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White Paper – Pew Center on Global Climate Change 1
White Paper
Insights Not Numbers:
The Appropriate Use of Economic Models
By
Janet Peace and John Weyant
April, 2008
White Paper – Pew Center on Global Climate Change 2
Insights Not Numbers:
The Appropriate Use of Economic Models1
by
Janet Peace and John Weyant
April, 2008
Executive Summary
Economic modeling has played a prominent role in the climate-change policy debate as
stakeholders have sought to understand the impacts and assess the costs of different strategies for
reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Models are an invaluable tool for exploring
alternative policy choices and for generating insights about how the economy is might respond to
different types and forms of regulation. They cannot, however, predict future events, nor can
they produce precise projections of the consequences of specific policy.
Every model uses its own set of assumptions, definitions, structure and data – its results......

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