Analyzing the Economy-Wide Effects of Environmental Regulation

2 Months ago

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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Zintellect offers a postgraduate research internship at the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics in Washington, DC. The role involves collaborating with economists on benefit-cost research related to environmental regulations. Participants will develop techniques for incorporating non-price policies into computable general equilibrium models and address challenges in evaluating the benefits of environmental regulations. The position is part of a program managed by ORAU under a DOE-EPA agreement.
A postgraduate research training opportunity is currently available at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Policy (OP) National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) in Washington, DC.

The participant will be involved with NCEE economists and scientists in analyses and research efforts on benefit-cost research and techniques. The central focus of this research project is expected to be on developing new techniques and tools to incorporate the benefits and costs of environmental regulations in computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Introducing complex non-price based policies into CGE models represents a challenge not yet robustly addressed by the economic literature, though the development of techniques for their incorporation could provide significant value for regulatory analysis. Similarly, there are serious technical challenges to consider when evaluating the benefits of environmental regulations (including health and non-market impacts of improvements in environmental quality) in an economy wide framework given how they propagate through the economy.

The participant will be involved in new and on-going research efforts focused on improving analysts’ ability to overcome these challenges. Projects may include direct development of, and analysis with, CGE models and/or econometric analysis to inform the calibration of CGE models.

This program, administered by ORAU through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, was established through an interagency agreement between DOE and EPA.

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