Table of Contents
Internet Edition of
Warming the World: Economics Models of
Global Warming
William Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer
1. This study is available both as a published book from
MIT Press and in electronic form on the Internet. The Internet version is provided below.
2. A brief summary of the work and some important conclusions can be
found at:
Overview of RICE model and
conclusions
3. The web version of Warming the
World: Economics Models of Global Warming is available as follows:
Preface
Chapter
1. Introduction
Chapter
2. The Structure And Derivation of RICE
Chapter
3. Calibration of the Major Sectors
Chapter
4. The Impacts of Climate Change
Chapter
5. The DICE-99 Model
Chapter
6. Computational Procedures
Chapter
7. Efficient Climate-Change Policies
Chapter
8. Economic Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol
Chapter
9. Managing the Global Commons
References
Appendix
A. Equations of the RICE-99 Model
Appendix
B. Equations of the DICE-99 Model
Appendix
C. Variable List
Appendix
D. GAMS Code for RICE-99, Base Case and Optimal Case
Appendix
E. GAMS Code for DICE-99
4. The following programs are available on the Internet for
researchers who would like to run the models:
A. GAMS Computer Programs for RICE-99
The following are the GAMS programs for RICE-98 and DICE-98.
- Programs for RICE-99 model. This contains both a short description and the GAMS
programs. RICE
- Programs for DICE-99 model. This contains only the GAMS program. DICE
B. Spreadsheet Versions of DICE-99 and RICE-99 models
The following are the Excel version of DICE-99 and the documentation for the model.
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DICE-99 as an Excel Spreadsheet: [Dice-99 Microsoft Excel 5.0/'95
Workbook]
Documentation of the DICE Spreadsheet: [Wordperfect 5.0] , [Wordperfect 6/7/8] , [Microsoft Word 6/7]
, [RTF file]
RICE-99 Spreadsheet version [Excel file]