Ian Sue Wing

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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

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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).

 

Personal Web Page

http://people.bu.edu/isw/