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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"economic modeling"”.
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Energy Economic Modeling and Optimization
… a general solution method, a one-sector economic model serves as a starting point. Population growth, labor force participation and labor productivity are assumed as exogenous inputs to a utility optimization calculation. A one-group dynamic population model is used to project population …
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Essays in behavioral economic modeling
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Management, 1988.
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Three essays in regional economic modeling
My dissertation is about regional economic modeling for understanding local economy, economic impact analysis and forecasting. In the first essay, I developed a nonspatial version of community policy analysis model for Missouri counties. In my second essay, I introduced space into my model. I …
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Economic modeling of intermittency in wind power generation
The electricity sector is a major source of carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global climate change. Over the past decade wind energy has steadily emerged as a potential source for large-scale, low carbon energy. As wind power generation increases around the world, there is increasing …
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Economic modeling of urban pollution and climate policy interactions
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.
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Immunological, Epidemiological, and Economic modeling of HIV, Influenza, and Fungal Meningitis
… focuses on immunological, epidemiological, and economic modeling of HIV, influenza, and fungal meningitis, and includes three research studies. In the first study on HIV, the study objective is to analyze the dynamics of HIV-1, CD4+ T cells and macrophages during the acute, clinically latent and …
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Economic Modeling of Bioenergy Crop Production and Carbon Emission Reduction in Illinois
These results have several policy implications. Carbon cap-and-trade policy, if adopted, is likely to create an incentive for biomass co-firing. Such a policy would reduce the significant amount of carbon emissions and help the State obtain a considerable share of renewable energy. The carbon …
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Techno-Economic Modeling and Optimization of Hydrogen Supply Chain for Aviation Demand
… DOLPHYN energy systems capacity expansion and economic dispatch model considers existing and future technologies under a strict emissions cap for the year 2040, while optimizing the overall system for cost. This work highlights the importance of utilizing multiple technology options in order to …
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Hydrologic-economic modeling of irrigated agriculture in the Lower Murrumbidgee Catchment : investigations into sustainability
… We present a catchment-scale hydrologic-economic model of irrigated agriculture which is dynamic and spatially distributed. It can be used to evaluate land and water policies designed to manage irrigation-induced salinization. The model incorporates hydrologically realistic …
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PROCESS AND TECHNO-ECONOMIC MODELING FOR WASTE-TO-ENERGY PROCESSES TO IDENTIFY EFFECTIVE FACILITY SCALING
This dissertation presents a techno-economic analysis (TEA) of waste-to-energy (WTE) biofuel production using hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). The study focuses on facility scaling, feedstock dynamics, unpiling strategies, and cost modeling to evaluate how process conditions and supply constraints …
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Climate and energy policy for U.S. passenger vehicles : a technology-rich economic modeling and policy analysis
… that advances the state of empirical modeling of passenger vehicle transport in economy-wide macroeconomic models. The model developments include introducing an empirically-based relationship between income growth and travel demand, turnover of the vehicle stock, and cost-driven …
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Economic modeling of a hyaluronic acid supply chain to help evaluate, plan and improve manufacturing strategy
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering; and, (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Leveraging System-Level Analyses and Techno-Economic Modeling to Inform the Viability of Electrochemically-Mediated CO₂ Separation
… of the latter. In this thesis, I develop modeling frameworks that enable system-level comparisons of two types of electrochemical CO₂ capture (eCCC) technologies and the incumbent thermochemical, amine-based capture technologies. I first start by developing a reactive absorption model to …
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Bringing Redox Flow Batteries to the Grid: Techno-economic Modeling for Chemistry-Informed Design of Redox Flow Batteries
… of capacity decay in RFBs). Despite these techno-economic benefits and decades of research, RFBs have seen minimal adoption; even within the subset of battery deployment specifically, RFBs are dwarfed by lithium-ion batteries. Limitations to RFB deployment include: a lack of demand for long …
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A Coupled Hydrologic-Economic Modeling Framework for Evaluating Alternative Options for Reducing Watershed Impacts in Response to Future Development Patterns
Economic input-output (I-O) and watershed models provide useful results but when seeking to integrate these systems, the structural, spatial, and temporal differences between these models must be carefully considered. To reconcile these differences, a hydrologic-economic modeling framework is …
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Economic modeling of Korean private equity market through comparisons of market structures and investment strategies between the Korean and American private equity market
… technologies and, in doing so, they advance the economic welfare of society. To maintain and further entrepreneurial activities, each society requires a well-organized resource allocation system that can distribute resources to selected industries or firms. The private equity market is an …
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Integrated Assessment of Structural Change and Sustainability in the Chicago Region
As the interactions between economic and environmental systems are becoming stronger, regional economic modeling is necessary to reflect the recent structural changes of economy and the nature of environmental component. Another issue is that the uncertainty and errors exist in data, assumptions …
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Nuclear Microreactor-Powered Container Ships for Maritime Decarbonization
… by a phased fleet development strategy. Economic modeling compares the lifecycle costs of conventional and microreactor-powered ships, incorporating capital expenditures, operating costs, financing assumptions, and carbon pricing. Fleet-level analysis indicates that microreactor-powered …
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Computation in Macroeconomic Asset Pricing
… investigates computational methods for macroeconomic asset pricing models. It demonstrates that advances in economic modeling often require advances in computation and highlights a particular case where more demanding computational methods are required to solve an economic model. It also …
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Transportation Improvement Projects
… economy for good or bad a system that enhances economic vitality becomes a crucial element in maintaining or developing economic prosperity. To provide a methodology to include economic development impacts of transportation improvement projects in the decision making process and the tools and …
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