Competence Centre on Modelling and Decision Analysis

An ever-growing number and length of documents, number and depth of topics covered by legislation, and ever new phrases and their slowly changing meaning, these are all contributing...

The European Commission is committed to transparent and evidence based policy making throughout the policy cycle. Simulation models are increasingly used in impact assessments to provide support...

Impact assessments (IA) are an important tool for better regulation and thus one of the cornerstones of policy making in the European Union. IAs require a benchmark against which...

The Modelling Inventory and Knowledge Management System of the European Commission (MIDAS) is a Commission-wide knowledge management tool for modelling, enabling enhanced transparency and traceability of models in use for EC...

This is the first study that attempts to assess the regional economic impacts of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) investments in a spatially explicit macroeconomic model, which allows us...

The objective of this work is to systematically analyse how models are used in support to the policy formulation phase of the EU policy cycle. We focus on European Commission (EC)...

The paper identifies various conceptualisations of green growth with a view to identify the causal mechanisms which can support a green growth policy agenda, to investigate the implications of these...

Attempts to curb pollution or reduce resource consumption while maintaining growth and thus to achieve what is often referred to as green growth are frequently compromised by rebound...

This report addresses the debate on the Better Regulation Agenda adopted by the European Commission in 2015 (BR 2015). The review is structured according to the following major areas: i) evidence-based...

Uncertainty and sensitivity analysis was conducted on the SHERPA model, predicting air quality improvement linked to emission reduction scenarios. Major responsible of output uncertainty (PM2.5...