The USC Price School of Public Policy’s Noah Dormady, Adam Rose and Dan Wei in October received the first Outstanding Economic Analysis Award from Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI).
The award was given in recognition of their paper, “Regional macroeconomic assessment of the Pennsylvania Climate Action Plan,” published in the November 2011 issue of the journal, Regional Science: Policy and Practice.
Dormady, a recent Price Ph.D. graduate, is now an associate professor at Ohio State University’ s Glenn School of Public Affairs; Rose is a research professor at the Price School and coordinator for economics at the CREATE Homeland Security Center; and Wei is a research assistant professor at USC Price.
The REMI model is the most widely used commercially provided regional macroeconometric model in the nation, Rose explained. It is used by government agencies in every U.S. state to undertake economic forecasting and policy simulation, and also by industry, public interest groups and trade associations.
“Essentially, this was a culmination of several years of research for which we refined the state-of-the-art methodology for the application of the REMI Policy Insight Plus Model to this issue in several states,” Rose said. “Moreover, in this paper, we developed a method for validating the results of application of the model.”
The award citation notes how the study made three major contributions representing excellence in economic analysis and in the use of REMI models: