Wednesday, September 09, 2009

UC Berkeley "Center for the Study of Energy Markets"


The UC Berkeley "Center for the Study of Energy Markets" has posted new working papers:

"Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp193.pdf

"Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp192.pdf

"When it comes to Demand Response, is FERC its Own Worst Enemy?"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp191.pdf

"Taxes and Trading versus Intensity Standards: Second-Best Environmental Policies with Incomplete Regulation (Leakage) or Market Power"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp190.pdf

"The Implied Cost of Carbon Dioxide under the Cash for Clunkers Program"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp189.pdf

"Building Out Alternative Fuel Retail Infrastructure: Government Fleet Spillovers in E85"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp188.pdf

"What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program"
Download this paper in Adobe Acrobat format:http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/PDF/csemwp186.pdf

Nature: Meltdown Modelling & Agent-based Models


Leigh Tesfatsion brought to my attention the two ABM-related articles published in Nature:

  • Meltdown Modeling: Could Agent-Based Computer Models Prevent Another Financial Crisis?
  • The Economy Needs Agent-Based Modelling



Links to download the articles: