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 …

Risk of multiple interacting tipping points should encourage rapid CO2 emission reduction

Y Cai, TM Lenton, TS Lontzek - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
Evidence suggests that several elements of the climate system could be tipped into a
different state by global warming, causing irreversible economic damages. To address their …

Using adaptive sparse grids to solve high‐dimensional dynamic models

J Brumm, S Scheidegger - Econometrica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present a flexible and scalable method for computing global solutions of high‐
dimensional stochastic dynamic models. Within a time iteration or value function iteration …

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 …

Numerical methods for large-scale dynamic economic models

L Maliar, S Maliar - Handbook of computational economics, 2014 - Elsevier
We survey numerical methods that are tractable in dynamic economic models with a finite,
large number of continuous state variables.(Examples of such models are new Keynesian …

Leveraging GPU batching for scalable nonlinear programming through massive Lagrangian decomposition

Y Kim, F Pacaud, K Kim, M Anitescu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14995, 2021 - arxiv.org
We present the implementation of a trust-region Newton algorithm ExaTron for bound-
constrained nonlinear programming problems, fully running on multiple GPUs. Without data …

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 …

Dynamic allocation of surplus by-product gas in a steel plant by dynamic programming with a reduced state space algorithm

W Sun, Y Wang, F Zhang, Y Zhao - Engineering Optimization, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Surplus by-product gas (SBPG) in a steel plant is the difference between gas production and
consumption. Dynamic programming (DP) has been observed to be a useful method for …

[PDF][PDF] Numerical solution of dynamic portfolio optimization with transaction costs

Y Cai, KL Judd, R Xu - 2013 - nber.org
We apply numerical dynamic programming to multi-asset dynamic portfolio optimization
problems with proportional transaction costs. Examples include problems with one safe …

A nonlinear certainty equivalent approximation method for dynamic stochastic problems

Y Cai, K Judd, J Steinbuks - Quantitative Economics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper introduces a nonlinear certainty‐equivalent approximation method for dynamic
stochastic problems. We first introduce a novel, stable, and efficient method for computing …