Decision Frameworks and the Investment in R&D

Erin Baker, Olaitan Olaleye and Lara Aleluia Reis

No 204431, Climate Change and Sustainable Development from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: In this paper we provide an overview of decision frameworks aimed at crafting an energy technology Research & Development portfolio, based on the results of three large expert elicitation studies and a large scale energy-economic model. We introduce importance sampling as a technique for integrating elicitation data and large IAMs into decision making under uncertainty models. We show that it is important to include both parts of this equation – the prospects for technological advancement and the interactions of the technologies in and with the economy. We find that investment in energy technology R&D is important even in the absence of climate policy. We illustrate the value of considering dynamic two-stage sequential decision models under uncertainty for identifying alternatives with option value. Finally, we consider two frameworks that incorporate ambiguity aversion. We suggest that these results may be best used to guide future research aimed at improving the set of elicitation data. This is a pre-print version of the article “Decision frameworks and the investment in R&D” by Erin Baker, Olaitan Olaleye, Lara Aleluia Reis, published in Energy Policy, Volume 80, May 2015, Pages 275-285, ISSN 0301-4215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.027.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2015-05-13
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.204431

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