The social cost of carbon with economic and climate risks

Y Cai, TS Lontzek - Journal of Political Economy, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Uncertainty about future economic and climate conditions substantially affects the choice of
policies for managing interactions between the climate and the economy. We develop a …

Dynamic coupon targeting using batch deep reinforcement learning: An application to livestream shopping

X Liu - Marketing Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We present an empirical framework for creating dynamic coupon targeting strategies for high-
dimensional and high-frequency settings, and we test its performance using a large-scale …

Stochastic integrated assessment of climate tipping points indicates the need for strict climate policy

TS Lontzek, Y Cai, KL Judd, TM Lenton - Nature Climate Change, 2015 - nature.com
Perhaps the most 'dangerous' aspect of future climate change is the possibility that human
activities will push parts of the climate system past tipping points, leading to irreversible …

Computational methods in environmental and resource economics

Y Cai - Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Computational methods are required to solve problems without closed-form solutions in
environmental and resource economics. Efficiency, stability, and accuracy are key elements …

Orbital-use fees could more than quadruple the value of the space industry

A Rao, MG Burgess, D Kaffine - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The space industry's rapid recent growth represents the latest tragedy of the commons.
Satellites launched into orbit contribute to—and risk damage from—a growing buildup of …

The social cost of stochastic and irreversible climate change

Y Cai, KL Judd, TS Lontzek - 2013 - nber.org
There is great uncertainty about the impact of anthropogenic carbon on future economic
wellbeing. We use DSICE, a DSGE extension of the DICE2007 model of William Nordhaus …

Advances in numerical dynamic programming and new applications

Y Cai, KL Judd - Handbook of computational economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Dynamic programming is the essential tool in dynamic economic analysis. Problems such as
portfolio allocation for individuals and optimal economic growth are typical examples …

DSICE: a dynamic stochastic integrated model of climate and economy

Y Cai, KL Judd, TS Lontzek - 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces a dynamic stochastic integrated model of climate and economy
(DSICE), and a numerical dynamic programming algorithm for its solution. More specifically …

Uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis for economic models

D Harenberg, S Marelli, B Sudret… - Quantitative …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present a global sensitivity analysis that quantifies the impact of parameter uncertainty
on model outcomes. Specifically, we propose variance‐decomposition‐based Sobol'indices …

Shape-preserving dynamic programming

Y Cai, KL Judd - Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, 2013 - Springer
Dynamic programming is the essential tool in dynamic economic analysis. Problems such as
portfolio allocation for individuals and optimal growth of national economies are typical …