Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: Economics
- The economics of a biofuel mandate (October 10)
- Closing Translink's Funding Gap (July 27)
- What is the optimal fuel tax level? (May 17)
- Will tariffs on critical mineral imports help or hinder the energy transition? (March 10)
- Why have food prices risen so much? (21 Oct 23)
- Canada suffers second adverse trade ruling over dairy imports (30 Sep 23)
- Controversies about Germany's Building Energy Law (9 Sep 23)
- Optional Time-of-Use electricity tariffs are coming to B.C. (30 May 23)
- The US debt ceiling trap (21 May 23)
- Vancouver housing prices are easing — but affordability remains elusive (20 Nov 22)
- Is the Canadian Dollar still a petrocurrency? (28 Oct 22)
- When are Plug-In Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (PHEV) a good choice? (15 Aug 22)
- The mystery of the diesel premium (20 May 22)
- Fuel tax cuts are popular but badly misguided (11 May 22)
- What does strong backwardation tell us about where crude oil prices are headed? (9 Mar 22)
- Two-sided market power in a vertical market (7 Feb 22)
- Is inflation back to stay? (20 Jan 22)
- Generalized Linear Demand (31 Dec 21)
- The ‘Tesla syndrome’: when exactly is a stock overvalued? (5 Feb 21)
- The multi-agent joint production problem (12 Jan 21)
- Oil markets in super-contango (22 Apr 20)
- Global supply chain resilience: how much is right? (26 Mar 20)
- What can Canada learn from Germany's short-time work model? (17 Mar 20)
- The cost components of automobile insurance and the bonus-malus system (29 Feb 20)
- Carbon pricing works - but what is the right dosage for the patient? (6 Oct 19)
- Refining margins in BC and across Canada (1 May 19)
- Should Canada abolish its $100 banknotes? (1 Feb 19)
- Tax Pass-Through for Beginners (29 Sep 18)
- The economics of when to leave for work, and important implications for congestion pricing (2 Aug 18)
- Negative electricity prices (28 Jul 18)
- How regressive are fuel taxes in Canada? (15 Jul 18)
- The virtues of negative exponential demand (30 Jun 18)
- Progressive Property Taxation in Vancouver (28 May 18)
- The Canadian Petrodollar - An Update (10 May 18)
- How to fix car insurance in British Columbia (25 Aug 17)
- Welfare functions and inequality (30 Jun 17)
- How does mobility pricing work? (22 Apr 17)
- Public Transit and Road Pricing (25 Feb 17)
- Haphazard road tolling (11 Feb 17)
- Canada's dangerous mountain of household debt (1 Jan 17)
- Growing income inequality and its political consequences (9 Nov 16)
- Trouble looming for Quebec's emission permit system (19 Oct 16)
- The case for all-inclusive prices (18 Sep 16)
- The extensive margin of pollution abatement (15 Sep 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)
- The Dorfman-Steiner Theorem and increasing returns to scale (31 Mar 16)
- Vancouver House Price Dynamics (23 Jan 16)
- Canadian Dollar Extremes (16 Jan 16)
- The economics of altruism (24 Dec 15)
- Electricity Economics and Demand Side Management (7 Nov 15)
- About good debt, bad debt, and debt breaks (10 Oct 15)
- Energy Economics with Zero Marginal Costs (19 Sep 15)
- How to rescue Greece (12 Jul 15)
- Are prices at the pump determined by Brent or West Texas? (8 May 15)
- How do crude oil prices affect prices at the pump in Vancouver? (11 Apr 15)
- The Canadian Petrodollar (1 Apr 15)
- Income splitting in Canada (6 Dec 14)
- Smart water metering (2 Nov 14)
Recent Blog Entries
- The economics of a biofuel mandate (October 10)
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (September 16)
- Projecting Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption in British Columbia (August 27)
- Where are British Columbia's passenger cars made? And is that picture different for electric vehicles? (August 15)
- Closing Translink's Funding Gap (July 27)
- Canada's Defence Spending Gap (July 23)
- What will another year of drought conditions mean for electricity supply in BC? (May 18)
- What is the optimal fuel tax level? (May 17)
- British Columbia's evolving electricity trade with the United States (May 12)
- Will BC need to transition fuel taxes to VKT taxes? (April 30)
- The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) will make gasoline more expensive in Vancouver (April 25)
- Will tariffs on critical mineral imports help or hinder the energy transition? (March 10)
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