A LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR ANALYZING ENERGY-ECONOMY INTERACTIONS AT THE NATIONAL AND GLOBAL LEVELS
Abstract
A comprehensive model is developed to represent the interactions among various sectors of each economy and various economies in the world. The large disaggregated linear programming model is solved to determine the optimum allocation of the alternative sources of energy among various regions of the world. The model then is solved to project the world economy through year 2020. Sensitivity tests are conducted to determine the economic impacts of changes in the energy markets. Such a general model then is used to assess some of the already existing energy models. It is shown that more aggregated models are special cases of our general model, and some errors are involved in using highly aggregated models.
Degree
Ph.D.
Subject Area
Economics
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