The Energy-Environment-Economy (I3E) Model of Ireland (with Kelly de Bruin)

Climate change policy is becoming increasingly important in Ireland, where Ireland is obliged to decrease its emissions under the European Commission’s Climate and Energy Package. Ireland is required to deliver a 20% reduction in non-­ETS greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 relative to 2005 levels, increasing to 30% in 2030. To ensure a smooth and least cost transition to a low carbon economy, it is imperative that appropriate energy policies are designed. Furthermore, a better understanding of the implications of such a transition is necessary, especially on a sectoral level, to identify winners and losers. In this sense a computable general equilibrium model to represent the links between energy, economy, and environment is being developed.

Analysis of unbalanced growth path in the CGE framework

The research question of this study is that what would be the effects of non-uniform exogenous growth rates of population across different representative household groups in the CGE framework?