energy – Brian M. Lucey

BTC-Gold Energy comparison – BTC is really really energy intensive!

May 20, 2021

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Bitcoin is not the new gold. On foot of the FT article today on BTC and by extension cryptocurrency energy consumption (TL:DR its a dirty dirty currency) a common thread of commentary is “what about gold, eh, look how energy intensive that is”. Well….lets do that

Psychological barriers in oil markets: Some research evidence

Jan 12, 2016

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brianmlucey

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With the recent collapse in oil, this may be of interest. A research paper (co-authored with two other colleagues) and published in Energy Economics . Full paper available here . Given that the ppb is heading down towards and perhaps through 30$ what might we expect? WTI and Brent futures are tested for the…

Economists and Climate

Jan 9, 2016

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brianmlucey

in Blogpost, Journalism

People often wonder what use are economists. In terms of climate change this is particularly appropriate. Most economists are not very absorbent, and cannot be used very effectively as flood defences. Nor can they be effectively deployed to scrub carbon from the atmosphere, and as a profession have a general tendency to produce hotter rather…