Ian Sue Wing
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Environment
Affiliate: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
PhD 2001, MIT, Technology Management and Policy
Research interests: Global warming, technological change, computational economic modeling, market-based environmental policy
Office: Stone Science (STO) 461
Phone: 617-353-5741
Fax: 617-353-5986
E-mail: isw@bu.edu
Address: Center for Energy
and Environmental Studies
675 Commonwealth Avenue, Rm 457
Boston, MA 02215, USA
Current Research
Representing Endogenous Technological Change in Climate Policy Models: General Equilibrium Approaches
- The impact on the costs of GHG abatement of the accumulation and substitution
of knowledge in an intertemporal setting.
-The effects of future markets and competition for inputs on the timing and
rate of penetration of new energy supply technologies.
- The role of international capital goods trade in diffusing productivity
to less-developed countries (LDCs), and the effect of such spillovers on LDCs'
economic growth and emissions.
Courses Taught
CAS/EE425 - GRS/EE625
Environmental Policy Analysis
CAS/EE320
US Environmental Policy
CAS/GG512 Climate Change Policy Analysis & Modeling
CAS/IR292 Fundamentals of International Economics
Publications
- "Adjustment Time, Capital
Malleability, and Policy Cost," The Energy Journal Special Issue:
The Costs of the Kyoto Protocol, A Multi-Model Evaluation: 3-92, May
1999 (with H.D. Jacoby).
- "Supplementarity: An Invitation to Monopsony?" The Energy
Journal, 21(4): 29-59, October 2000 (with A.D. Ellerman).
- "Absolute vs. Intensity-Based Emission Limits," Climate Policy,
forthcoming (with A.D. Ellerman).
