July 2007

High Powered Blog on European Energy Policies

Michael Giberson A number of prominent European energy economists, analysts and policy makers (and a couple of outsiders) are blogging at the “EU Energy Policy Blog.” Among the Europeans are Andris Piebalgs, Richard Green and Yves Smeers; two American contributers are Paul Joskow and Steven Stoft. On July 1, William Nuttall posted “Why is Nuclear …

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Tim Harford on Manipulation of Prediction Markets

Michael Giberson Financial Time‘s columnist Tim Harford discusses allegations that there are efforts to manipulate prices of Hillary Clinton-related shares on prediction markets. Hartford writes: Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz have pointed out that Hillary Clinton’s chances of becoming president, as predicted by one betting market, InTrade, started to climb dramatically mid-May, topping 40 per …

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