Climate change and optimal energy technology R&D policy
Public policy response to global climate change presents a classic problem of decision making under uncertainty. Theoretical work has shown that explicitly accounting for uncertainty and learning in climate change can have a large impact on optimal policy, especially technology policy. However, theory also shows that the specific impacts of uncertainty are ambiguous. In this paper, we provide a framework that combines economics and decision analysis to implement probabilistic data on energy technology research and development (R&D) policy in response to global climate change. We find that, given a budget constraint, the composition of the optimal R&D portfolio is highly diversified and robust to risk in climate damages. The overall optimal investment into technical change, however, does depend (in a non-monotonic way) on the risk in climate damages. Finally, we show that in order to properly value R&D, abatement must be included as a recourse decision.
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2011
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Authors: | Baker, Erin ; Solak, Senay |
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European Journal of Operational Research. - Elsevier, ISSN 0377-2217. - Vol. 213.2011, 2, p. 442-454
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | R&D portfolio Energy technology Climate change Stochastic programming Public policy |
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