Mark Jaccard is an international leader in the development of energy-economy models for simulating the costs of greenhouse gas abatement policies. His research contributions include incorporating behavioural realism in technology-rich models - bridging the methodological schism between bottom-up and top-down approaches - and designing and estimating models.

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JACCARD, Mark –School of Resource & Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
Mark Jaccard is an international leader in the development of energy-economy models for simulating the costs of greenhouse gas abatement policies. His research contributions include incorporating behavioural realism in technology-rich models - bridging the methodological schism between bottom-up and top-down approaches - and designing and estimating models that can assess policy packages of technology-specific regulations and subsidies alongside economy-wide carbon taxes and emissions trading. The Cost of Climate Policy (2002) won the Outstanding Research Contribution Award of the Canadian Policy Research Institute (80 competing books) and Sustainable Fossil Fuels (2006) won the Donner Prize for top policy book in Canada (55 competitors).