economics prof @ucalgary
Calgary AB Canada
Joined March 2009
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Rob Oxoby retweeted
Madvillainy at 20 years old. Wrote this when it was 10. Yesterday is the shadow of today.
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The Finances of the Nation equalization payments simulator is now updated for 2024/25!!
Explore why some provinces receive and others do not here: financesofthenation.ca/equal… #cdnecon #cdnpoli
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I don’t understand the “we don’t have anyone willing to build natural gas plants” line from the Premier.
Next year Alberta will see 2700 new MW of gas come online, the largest single year build out ever.
Rob Oxoby retweeted
President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Shane MacGowan, saying his songs seemed to capture “the measure of our dreams”. MacGowan’s death at 65 comes after a prolonged period of ill health, including time spent in intensive care.
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Thrilled that my paper on an Alberta Pension Plan was accepted for publication in Canadian Public Policy! 🥳
While it will take time to appear in the journal (March issue), the final version is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.… #ableg #cdnecon 🧵 🤓
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#Ableg
Alberta is literally on fire
🔥 78 active wildfires
🔥 19 out of control
🔥 13,000 Albertans to be evacuated from their homes
The Fed’s have offered to help….so where the HELL is Danielle Smith?
She’s TOO busy campaigning today!
Danielle Smith is Untrustworthy.
Rob Oxoby retweeted
One critique by the UCP of Alberta’s carbon tax was that it was not campaigned on. The Alberta Pension Plan is several orders of magnitude more significant a policy move. If it’s not part of the campaign, I’m puzzled how they would revisit it afterwards.
Smith said things like the pension plan and replacing the RCMP can be revisited after the election.
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Rob Oxoby retweeted
Calgary paying $538m for a new arena. Some politicians say there’s no taxpayer cost. That’s misleading. Public money not free + has other uses.
At 5%, the flow value of the subsidy is like a permanent 2.4% increase in res PTax ($88/yr for median res). That’s how I think about it
Rob Oxoby retweeted
Harry Belafonte. Singer. Actor. Civil Rights activist. He never stayed silent. He never gave up. He never gave in. Rest In Power. Realtalk.🌹
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In honor of Ryuichi Sakamoto who passed away today, I have created a video compilation of all the ringtones and alerts on the Nokia 8800, most of which are his work. Please take a listen, some lovely sounds here.
youtu.be/z9intgzzLfk
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“From the Buddhist perspective, life and death are two phases of a continuum. Life does not begin at birth nor end at death. Everything in the universe—from invisible microbes in the air we breathe to great swirling galaxies—passes through these phases. Our individual lives are part of this great cosmic rhythm.
Everything in the universe, everything that happens, is part of a vast living web of interconnection. The vibrant energy we call life which flows throughout the universe has no beginning and no end. Life is a continuous, dynamic process of change.” - sokaglobal.org
Wayne, we will forever feel you as the light of your next phase now officially activates. 👊🏾❤️
Rob Oxoby retweeted
Lemme invite you to an online seminar (tomorrow) where I’ll talk about a new! improved! modern! approach to teaching business cycles to undergrads. My target audience is Intro Econ instructors, so if that’s you, I hope to see ya there. #TeachEcon
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Congratulations to @aidanhollis @UCalgary who has won the first OHE Innovation Policy Prize! Professor Hollis’ winning entry proposed de-linking the innovation reward payments from the price of medicines. Read the full winning entry at: ohe.org/ohe-prize/
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Come join us in the Rockies to talk about Electricity Policy this spring!
🚨Call for papers🚨
Very excited to announce the *2nd Annual Electricity Camp in the Rockies* to be held May 24-26 in Banff.
Open to scholars, practitioners and policy makers in electricity economics and energy systems modelling.
Details: blakeshaffer.ca/uploads/2nd%…
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Join us on #Nov17 for the OEA 2022 AGM and an exciting webinar on The Rise and Fall of Inflation in Canada: #postpandemic Analysis featuring @trevortombe and Yu (Sonja) Chen.
#Registernow: buff.ly/3DHPvdA
#CdnEcon #CdnPoli #inflation
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Know a Calgary-based company interested in partnering with @EconCalgary students? Let me know. I'll be leading our Econ Data Capstone class next semester - teams of undergrad and master's students work with off-campus partners to deliver solutions to data challenges. Please RT
