Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Reports: Recent submissions
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Capturing Natural Resource Dynamics in Top-Down Energy‑Economic Equilibrium Models
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-10)Top-down energy-economic modeling approaches often use deliberately simple techniques to represent heterogeneous resource inputs to production. We show that for some policies, such as feed-in tariffs (FIT) for renewable ... -
Natural Gas Pricing Reform in China: Getting Closer to a Market System?
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-07)Recent policy in China targets an increase in the contribution of natural gas to the nation’s energy supply. Historically, China’s natural gas prices have been highly regulated with a goal to protect consumers. The old ... -
Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: A quantitative growth theoretic perspective
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-10)We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The ...
