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20132024
most citedModelling complex systems of heterogeneous agents to better design sustainability transitions policy

205 citations

9 papers

econ.GN2024★ 3 cited

Coping or Hoping? Livelihood Diversification and Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ann M. Furbush, Anna Josephson, Talip Kilic +1

We examine the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in whic…

stat.ME2021★ 5 cited

Modelling Time-Varying Rankings with Autoregressive and Score-Driven Dynamics

Vladimír Holý, Jan Zouhar

We develop a new statistical model to analyse time-varying ranking data. The model can be used with a large number of ranked items, accommodates exogenous time-varying covariates a…

stat.AP2017

Improving Estimation in Functional Linear Regression with Points of Impact: Insights into Google AdWords

Dominik Liebl, Stefan Rameseder, Christoph Rust

The functional linear regression model with points of impact is a recent augmentation of the classical functional linear model with many practically important applications. In this…

physics.ao-ph2017★ 139 cited

Environmental impact assessment for climate change policy with the simulation-based integrated assessment model E3ME-FTT-GENIE

J-F Mercure, H. Pollitt, N. R. Edwards +6

A high degree of consensus exists in the climate sciences over the role that human interference with the atmosphere is playing in changing the climate. Following the Paris Agreemen…

econ.GN2015★ 125 cited

The role of money and the financial sector in energy-economy models used for assessing climate policy

H. Pollitt, J. -F. Mercure

This paper outlines a critical gap in the assessment methodology used to estimate the macroeconomic costs and benefits of climate policy. It shows that the vast majority of models…

physics.soc-ph2015★ 205 cited

Modelling complex systems of heterogeneous agents to better design sustainability transitions policy

J. -F. Mercure, H. Pollitt, A. M. Bassi +2

This article proposes a fundamental methodological shift in the modelling of policy interventions for sustainability transitions in order to account for complexity (e.g. self-reinf…

stat.ME2014★ 110 cited

The Two-Piece Normal, Binormal, or Double Gaussian Distribution: Its Origin and Rediscoveries

Kenneth F. Wallis

This paper traces the history of the two-piece normal distribution from its origin in the posthumous Kollektivmasslehre (1897) of Gustav Theodor Fechner to its rediscoveries and ge…

physics.soc-ph2013★ 4 cited

Complexity, economic science and possible economic benefits of climate change mitigation policy

J. F. Mercure, H. Pollitt, U. Chewpreecha +4

Conventional economic analysis of stringent climate change mitigation policy generally concludes various levels of economic slowdown as a result of substantial spending on low carb…

physics.ao-ph2013★ 125 cited

The dynamics of technology diffusion and the impacts of climate policy instruments in the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector

J. F. Mercure, P. Salas, A. Foley +4

This paper presents an analysis of climate policy instruments for the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector in a non-equilibrium economic and technology diffusion perspe…