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• EPPA Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis Model.
  MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change: Anthropogenic Emissions and Policy Analysis, Climate/Chemistry, and Ecosystems. EPPA is based on the GE Environmental (GREEN) model, originally developed by the OECD's Development Center.
   
• G-Cubed Model (Warwick McKibbin and Peter Wilcoxen)
  Brookings Institution - Global Climate Change Studies
   
• GEM-E3 Models (Henrike Koschel and Tobias Schmidt)
  Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung. European Emission Mitigation Policy and Technical Evolution.
   
• GTAP Model (Thomas Hertel)
  Global Trade Analysis Project at Purdue University's Agricultural Economics Department.
   
• IGEM Intertemporal GE Model of the U. S. (Mun Ho, Dale Jorgenson, and Peter Wilcoxen)
   
• MERGE Model for Evaluating the Regional and Global Effects of GHG Reduction Policies (Alan Manne)
  Quantitatively exploring views on issues such as costs of abatement, damages of climate change, valuation and discounting.
   
• Michigan Model of World Production and Trade (Drusilla Brown, Alan Deardorff, and Robert Stern)
  Multi-country GE trade model.
   
• General Equilibrium model for Denmark (Morten I. Lau and Thomas Rutherford)
  Denmark's Ministry of Business and Industry, Division of Economic Analysis.
   
• ORANI Model (GEMPACK software; Peter Dixon, Brian Parmenter, Alan Powell, and Ken Pearson)
  GE Models of Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Monash University.
   
• RICE and DICE Models (William Nordhaus)
  Integrated economic and geophysical models of the economics of climate change.
   
• Second Generation Model (SGM)
  Battelle Global Technology Strategy Project (GTSP)
   
• Economics of Climate Change at UCSB ( Charles Kolstad)
  The role of information, uncertainty and learning in the economics of climate change.
   
  
• Various models of the CPB, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

 Authors of models

Papers

PNL Workshop on China Economic and Environmental Modeling Proceedings (Jan 1999)

Center for Environmental Information conference "Sustainable development and global climate change" Proceedings (December 1995)

GTAP conference on Global Economic Analysis 1999

OECD Economic Modeling of Climate Change Workshop OECD (September 1998)

Special Climate Change Issue of Energy Policy (April 1995)

Charles River Associates Environment papers

The Economic Implications of Liberalizing APEC Tariff and Non-tariff Barriers to Trade USITC Publication 3101 (April 1998)

Other links

• A Bibliography of CGE Models Applied to Environmental Issues by Liwayway Adkins and Richard Garbaccio at the U.S. EPA.  (Comments welcome.)
• Advanced Intl Studies Unit of Pacific Northwest National Lab AISU
• China Economic and Environmental Modeling sponsored by EPA, ERI, and BEEC
• The Economics of Climate Variability and Global Change Clim-Econ
• Stanford University's Energy Modeling Forum
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change (Hadi Dowlatabadi)
• Global Change Project at Univ. of Miami (David Kelly and Charles Kolstad)
  Endogenous learning in computational models of climate change (integrated assessment models).
• Gene Grossman's NAFTA links

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