Yongtae (Aaron) Kwon
aayk.bsky.social
Yongtae (Aaron) Kwon
@aayk.bsky.social
Environmental and Energy Economics, Environmental Justice || Public Policy PhD Student at UT Austin
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"Sooner or later we are going to have to have a serious meetings of minds about not building in certain places because it just won’t get insurance.”

source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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The way PJM (and other non-ERCOT RTOs) processes ERIS doesn't really provide much of a timeline benefit. In part because they still study contingency conditions that are too restrictive. From @tnorris.bsky.social's great research: nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/defaul...
December 5, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Matteo has a great explainer blog post matteocourthoud.github.io/post/contami... for those who haven’t seen it yet. And we have an open issue in pyfixest to add support for a multe method github.com/py-econometr... Might turn into my Christmas break project =)
Understanding Contamination Bias | Matteo Courthoud
Problems and solutions of linear regression with multiple treatments In many causal inference settings, we might be interested in the effect of not just one treatment, but many mutually exclusive trea...
matteocourthoud.github.io
November 30, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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Coal output didn't begin falling until around 2010, mainly because of fracking and to some extent renewables. But by then there were already very few miners (the personal training industry employs about 20X as many people as coal) 3/
November 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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My coauthor Martin Simmler shows that also a substantial share of green energy subsidies end up in the pockets of landowners: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wind electricity subsidies — A windfall for landowners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany
Subsidies for renewable energy sources are increasing around the globe and amounted to more than 100 billion euro in 2013. This study aims to answer w…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM