Experts in the News

Major oil-producing countries and companies are assessing the decrease in crude oil prices and discussing what action to take. This article cites the paper "Effects of Low Oil Prices on U.S. Shale Production: OPEC Calls the Tune and Shale Swings," by Jim Krane and Mark Agerton.

Vivian Ho, the James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and director of the Center for Health and Biosciences, comments on a proposed Medicaid waiver that would allegedly provide health coverage to many uninsured Texans by avoiding provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Since oil prices are denominated in dollars, as the dollar strengthens, oil prices fall for U.S. consumers, all else equal. But petroleum product purchases by consumers in most countries aren’t denominated in dollars, so the fall in dollar-denominated oil prices isn’t experienced in the same way for them, writes Mark Agerton, graduate fellow in the Center for Energy Studies, in a new Forbes blog.

Senior science and technology policy fellow Neal Lane discusses his favorite word ("integrity"), his career and what interests him now in an interview with AWIS, the magazine for the Association for Women in Science, published in Spring 2015.

A federal court in Tucson, Arizona, recently heard residents’ complaints that the Border Patrol violated the U.S. Constitution. Tony Payan, the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and director of the Mexico Center, is quoted.