Ian Sue Wing
Associate Professor
Dept. of Geography & Environment
Address: 675 Commonwealth Ave., Rm. 461, Boston MA 02215
Phone: (617) 353-5741
Fax: (617) 353-8399
Email: isw at bu dot edu

Courses taught:

  • CAS/GE325 - CAS/EE425 - GRS/EE625 Environmental Policy analysis
  • CAS/GE425 - CAS/EE320 US Environmental Policy
  • CAS/GG512 Climate Change Policy Analysis & Modeling
  • CAS/IR292 Fundamentals of International Economics
  • Research in Progress:

  • Induced technical change and the impact of carbon taxes
  • The energy intensity of U.S. production: sources of long-run change
  • Absolute vs. intensity-based emission limits for CO2 emissions control
  • Accumulation of capital and knowledge in dynamic general equilibrium
  • The synthesis of top-down and bottom-up modeling: energy technology detail in CGE simulations for energy and climate policy analysis
  • Implications of international trade and technology transmission for carbon leakage
  • Economic and technological uncertainties: implications for the costs of U.S. climate stewardship
  • Vita

    Biosketch

    Papers

    Published and accepted:

    1. Ellerman, A.D. and I. Sue Wing (2003). Absolute v. Intensity-Based Emission Caps, Climate Policy 3 (Supplement 2): S7-S20.
    2. Sue Wing, I. (2006). The Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Climate Policy Modeling: Electric Power Technologies and the Cost of Limiting U.S. CO2 Emissions, Energy Policy 34: 3847-3869.
    3. Sue Wing, I. (2006). Representing Induced Technological Change in Models for Climate Policy Analysis, Energy Economics 28: 539–562.
    4. Sue Wing, I., and W.P. Anderson (2007). Modeling Small Area Economic Change in Conjunction with a Multiregional CGE Model, in R.J. Cooper, K.P. Donaghy and G.J.D. Hewings (eds.), Globalization and Regional Economic Modeling, Springer-Verlag (Advances in Spatial Science).
    5. Sue Wing, I. and R.S. Eckaus (2007). The Decline in U.S. Energy Intensity: Its Origins and Implications for Long-Run CO2 Emission Projections, Energy Policy 35: 5267–5286
    6. Sue Wing, I. (2008). The Synthesis of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches to Climate Policy Modeling: Electric Power Technology Detail in a Social Accounting Framework, Energy Economics 30: 547-573.
    7. Sue Wing, I. (2008). Explaining the Declining Energy Intensity of the U.S. Economy, Resource and Energy Economics 30: 21–49. (Supplementary materials)
    8. Fisher-Vanden, K. and I. Sue Wing (2008). Accounting for Quality: Issues with Modeling the Impact of R&D on Economic Growth and Carbon Emissions in Developing Economies, Energy Economics 30(6): 2771-2784.
    9. Sue Wing, I., A.D. Ellerman and J.M. Song (2009). Absolute vs. Intensity Limits for CO2 Emission Control: Performance Under Uncertainty, in H. Tulkens and R. Guesnerie (eds.), The Design of Climate Policy, MIT Press, 221-252.
    10. Sue Wing, I. and J.L. Walker (forthcoming). The Geographic Dimensions of Electoral Polarization in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Vote, in A. Paez, J. Le Gallo, R. Buliung, and S. Dall'Erba (eds.) Progress in Spatial Analysis: Theory and Computation, and Thematic Applications, Springer.
    11. Sue Wing, I. (forthcoming). Computable General Equilibrium Models for the Analysis of Energy and Climate Policies, International Handbook of Energy Economics.

    Working papers and manuscripts in review:

    1. Induced Technical Change and the Cost of Climate Policy.
    2. Sue Wing, I. (2004). CGE Models for Economy-Wide Policy Analysis, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change technical Note No. 6.
    3. Sue Wing, I. and D. Popp (2006). Representing Endogenous Technological Change in Economic Models, Chapter 7 in M. Hanneman and A. Farrell (eds.), Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in California, U.C. Berkeley California Climate Change Center Report
    4. Sue Wing, I. (2006). Induced Technological Change: Firm Innovatory Responses to Environmental Regulation.
    5. Sue Wing, I. (2007). The Regional Impacts of U.S. Climate Change Policy: A General Equilibrium Analysis.
    6. Sue Wing, I., W.P. Anderson and T.R. Lakshmanan (2007). The Broader Benefits of Infrastructure Investment, prepared for the OECD/ECMT Research Round Table on Macro-, Meso- and Micro-Infrastructure Planning and Assessment, Boston University, 25-26 Oct., 2007.
    7. Webster, M., I. Sue Wing and L. Jakobovits (2007). Second-Best Instruments for Near-Term Climate Policy: Intensity Targets vs. the Safety Valve.
    8. Sue Wing, I. and M. Kolodziej (2008). The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative: Emission Leakage and the Effectiveness of Interstate Border Adjustments.
    9. Sue Wing, I. (2009). Computable General Equilibrium Models for the Analysis of Economy-Environment Interactions, Chapter 8 in A. Batabyal and P. Nijkamp (eds.) Research Tools in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics.

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