Long-term economic modeling for climate change assessment

Economic Modelling

Volumn 52, Issue , 2016, Pages 867-883

  Chen, Y H Henry ^a   Paltsev, Sergey ^a   Reilly, John M ^a   Morris, Jennifer F ^a   Babiker, Mustafa H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual simulation; Economy wide analysis; Energy use; Food consumption; Model evaluation; Preference calibration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958596526     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.10.023     Document Type: Article

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