Glenn Rudebusch

The next Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics is on Thursday, March 20 at 11:00 New York, 15:00 London, 16:00 Paris. cepr.org/events/event.... The CEPR now hosts the VSCE. Past seminars are available at cepr.org/events/event....

TGV

The French just introduced the next-generation TGV.

The low-carbon transition comes with 5G at 350km/h.

Russell Women in Science Leadership Lecture presents Naomi Oreskes - The Mills Institute Join us for a lecture with Naomi Oreskes. Naomi is a Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Dr. Oreskes w...

In the San Francisco Bay area? Please join me at the Mills Institute Northeastern for the Russell Leadership Lecture. Free and open to the public. Talking about about #diversity; now more than ever.
millsinstitute.northeastern.edu/events/russe...

I'm excited to be joining the organizing committee, alongside a climate econ dream team of Lint Barrage, Mar Reguant, and @glennrudebusch.bsky.social

The Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics - always a highlight of my week - is moving to @cepr.org. A great line-up of upcoming speakers, beginning with Redfin's @hatethegamebook.com on March 20th.

Sign up here to register for the webinars: cepr.org/events/event...

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Whither r*? Yield on the 10-year Bund surged 0.21 pct pts to 2.69%, its biggest one-day move since 2008 after German govt agreed to exempt increased defense spending from the constitutional 'debt brake' on.ft.com/4bpglrt via @financialtimes.com #econsky

A Straightforward Climate Fix Hits Another Setback Cutting down emissions of planet-warming methane from oil and gas production was supposed to be relatively simple. It hasn’t worked that way.

The first tax cut of the new administration goes to the oil and gas industry: elimination of the tax on excess methane emissions in the energy sector. The superpolluters do not have to pay. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/c...

Opinion | We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.

Pari Sastry & Ishita Sen: Few signs that policymakers & regulators are willing to stop encouraging homeowners to build in climate-damage-prone areas despite the threats that presents to the homeowners insurance market. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/o... @nytimes.com op-ed

Federal Reserve Board announces it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced it has withdrawn from the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). Whi

The Fed announced it has left the Network for the Greening of the Financial System, a group of global central bankers and regulators that focuses on climate and transition risks for the financial sector. (Two Fed governors—Barr and Kugler—abstained from the vote).

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

See Our Top 5 Stories of 2024 From insights on the presidential election to groundbreaking research on the economy, management, and climate, here are the top five CBS Insights articles you clicked on most this year. 1. What Does Trump Mean for the Climate? During the 2024 election campaign, it was clear that Kamala Harris took the climate crisis much more seriously than Donald Trump. But even Trump cannot derail the ongoing global shift toward a low-carbon, high-efficiency economy, which continues to gain momentum, according to Gernot Wagner, the Senior Lecturer in Discipline of Economics in the Faculty of Business.

Kewl. The most read piece on Columbia Business School's website this year: business.columbia.edu/insights/col...

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says the economy is ending 2024 on a positive note NPR's Leila Fadel talks to David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, about the U.S. economic outlook for 2025.

I got up this morning to talk about the economic outlook for 2025 on @npr.org www.npr.org/2024/12/30/n...

Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

“Women are asked more questions during a seminar and the questions asked of women presenters are more likely to be patronizing or hostile. These effects are not due to women presenting in different fields, different seminar series, or different topics…”

www.nber.org/papers/w28494

CBO releases 62-page report: "The Risks of Climate Change to the U.S. in the 21st century." GDP, real estate, markets, federal budget. www.cbo.gov/system/files... #econsky

Reports of the death of carbon pricing have been greatly exaggerated:
"42% of emissions in the countries they study (=80% of world emissions) are now covered by either an explicit carbon price (27%) or an implicit price (like an excise tax on fossil fuels)."

CBO’s Benchmark Projection of Greenhouse Gas Emissions CBO maintains a benchmark projection of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to estimate the effects of certain emissions policies. According to that projection, GHG emissions in the United States decline b...

CBO projects that US greenhouse gas emissions in the United States, measured in CO2e, will decline by about 8% from 2025 to 2034 driven by a projected decrease of 15%in energy-related emissions of CO2, partially offset by 9% increase in non-energy-­related emissions. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Green stocks and monetary policy shocks: Evidence from Europe. New from Michael Bauer, Eric Offner & Glenn Rudebusch. www.brookings.edu/articles/gre... Hutchins Center The Brookings Institution #EconSky