Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments

In this paper we survey the research undertaken at the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) on the combination of the IMACLIM-S macroeconomic model with ‘bottom-up’ energy modeling, with a view to associate the strengths and circumvent the limitations of...

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Main Author: Frédéric eGhersi
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2015.00074/full
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spelling doaj-b1507d37a3a04bb4ab2db27243237c652020-11-24T21:02:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Environmental Science2296-665X2015-11-01310.3389/fenvs.2015.00074164118Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experimentsFrédéric eGhersi0CIRED, CNRSIn this paper we survey the research undertaken at the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) on the combination of the IMACLIM-S macroeconomic model with ‘bottom-up’ energy modeling, with a view to associate the strengths and circumvent the limitations of both approaches to energy-economy-environment (E3) prospective modeling. We start by presenting the two methodological avenues of coupling IMACLIM-S with detailed energy systems models pursued at CIRED since the late 1990s’: (1) the calibration of the behavioral functions of IMACLIM-S that represent the producers’ and consumers’ trade-offs between inputs or consumptions, on a large set of bottom-up modeling results; (2) the coupling of IMACLIM-S to some bottom-up model through the iterative exchange of some of each model’s outputs as the other model’s inputs until convergence of the exchanged data, comprising the main macroeconomic drivers and energy systems variables. In the following section, we turn to numerical application and address the prerequisite of harmonizing national accounts, energy balance and energy price data to produce consistent hybrid input-output matrices as a basis of scenario exploration. We highlight how this data treatment step reveals the discrepancies and biases induced by sticking to the conventional modeling usage of uniform pricing of homogeneous goods. IMACLIM-S rather calibrates agent-specific margins, which we introduce and comment upon. In a further section we sum up the results of 4 IMACLIM-S experiments, insisting upon the value-added of hybrid modeling. These varied experiments regard international climate policy burden sharing; the more general numerical consequences of shifting from a biased standard CGE model perspective to the hybrid IMACLIM approach; the macroeconomic consequences of a strong development of electric mobility in the European Union; and the resilience of public debts to energy shocks. In a last section we offer some conclusions and thoughts on a continued research agenda.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2015.00074/fullHybrid energy economy accountsClimate and energy policy analysisHybrid energy economy modelingInduced production frontierTechnical change modeling
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Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
Frontiers in Environmental Science
Hybrid energy economy accounts
Climate and energy policy analysis
Hybrid energy economy modeling
Induced production frontier
Technical change modeling
author_facet Frédéric eGhersi
author_sort Frédéric eGhersi
title Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
title_short Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
title_full Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
title_fullStr Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
title_full_unstemmed Hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the IMACLIM-S experiments
title_sort hybrid bottom-up/top-down energy and economy outlooks: a survey of the imaclim-s experiments
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Environmental Science
issn 2296-665X
publishDate 2015-11-01
description In this paper we survey the research undertaken at the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) on the combination of the IMACLIM-S macroeconomic model with ‘bottom-up’ energy modeling, with a view to associate the strengths and circumvent the limitations of both approaches to energy-economy-environment (E3) prospective modeling. We start by presenting the two methodological avenues of coupling IMACLIM-S with detailed energy systems models pursued at CIRED since the late 1990s’: (1) the calibration of the behavioral functions of IMACLIM-S that represent the producers’ and consumers’ trade-offs between inputs or consumptions, on a large set of bottom-up modeling results; (2) the coupling of IMACLIM-S to some bottom-up model through the iterative exchange of some of each model’s outputs as the other model’s inputs until convergence of the exchanged data, comprising the main macroeconomic drivers and energy systems variables. In the following section, we turn to numerical application and address the prerequisite of harmonizing national accounts, energy balance and energy price data to produce consistent hybrid input-output matrices as a basis of scenario exploration. We highlight how this data treatment step reveals the discrepancies and biases induced by sticking to the conventional modeling usage of uniform pricing of homogeneous goods. IMACLIM-S rather calibrates agent-specific margins, which we introduce and comment upon. In a further section we sum up the results of 4 IMACLIM-S experiments, insisting upon the value-added of hybrid modeling. These varied experiments regard international climate policy burden sharing; the more general numerical consequences of shifting from a biased standard CGE model perspective to the hybrid IMACLIM approach; the macroeconomic consequences of a strong development of electric mobility in the European Union; and the resilience of public debts to energy shocks. In a last section we offer some conclusions and thoughts on a continued research agenda.
topic Hybrid energy economy accounts
Climate and energy policy analysis
Hybrid energy economy modeling
Induced production frontier
Technical change modeling
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2015.00074/full
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