At this year‘s conference we experimented with online feedback forms for all presented papers. Dejanir Silva won a price for being the most diligent user of this feature. Congratulations, and thank you for effort! Feel free to imitate SED Meeting EEA et al 😉

Does anyone know why the cost of your gas *falls* as you use more (ie more than $100 MJ/Day?)

The biggest reason I am skeptical of carrots and sticks for local governments to get planning right is that it isn't clear they think in terms of costs and benefits in the first place.

Heritage overlays especially seems to be a tick box methodology regardless of the cost

Striking variation of immigrant populations in prison.
Typically strong piece full of cool charts from John Burn-Murdoch
ft.com/content/c6bb73…

Electric cars charge at night in the US.

This is a terrible pattern for a grid awash in solar. If the pattern holds in Oz this suggests a serious potential inefficiency.

Governments should consider mandating/subsiding chargers at the office where cars are during the day!

What's the best example of a good or service that the government provides to firms wholesale, who in turn sell them on private consumers?

In Chile big firms pass through oil price shocks at a far higher rate than small firms.

A recent RBA paper examined how much Australians would value a CBDC over one run by their current bank.

The answer: $0

Density often leads to more amenities and community resources.

But the reverse is also true. Low density & high house prices leads developers to try and convert community pools to more housing.

realestatesource.com.au/apartment-deve…

The world would be better off with less rethinking economics and more thinking economics.