Katrin Gschwind successfully defended doctoral thesis at MISES

In her dissertation, Katrin studies firms operating portfolios of heterogeneous assets, which face the challenge of coordinating technology choices and operations to meet firm-wide emission targets at least cost. She develops a carbon abatement cost model that decentralizes configuration and abatement decisions across individual assets and applies the framework to urban bus fleets to analyze cost-efficient drivetrain configurations, the shape of abatement cost curves, and the impact of carbon pricing.