GeoVerse Lab
← Economics, Policy & Strategy Division

Policy Analysis & Regulation Center

Evaluates energy and environmental policies, regulations, and governance frameworks for sustainable resource management, providing evidence-based policy recommendations and regulatory impact analysis on topics like carbon pricing and subsidy reform.

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Research Fields 15
Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design
🏭 Cap-and-Trade & Emissions Trading Design
Cap-and-trade is an environmental policy instrument in which a regulator sets a total ceil…
Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline
📝 Regulatory Impact Assessment & the Policy Analysis Discipline
Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) is the institutionalised practice of analysing a propos…
International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance
🌐 International Climate Agreements & Global Environmental Governance
International climate agreement studies analyse how sovereign states — with no world gover…
Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design
🛡️ Technological Risk Regulation & Environmental Agency Design
Technological risk regulation studies how public institutions decide which risks from chem…
Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics
⚖️ Distributive Justice & Just Transition Economics
Distributive justice in economics asks how the gains and losses of social arrangements — g…
Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
🎚️ Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is the family of methods for choosing, ranking or …
Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy
🎮 Agent-Based Modeling & Strategic Interaction in Policy
Agent-based modeling simulates a social system from the bottom up: individual agents with …
Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations
🏛️ Policy Sciences & Stakeholder Analysis Foundations
The policy sciences are the interdisciplinary study of the policy process — how problems r…
Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis
🤝 Governance of the Commons & Institutional Analysis
Commons governance studies how communities use shared, subtractable resources — fisheries,…
Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation
💬 Computer-Mediated Delphi & Structured Policy Consultation
Computer-mediated Delphi is the adaptation of structured expert consultation to networked …
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure
📐 Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Public Expenditure
Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) compares the cost of achieving a fixed, physically defin…
Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy
⛽ Energy Subsidy Reform & Market Liberalization Policy
Energy subsidy reform studies the economics and politics of withdrawing price support — fo…
Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design
🧾 Environmental Fiscal Policy & Carbon Tax Design
Environmental fiscal policy designs taxes and related budgetary instruments so that the fi…
Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation
🎪 Public Choice, Regulatory Capture & the Economics of Regulation
The economics of regulation, in its public-choice form, treats regulation not as a benevol…
International Negotiation & Treaty Design
🕊️ International Negotiation & Treaty Design
International negotiation analysis studies how states and other parties bargain in the abs…