TCH-GEM-E3: The Role of Innovation and Policy Design in Energy and Environment for a Sustainable in Europe

TCH-GEM-E3 had three main objectives:
  1. Maintenance and update of the GEM-E3 model, which was developed in previous EU programmes, and extension of its geographic coverage (Eastern Europe and full integration of Switzerland).
  2. Extension of the GEM-E3 model to improve its realism (endogenous technological progress, imperfect competition, integration bottom-up and top-down modelling for the electricity sector).
  3. Study Energy/Environment policies and their effect on sustainable growth, such as Kyoto and R&D policies.
The purpose of PSI's participation in the TCH-GEM-E3 project was to integrate the database of GEM-E3 Switzerland within the database of the European version of GEM-E3, and then to perform policy analyses for Switzerland with the new version of GEM-E3. Both tasks have been successfully completed.
  • O. Bahn
  • C. Frei
Bahn, O. (2002). Swiss policy options to curb CO2 emissions: Insights from GEM-E3 Switzerland in Decision and Control in Management Science, Georges Zaccour (Editor), Essays in Honor of Alain Haurie, Kluwer Academic Publishers

Bahn, O. and C. Frei (2000). GEM-E3 Switzerland: A Computable General Equilibrium Model Applied for Switzerland, PSI Bericht No. 00-01, Paul Scherrer Institute, Download (0.6MB)