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Claudia Wieners

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Economics, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Claudia Wieners obtained her PhD in climate physics in 2018 from Utrecht University (Netherlands). After that, she studied geoengineering, including a cost-benefit analysis of sulphate geoengineering in the DICE model. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Economics of Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy) and works on agent-based models of climate economics.

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Modeling Myths of Climate Change

Article By Michael Grubb and Claudia Wieners | Feb 10, 2020

How models treat innovation may be just as important as their assumptions about climate damages

Modeling Myths: On the Need for Dynamic Realism in DICE and other Equilibrium Models of Global Climate Mitigation

Paper Working Paper Series | By Michael Grubb and Claudia Wieners | Feb 2020

We conclude that representing dynamic realism in such models is as important as – and far more empirically tractable than – continued debate about the monetization of climate damages and ‘social cost of carbon’.