4.2 MODEL DESCRIPTION
This section briefly describes the three models: MS-MRT, MRN, and NEEM. It also provides more information on how the models are linked.
4.2.1 Overview of the MS-MRT sub-model
MS-MRT represents the entire world at an extremely aggregated level. It is built upon the GTAP6-IEA database,8 which includes 83 countries/regions and 23 industries. For this project, we aggregated the dataset into the following regions: USA, Europe, Other OECD, Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union, Middle East, China and India, high income East Asia, and the rest of the world. To be consistent with the MRN model, the dataset included the following sectors: coal, crude oil, electricity, natural gas, refined petroleum products, agriculture, energy-intensive sectors, manufacturing, services, and commercial transportation.