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How CBO Uses the ReEDS Model to Analyze Policies in the Electric Power Sector: Working Paper 2024-02
This working paper provides an overview of CBO-ReEDS, an adapted version of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Regional Energy Deployment System (NREL’s ReEDS) model for analyzing policies in the electric power sector.
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This paper presents a simulation model of the markets for light-duty electric vehicles and the associated public charging infrastructure, as well as the network interactions between them.
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This paper presents a risk-neutral approach that CBO uses to inform its estimates of the fair-value cost of mortgage obligations.
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CBO describes its recent update of parameters that characterize the relationship between emissions of carbon dioxide and changes in the price of those emissions.
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This paper describes the methods and data that CBO uses to estimate the cost of market risk for three categories of federal credit programs: housing and real estate loans, student loans and other consumer loans, and commercial loans.
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Oil prices are one of the economic variables that underlie CBO's projections of the federal budget. This paper describes CBO's methods to forecast oil prices and evaluates the quality of the agency's historical forecasts.
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This paper presents CBO’s model of business investment, compares it with other models of investment, shows how the model is estimated, and discusses how CBO uses the model to forecast investment.
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How does CBO estimate increases in hurricane damage between now and 2075? This working paper documents the analysis underlying CBO’s report Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget.
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This paper describes an approach to modeling U.S. production of energy from shale resources and the outlook for that production. Production is insensitive to the price of oil in the short run but quite responsive within two to three years.
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In 2012, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) reduced fees to refinance FHA-insured mortgages obtained before a retroactive deadline. We estimate that the policy will prevent more than 35,000 defaults of FHA-insured mortgages.