This project is developing regional economic projection and policy assessment models to investigate sustainable development pathways and investments for countries in Africa, and decision-making under uncertainty, with the goal of evaluating risks to different investment options in energy and water. The work involves development of a disaggregated model of Africa with policy and energy simulation; a review of decision-making under uncertainty methods; and an application of the method to selected countries (Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal).
The research objective is to examine the effects of energy and climate policies in Taiwan, an important manufacturing economy heavily exposed to international trade. This collaboration will engage the expertise of the Institute of Nuclear Energy Research (INER) of Taiwan to build a global energy economic model where Taiwan is explicitly identified, based on the latest version of the MIT Economic Projection and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, version 6.
“What we’re trying to do is to use data sources and methods that other people have not used, and that are more flexible and sophisticated, to do this estimation,” says Kishimoto, who is pursuing this research in preparation for his PhD thesis.
