CCR IAM Staff: Xiaolin Ren, Project Scientist I

Short Bio

Xiaolin Ren is a Project Scientist I in the Integrated Assessment Modeling group within the Climate & Global Dynamics Division at NCAR. After she got her Master's degree in Environmental Engineering, she started to pursue my PhD in environmental economics. During her PhD training, she had worked on several projects, including optimal strategy design, survey data analysis, survey design, new product market share prediction, and policy evaluation. After years of study, her interests have converged on the interaction between climate change and economic development.

Currently at NCAR, she is working with the PET model, the socio-economic model in the integrated assessment model, to evaluate the relationship between economic development and greenhouse gas emissions.

Selected Publications

Ren, Xiaolin; Fullerton, Don; and Braden, John (2011). "Optimal Taxation of Externalities Interacting through Markets: A Theoretical General Equilibrium Analysis", Resource and Energy Economics, 33(3), P496-514.

Ren, Xiaolin; Patunru, Arianto and Braden, John (2008). "Related Differences in Environmental Benefits Estimation: Evidence from a Mail Survey", Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (1), 13-31.

Ren, Xiaolin and Minsker, Barbara (2005). "Which Groundwater Remediation Objective is Better: A Realistic One or a Simple One?" Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 131(5), 351-361.