Robust simulation of global warming policies using the DICE model

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2190-2206

  Hu, Zhaolin ^a   Cao, Jing ^b   Hong, L Jeff ^c  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Applications; Environment; Global warming; Programming; Semidefinite; Simulation

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY SET; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ESTIMATION ERRORS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; INTEGRATED MODELS; MEAN VECTOR; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBUST SIMULATIONS; SEMIDEFINITE; SIMULATION; SIMULATION APPROACH; UNCERTAIN PARAMETERS; WORST-CASE PERFORMANCE;

APPLICATIONS; CLIMATE MODELS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GLOBAL WARMING; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84871737533     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1547     Document Type: Article

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