Sebastian Rausch

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors incorporate 15,588 households from the U.S. Consumer and Expenditure Survey data as individual agents in a comparative-static general equilibrium framework and provide detailed within-group distributional measures of burden impacts from various policy scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the monetary value of the human health benefits from air quality improvements due to US carbon abatement policies, and find that the benefits can offset 26-1,050% of the cost of mitigation policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China through theInstitute for Energy, Environment, and Economy at Tsinghua University, and the support from the Graduate School of Tsinghuang University, which is supporting Zhang Da's doctoral research as a visiting scholar at MIT.

TL;DR: In this paper, two computable general equilibrium models, one global and the other providing U.S. regional detail, are applied to analysis of the future of natural gas, focusing on uncertainties including the scale and cost of gas resources, the costs of competing technologies, the pattern of greenhouse gas mitigation and the evolution of global natural gas markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of electricity transmission infrastructure expansion and renewable energy (RE) penetration in Europe for gains from trade and carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector were investigated. And the authors found that RE penetration can benefit or degrade environmental outcomes depending on RE penetration: it complements emissions abatement by mitigating dispatch problems associated with volatile and spatially dispersed RE but also promotes higher average generation from low-cost coal if RE production is too low.