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Governing Green Power II: How should utilities of the future make money?
University of Hawai‘i at MānoaInnovation Laboratory — iLab (directions and map) Growth of renewable energy, reduced economies of scale, rapidly falling storage costs, network communication technologies, plus customer self-generation, load shifting and efficiency options, all have the potential to dramatically change the nature of electricity systems. Underlying this is the eroding viability of incumbent regulatory […]
Read MoreMichael Roberts Receives Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Quality of Research Discovery Award
UHERO congratulates Michael Roberts, recipient of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s Quality of Research Discovery Award for his article, “Who Really Benefits from Agricultural Subsidies? Evidence from Field-level Data.” Michael will be recognized during the AAEA 2017 Annual Meeting this summer in Chicago. Michael Roberts is a UHERO Research Fellow, Professor of Economics and co-founder of […]
Read MoreGoverning Green Power I: Realigning Institutions to Fit New Technologies
Technology and institutions coevolve. Institutions can encourage or discourage innovation and adoption of technologies. Technological change, in turn, can drive institutional change. This dynamic has reached a critical phase in the electricity sector where low-cost and subsidized intermittent renewable energy is upsetting old models of grid management and stability. The broad public challenge, in Hawaiʻi […]
Read MoreSherilyn Wee recognized as Outstanding Student of the Year by the U.S. Department of Transportation
UHERO congratulates Sherilyn Wee on receiving an Outstanding Student of the Year award, presented by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Sherilyn was recognized in Washington D.C. for her contribution to the transportation field through her research and leadership with the Electric Vehicle Transportation Center. For 26 years, the University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program, under […]
Read MoreCostly stakeholder participation creates inertia in marine ecosystems
Ecosystems often shift abruptly and dramatically between different regimes in response to human or natural disturbances. When ecosystems tip from one regime to another, the suite of available ecosystem benefits changes, impacting the stakeholders who rely on these benefits. These changes often create some groups who stand to incur large losses if an ecosystem returns […]
Read MoreUHERO wins 2016 Polzin Prize for Best Paper at AUBER Fall Conference
UHERO is proud to announce that “Forecasting in a Mixed Up World: Nowcasting Hawaii Tourism” by Ashley Hirashima, James Jones, Carl Bonham and Peter Fuleky was awarded the Polzin Prize for Best Paper at the 2016 AUBER fall conference! We evaluate the short term forecasting performance of methods that systematically incorporate high frequency information via covariates. Our […]
Read MoreLa Croix receives 2011-2014 NSF support for Cliometrics Annual Conferences and World Congress of Cliometrics
Professor Sumner La Croix (UH Economics, UHERO, and UH Global Health and Population Studies) and Professor Ann Carlos (University of Colorado Economics) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to support two annual Cliometrics Conferences in 2012 and 2014 and a World Congress of Cliometrics in 2013. The 2012 annual conference will be held in […]
Read MoreIn Weak Economy the Fed is prepared to act
The US Bureau of Economic Analysis released a downward revision to its estimate of second quarter Gross Domestic Product this morning. They now estimate that the US economy expanded at a 1.0% annualized rate during the second quarter, down from 1.3% in their advance release The primary factors leading to the downward revision were a decline in […]
Read MoreUHERO Research Fellow to appear at the Northeast Asian Economic Forum Meeting
UHERO Research Fellow James Mak to share his thoughts on tourism and tourism development based on 35 plus years of research at the Northeast Asian Economic Forum Meeting on August 2, 2011. Dr. Mak’s presentation will be built around a few thoughtful quotations about travel and tourism. The urge to travel is universal. Harold Vogel (2001) Tourism depends […]
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