Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Designing Energy and Environmental Policies -- 2 Structure of the Intertemporal General Equilibrium Model -- 3 Modeling Consumer Behavior -- 4 Modeling Producer Behavior -- 5 Government and the Rest of the World -- 6 Model Solution --...

The balance of the world economy is shifting away from the established economies of Europe, Japan, and the USA, towards the emerging economies of Asia, especially India and China. With contributions from some of the world's leading growth theorists, this book analyses the long-term process of...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of investment in information technology (IT) equipment and software on the recent resurgence in world economic growth. The crucial role of IT investment in the growth of the U.S. economy has been thoroughly documented and widely discussed....