Moreno-Cruz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Calgary and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. Moreno-Cruz’s research focuses on the interaction of climate change, technological change and economic growth. Moreno-Cruz has investigated how geoengineering technologies affect optimal climate policy, the interaction among nations, and the asymmetric impacts across regions and across generations created by the implementation of breakthrough technologies. Currently, he is studying previous energy transitions in order to inform current policy. Moreno-Cruz work is at the intersection between applied theory and public policy.
1. Published Papers
A simple model to account for regional inequalities in the effectiveness of solar radiation management (with Katharine L. Ricke and David W. Keith), forthcoming Climatic Change (2011)
We develop a simple measure of the potential effectiveness of solar radiation management (SRM) in...
2. Under Review
Long-term environmental problems and strategic intergenerational transfers (with Timo Goeschl and Daniel Heyen) (2010)
The impacts of long-lived stock pollutants and the measures supposed to address them link current...
Mitigation and the Geoengineering Threat (2010)
Recent scientific advances have introduced the possibility of engineering the climate system to lower ambient...
Climate Change under Uncertainty: A Case for Geoengineering (with David W. Keith), submitted to Climatic Change (2009)
It appears to be technically feasible to engineer an increase in albedo, a planetary brightening,...
3. Working Papers
Revisiting the Economics of Climate Change: The Role of Geoengineering (with Sjak Smulders) (2010)
Technically simple and reversible measures to directly reduce mean global temper- atures could be available...
4. Selected Conferences and Presentations
Climate policy under uncertainty: a case for geoengineering, World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics (2010)
The Long and Short of Climate Change: Abatement versus Geoengineering, NBER Summer Institute Environmental Workshop (Short Presentation) (2009)
The Simple Economics of Geoengineering, Technology Management Policy Graduate Consortium (2009)
Awarded Best Graduate Paper Presentation