Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: September 2018 or earlier
- Tax Pass-Through for Beginners (29 Sep 18)
- State of the NAFTA negotiations: Canada standing firm while remaining flexible (3 Sep 18)
- Trump administration: Make America Guzzle Gas Again (18 Aug 18)
- The economics of when to leave for work, and important implications for congestion pricing (2 Aug 18)
- Negative electricity prices (28 Jul 18)
- Journalism with an academic flavour (18 Jul 18)
- How regressive are fuel taxes in Canada? (15 Jul 18)
- The virtues of negative exponential demand (30 Jun 18)
- U.S. neomercantilism (25 Jun 18)
- Progressive Property Taxation in Vancouver (28 May 18)
- The Canadian Petrodollar - An Update (10 May 18)
- "Speed on green" cameras help reduce traffic accidents (7 Mar 18)
- Does LNG still have a future in BC? (31 Jan 18)
- Structural decomposition analysis (8 Jan 18)
- Free speech and civility in public discourse (1 Jan 18)
- The Bitcoin bubble will burst—distributed ledger technology will survive (20 Dec 17)
- What happened to the pass-through from crude oil to gasoline prices in Vancouver? (11 Nov 17)
- Canada's changing electricity generation landscape (13 Oct 17)
- Homicides across countries: a sad case of U.S. exceptionalism (4 Oct 17)
- Growing our cross-border electricity infrastructure (1 Oct 17)
- Are electric vehicles always cleaner? (4 Sep 17)
- How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 17)
- Reduce the alcohol limit for driving, and boost enforcement (15 Aug 17)
- Volvo goes electric—will other carmakers follow? (15 Jul 17)
- Welfare functions and inequality (30 Jun 17)
- What does voter participation tell us about the outcome of the British Columbia 2017 provincial election? (11 May 17)
- How does mobility pricing work? (22 Apr 17)
- How ethical are introductory offers? (11 Apr 17)
- The European Union turns 60 (29 Mar 17)
- Say goodbye to plastic shopping bags (18 Mar 17)
- Public Transit and Road Pricing (25 Feb 17)
- Haphazard road tolling (11 Feb 17)
- Will streaming television transform the TV advertising industry? (31 Jan 17)
- Traffic congestion in Canada (28 Jan 17)
- Canada's dangerous mountain of household debt (1 Jan 17)
- How can climate policy succeed without US leadership? (20 Dec 16)
- Growing income inequality and its political consequences (9 Nov 16)
- In support of Washington State's Initiative 732 (6 Nov 16)
- No ban of the internal combustion engine in Germany by 2030 (4 Nov 16)
- Will methane cracking give natural gas an extended lease on life? (30 Oct 16)
- Trouble looming for Quebec's emission permit system (19 Oct 16)
- The case for all-inclusive prices (18 Sep 16)
- Bayer acquires Monsanto: good parenting required (16 Sep 16)
- The extensive margin of pollution abatement (15 Sep 16)
- Speed enforcement through section control (16 Aug 16)
- Driving with stop-start systems in Europe (8 Aug 16)
- How are alternative fuel vehicles catching on in Europe? (16 Jul 16)
- Brexit and the illusion of independence (5 Jul 16)
- Walmart vs. VISA: the trouble with credit card fees in Canada (2 Jul 16)
- How to design carbon pricing for energy-intensive trade-exposed (EITE) industries (17 Jun 16)
- Does the US-Canada bond yield difference really predict the exchange rate? (10 Jun 16)
- Electricity conservation tariffs: how do they work? (22 May 16)
- Carbon emissions per capita ranking (1 May 16)
- Landmark legal ruling on internal trade in Canada (29 Apr 16)
- The Dorfman-Steiner Theorem and increasing returns to scale (31 Mar 16)
- More evidence about the perils of Daylight Saving Time (30 Mar 16)
- Triangular Dissimiliarity Diagrams and Triangular Gradient Shading in PostScript (23 Mar 16)
- Should Canada abolish Daylight Saving Time? (13 Mar 16)
- More power to the Lower Mainland (5 Mar 16)
- Interaction effects in regression analysis (1 Mar 16)
- Canadian banks should embrace electronic funds transfer (2 Feb 16)
- Vancouver House Price Dynamics (23 Jan 16)
- Canadian Dollar Extremes (16 Jan 16)
- How to use a Roundabout (1 Jan 16)
- The economics of altruism (24 Dec 15)
- Reforming jury duty in Canada (17 Dec 15)
- Electoral reform in Canada after the October 2015 elections (27 Nov 15)
- Carbon dioxide taken out of thin air (13 Nov 15)
- Electricity Economics and Demand Side Management (7 Nov 15)
- Electoral participation in Canada (2 Nov 15)
- Fictitious econometric precision (31 Oct 15)
- About good debt, bad debt, and debt breaks (10 Oct 15)
- The high price of Canada's segmented oil markets (3 Oct 15)
- Area calculations with longitude and latitude (30 Sep 15)
- Energy Economics with Zero Marginal Costs (19 Sep 15)
- Seawater desalination: technology to quench the world's growing thirst for water (1 Sep 15)
- Are you paying too much at the pump in Vancouver? (25 Aug 15)
- The Panama Canal turns 101—and expands (15 Aug 15)
- Will TPP liberate Canadian Dairy Markets? (8 Aug 15)
- Canada's improvident water consumption (4 Aug 15)
- Electoral entropy: the case for electoral reform continued (31 Jul 15)
- Let our Canadian expats vote! (30 Jul 15)
- The case for electoral reform in Canada (27 Jul 15)
- Drought and water conservation in Vancouver (21 Jul 15)
- How to rescue Greece (12 Jul 15)
- Are Canada's carbon emission reduction targets realistic? (5 Jul 15)
- Fun with indicator variables (26 Jun 15)
- Is BC's carbon tax salient? (15 Jun 15)
- Fossil fuels and declining oxygen in our atmosphere (1 Jun 15)
- Ontario joins Quebec and California in carbon trading (18 May 15)
- Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 15)
- car2go is popular at UBC (5 May 15)
- The Alberta Disadvantage (1 May 15)
- Do gasoline prices rise like rockets and fall like feathers? (22 Apr 15)
- How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 15)
- The Canadian Petrodollar (1 Apr 15)
- Metro Vancouver needs more public transit (16 Mar 15)
- Fixing the U.S. Budget (1 Mar 15)
- Coal mining and selenium (7 Feb 15)
- Automotive innovation (3 Feb 15)
- Fossil-fuel divestment at UBC: feat or folly? (1 Feb 15)
- Geothermal energy from hot sedimentary aquifers (15 Jan 15)
- Driver fatigue detection (6 Jan 15)
- Canada's incomplete metrication (1 Jan 15)
- Fermat-Torricelli problem redux (24 Dec 14)
- Alphabetical ballot order in Vancouver politics (19 Dec 14)
- Site C Dam goes ahead (17 Dec 14)
- Nuclear innovation or nuclear stagnation? (14 Dec 14)
- Nuclear environmentalism? (12 Dec 14)
- My SVG exam clock (10 Dec 14)
- Income splitting in Canada (6 Dec 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: resources and upstream issues (21 Nov 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: technology choices and emissions (11 Nov 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: transportation (5 Nov 14)
- Smart water metering (2 Nov 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: exporters and importers (30 Oct 14)
- Liquefied natural gas: markets and prices (26 Oct 14)
- UBC is letting off steam (22 Oct 14)
- Clean energy and the Site C Dam (16 Oct 14)
- Decomposing R-squared (10 Oct 14)
- Grid-scale electricity storage with hydrogen (7 Oct 14)
- Can flow batteries solve the electricity storage problem? (28 Sep 14)
- The Space Cost Race (21 Sep 14)
- Will Apple revolutionize payment systems? (10 Sep 14)
- The trouble with tailings ponds (2 Sep 14)
- Has a B.C. company found the key to economical carbon capture? (20 Aug 14)
- Discouraging marijuana use (19 Aug 14)
- Lessons from the Mount Polley mine tailings spill (8 Aug 14)
- Internal trade barriers continue to stifle commerce in Canada (6 Aug 14)
- Getting Energy Prices Right (31 Jul 14)
- Germany rejects CETA—for now (28 Jul 14)
- New York Times endorses marijuana legalization (27 Jul 14)
- Farewell to Australia's carbon tax (24 Jul 14)
- Why liberalize marijuana? (4 Jul 14)
- Why blog? (1 Jul 14)
- How big is the cross-border marijuana trade? (25 Jun 14)
- Electric Common Sense (7 Jun 14)
- Our automotive future? (6 Jun 14)
- The Fiction of Internet Security (19 Apr 14)
- Bitcoin Volatility (21 Jan 14)
- What's next for Northern Gateway? (18 Jan 14)
- Northern Gateway approved (19 Dec 13)
- Welcome to CETA! (12 Dec 13)
- Beware of Bitcoins (23 Nov 11)
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Prof. Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia.