When do nations #tax? Our new working paper by CICD Research Fellow Donn. L. Feir (UVic Economics), Maggie Jones (Emory Economics), & David Scoones (UVic Social Sciences) looks at the adoption of property tax codes by #FirstNations in Canada. ⬇️ bit.ly/3Y2vcR8

As president of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Policy & Advocacy team, UVic Economics grad Gargee Ghosh supports the foundation’s goals of fighting poverty & inequity worldwide. Read more about Gargee and other #UVicAlumniAwards recipients: ow.ly/EuEx50NxHoc

Thank you for hosting me in Berlin at MCC Berlin/Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK - it was great to talk about our latest work with Moritz Schwarz, Jonas Kurle and @AndrewBMartinez on forecasting emissions! Thanks for the hospitality Patrick Klösel (@patrickkloesel.bsky.social), Annika Stechemesser, and colleagues!

Thanks Jesus Crespo Cuaresma and colleagues at WU Vienna for hosting us for a workshop on climate econometrics and detecting effective policies - great to see Bayesian methods applied to our policy detection in nature.com/articles/s4156… Moritz Schwarz WU Economics Dept. #EconTwitter

Thank you Moritz Schwarz for organising our workshop at the Austrian Finance Ministry on forecasting emissions (with great insights from WIFO) - lots of progress with hopefully future policy impact in a beautiful venue! @AndrewBMartinez Climate Econometrics UVic Social Sciences

🚨New IRLE UC Berkeley WP🧵🚨 Michael Reich, Carl McPherson, and I look at large #minimumwage increases to $15 in CA & NY. Can minimum wages increase the number of jobs, as monopsony models predict? Yes! Esp. after selection and attenuation are addressed! 1/N tinyurl.com/2p9hdy7j

BC's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy visiting UniversityOfVictoria to discuss engineering, policy, and economics of climate change. UVic Social Sciences Felix Pretis

Are we running out of exhaustible resources? There are periodical concerns about scarcity – in a new paper with Alex Teytelboym, Cameron Hepburn, and Alex Pfeiffer we show that (unsurprisingly?) near-term exhaustion of commodities is unlikely. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… UVic Social Sciences #EconTwitter

Great to see this important work by UVic Economics faculty and affiliates out in the The Review of Economic Studies! #EconTwitter UVic Social Sciences

#UVic is 9th in the world for United Nations #SDG impact among universities, as reported in Times Higher Education World University Rankings. We are invested in building a better future, inspired by place, powered by people, and committed to our planet. uvic.ca/news/media/202…

1st in Canada for #SDG13: climate action by World University Rankings, UVic looks forward to continuing our 30+ year commitment to impact, working alongside our local, national and international partners to contribute to the #GlobalGoals. 🔗 uvic.ca/about-uvic/abo…

Congratulations UVic Economics faculty Felix Pretis on the Commendation for Outstanding Publication in Environmental and Resource Economics for the work on the BC carbon tax! UVic Social Sciences

New paper by UVic Economics faculty Felix Pretis on using econometrics to understand climate processes. UVic Social Sciences

"Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns" - new paper by UVic Economics faculty @colette_salemi published in in PNASNews! UVic Social Sciences pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Congratulations to our social sciences faculty, Royal Society of Canada fellows Eric Higss UVic Env Studies, Amy Verdun UVic PoliSci, Kees van Kooten UVic Economics uvic.ca/news/topics/20… #uvic #environment #sustainability

Fascinating new paper by UVic Economics faculty Pascal Courty and Jeffrey Cisyk! UVic Social Sciences

New article in the Journal of Econometrics by UVic Economics faculty Felix Pretis UVic Social Sciences

Come check out our presentation on this paper at 8am tomorrow, in Conference Center 221B!

Our Introduction to the Themed Issue on Climate Econometrics is now published in the Journal of Econometrics - includes theory and applied papers on Climate from bootstrapping to sea ice! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter Climate Econometrics UVic Social Sciences

Such a great time hosting David Autor with my UVic Economics colleagues this week. An excellent talk, followed by the gorgeous gardens of The Butchart Gardens the next day!