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Robust simulation of global warming policies using the DICE model / Zhaolin Hu in Management science, Vol. 58 N° 12 (Décembre 2012) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 12 (Décembre 2012) . - pp. 2190-2206 Titre : Robust simulation of global warming policies using the DICE model Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Zhaolin Hu, Auteur ; Jing Cao, Auteur ; L. Jeff Hong, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Article en page(s) : pp. 2190-2206 Note générale : Management Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Environment  Global  warming  Programming  Semidefinite  Simulation  Applications Résumé : Integrated assessment models that combine geophysics and economics features are often used to evaluate and compare global warming policies. Because there are typically profound uncertainties in these models, a simulation approach is often used. This approach requires the distribution of the uncertain parameters clearly specified. However, this is typically impossible because there is often a significant amount of ambiguity (e.g., estimation error) in specifying the distribution. In this paper, we adopt the widely used multivariate normal distribution to model the uncertain parameters. However, we assume that the mean vector and covariance matrix of the distribution are within some ambiguity sets. We then show how to find the worst-case performance of a given policy for all distributions constrained by the ambiguity sets. This worst-case performance provides a robust evaluation of the policy. We test our algorithm on a famous integrated model of climate change, known as the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy (DICE model). We find that the DICE model is sensitive to the means and covariance of the parameters. Furthermore, we find that, based on the DICE model, moderately tight environmental policies robustly outperform the no controls policy and the famous aggressive policies proposed by Stern and Gore. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/12/2190.abstract [article] Robust simulation of global warming policies using the DICE model [texte imprimé] / Zhaolin Hu, Auteur ; Jing Cao, Auteur ; L. Jeff Hong, Auteur . - 2013 . - pp. 2190-2206. Management Langues : Anglais (eng) in Management science > Vol. 58 N° 12 (Décembre 2012) . - pp. 2190-2206 Mots-clés : Environment  Global  warming  Programming  Semidefinite  Simulation  Applications Résumé : Integrated assessment models that combine geophysics and economics features are often used to evaluate and compare global warming policies. Because there are typically profound uncertainties in these models, a simulation approach is often used. This approach requires the distribution of the uncertain parameters clearly specified. However, this is typically impossible because there is often a significant amount of ambiguity (e.g., estimation error) in specifying the distribution. In this paper, we adopt the widely used multivariate normal distribution to model the uncertain parameters. However, we assume that the mean vector and covariance matrix of the distribution are within some ambiguity sets. We then show how to find the worst-case performance of a given policy for all distributions constrained by the ambiguity sets. This worst-case performance provides a robust evaluation of the policy. We test our algorithm on a famous integrated model of climate change, known as the Dynamic Integrated Model of Climate and the Economy (DICE model). We find that the DICE model is sensitive to the means and covariance of the parameters. Furthermore, we find that, based on the DICE model, moderately tight environmental policies robustly outperform the no controls policy and the famous aggressive policies proposed by Stern and Gore. ISSN : 0025-1909 En ligne : http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/58/12/2190.abstract