New Source Review, we empirically investigate how the differential treatment of coal boilers shaped the utilization, retirement and emissions of US coal generators.
AMI water meters deliver end-use water and financial savings in leaky households
Using 2WFE techniques we show that advanced metering infrastructure combined with targeted conservation messaging can significantly reduce residential water use, primarily by helping households detect and reduce leaks, generating both water savings and financial benefits.
Markets with power
We estimate counterfactual prices for the Australian National Electricity Market under the assumption of perfect competition and investigate to what extent market power contributed to elevated prices between 2015 and 2019.
Markets with power
We estimate counterfactual prices for the Australian National Electricity Market under the assumption of perfect competition and investigate to what extent market power contributed to elevated prices between 2015 and 2019.
ITC Fragility Index
This project uses ITC Business Fragility Survey data to generate a business-specific fragility index through factor analysis.
Building a fragility index using factor analysis
In this blog, I use factor analysis techniques in R to build a business-specific fragility index.
ITC Instability Indicators
This project uses ACLED data as a proxy for instability and uses geospatial techniques within R to generate business-specific instability indicators.
Creating a proxy for local instability using geospatial event data
In this blog, I use ACLED data in conjunction with geospatial techniques in R to generate address-level indicators proxying for instability.
Still your grandfather’s boiler
We study the tradeoffs associated with New Source Review and their effects on coal boilers in the United States.
COVID restrictions, federal assistance and small businesses
We use high-frequency electricity data to demonstrate the effect of COVID restrictions on business activity and the mitigating effects of federal support programs in Burbank, California.
GIIDB
An internal training session for the GII Database—part of the GII Data Pipeline.
Economy Profiles
An internal training session for the GII Profiles project.
GII Economy Presentations
This project combines Quarto and PowerPoint to automatize the production of annual economy presentations for the WIPO Global Innovation Index.
Setting up Google Analytics on hugo-apéro
In this blog, I summarize the steps necessary to set up Google Analytics on a Hugo-Apéro website.
How to restrict access to a hugo-apéro website on GitHub Pages …
In this blog, I summarize the steps necessary to adapt the deployment of a Hugo-Apéro website to GitHub Pages while keeping either the content or the full website code private.
How to setup hugo-apéro on GitHub Pages …
In this blog, I summarize the steps necessary to adapt the deployment of a Hugo-Apéro website to GitHub Pages. I also discuss how to use git submodules to include a theme dynamically.
Still your grandfather’s boiler
We study the tradeoffs associated with New Source Review and their effects on coal boilers in the United States.
GII Sources and Definitions Appendix
This project combines Rmarkdown and Word to automatize the production of annual “Sources and Definitions” Appendix within the the WIPO Global Innovation Index Report.
COVID restrictions, federal assistance and small businesses
We use high-frequency electricity data to demonstrate the effect of COVID restrictions on business activity and the mitigating effects of federal support programs in Burbank, California.
Essays on Electricity Economics
My dissertation leverages electricity data for an economic investigation of three disparate topics: the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic; the implications of government ownership on the exercise of market power in the Australian National Electricity Market; and, the unintended consequences of US Clean Air Act regulation on coal boilers.
COVID restrictions, federal assistance and small businesses
We use high-frequency electricity data to demonstrate the effect of COVID restrictions on business activity and the mitigating effects of federal support programs in Burbank, California.
GII Economy Briefs
This project combines Rmarkdown and LaTeX to automatize the production of annual economy briefs for the WIPO Global Innovation Index.
GII Data Pipeline
This project combines R, Shiny, MariaDB and AWS to collect, clean, audit and store the data necessary for the annual WIPO Global Innovation Index.
GII Economy Profiles
This project combines R and XML to automatize the production of beautiful economy profiles for the WIPO Global Innovation Index.